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 I love lying every day, every night.

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 I lie.

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 All right, team.

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 Let's gather, if you will.

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 Stunning news from Cairo, Egypt, hollered the paper boys in the streets of Chicago,

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 holding aloft the headline, Sudden Death Overtakes William Borden.

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 The sorrows of such a loss to the missionary cause, read those who took up the copy,

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 will oppress the entire Christian world.

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 He was a mere 25 when so overtaken, yet his life had already been one of great impact.

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 When the news of his fate was cabled home, a wave of sorrow went round the world.

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 Oh, should have showed you the headline.

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 No young man of his age, declared the Princeton Seminary Bulletin,

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 has ever given more to the service of God and humanity.

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 At his own alma mater, Yale, Henry B. Wright, a revered Christian on the faculty,

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 remarked in reference to Borden's college days,

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 no undergraduate since I've been connected with Yale

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 has done so much for Christ in four short years than he did.

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 Few had been the days granted him,

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 and his course seemed to have been cut off in the first dawning of its full bloom.

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 Yet, as his stunned classmate of Yale would attest,

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 in his short life, he did more through God than most do in a full lifetime,

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 and had left a trail of changed lives behind him.

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 William Whiting Borden was born in Chicago, November 1st, 1887.

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 His was the blessing of growing up in a godly home with family prayer and Bible reading a staple.

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 His father's ample wealth provided all the amenities and opportunities that could be desired.

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 A more enduring wealth came, it seems, chiefly from his mother,

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 who early in Bill's life sowed the spiritual seeds,

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 which would later bring so great a harvest.

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 Her own spiritual life had been stirred up in a series of meetings in Chicago

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 of the Salvation Army,

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 conducted by Mrs. Bollington Booth herself.

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 And little William, ever at her side,

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 as the word went out,

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 went out in full conviction into the Holy Spirit,

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 no doubt in that Salvation Army context.

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 Their permanent church home became the Moody Church,

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 where the gospel was faithfully heralded with great power,

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 in the happy heritage of its namesake, D.L. Moody.

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 Here the seeds of new life were watered and ripened,

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 and it was from the Moody Church pulpit,

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 that as a child of seven,

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 Bill heard an appeal to dedicate his entire life to the service of the Savior.

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 At the invitation,

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 William quietly rose in his little blue sailor suit

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 and went forward.

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 From that day, daily prayer went up

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 as mother and son knelt together

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 that the will of God

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 might be wrought out

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 in his life.

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 It was in that consecrated Chicago home

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 that habits were formed,

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 Bible study and prayer,

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 which would abide

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 a lifetime.

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 Once, when William was six years old,

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 his mother had him,

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 with the rest of the children,

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 write on a piece of paper

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 what they would most like to be

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 when they grew up.

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 William wrote,

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 in Less Than Perfect Orthography,

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 I want to be an honest man

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 when I grow up,

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 and true,

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 and loving,

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 and kind,

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 and faithful man.

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 Well, to his last day,

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 by the grace of God,

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 the man could have

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 looked into the eyes of the child

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 without shame.

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 We see in the Borden home and family

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 a cheering example

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 of how consecration there,

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 in the first formative stages of childhood,

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 can set the course of a young life

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 all the way to its end.

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 William's spiritual nurture at home

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 was simple,

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 faithful,

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 and sincere,

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 and its impact upon the boy

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 was abiding.

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 This was much the secret

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 of his strong character

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 and selfless career.

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 Upon this foundation at home

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 was added fine schooling.

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 University school,

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 then the manual training school,

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 Bill loved to work with his hands.

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 And finally,

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 the celebrated Hill School.

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 The glory of the Hill School,

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 which Borden attended,

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 or entered at 14,

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 was not its library

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 or its athletic fields,

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 but its headmaster.

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 As the inscription

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 on the marble stone

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 which marks the resting place

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 in the chapel reads,

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 John Miggs,

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 strong,

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 impetuous,

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 tender,

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 servant of Christ,

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 master of boys,

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 maker of men.

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 Here,

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 young Borden

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 caught from Miggs

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 the governing principle

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 of the reverent

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 and radiant

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 use of the body.

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 That the strength

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 of manhood

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 given to the master

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 is built on purity.

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 Borden would never waver

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 in this conviction

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 and never falter

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 in its exercise.

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 He would ever be a vessel

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 fit and sanctified

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 for the master's use.

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 What that use would be

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 would soon impress itself

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 upon him.

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 For after graduating

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 from the Hill School

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 and before going up to Yale,

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 Bill took off the year

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 and traveled around the world.

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 He had a traveling companion,

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 Walter Edmond,

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 a Princeton Seminary grad

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 who would himself

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 go on to become

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 a missionary in Korea.

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 Started in Maine

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 and then

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 they traveled

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 across the states.

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 Across then

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 the Pacific

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 to Japan

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 then on to China,

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 India and Egypt

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 circumnavigating

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 the whole globe.

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 They loved to

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 they loved to

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 climb mountains together.

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 There they are

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 I think in the Alps

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 or something.

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 Yeah,

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 got a little

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 got a little rope

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 kind of tied around

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 each of their waist.

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 One hopes that

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 that would be effective

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 in the eventuality

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 that was needed.

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 The most striking thing

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 Bill saw

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 on this world tour

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 was not pagodas

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 or palaces,

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 the mountains

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 or marketplaces

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 though he did love

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 mountain climbing.

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 It was rather

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 the utter

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 and urgent need

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 of the world

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 for the gospel.

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 And eight weeks

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 into his travels

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 Borden wrote home

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 that he wished

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 someday to become

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 a missionary.

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 By that time

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 he had reached Japan

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 and seen the lost

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 condition of the heathen

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 as they were then called

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 and also had a chance

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 to see the missionaries

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 at work.

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 Later when asked

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 by an incredulous

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 friend

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 why he wished

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 to throw his life away

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 among the heathen

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 Bill replied

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 you have never seen

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 heathenism.

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 Upon a student

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 volunteer

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 questionnaire

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 a little questionnaire

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 that you would fill out

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 when you were volunteering

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 to be a student

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 volunteer.

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 He filled it out

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 in 1908

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 to the question

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 when and under

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 what influence

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 he had purposed

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 to become a foreign missionary

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 he had answered

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 when I had been

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 in Japan

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 a short time

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 and met a few

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 real missionaries

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 and seen actual conditions.

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 This was in October

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 1904.

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 To one of these

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 missionaries in Japan

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 the young traveler

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 would give half

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 his total traveling

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 allowance.

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 Neither could his

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 determination

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 have been due

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 to some romanticized

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 impression

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 of the missionary life

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 for shortly after

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 reaching China

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 he was laid low

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 with typhoid fever

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 and so spent

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 his first Christmas

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 away from home

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 fighting for his life

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 in a hospital

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 in Hong Kong.

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 Certainly

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 in his decision

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 his eyes were open

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 to the dangers.

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 Surprisingly

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 he does not count

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 among the dangers

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 driving a car

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 in Paris

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 for oddly

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 it was there

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 that he chose

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 to take driving lessons.

