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LEADERSHIP WORD OF THE WEEK:
Sacrifice
LEADERSHIP
QUOTES OF THE WEEK:
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
Charles du Bois
“You have not lived today until you have done
something for someone who can never repay you.” John
Bunyan
“I was taught that everything attainable if you’re
prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it.” Stirling
Moss
“Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice;
everything is lost by failure to obey God’s call.” Henry
P. Liddon
"We exist temporarily through what we take, but we
live forever through what we give."
Douglas M. Lawson
MISSION MOMENT
Arthur Jackson
Near the end of 1910, Arthur
Jackson set sail for Mouken, the capital of Manchuria. Arthur
was held three degrees; Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Surgery,
and Doctor of Tropical Diseases. He had prepared for years to
fulfill his calling – open Manchuria to the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. He felt sure that his skill as a physician would gain
him entrance into this otherwise closed country to all
westerners.
Arriving in November, Jackson
found that two Chinese carpenters had arrived in the capital,
sick with the pneumonic plague. The plague was already
spreading quickly due to the unsanitary living conditions in the
slums. The plague was a deadly killer due to its proclivity to
only “give one a severe headache and an extreme tiredness”
during its infectious stages. By the time one realized what was
happening; countless others had come in contact with the
afflicted.
Though scornful to the
effectiveness of foreign doctors, the Chinese Mandarin, when
faced with 200 deaths per day, asked Dr. Jackson for help. The
young doctor went to work immediately quarantining the sick,
stopping all afflicted from traveling by train, closing the
borders. One trainload of Chinese workers exiting the country
was called back and quarantined. All were unusual and extreme
measures in those days. Dr. Jackson himself visited all who
were put into isolation.
Due to his foresight and
thoroughness, soon the plague began to wane. The city was saved
and Dr. Jackson was given credit. One day, as the plague’s
onslaught was nearly over, Dr. Jackson came down with a severe
headache. On January 23, Dr. Jackson exclaimed to his friends,
“Look out, the spit has come.” He isolated himself, not
allowing even another doctor to examine him. Within two days he
was gone.
In his book, Thirty Years
in Moukden , Dr. Christie writes, “All who came
nearest to Dr. Jackson have before their inward vision for all
time a fadeless memory of whole-hearted unselfishness and
devotion.”
Dr. Arthur Jackson literally
sacrificed his own life to open a dark country to the wonderful
light of the Gospel.
SCRIPTURE
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that
ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
God, which
is
your reasonable service. 2And be not conformed to
this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what is
that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
“It is far too easy to
forget that we too must be a living sacrifice.” JAS
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