CT Studd.
Studd, C.T. – In 1884, C.T. Studd, one of the Cambridge Seven, felt
convicted, “How could I spend the best hours of my life in working for myself
and for the honour and pleasures of this world while thousands and thousands of
souls are perishing every day without having heard of the Lord Jesus Christ,
going down to Christless and hopeless graves?” (John Pollock. The Cambridge
Seven, 2nd ed. Great Britain: Marshalls, 1985, 75.)
“Some want to live within the
sound Of church or chapel bell;
I want to run a rescue
shop, Within a yard of hell.”
Too long have we been waiting for one another
to begin! The time of waiting is past! The hour of God has struck! War is
declared! In God's Holy Name let us arise and build! 'The God of Heaven, He
will fight for us', as we for Him. We will not build on the sand, but on the
bedrock of the sayings of Christ, and the gates and minions of hell shall not
prevail against us. Should such men as we fear? Before the world, aye, before
the sleepy, lukewarm, faithless, namby-pamby Christian world, we will dare to
trust our God, we will venture our all for Him, we will live and we will die
for Him, and we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our
hearts. We will a thousand times sooner die trusting only our God, than live
trusting in man. And when we come to this position the battle is already won,
and the end of the glorious campaign in sight. We will have the real Holiness
of God, not the sickly stuff of talk and dainty words and pretty thoughts; we
will have a Masculine Holiness, one of daring faith and works for Jesus Christ.
If
Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me
to make for Him.
Should such men as we
fear? Before the world, aye, before the sleepy, lukewarm, faithless,
namby-pamby Christian world, we will dare to trust our God, we will venture our
all for Him, we will live and we will die for Him, and we will do it with His
joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts. We will a thousand times sooner
die trusting only our God, than live trusting in man.
Amy Carmichael.
Does it not stir up our hearts to go forth and help them, does it not
make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them
that sit in darkness?" - Amy Carmichael
William Booth.
Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say.
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of
the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity,
and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and
hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their
brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look
Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him
whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to
publish his mercy to the world." William Booth.
“While women weep, as they do now,
I'll fight
While little children go hungry, as they do now,
I'll fight
While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now,
I'll fight
While there is a drunkard left,
While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets,
While there remains one dark soul without the light of God,
I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!”
― William Booth
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