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 The claim

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 that he became

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 quite proficient

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 is

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 well

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 that was the claim

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 just how proficient

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 he became

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 one wonders

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 for at least

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 on one occasion

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 he had to pay a fine

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 for running over

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 a motorcyclist.

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 So

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 it happens easily

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 in Paris

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 it's almost happened

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 to me several times.

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 while crossing

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 the channel

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 Borden arrived

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 in London

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 and the timing

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 was providential

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 for R.A. Torrey

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 there he is

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 R.A. Torrey

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 a famous evangelist

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 and pastor

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 of the day

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 was holding

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 a series of meetings

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 and Borden

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 attended these addresses

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 and they were used

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 of God

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 to renew

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 his consecration

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 as he wrote

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 in his diary

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 on that day

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 July 2nd

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 I was much helped

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 and surrendered

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 all to Jesus

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 at the invitation.

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 Borden was now

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 a young man

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 of 17

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 and in this

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 newly made

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 surrender

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 Borden

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 entered Yale

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 the fall

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 of 1905

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 in a

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 no bad thing

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 to show up there

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 with consecrated

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 life.

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 In the fly leaf

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 of his pocket

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 New Testament

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 he had written

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 out Psalm

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 119

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 11

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 Thy word

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 have I hidden

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 my heart

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 that I might

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 not sin

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 against thee.

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 Banners

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 and placards

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 were numerous

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 and various

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 in the Yale rooms

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 as they are

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 today.

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 Borden had

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 one up in his

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 room

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 it read

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 Wherewithal

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 shall a young

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 man keep

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 his way pure

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 by keeping

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 it according

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 to thy word.

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 As one

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 yearly observed

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 Borden

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 soon stamped

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 himself as a

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 leader in the

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 Christian activities

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 of the college.

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 In spite of his

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 age he was

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 far more mature

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 in faith

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 than many

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 considerably older.

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 Well though

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 determined to

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 hide the word

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 in his heart

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 Borden was

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 equally determined

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 not to hide

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 it from his

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 classmates.

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 And so

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 first semester

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 of his

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 freshman year

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 when as

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 one fellow

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 student wrote

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 everywhere about

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 him were the

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 hustle and

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 uncertainty of

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 freshman beginnings.

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 Borden sought

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 out and gathered

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 up a few

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 Christian classmates

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 for a daily

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 prayer meeting.

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 Charlie

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 Campbell

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 oh no I

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 don't have a

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 picture of him

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 Charlie

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 Campbell

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 the first

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 to join him

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 later recalled

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 these meetings

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 were held in

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 Bill's room

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 just before we

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 went to breakfast.

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 The time was

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 spent

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 in a brief

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 reading of

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 scripture and

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 then predominantly

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 in prayer.

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 Our object was

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 to pray for

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 the religious

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 work of the

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 class in

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 college and

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 also for those

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 of our friends

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 who we were

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 seeking to

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 bring to

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 Christ.

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 Determined in

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 his purpose to

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 be a missionary

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 he didn't want

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 to wait till he

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 got to foreign

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 soil to announce

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 the good news

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 and to reclaim

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 the wayward.

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 No good to

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 imagine yourself

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 preaching in

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 some exotic

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 far eastern

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 bazaar if

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 you were

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 unwilling to

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 press the

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 savior on

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 the New Haven

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 Green or in

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 the college

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 quad so

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 thought Borden.

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 He is a

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 missionary

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 first last

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 and all the

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 time said

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 one fellow

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 student of

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 Bill.

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 Another

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 recalled an

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 instance freshman

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 year when

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 Bill heard

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 of a student

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 drifting into

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 open and

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 flagrant sin.

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 Bill set

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 about reaching

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 him with

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 Christ's message

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 of salvation

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 writes his

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 fellow student.

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 He discovered

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 the dark and

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 distant haunt

00:13:18.899 --> 00:13:19.600
 where this

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 wayward son of

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 Eli was

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 scurulously in

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 the company of

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 a woman of

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 ill repute that

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 he had engaged.

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 Well Bill

00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:27.039
 managed to get

00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:28.180
 hold of this

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 prodigal and

00:13:29.180 --> 00:13:30.519
 somehow drag him

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 back to New

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 Haven by what

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 were described

00:13:34.199 --> 00:13:35.139
 as strong

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 armed methods.

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 What precisely

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 these were is

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 not indicated.

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 Suffice it to

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 say that it

00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:43.439
 didn't hurt that

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 Bill was one of

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 the toughest on

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 the wrestling

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 mat that Yale's

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 gym could boast

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 of.

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 And so many

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 of the fallen

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 or the falling

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 were forcibly

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 retrieved.

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 As a professor

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 of his recalled,

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 it was

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 impossible

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 you would say

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 to yourself

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 that anything

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 could go wrong

00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:04.379
 in his

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 neighborhood

00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:06.040
 if he could

00:14:06.040 --> 00:14:06.720
 prevent it.

00:14:08.160 --> 00:14:09.139
 He seemed

00:14:09.139 --> 00:14:10.160
 like a fixed

00:14:10.160 --> 00:14:11.180
 beacon light

00:14:11.180 --> 00:14:12.840
 in the moving

00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:13.620
 waters,

00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:14.440
 recalled another,

00:14:15.100 --> 00:14:16.300
 by which the

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 fellows could

00:14:17.259 --> 00:14:18.360
 safely steer

00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:19.139
 their course.

00:14:19.780 --> 00:14:20.340
 And he was

00:14:20.340 --> 00:14:22.200
 so uncompromising

00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:23.200
 with anything

00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:24.080
 that he considered

00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:24.560
 wrong.

00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:25.960
 And he was

00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:26.759
 so determined

00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:27.660
 to carry out

00:14:27.660 --> 00:14:28.560
 every plan

00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:29.599
 that he thought

00:14:29.599 --> 00:14:30.219
 was right.

00:14:31.359 --> 00:14:31.959
 Bill's very

00:14:31.959 --> 00:14:32.619
 presence,

00:14:33.539 --> 00:14:34.639
 wherever he was

00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:35.279
 on campus,

00:14:35.419 --> 00:14:35.799
 became,

00:14:35.939 --> 00:14:36.359
 it seems,

00:14:36.779 --> 00:14:37.539
 an influence

00:14:37.539 --> 00:14:38.579
 for purity.

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 As another

00:14:40.239 --> 00:14:41.199
 classmate relates,

00:14:41.899 --> 00:14:42.419
 the shady

00:14:42.419 --> 00:14:43.059
 story,

00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:44.619
 the jest,

00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:45.299
 which had a

00:14:45.299 --> 00:14:45.919
 little bit of

00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:46.899
 sacrilege in it,

00:14:47.259 --> 00:14:48.539
 the remark,

00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:49.799
 in a slighting

00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:50.059
 way,

00:14:50.139 --> 00:14:50.939
 about the Bible

00:14:50.939 --> 00:14:52.159
 or holy things,

00:14:52.779 --> 00:14:53.659
 all these were

00:14:53.659 --> 00:14:54.519
 intolerable

00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:56.019
 when Bill Borden

00:14:56.019 --> 00:14:56.819
 was present

00:14:56.820 --> 00:14:57.860
 or in hearing.

