Foreword

IT is with a sense of privilege that I accede to the request of my friend, Mr. F. C. GLASS, to write an introduction to his splendid volume. It tells the thrilling story of what God has wrought in one corner of the neglected Continent through a man wholly surrendered to His will and aflame with an unselfish passion for the souls of men. For the truth of the narrative I can un-hesitantly vouch — not that I have seen the field, but because I know the man. That he has suppressed his own part in this great enterprise, and speaks as little of himself as may be, is entirely characteristic of him. Few will read what lie has written without realizing that another story lies unwritten between the lines — the story of one who for the love of Christ has counted not his own life dear to himself, and has met the challenge of His uttermost salvation, to make its tidings known to the uttermost parts of the earth, with an uttermost consecration. May the story as he tells it bring home to every reader the double fact of the world’s need and the unmeasured possibility of every redeemed life. The call of Christ rings out clear and insistent: “Follow Me;” and covenanted in it to all obedient lives are simply undreamed-of resources of the Spirit for their competence. But how few really heed Him! This book, the modestly reported record of one life lived in obedient faith and faithful obedience, smites across the face of our dull self-complacency as it cries: “Is it nothing to you all ye that pass by?” It cannot be that any who hearkens to the thrilling call of the facts it sets forth will be content to answer. “Nothing.”
J. STUART HOLDEN
ST. PAUL’S CHURCH
PORTMAN SQUARE, W.