When James Calvert went out as a
missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn
him back, saying, "You will
lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages."
To that, Calvert replied, "We
died before we came here."
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"If ten men are
carrying a log — nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end — and
you want to help, which end will you lift on?" — William Borden, as
he reflected on the numbers of Christian workers in the U.S. as compared to
those among unreached peoples in China.
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'Not heard the call,' I think you should
say.
Put your
ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire
of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and
listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear
the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and
sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the
face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will
join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His
mercy to the world. — William Booth
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"I thought it
reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and
the workers fewest." — Scottish missionary James Gilmour
on why he went to Mongolia.
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