The Superintending Providence of God 11 Hawaiian shores, or as when war strangely prepared the way just as Robert W. McAll went to Paris to set up his first sedie. MISSIONARIES CALLED AND PLACED At the same time God was raising up, in unprecedented numbers, men and women, so marvelously fitted for the exact work and fields as to show unmistakable foresight and pur- pose. The biographies of leading missionaries read like chap- ters where prophecy lights up history. Think of William Carey’s inborn adaptation as translator in India, of Living- stone’s career as missionary explorer and general in Africa, of Catherine Booth’s capacity as mother of the Salvation Army, of Jerry McAuley’s preparation for rescue work in New York City, of Alexander Duff’s fitness for educational •vork in India, of Àdoniram Judson’s schooling for thè build- ing of an apostolic church in Burma, of John Williams’ uncon- scious training for evangelist in the South Seas. Then mark the unity and continuity of labor —one worker succeeding an- other at crises unforeseen by man, as when Gordon left for the Sudan on the day when Livingstone's death was first known in Londòn, or Pilkington arrived in Uganda the very year when Mackay’s death was to leave a great gap to be filled. Then study the theology of inventions and watch the furnishing of new facilities for the work as it advanced. He who kept back the four greatest inventions of reformation times—the mariner’s compass, steam engine, printing press and paper—u ntil His Church put on her new garments, waited to unveil nature’s deeper secrets, which should make all men neighbors, until the reformed church was mobilized as an army of conquest! DIVINE INTERFERENCE At times this Superintending Providence of God has in- spired awe by unmistakably judicial strokes of judgment, as when in Turkey in 1839, in the crisis of missions, Sultan
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