THE ENGINEER WHO NEVER LEFT
“Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.” 1 John 3:18 He was a Scottish engineer, not a preacher by training, studied mechanics, mathematics, drafting in Edinburgh and Berlin, and by every natural measure was headed towards a comfortable career designing machinery in Europe. Then, in late 1875, […]
THE MAN WHO WON ALMOST NO ONE
“I am ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.” 2 Timothy 4:6 He was ten years old when he started work in a Scottish cotton mill, fourteen hours a day, six days a week, sharing a single tenement room with his parents and siblings and twenty-three other families in […]
THE MEN WHO DIED PLANTING A LIVING SEED
“He that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” – Matthew 10:37 Three young men landed at Badagry, Lagos, on the 4th of December, 1893, with about thirty British pounds between them and no mission board behind them. No salary. No supply chain. No senior missionary waiting to receive them. […]
The Believing Isaac (2)
Genesis 26:22 (AMP) “And he moved away from there and dug another well, and for that one they did not quarrel. He named it Rehoboth [room], saying, For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.” What does a man stand to gain if he gives up […]