WHAT ONE BIBLE DID

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 19, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 20.

WHAT ONE BIBLE DID.

THIS is Stanley’s story of what one Bible accomplished: “In 1875, Miss Livingstone, the sister of David Livingstone, presented me with a beautifully bound Bible. On a subsequent visit to Mtesa I read to him some chapters, and as I finished, it flashed through my mind that Uganda was destined to be won for Christ. I was not permitted to carry the Bible away. Mtesa never forgot the wonderful words, nor the startling effect they had upon him; and just as I was turning away from his country to continue my explorations across the Dark Continent, a messenger who had traveled two hundred miles came to me, crying out that Mtesa wanted the book, and it was given to him. To-day the Christians in Uganda number many thousands; they have proved their faith at the stake, under the knobstick, and under torture till death.”