SACRIFICE

Dan Crawford, the Brethren missionary pioneer to Africa, was but a lad of 19 when he left for Africa, an only son, following the path forged by David Livingstone.

In the little company at the Glasgow station stood his mother. When a friend spoke a word of comfort, she replied, “He spared not His Son.”

22 years passed before she saw him again.

Yes, 22 years while he toiled in Africa, without a furlough. He had buried his son & there, amid loneliness indescribable, fever-stricken again & again, time after time nigh unto death, he toiled & suffered. At 56 he died.

Rom 8:32 (NIRV): “God did not spare his own Son. He gave him up for us all. Then won’t he also freely give us everything else?”

- Oswald J. Smith (moreillustrations.com)

“If Jesus Christ is God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”

- C.T. Studd.

“People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.” -  David Livingstone.