W. Austin Gardner
Missions
He began to talk missions, pray missions, herald missions, buttonhole fellow classmates for missions. He here began his wonderful...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Mar 17, 2022
- 1 min
Turning a deaf ear
“And do you think that I can consent to turn a deaf ear to the cries of these people clamouring for the Gospel and craving for teachers?...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Mar 11, 2022
- 2 min
Adoniram Judson and Baptism
The voyage from Salem to Calcutta lasted four months. After some initial seasickness, especially among the women, the passage was fairly...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Mar 8, 2022
- 2 min
Discrediting of Luther Rice
One of the less lovely aspects of the 1826 meeting was the discrediting and dismissal of Luther Rice as agent of the convention....
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W. Austin Gardner
- Mar 7, 2022
- 2 min
Promoting foreign missions
Year after year the board repeated the request for Rice to remain a little longer in America, for they felt no one else could arouse...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Mar 6, 2022
- 1 min
Not in Vain Sharing What His Eyes had seen
Not in vain had Luther Rice sailed back to his native land to tell the story of what his eyes had seen in the needy countries of the...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Mar 4, 2022
- 1 min
Haystack Group
About this time there was a quiet but far-reaching movement of the Spirit of God on this side of the Atlantic. The call to preach the...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Mar 3, 2022
- 1 min
Societies to Support New Missionaries
Soon they had heart-warming news. On the fifth of September came letters from America — the first direct words from home since Luther...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Feb 28, 2022
- 1 min
First Funeral
‘But what if C.T. dies?’ This frequent and foolish question must have its answer. Here it is from C. T. himself, ‘We will all shout...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Feb 27, 2022
- 1 min
Can Rich Men be like Jesus?
“‘Follow Me” says Jesus. ‘I will,’ we reply, yet somehow forget that Christ pleased not Himself, deliberately made Himself poor to save...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Feb 26, 2022
- 1 min
Grasshoppers or Giants
“Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Feb 25, 2022
- 1 min
Use the bayonet of evangelism
The fiery baptism of the Holy Ghost will change soft, sleek Christians into hot, lively heroes for Christ, who will advance and fight and...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Feb 24, 2022
- 1 min
Any Old Turnip will do for a head!
“When in hand-to-hand conflict with the world and the devil, neat little biblical confectionery is like shooting lions with a...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Feb 23, 2022
- 1 min
Rocking Christians to sleep!
“Christ’s call is to feed the hungry, not the full; to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; not to call the scoffers, but sinners to...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Feb 22, 2022
- 1 min
Will you obey God or man?
The boy had to face perhaps the most difficult and trying question of a lifetime, one which has caused many to turn aside and lose an...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Feb 21, 2022
- 1 min
Five Smooth Stones
“David selected five smooth stones from the brook to polish off Goliath. We therefore have selected the following five to be the basis of...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
C. T. Studd's Wealthy, Generous, Missionary Committee
In a letter to Dr. Wilkinson C. T. told of the fire burning within him in characteristic style: “The Committee I work under is a...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Feb 19, 2022
- 1 min
Evangelize
Our method is to search and find out what parts of the world at present remain unevangelized, and then by faith in Christ, by prayer to...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Feb 18, 2022
- 2 min
Plain Speaking by C. T. Studd
An instance of the way he started a talk to men was the following at a business men’s luncheon: Gentlemen, you’ve had a rich dinner, you...
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W. Austin Gardner
- Feb 17, 2022
- 1 min
Trust God for support
“Only now let us remember once more that God is to be our portion, and that knowingly and willingly we trust our lives and those of our...
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