South and South Central Africa: A record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoplesDavidson, Hannah Frances
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South and South Central Africa: A record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoples
Davidson, Hannah Frances
Brethren in Christ Church -- Missions; Missions -- Rhodesia; Ndebele (African people); Tsonga (African people)
The Lord has provided money--somebody was willing to give it, but
who will give himself? I believe the Lord has spoken to your heart.
Just say, "Lord, speak, thy servant heareth." And if the Lord tells
you to go, don't do as Jonah--try to get away from the Lord---for
as Jonah did not fare well, neither will you. But if you obey God,
He will go with you into the ship. We are ready and waiting to
receive applications, but somebody must be willing to obey God or
the work will be delayed while souls are perishing.
If the Lord lays it upon your heart to give because you can not go
yourself, please send your donations to Elder
Jesse Engle, Donegal, Kansas, as he is the committee's secretary
and will keep a correct account of all money received and hand it
over to the treasurer. The committee has not decided yet where the
field shall be, but will decide when such workers present
themselves as are believed to be called of God. South Africa has
been spoken of; also South or Central America. No doubt God will
direct when the time comes that somebody is willing to go. Who
shall it be?
SAMUEL ZOOK.
At that time I was teaching in McPherson College, Kansas, and was
greatly enjoying the work. It was my seventh year at that place, and
just the day before the article had appeared I had entered into a verbal
agreement with the other members of the faculty to remain for some
years, the Lord willing. No thought of the foreign field had entered my
mind previous to this, except a readiness for whatever the Lord had for
me to do. Up to that time I verily thought I was doing His will by being
in the classroom.
The day that "The Appeal" appeared in the _Visitor_, it was read like
the other matter and nothing further was thought of it; but the day
following the Lord came to me, as it were, in the midst of the class
work, in the midst of other plans for the future, and swept away my
books, reserving only the Bible. In reality He showed me Christ lifted
up for a lost world. He filled me with an unutterable love for every
soul who had not heard of Him, and with a passionate longing to go to
worst parts of the earth, away from civilization, away from other
mission bodies, and spend the rest of my life in telling the story of
the Cross.
We prefer not to dwell too minutely on the feelings of that sacred hour.
Sufficient to say that there and then He anointed me for service among
the heathen. Not that I have measured up to all that He placed before me
on that day. On the contrary I have fallen far short; but the
consciousness of that call has ever been with me, and has strengthened
and kept me, in the thickest of the fight in heathen lands. Even when
the battle was sore and defeat stared me in the face, the conviction
that it was His appointment and His work for me kept me fast.
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