For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. people talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay?
Is that a sacrifice which bring its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away witht he word in such a view, and with such a thought! It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a priviledge. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger now and then, with a foregoign of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothign when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice. (David Livingstone,1857 - quoted in Piper,Desiring God)
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