00:14:58.560 --> 00:14:59.180
 His fellows

00:14:59.180 --> 00:14:59.780
 knew that it

00:14:59.780 --> 00:15:00.379
 would not be

00:15:00.379 --> 00:15:01.379
 tolerated by him

00:15:01.379 --> 00:15:02.280
 and they

00:15:02.280 --> 00:15:03.040
 abstained from

00:15:03.040 --> 00:15:03.600
 that sort of

00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:04.160
 thing when he

00:15:04.160 --> 00:15:04.700
 was with them.

00:15:05.580 --> 00:15:06.340
 He helped us

00:15:06.340 --> 00:15:07.040
 all to think

00:15:07.040 --> 00:15:07.840
 more purely

00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:09.040
 and to live

00:15:09.040 --> 00:15:09.660
 more purely

00:15:09.660 --> 00:15:10.260
 because we

00:15:10.260 --> 00:15:10.680
 knew him.

00:15:12.400 --> 00:15:12.800
 Now one

00:15:12.800 --> 00:15:13.920
 might think

00:15:13.920 --> 00:15:14.400
 that such

00:15:14.400 --> 00:15:15.080
 aggressive

00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:16.280
 evangelism

00:15:16.280 --> 00:15:16.760
 and such

00:15:16.760 --> 00:15:17.740
 uncompromising

00:15:17.740 --> 00:15:18.980
 loyalty to

00:15:18.980 --> 00:15:19.360
 holiness

00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:20.640
 might grate

00:15:20.640 --> 00:15:21.340
 upon and

00:15:21.340 --> 00:15:22.060
 alienate

00:15:22.060 --> 00:15:22.560
 many a

00:15:22.560 --> 00:15:23.400
 fellow student

00:15:23.400 --> 00:15:24.120
 who did not

00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:24.680
 share his

00:15:24.680 --> 00:15:25.160
 convictions.

00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:27.019
 And yes,

00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:27.799
 this was true

00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:28.679
 in some cases.

00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:30.120
 And yet it

00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:31.519
 seems Borden

00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:32.980
 was remarkably

00:15:32.980 --> 00:15:34.259
 respected by

00:15:34.259 --> 00:15:34.919
 his peers,

00:15:35.819 --> 00:15:36.459
 even those

00:15:36.459 --> 00:15:36.879
 who saw

00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:37.639
 life differently.

00:15:38.659 --> 00:15:39.259
 As his

00:15:39.259 --> 00:15:39.719
 roommate of

00:15:39.719 --> 00:15:40.199
 two years,

00:15:40.319 --> 00:15:40.919
 Malcolm Villis,

00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:41.339
 recalled,

00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:43.259
 many times I

00:15:43.259 --> 00:15:43.860
 heard Bill

00:15:43.860 --> 00:15:44.779
 criticized by

00:15:44.779 --> 00:15:45.179
 men in our

00:15:45.179 --> 00:15:46.079
 class as being

00:15:46.079 --> 00:15:47.559
 too religious

00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:48.740
 and narrow-minded.

00:15:49.699 --> 00:15:50.579
 But when I

00:15:50.579 --> 00:15:51.699
 asked if they

00:15:51.699 --> 00:15:52.279
 didn't like

00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:53.179
 and admire him,

00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:53.980
 they invariably

00:15:53.980 --> 00:15:55.080
 said, oh yes,

00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:55.740
 of course we

00:15:55.740 --> 00:15:56.000
 do.

00:15:57.300 --> 00:15:57.779
 And not

00:15:57.779 --> 00:15:59.100
 one, but

00:15:59.100 --> 00:15:59.899
 what was or

00:15:59.899 --> 00:16:00.279
 would have

00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:01.080
 been proud

00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:02.300
 to call him

00:16:02.300 --> 00:16:02.659
 friend.

00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:05.300
 And so

00:16:05.300 --> 00:16:06.460
 proceeded his

00:16:06.460 --> 00:16:07.180
 evangelistic

00:16:07.180 --> 00:16:07.639
 efforts.

00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:08.940
 But by

00:16:08.940 --> 00:16:09.539
 year's end,

00:16:09.860 --> 00:16:10.740
 Borden wanted

00:16:10.740 --> 00:16:11.779
 something a

00:16:11.779 --> 00:16:12.159
 little more

00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:13.259
 systematic for

00:16:13.259 --> 00:16:14.240
 fear that some

00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:14.860
 might fall

00:16:14.860 --> 00:16:15.259
 through the

00:16:15.259 --> 00:16:15.720
 cracks.

00:16:16.659 --> 00:16:17.180
 Beginning

00:16:17.180 --> 00:16:18.200
 sophomore year,

00:16:18.659 --> 00:16:19.519
 Bill inaugurated

00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:19.879
 a new

00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:20.500
 strategy.

00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:21.899
 Writing to

00:16:21.899 --> 00:16:22.300
 his mother,

00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:23.379
 he explained,

00:16:23.379 --> 00:16:24.340
 Charlie,

00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:25.120
 Jeff,

00:16:25.179 --> 00:16:25.779
 and I got

00:16:25.779 --> 00:16:26.580
 together today

00:16:26.580 --> 00:16:27.399
 and divided

00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:27.759
 up the

00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:28.220
 class.

00:16:28.340 --> 00:16:28.580
 There would

00:16:28.580 --> 00:16:28.759
 have been

00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:29.720
 about 300

00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:30.259
 men in

00:16:30.259 --> 00:16:32.340
 his class

00:16:32.340 --> 00:16:33.039
 during that

00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:33.399
 time at

00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:33.580
 Yale.

00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:34.679
 The plan

00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:35.279
 is for

00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:35.600
 each of

00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:35.899
 us to

00:16:35.899 --> 00:16:36.179
 have a

00:16:36.179 --> 00:16:36.620
 quarter of

00:16:36.620 --> 00:16:37.179
 the class.

00:16:37.340 --> 00:16:37.639
 I'm not

00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:38.039
 quite sure

00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:38.340
 how the

00:16:38.340 --> 00:16:38.759
 fractions

00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:39.639
 worked out

00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:39.899
 when he

00:16:39.899 --> 00:16:40.360
 just mentioned

00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:40.700
 three,

00:16:40.820 --> 00:16:41.200
 but nonetheless,

00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:41.740
 okay,

00:16:41.939 --> 00:16:42.679
 maybe that

00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:43.059
 wasn't his

00:16:43.059 --> 00:16:43.620
 strong suit.

00:16:44.500 --> 00:16:45.220
 The plan

00:16:45.220 --> 00:16:45.840
 is for

00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:46.179
 each of

00:16:46.179 --> 00:16:46.480
 us to

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 have one

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 quarter of

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 the class

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 as his

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 parish and

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 to know

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 every individual

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 man.

