By Sam Wellman
For problem and encouragement on your Christian existence, learn the existence tales of the Heroes of the religion. The novelized biographies of this sequence are inspiring and easy-to-read, perfect for Christians of any age or historical past. In David Livingstone, you’ll get to grasp the Scottish explorer who carried the gospel to the center of nineteenth-century Africa—and received world wide popularity because the guy who brought Victoria Falls to the skin international. acceptable for readers from junior excessive via grownup, precious for believers of any history, those biographies motivate larger Christian dedication in the course of the instance of heroes like David Livingstone.
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He was puzzled by their embarrassed silence. Later he began to suspect Young had been talking about him. What praise! Was it possible? Was he held in such high regard? All his life he had been scorned and ridiculed and teased by his peers in the factory. Was it only the complacent and fearful who scorned him? Was it only 30 embracing christ his fellow risk-takers who appreciated him? But he decided then and there he must not hate those who scorned him. After all, the Lord’s own family and friends thought He was insane when they first heard about His ministry in Galilee.
We’ll get a head count of the Africans. What argument could be more powerful for a mission up there? We’ll even select a site, if possible. ” David paused. Was it the iron hand of Moffat that kept his missionaries from venturing north, or was it their own timidity? He continued, “Look at the mission now. Before Ross and I arrived, there were two missionaries here. ” 54 africa “It’s hard to argue with your simple mathematics,” Edwards answered reluctantly. “If we two do not go, what will we four missionaries do here?
Society. A traveler had to watch his feet. The ground crawled with snakes, scorpions, spiders, ants, and lizards. Had any white man ever described them before? He had read everything about Africa he could get his hands on. Only one real naturalist had ever worked in South Africa: William Burchell. Burchell had never ventured this far inland. What treasure. Wildebeests, springbucks, and other antelopes flourished in the distance. David suspected a lot of life crept and slithered around his tent after the sun went down, too.