Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings

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Mercer University Press, 2002 - 458 стор.
Among Southern Baptists no name commands more respect than Charlotte Digges "Lottie" Moon. Her self-sacrificing spirit, gritty determination, and commitment to bring Christianity to China have been legendary within denominational ranks for well over a century. Indeed, many know of her work, but few know of her life.

Send the Light: Letters from Lottie Moon is a collection of letters written by the most beloved of all Southern Baptist missionaries. These letters offer a rare glimpse into the daily routine of a woman who challenged nearly every missionary preconception that Baptists cherished at the turn of the century. She faced wars, anti-American animosity, and cultural alienation with a quiet dignity and faith that inspired her fellow missionaries and eventually won the hearts of her Chinese neighbors. She urged her denomination to support their missionary enterprises with the same type of zeal that motivated her. Moreover, Lottie Moon was never bashful about chiding, even scolding them when she thought they were not doing enough to support missions.

Beyond her numerous admonitions to Southern Baptists in general and the Foreign Mission Board in particular, Moon's personal correspondence captures a sensitive, caring woman who loved children and valued education. Always one who maintained deep family roots, these letters offer an intimate look into her desire for her family members to live happy, productive lives. They also reveal a woman whose sober, common sense approach to life was tempered by a subtle, often unexpected, sense of humor. All told, Send the Light reintroduces the world to a devoted missionary who forever changed the way Southern Baptists viewed missionaries.

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Acknowledgments
iv
Introduction
viii
There are souls to rescue there are souls to save The HA Tupper Letters 18731893
xxix
Let us pray that grace may everywhere abound Articles for The Foreign Mission Journal
168
Let us gather jewels for a crown above The RJ Willingham Letters 18931912
261
And a Christlike spirit evrywhere be found Letters to family and friends
382
Let us not grow weary in the work of love Epilogue
442
Index
455
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Сторінка 233 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings...
Сторінка 28 - And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other...
Сторінка 253 - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me : and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Сторінка 227 - Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many be they that enter in thereby. For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few be they that find it.
Сторінка 69 - Whether ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Сторінка 60 - Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shall find it after many days.
Сторінка 89 - Seeking me Thy worn feet hasted, On the cross Thy soul death tasted : Let such travail not be wasted!
Сторінка xi - Corresponding Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention...
Сторінка 224 - I wonder how many of us really believe that "it is more blessed to give than to receive." A woman who accepts that statement of our Lord Jesus Christ as a fact, and not as "impractical idealism," will make giving a principle of her life.

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Keith Harper earned a Ph.D. in American History at the University of Kentucky. He currently teaches Church History and Baptist History at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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