Occupation: Author Birth: May 24, 1824 Death: January 28, 1907
This is strength; this is peace; to feel, in entering on every day, that all its duties and trials have been committed to the Lord Jesus - that, come….
I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my lif….
Among many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, "The cannibals! you will be eaten by can….
If I die here in Glasgow, I shall be eaten by worms; If I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am….
As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that this is the noblest service in which any human being can spend or be spent; and that….
... and over that side of the island all their sacred men were at work trying to kill me by their (magical) arts. Messengers arrived from every quar….
At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive and partake th….
Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord..