"Previous to receiving the same, I had cast myself upon the Lord
more than ever. I could not see my way to run in debt, and I was
wondering whether I should go and work on the road; but I had a
burning desire to labour most of all for Christ, and I was longing to
go South, or somewhere to tell the heathen of Jesus. But when I
received your letter, I took it as an answer to prayer from the Lord,
and I could hardly finish reading it before I was telling my landlady
to rejoice with me. How blessed to trace the hand of the Lord in
this! I have learned by this to praise the Lord for what He has done,
and it has enabled my soul to trust Him for what He has promised.
"Believing this call is of God, and after much prayer, I have laid
myself, all that I am or hope to be, upon the altar, for Africa, to
labour to lead souls to the Lamb of God, to the blessed Lord Jesus. I
expect to be consumed by the power of the Holy Ghost, to be fitted
through Him for the work I am called to, to be used as the ram's
horn, to be spoken through, to lead souls to Jesus, not to receive
the praise of men, but of God.
"And I feel led to say, if it is for anything save for the glory of
God that I accept this call, to be used to the salvation of souls,
may the Lord take me home to Himself on sea or on land, that I see
you not in the flesh but in glory.
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