Willing to Be a Foundation Stone
A YOUNG man who had gone through the great school of Oxford, and done well in his studies, made up his mind to go to Africa as a missionary. One of his teachers, who loved him, said, “You will die in a year or two in that hot country. It is madness.” But the brave young servant of Jesus answered: “I think it is with African missions as with the building of a great bridge; you know how many stones have to be buried in the earth, all unseen, to be a foundation. If Christ wants me to be one of the unseen stones lying in an African grave, I am content, certain as I am that some day Africa will belong to Jesus.” The young man did die in a year.—Selected.