Great Pains Had Been Taken By My Parents To Instill The Doctrines
Of Christianity Into My Mind, And I Had
No difficulty in understanding
the theory of our free salvation by the atonement of our Savior, but it was
only
About this time that I really began to feel the necessity and value
of a personal application of the provisions of that atonement to my own case.
The change was like what may be supposed would take place
were it possible to cure a case of "color blindness". The perfect freeness
with which the pardon of all our guilt is offered in God's book
drew forth feelings of affectionate love to Him who bought us with his blood,
and a sense of deep obligation to Him for his mercy has influenced,
in some small measure, my conduct ever since. But I shall not again
refer to the inner spiritual life which I believe then began,
nor do I intend to specify with any prominence the evangelistic labors
to which the love of Christ has since impelled me. This book will speak,
not so much of what has been done, as of what still remains to be performed,
before the Gospel can be said to be preached to all nations.
In the glow of love which Christianity inspires, I soon resolved
to devote my life to the alleviation of human misery. Turning this idea over
in my mind, I felt that to be a pioneer of Christianity in China
might lead to the material benefit of some portions of that immense empire;
and therefore set myself to obtain a medical education,
in order to be qualified for that enterprise.
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