A Message from Missions to the Modern Ministry 107 prizes for scholarships in English colleges, gave himself to medical work in China. He labored only three years before he was “called up higher;” but during that time his wife tells us she often heard him praying in his study that God would thrust out of the English universities young men to work in China. His early death was lamented and not understood. Christ died at thirty-three, after only three years of toil and prayer. One year after Dr. Schofield’s death the “Cambridge seven” went forth. Before they went to China they made a tour of English and Scotch colleges, and stirred the student life of all Great Britain for God and missions. Today one is bishop of West China, one is assistant superintendent of the China Inland Mission, one a pioneer missionary to Tibet, and all the others are useful workers. Dr. Gordon’s Church, of Boston, was giving five thousand dollars annually to missions. One day Dr. Gordon said in the pulpit: “It is not enough; let us still use all our plans and agencies that have been successful in the past. But in ad dition, in the Sunday School, in the Young ,People’s Society of Christian Endeavor, in missionary organizations, at the family altar, in secret, in the public service, let us pray that God will enable us to do more generously for this great cause.” Result: the next year they gave over ten thousand dollars to missions, the Christian Endeavor alone giving sixteen hundred dollars ! Do we stop often to think that one of the mightiest mis sionary organizations of our-day has been prayed into being? Listen to the story: J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, was a child given in answer to a father’s prayer for a son to be given him who might evangelize China’s millions. This son tells us that when a young man, “God said to me, ‘My child, I am going to evangelize Inland China, and if you would like to walk with Me, I will do it through you.’ ” While still in England he was led to believe in the limitless possibilities
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