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 It'll take

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 time,

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 but I

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 believe it

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 will pay

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 off.

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 Naturally,

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 there were

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 some

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 Yalies who

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 were tougher

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 prospects than

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 others,

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 the dancers,

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 the dicers,

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 the womanizers,

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 and whiskey

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 drinkers.

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 One of

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 Bill's

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 companions

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 involved in

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 the divvying

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 up of that

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 class later

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 described the

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 occasion.

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 The names

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 were gone

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 over one

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 by one,

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 and the

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 question asked,

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 who will

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 take this

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 person or

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 that?

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 And when

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 it came to

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 one who

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 was a

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 hard proposition,

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 there would

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 be an

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 ominous

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 pause.

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 Nobody

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 wanted the

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 responsibility.

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 Then Bill's

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 voice would

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 be heard.

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 Ah,

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 put him

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 down to

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 me.

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 Bill

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 hunts up

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 the worst

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 skunk in

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 college and

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 goes after

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 him,

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 marveled

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 another

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 fellow in

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 his class,

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 Joe

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 Twitchell.

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 It was

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 in a

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 chasing

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 down skunks

00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:47.299
 that Bill

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 became aware

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 of another

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 mission.

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 See,

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 New Haven,

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 as a

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 seaport midway

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 between New

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 York and

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 Boston,

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 seemed to

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 gather up

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 every sordid

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 sort of

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 riffraff and

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 vagrant,

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 tramp and

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 hobo,

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 and to

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 accommodate

00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:02.200
 the burgeoning

00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:02.620
 vice,

00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:03.759
 saloons,

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 gambling halls

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 and brothels

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 sprang up in

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 abundance.

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 Not one

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 rescue mission

00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:12.519
 existed to

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 bring relief

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 and gospel

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 to the

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 melange of

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 human

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 wreckage.

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 Borden

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 felt something

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 needed to

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 be done.

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 So he

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 gathered up

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 his mates

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 to pray,

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 rented a

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 room in

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 a dive on

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 the strip,

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 and began

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 to hold

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 evangelistic

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 meetings to

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 bring the

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 hope of

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 gospel to

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 drunken

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 derelict.

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 There it is.

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 Yale Hope

00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:37.660
 Mission.

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 It started

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 as a single

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 room,

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 but under

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 Borden's

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 energy and

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 influence,

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 quickly grew.

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 Soon Bill,

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 remember he

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 was extremely

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 wealthy,

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 unostentatiously

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 so, but

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 extremely

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 wealthy,

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 quietly bought

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 the whole

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 building for

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 a halfway

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 house.

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 On cold

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 nights, as

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 many as

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 150 men

00:19:04.299 --> 00:19:04.880
 were present

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 for meals

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 and lodging,

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 and the

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 challenge and

00:19:07.740 --> 00:19:08.279
 comfort of the

00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:09.440
 gospel at

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 Hotel Martin,

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 as it came to

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 be called in the

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 streets, after

00:19:14.420 --> 00:19:15.380
 Daddy Martin,

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 who was a

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 one-time

00:19:16.840 --> 00:19:17.380
 drunk,

00:19:17.800 --> 00:19:18.759
 notorious drunk,

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 whose life had

00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:20.240
 been dramatically

00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:21.280
 changed there at

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 the Mission.

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 And like Daddy

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 Martin, many a

00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:26.960
 shattered life was

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 reclaimed for

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 Christ in that

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 place.

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 One of Bill's

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 early

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 reclamations,

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 they called

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 him, later

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 reminisced, and I

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 hasten to note

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 that the private

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 grammar is his,

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 not mine.

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 This is a quote.

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 This is found in the

00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:41.960
 letter that he had

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 written,

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 Not till the

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 books of heaven

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 are opened will

00:19:47.420 --> 00:19:48.759
 you know what

00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:49.860
 Bill Borden done

00:19:49.860 --> 00:19:51.100
 by opening Yale

00:19:51.100 --> 00:19:51.660
 Hope Mission.

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 He'd hasten

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 through his

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 address and get

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 down to work

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 with us men.

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 As soon as the

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 invitation was

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 given to come

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 forward, he would

00:20:01.799 --> 00:20:02.360
 be off his

00:20:02.360 --> 00:20:03.480
 platform and

00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:04.319
 right down among

00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:04.759
 the men.

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 He had a habit

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 of putting his

00:20:07.460 --> 00:20:08.440
 hand on a man's

00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:09.559
 shoulder, and

00:20:09.559 --> 00:20:10.039
 they'd almost

00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:11.039
 always break down

00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:11.720
 when he spoke to

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 them.

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 I never

00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:13.940
 knowed a

00:20:13.940 --> 00:20:14.680
 feller just

00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:15.240
 like Bill.

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 I like to get

00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:18.039
 hold of one of

00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:18.680
 his pictures.

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 Seems to me, if

00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:21.819
 ever I saw one, I'd

00:20:21.819 --> 00:20:22.840
 most likely try to

00:20:22.840 --> 00:20:23.400
 steal it.

00:20:23.860 --> 00:20:24.700
 Obviously, the man

00:20:24.700 --> 00:20:25.440
 had not totally

00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:26.319
 renounced his

00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:28.180
 previous lifestyle,

00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:30.180
 but he could

00:20:30.180 --> 00:20:31.400
 talk to anyone.

00:20:31.980 --> 00:20:32.779
 Didn't matter who

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 they was.

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 And he'd get

00:20:34.779 --> 00:20:35.440
 down with his

00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:39.200
 arms around the

00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:40.539
 poor burly bum

00:20:40.539 --> 00:20:41.539
 and hug him

00:20:41.539 --> 00:20:41.799
 up.

00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:44.000
 Never knowed his

00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:44.559
 like in this

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 world.

00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:46.639
 I know he

00:20:46.639 --> 00:20:47.240
 must have done

00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:47.920
 for hundreds

00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:49.559
 just what he

00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:50.200
 done for me.

00:20:50.200 --> 00:20:55.360
 once a

00:20:55.360 --> 00:20:56.460
 distinguishing

00:20:56.460 --> 00:20:57.380
 visiting British

00:20:57.380 --> 00:20:58.740
 theologian was

00:20:58.740 --> 00:21:00.160
 asked, of all

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 that you have

00:21:00.700 --> 00:21:01.519
 seen in America,

00:21:02.059 --> 00:21:02.759
 what has

00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:03.380
 impressed you

00:21:03.380 --> 00:21:03.860
 most?

00:21:04.600 --> 00:21:05.580
 Well, expecting to

00:21:05.580 --> 00:21:06.299
 hear something about

00:21:06.299 --> 00:21:08.000
 Niagara Falls or the

00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:09.500
 Manhattan skyline.

00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:10.819
 The

00:21:10.819 --> 00:21:12.259
 inquirer was

00:21:12.259 --> 00:21:13.240
 surprised to

00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:14.100
 receive the answer.

