A SMALL SAMPLE OF A GREAT ONE OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD. JUST A COUPLE OF GENERATIONS AGO LIVED THIS GREAT LION OF GOD.


Would that we would hear his voice today. The call to mission is not the same call, but the urgency is the same... with passion.

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The Chocolate Soldier or Heroism - The Lost Chord of Christianity
by C.T. Studd (1860-1931)

"Heroism is the lost chord; the missing note of present-day Christianity!"

Every true soldier is a hero! A SOLDIER WITHOUT HEROISM IS A CHOCOLATE SOLDIER! Who has not been stirred to scorn and mirth at the very thought of a Chocolate Soldier? In peace true soldiers are captive lions, fretting in their cages. War gives them their liberty and sends them, like boys bounding out of school, to obtain their heart's desire or perish in the attempt. Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigour of a hero.....

To the Chocolate Soldier the very thought of war brings a violent attack of ague, while the call to battle always finds him with the palsy. "I really cannot move," he says. "I only wish I could, but I can sing, and here are some of my favorite lines:

"I must be carried to the skies
On a flowery bed of ease,
Let others fight to win the prize,
Or sail through bloody seas.

Mark time, Christian heroes,
Never go to war;
Stop and mind the babies
Playing on the floor.
Wash and dress and feed them
Forty times a week,
'Til they're roly poly--
Puddings so to speak.

Chorus:
Round and round the nursery
Let us ambulate,
Sugar and spice and all that's nice
Must be on our plate."

So... what shall it be with us?

Steel or Chocolate?

xtnyoda, shalomed