One Who Cared

“When Queen Victoria calls for volunteers for India, hundreds of young men respond, but, when King Jesus calls, no one goes…Is it true, that the fathers and mothers of Scotland have no more sons to give for India…Very well. Then, aged though I am, I’ll go back to India. I can lie down on the banks of the Ganges and I can die and thereby I can let the people of India know that there was one man in Scotland who loved them enough to give his life for them.” - Alexander Duff

None in the assembly would accept his challenge to go until his final words were spoken, at which point men began jumping to the feet calling out that they would go. It is my fear that men today would be the same, except they would remain silent and unmoved even but this old mans final words. Perhaps the younger men would say they are too inexperienced and must get an education and job and family and home before they could go. Perhaps the older men would say they have families to care for, and believe God would not ask them to endanger their lives. Perhaps the young women would believe it far too dangerous for them alone, and they could only go if their future husband would go. And all may say that haven’t had the ‘calling’ to go, though never having received a calling for their current or future careers and plans. Yes, men have gone, and men have died, and the world has seen there are a few who cared. But the blood of these few cries out to the millions who will not now arise to the calling of their King to show this lost world they love enough to give their lives.