00:21:14.099 --> 00:21:15.719
 the sight of

00:21:15.719 --> 00:21:16.500
 William Borden

00:21:16.500 --> 00:21:18.339
 on his knees in

00:21:18.339 --> 00:21:19.000
 the Yale Hope

00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:20.559
 Mission of New

00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:21.679
 Haven with his

00:21:21.679 --> 00:21:22.519
 arm around a

00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:22.719
 bum.

00:21:24.519 --> 00:21:25.679
 This ministry

00:21:25.679 --> 00:21:29.059
 remained close to

00:21:29.059 --> 00:21:29.659
 Bill's heart.

00:21:30.819 --> 00:21:31.459
 Not only did he

00:21:31.459 --> 00:21:33.959
 invest $20,000 into

00:21:33.959 --> 00:21:34.559
 the Yale Hope

00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:35.819
 Mission during his

00:21:35.819 --> 00:21:37.579
 college years, even

00:21:37.579 --> 00:21:38.619
 afterward, when at

00:21:38.619 --> 00:21:39.419
 seminary at

00:21:39.419 --> 00:21:40.559
 Princeton, he would

00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:42.219
 make the trip up to

00:21:42.220 --> 00:21:43.700
 New Haven by train

00:21:43.700 --> 00:21:46.400
 nearly every month

00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:47.779
 to conduct the

00:21:47.779 --> 00:21:48.240
 address.

00:21:50.240 --> 00:21:50.920
 Apparently, they

00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:51.539
 had no bums

00:21:51.539 --> 00:21:52.420
 available at

00:21:52.420 --> 00:21:53.319
 Princeton, so you

00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:53.960
 have to come up to

00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:54.559
 New Haven to get

00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:55.240
 that sort of thing.

00:21:55.420 --> 00:21:56.460
 I don't know, maybe.

00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:00.360
 And it's our loss.

00:22:01.360 --> 00:22:03.200
 And the impact of

00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:05.059
 this outreach also

00:22:05.059 --> 00:22:06.799
 was exercised upon

00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:08.059
 the Yale students

00:22:08.059 --> 00:22:08.640
 involved.

00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:10.480
 Indeed, the whole

00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:11.640
 Yale community.

00:22:12.220 --> 00:22:13.680
 For it demonstrated

00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:16.279
 dramatically that the

00:22:16.279 --> 00:22:17.779
 gospel was indeed

00:22:17.779 --> 00:22:19.039
 the power of God

00:22:19.039 --> 00:22:20.519
 unto salvation to

00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:22.079
 them that believe.

00:22:23.579 --> 00:22:25.160
 Writes Yale

00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:26.799
 Professor Henry B.

00:22:26.900 --> 00:22:29.019
 Wright, it is my

00:22:29.019 --> 00:22:31.720
 firm conviction that

00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:33.279
 Yale Hope Mission has

00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:35.299
 done more to convince

00:22:35.299 --> 00:22:37.259
 all classes of men at

00:22:37.259 --> 00:22:39.259
 Yale of the power and

00:22:39.259 --> 00:22:40.460
 practicability of

00:22:40.460 --> 00:22:41.480
 Christianity to

00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:43.059
 regenerate individuals

00:22:43.059 --> 00:22:45.079
 and communities than

00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:46.799
 any other force in

00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:47.640
 the university.

00:22:48.500 --> 00:22:49.700
 Its influence for

00:22:49.700 --> 00:22:50.720
 good among the

00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:52.140
 students has been

00:22:52.140 --> 00:22:54.039
 utterly inestimable.

00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:57.700
 This was really

00:22:58.620 --> 00:22:59.000
 true.

00:22:59.140 --> 00:22:59.799
 And if you read that

00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:00.920
 time, there were

00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:02.160
 waves of German

00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:03.220
 higher criticism

00:23:03.220 --> 00:23:05.140
 coming in, lots of

00:23:05.140 --> 00:23:05.799
 things that were

00:23:05.799 --> 00:23:07.579
 really eroding the

00:23:07.579 --> 00:23:08.420
 confidence in the

00:23:08.420 --> 00:23:08.880
 gospel.

00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:10.019
 And the students

00:23:10.019 --> 00:23:11.600
 were really kind

00:23:11.600 --> 00:23:15.100
 of unanchored as

00:23:15.100 --> 00:23:16.019
 to answers at that

00:23:16.019 --> 00:23:16.420
 time.

00:23:17.259 --> 00:23:18.580
 So going down and

00:23:18.580 --> 00:23:20.840
 seeing the gospel so

00:23:20.840 --> 00:23:22.779
 powerful to change

00:23:22.779 --> 00:23:24.500
 lives was an anchoring

00:23:24.500 --> 00:23:25.720
 reality for them when

00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:28.960
 there was a period of

00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:29.740
 time when they just

00:23:29.740 --> 00:23:30.759
 didn't have questions to

00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:31.340
 some of these tough

00:23:31.340 --> 00:23:33.220
 answers to some of these

00:23:33.220 --> 00:23:33.820
 tough questions.

00:23:33.819 --> 00:23:33.879
 students.

00:23:35.659 --> 00:23:37.379
 During spring term of

00:23:37.379 --> 00:23:39.019
 his freshman year, the

00:23:39.019 --> 00:23:39.740
 student volunteer

00:23:39.740 --> 00:23:41.500
 movement held a

00:23:41.500 --> 00:23:42.919
 quadrennial conference

00:23:42.919 --> 00:23:44.460
 in Nashville and

00:23:44.460 --> 00:23:45.599
 Borden attended as one

00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:46.619
 of the Yale delegates

00:23:46.619 --> 00:23:49.460
 to a hall packed with

00:23:49.460 --> 00:23:50.839
 students, close to

00:23:50.839 --> 00:23:52.519
 5,000 students.

00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:54.299
 For one week, the

00:23:54.299 --> 00:23:55.559
 needs of the world were

00:23:55.559 --> 00:23:57.240
 passionately presented.

00:23:57.240 --> 00:24:01.660
 This is Samuel

00:24:01.660 --> 00:24:04.660
 Zweimer, the famous,

00:24:05.019 --> 00:24:06.359
 renowned missionary

00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:09.539
 to the Muslim world at

00:24:09.539 --> 00:24:10.000
 the time.

00:24:10.900 --> 00:24:11.420
 And Bill was

00:24:11.420 --> 00:24:12.940
 particularly riveted by

00:24:12.940 --> 00:24:14.160
 an appeal which

00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:15.819
 Samuel Zweimer voiced

00:24:15.819 --> 00:24:17.660
 for the Muslim world.

00:24:18.180 --> 00:24:20.200
 He spoke of 15

00:24:20.200 --> 00:24:22.339
 million Muslims in

00:24:22.339 --> 00:24:24.859
 China where as yet

00:24:24.859 --> 00:24:26.779
 not one single

00:24:26.779 --> 00:24:28.479
 missionary was set

00:24:28.479 --> 00:24:29.339
 apart to reach

00:24:29.339 --> 00:24:29.559
 them.

00:24:31.259 --> 00:24:32.500
 Of course it will

00:24:32.500 --> 00:24:33.299
 cost life,

00:24:33.979 --> 00:24:34.819
 concluded Zweimer.

