THE CALL OF GOLD
C. T. Studd, the great British cricketeer, led the Cambridge Seven a century ago and startled the whole English world. He also gave away a fortune and preached in China, India, and then Africa. Just as he was preparing to leave for Africa a second time, while he was very weak and very sick, he wrote this: Last June at the mouth of the Congo, there awaited a thousand prospectors, traders, merchants, and gold seekers. Waiting to rush into those regions as soon as the government opened the doors to them. A rumor declared there was an abundance of gold. If such men hear so loudly the call of gold and obey it, can it be that the ears of Christ’s soldiers are deaf to the call of God and the cries of the dying soles of men? Are gamblers for gold so many and the gamblers for God so few? From sermon tape 763 of Charles Swindoll, February 8,…
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