MISSED OPPORTUNITY
Chuck Sawyer, Pastor of the Salem United Methodist Church of Thomson, Georgia 30824 sent in the following story he gleaned from William Barclay’s tape on Introduction To The Bible (Abingdon): One of the great disasters of history took place in 1271. In 1271 Nickelo and Matteo Polo (the father and uncle of Marco) were visiting the Kubla Kahn. Kubla Kahn at that time was a world ruler. For he ruled all China, all India and all of the East. He was attracted to the story of Christianity as Nickelo and Matteo told it to him. And he said to them this: “You shall go to your high priest and tell him on my behalf to send me 100 men skilled in your religion and I shall be baptized, and when I am baptized all my Barrons and great men will be baptized and their subjects will receive baptism too and so there will be more Christians here than there are in your…
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