00:24:35.479 --> 00:24:36.299
 It is not an

00:24:36.299 --> 00:24:37.479
 expedition of ease

00:24:37.479 --> 00:24:38.839
 nor a picnic

00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:39.979
 excursion to which

00:24:39.979 --> 00:24:40.699
 we are called.

00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:42.459
 It is going to

00:24:42.459 --> 00:24:43.839
 cost many a life.

00:24:44.859 --> 00:24:45.859
 Leadership in this

00:24:45.859 --> 00:24:47.659
 movement has always

00:24:47.659 --> 00:24:49.219
 been leadership in

00:24:49.219 --> 00:24:49.679
 suffering.

00:24:51.139 --> 00:24:51.699
 Well, Borden

00:24:51.699 --> 00:24:52.479
 returned to Yale

00:24:52.479 --> 00:24:53.279
 committed in his

00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:54.759
 heart to that great

00:24:54.759 --> 00:24:56.379
 enterprise, to

00:24:56.379 --> 00:24:57.220
 build where none

00:24:57.220 --> 00:24:57.980
 had yet laid a

00:24:57.980 --> 00:25:00.019
 foundation among

00:25:00.019 --> 00:25:01.660
 the Muslims of

00:25:01.660 --> 00:25:02.119
 China.

00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:06.400
 Borden returned to

00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:07.440
 Yale with a fixed

00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:08.220
 purpose.

00:25:09.740 --> 00:25:10.839
 Possessed of this

00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:11.960
 purpose, he became

00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:13.640
 the nucleus of the

00:25:13.640 --> 00:25:14.519
 young missionary

00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:15.220
 band.

00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:16.539
 And judging from

00:25:16.539 --> 00:25:17.460
 the number of books

00:25:17.460 --> 00:25:18.680
 and pamphlet orders

00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:20.220
 which came from his

00:25:20.220 --> 00:25:21.859
 pen, he took

00:25:21.859 --> 00:25:23.200
 personal responsibility

00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:25.600
 to keep Dwight Library

00:25:25.600 --> 00:25:27.319
 missions alcove stocked

00:25:27.319 --> 00:25:28.120
 with literature.

00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:31.640
 Bill also became

00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:33.559
 chairman of the

00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:34.460
 Connecticut Valley

00:25:34.460 --> 00:25:35.940
 Student Missions

00:25:35.940 --> 00:25:37.420
 Conference, arranging

00:25:37.420 --> 00:25:38.420
 for speakers and

00:25:38.420 --> 00:25:39.360
 recruiting students.

00:25:39.900 --> 00:25:40.940
 And while still a

00:25:40.940 --> 00:25:42.400
 student, he conceived

00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:44.240
 and carried out an

00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:46.000
 initiative to elicit from

00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:47.620
 all American mission

00:25:47.620 --> 00:25:50.279
 boards their needs and

00:25:50.279 --> 00:25:52.940
 openings and undertook to

00:25:52.940 --> 00:25:54.220
 get the intel to a

00:25:54.220 --> 00:25:55.440
 massive list of

00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:56.480
 prospective student

00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:58.039
 volunteers according to

00:25:58.039 --> 00:25:59.000
 their denominations.

00:25:59.160 --> 00:26:00.399
 Great organizer also.

00:26:00.619 --> 00:26:01.240
 Great organizer.

00:26:02.740 --> 00:26:05.379
 He himself had not

00:26:05.379 --> 00:26:07.279
 signed the pledge.

00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:07.960
 When we talk about the

00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:08.519
 student volunteer

00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:09.599
 missionary pledge, it

00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:10.539
 was simply a pledge that

00:26:10.539 --> 00:26:12.019
 said, it is my purpose

00:26:12.019 --> 00:26:14.220
 if God permit to

00:26:14.220 --> 00:26:15.079
 become a foreign

00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:15.460
 missionary.

00:26:15.899 --> 00:26:16.720
 And this was a

00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:17.399
 pledge that the

00:26:17.399 --> 00:26:18.680
 students would sign.

00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:21.180
 And Borden committed

00:26:21.180 --> 00:26:22.060
 to missions, had not

00:26:22.060 --> 00:26:23.100
 yet signed the pledge

00:26:23.100 --> 00:26:24.440
 in respect to his

00:26:24.440 --> 00:26:26.000
 father's wish that he

00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:27.340
 not do so before he

00:26:27.340 --> 00:26:28.500
 was 21 years old.

00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:30.759
 And he respected his

00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:32.820
 father's wish on that.

00:26:33.660 --> 00:26:34.740
 Well, it didn't take him

00:26:34.740 --> 00:26:36.180
 long after that,

00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:36.580
 however.

00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:38.680
 Here's his...

00:26:38.680 --> 00:26:42.680
 Here is...

00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:43.799
 Here's his...

00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:45.340
 There's his student

00:26:45.339 --> 00:26:47.359
 volunteer pledge.

00:26:48.179 --> 00:26:48.720
 It's...

00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:49.740
 We have...

00:26:49.740 --> 00:26:51.000
 By the way, we have

00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:52.559
 all of the Borden...

00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:53.740
 All the Borden documents

00:26:53.740 --> 00:26:55.339
 in the Day Missions

00:26:55.339 --> 00:26:56.579
 Library collection

00:26:56.579 --> 00:26:57.220
 here at Yale.

00:26:57.399 --> 00:26:58.099
 So I've gone through

00:26:58.099 --> 00:26:58.899
 all these papers.

00:26:59.039 --> 00:26:59.799
 So this is actually

00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:01.319
 just a little photograph

00:27:01.319 --> 00:27:02.799
 of the actual things.

00:27:02.899 --> 00:27:03.619
 So all of these things

00:27:03.619 --> 00:27:04.299
 that I'm showing are

00:27:04.299 --> 00:27:05.279
 actually photographs.

00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:06.599
 And all of the letters

00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:07.559
 and all of the personal

00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:08.539
 accounts that I'm reading

00:27:08.539 --> 00:27:09.919
 you are actually from

00:27:09.919 --> 00:27:10.919
 letters and things that

00:27:10.919 --> 00:27:11.819
 have been written by

00:27:11.819 --> 00:27:12.720
 his fellow students.

00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:14.180
 So this is all coming

00:27:14.180 --> 00:27:15.079
 from documents,

00:27:16.120 --> 00:27:17.460
 all of this stuff.

00:27:18.660 --> 00:27:19.819
 That you can see yourself

00:27:19.819 --> 00:27:20.640
 if you go up there

00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:22.100
 in the special collections.

00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:24.000
 Well, there's his...

00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:24.980
 There was his little

00:27:24.980 --> 00:27:28.839
 student volunteer flyer

00:27:28.839 --> 00:27:29.779
 that he had to fill out.

00:27:30.259 --> 00:27:31.640
 In a letter of November

00:27:31.640 --> 00:27:32.900
 18th, 1908,

00:27:33.259 --> 00:27:34.579
 not many days after his

00:27:34.579 --> 00:27:36.600
 21st birthday on November 1st,

00:27:37.220 --> 00:27:38.920
 he writes to Mr. Turner.

00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:40.140
 He was the secretary

00:27:40.140 --> 00:27:41.400
 of the student volunteer

00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:41.860
 movement.

00:27:41.859 --> 00:27:44.879
 I enclose my volunteer card.

00:27:46.879 --> 00:27:47.599
 There...

00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:48.519
 We have that too.

00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:49.119
 We have his little

00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:50.159
 volunteer card that's still

00:27:50.159 --> 00:27:51.019
 up there in the archives.

00:27:51.919 --> 00:27:53.439
 There was a joy

00:27:53.439 --> 00:27:54.779
 and serenity

00:27:54.779 --> 00:27:55.919
 for Borden

00:27:55.919 --> 00:27:57.659
 in relation to this call

00:27:57.659 --> 00:27:59.359
 that very many

00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:00.359
 remarked upon.

00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:03.359
 I shall never forget

00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:04.599
 a remark which Borden

00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:05.859
 made in an address

00:28:05.859 --> 00:28:07.299
 in the first church

00:28:07.299 --> 00:28:08.539
 during his junior year,

00:28:09.500 --> 00:28:11.479
 writes a fellow student.

00:28:11.859 --> 00:28:13.599
 Ah.

00:28:14.099 --> 00:28:15.159
 I recalled

00:28:15.159 --> 00:28:16.399
 the sound

00:28:16.399 --> 00:28:17.219
 of his voice

00:28:17.219 --> 00:28:19.299
 and I heard him now

00:28:19.299 --> 00:28:19.959
 as he said,

00:28:20.479 --> 00:28:21.379
 many men seem

00:28:21.379 --> 00:28:22.399
 to think it hard

00:28:22.399 --> 00:28:23.240
 to give themselves

00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:23.879
 to Christ

00:28:23.879 --> 00:28:25.199
 for foreign missionary work.

00:28:25.819 --> 00:28:27.000
 But it never seemed

00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:27.699
 hard to me.

00:28:28.699 --> 00:28:29.740
 It seemed to be

00:28:29.740 --> 00:28:31.459
 the most easiest

00:28:31.459 --> 00:28:32.579
 and most natural

00:28:32.579 --> 00:28:33.379
 thing in the world.

00:28:33.380 --> 00:28:36.060
 or as another

00:28:36.060 --> 00:28:36.540
 put it

00:28:36.540 --> 00:28:37.300
 of Bill,

00:28:37.800 --> 00:28:38.900
 others taught us

00:28:38.900 --> 00:28:40.080
 the duty

00:28:40.080 --> 00:28:41.080
 of consecration.

00:28:42.280 --> 00:28:43.220
 Borden taught us

00:28:43.220 --> 00:28:44.660
 the blessedness

00:28:44.660 --> 00:28:45.240
 of it.

00:28:46.840 --> 00:28:47.440
 As

00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:48.340
 graduation

00:28:48.340 --> 00:28:48.880
 approached

00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:50.160
 and incidentally

00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:50.980
 all his

00:28:50.980 --> 00:28:51.760
 extracurricular

00:28:51.760 --> 00:28:52.680
 gospel activity

00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:53.780
 didn't keep him

00:28:53.780 --> 00:28:54.500
 from his books,

00:28:54.900 --> 00:28:55.640
 he graduated

00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:56.520
 with high honors

00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:57.700
 and as president

00:28:57.700 --> 00:28:58.660
 of the Phi Beta Kappa

00:28:58.660 --> 00:28:59.240
 Society.

00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:00.980
 Well,

00:29:01.039 --> 00:29:01.920
 Borden offered himself

00:29:01.920 --> 00:29:02.579
 as a candidate

00:29:02.579 --> 00:29:03.379
 for the China

00:29:03.379 --> 00:29:04.660
 Inland Mission

00:29:04.660 --> 00:29:06.579
 and was eager

00:29:06.579 --> 00:29:08.039
 to get to the field

00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:09.160
 as soon as possible.

00:29:10.259 --> 00:29:11.259
 Wise counsel,

00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:11.660
 however,

00:29:12.139 --> 00:29:12.819
 encouraged him

00:29:12.819 --> 00:29:13.319
 to secure

00:29:13.319 --> 00:29:14.160
 more theological

00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:14.680
 training.

00:29:15.819 --> 00:29:16.759
 The wisdom

00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:17.319
 he heeded

00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:17.819
 and enrolled

00:29:17.819 --> 00:29:18.900
 in Princeton Seminary

00:29:18.900 --> 00:29:19.940
 and there

00:29:19.940 --> 00:29:21.440
 began Arabic,

00:29:21.900 --> 00:29:22.460
 the language

00:29:22.460 --> 00:29:23.420
 of the Quran,

00:29:23.800 --> 00:29:24.700
 convinced it would

00:29:24.700 --> 00:29:25.759
 serve him well

00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:27.200
 among the educated

00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:27.800
 Muslims

00:29:27.800 --> 00:29:29.240
 in China.

00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:32.860
 Borden's

00:29:32.860 --> 00:29:34.160
 three years

00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:34.740
 at Princeton

00:29:34.740 --> 00:29:35.440
 proved very

00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:36.100
 profitable.

00:29:36.820 --> 00:29:37.360
 The faculty

00:29:37.360 --> 00:29:37.880
 there was

00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:38.540
 outstanding,

00:29:39.060 --> 00:29:39.920
 including such

00:29:39.920 --> 00:29:40.860
 instructors as

00:29:40.860 --> 00:29:42.440
 B.B. Warfield,

00:29:42.800 --> 00:29:44.019
 who took

00:29:44.019 --> 00:29:45.300
 so solid

00:29:45.300 --> 00:29:46.180
 a stand

00:29:46.180 --> 00:29:46.620
 for the

00:29:46.620 --> 00:29:47.320
 inspiration

00:29:47.320 --> 00:29:48.580
 and authority

00:29:48.579 --> 00:29:49.399
 of the scriptures.

00:29:50.720 --> 00:29:51.139
 Alas,

00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:51.859
 in Borden's

00:29:51.859 --> 00:29:52.159
 day,

00:29:52.539 --> 00:29:52.960
 the effects

00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:53.439
 of higher

00:29:53.439 --> 00:29:54.099
 criticism

00:29:54.099 --> 00:29:55.199
 were eroding

00:29:55.199 --> 00:29:56.059
 the confidence

00:29:56.059 --> 00:29:56.819
 of many

00:29:56.819 --> 00:29:57.519
 in the Bible

00:29:57.519 --> 00:29:59.079
 and tragically

00:29:59.079 --> 00:29:59.939
 even on the

00:29:59.939 --> 00:30:00.679
 mission field.

00:30:01.480 --> 00:30:02.220
 Many there

00:30:02.220 --> 00:30:03.899
 were

00:30:03.899 --> 00:30:05.359
 who had

00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:06.019
 given up

00:30:06.019 --> 00:30:06.699
 the belief

00:30:06.699 --> 00:30:07.460
 as childish

00:30:07.460 --> 00:30:08.480
 and hopelessly

00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:08.939
 outdated.

00:30:10.919 --> 00:30:11.339
 Borden was

00:30:11.339 --> 00:30:11.919
 particularly

00:30:11.919 --> 00:30:12.659
 horrified

00:30:12.659 --> 00:30:13.439
 and grieved

00:30:13.439 --> 00:30:14.220
 to discover

00:30:14.220 --> 00:30:15.439
 that the effect

00:30:15.439 --> 00:30:15.899
 of such

00:30:15.899 --> 00:30:16.939
 scientific

00:30:16.939 --> 00:30:17.899
 criticism

00:30:17.900 --> 00:30:19.200
 originating

00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:19.880
 from Western

00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:20.640
 Christian

00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:21.180
 scholars

00:30:21.180 --> 00:30:22.480
 was undercutting

00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:23.240
 missionary efforts

00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:23.680
 around the

00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:23.980
 world.

00:30:25.019 --> 00:30:25.660
 He refers

00:30:25.660 --> 00:30:26.220
 to an editor

00:30:26.220 --> 00:30:26.800
 of a Hindu

00:30:26.800 --> 00:30:27.500
 periodical

00:30:27.500 --> 00:30:28.259
 who had

00:30:28.259 --> 00:30:28.700
 expressed

00:30:28.700 --> 00:30:29.340
 thanks to

00:30:29.340 --> 00:30:29.860
 a prominent

00:30:29.860 --> 00:30:30.480
 member of

00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:31.060
 the critical

00:30:31.060 --> 00:30:31.700
 school

00:30:31.700 --> 00:30:32.519
 for,

00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:33.759
 having done

00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:34.319
 away with

00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:34.839
 the belief

00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:35.779
 inculcated

00:30:35.779 --> 00:30:36.720
 by missionaries

00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:37.400
 that the

00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:37.980
 Bible was

00:30:37.980 --> 00:30:38.359
 the book

00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:38.960
 of books

00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:40.339
 and having

00:30:40.339 --> 00:30:40.799
 brought it

00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:41.299
 down to

00:30:41.299 --> 00:30:41.700
 the level

00:30:41.700 --> 00:30:42.279
 of an

00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:42.599
 excellent

00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:43.259
 volume of

00:30:43.259 --> 00:30:44.139
 great antiquity

00:30:44.139 --> 00:30:45.119
 without any

00:30:45.119 --> 00:30:45.900
 special claim

00:30:45.900 --> 00:30:46.680
 to inspiration.

00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:48.220
 Similarly,

00:30:48.339 --> 00:30:49.019
 Borden pointed

00:30:49.019 --> 00:30:50.099
 to Muslim

00:30:50.099 --> 00:30:51.299
 scholars who

00:30:51.299 --> 00:30:51.920
 quoted from

00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:52.859
 the Encyclopedia

00:30:52.859 --> 00:30:54.279
 Biblica and

00:30:54.279 --> 00:30:54.960
 thus declared

00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:55.299
 that,

00:30:55.299 --> 00:30:55.539
 quote,

00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:56.500
 leading Christian

00:30:56.500 --> 00:30:57.619
 writers had

00:30:57.619 --> 00:30:58.359
 now proved

00:30:58.359 --> 00:30:59.400
 correct the

00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:00.079
 statements of

00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:01.079
 Muslims that

00:31:01.079 --> 00:31:01.819
 the Bible was

00:31:01.819 --> 00:31:02.980
 hopelessly corrupt

00:31:02.980 --> 00:31:05.039
 and unreliable

00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:06.619
 and calling on

00:31:06.619 --> 00:31:07.559
 Christian missionaries

00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:08.939
 to give up

00:31:08.939 --> 00:31:10.079
 these discredited

00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:11.019
 books and

00:31:11.019 --> 00:31:11.559
 accept the

00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:12.000
 Koran.

00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:14.699
 Borden took

00:31:14.699 --> 00:31:15.919
 on the cause

00:31:15.919 --> 00:31:16.639
 of asserting

00:31:16.639 --> 00:31:18.740
 the indispensability

00:31:18.740 --> 00:31:20.159
 of missionaries

00:31:20.159 --> 00:31:21.799
 holding unswervingly

00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:22.779
 to the divine

00:31:22.779 --> 00:31:24.059
 inspiration and

00:31:24.059 --> 00:31:24.720
 authority of the

00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:25.019
 Bible.

00:31:26.099 --> 00:31:27.059
 In his will,

00:31:27.500 --> 00:31:28.240
 he would direct

00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:29.699
 his large fortune

00:31:29.699 --> 00:31:31.019
 to be distributed

00:31:31.019 --> 00:31:32.720
 among various

00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:33.759
 missions agencies

00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:35.240
 but specifically

00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:36.299
 stipulated,

00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:37.700
 quote,

00:31:38.379 --> 00:31:39.700
 that each of

00:31:39.700 --> 00:31:40.079
 the said

00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:41.279
 bequests be

00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:41.740
 used for

00:31:41.740 --> 00:31:42.740
 missionaries who

00:31:42.740 --> 00:31:43.660
 are sound in

00:31:43.660 --> 00:31:44.240
 the faith,

00:31:44.819 --> 00:31:45.299
 believing in

00:31:45.299 --> 00:31:46.220
 the fundamentals

00:31:46.220 --> 00:31:47.480
 as the doctrine

00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:48.019
 of the divine

00:31:48.019 --> 00:31:48.779
 inspiration and

00:31:48.779 --> 00:31:49.420
 authority of the

00:31:49.420 --> 00:31:49.740
 scriptures,

00:31:50.099 --> 00:31:50.859
 the doctrine of

00:31:50.859 --> 00:31:51.299
 the Trinity,

00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:52.240
 including the

00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:53.079
 deity of Jesus

00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:53.639
 Christ,

00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:54.799
 and in the

00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:55.400
 doctrine of the

00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:56.680
 atonement through

00:31:56.680 --> 00:31:57.779
 the substitutionary

00:31:57.779 --> 00:31:58.900
 death of our

00:31:58.900 --> 00:31:59.819
 Lord Jesus Christ.

00:31:59.819 --> 00:32:00.819
 So Bill was

00:32:00.819 --> 00:32:01.319
 very,

00:32:01.500 --> 00:32:02.599
 very precise

00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:04.339
 in these

00:32:04.339 --> 00:32:05.139
 indispensable

00:32:05.139 --> 00:32:06.539
 requirements for

00:32:06.539 --> 00:32:07.339
 missionaries that

00:32:07.339 --> 00:32:07.839
 would have any

00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:09.720
 of his bequest.

00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:11.399
 As a trustee

00:32:11.399 --> 00:32:12.259
 of the Moody

00:32:12.259 --> 00:32:13.159
 Bible Institute,

00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:14.559
 he ensured

00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:15.579
 that it would

00:32:15.579 --> 00:32:16.740
 remain on a

00:32:16.740 --> 00:32:17.779
 solid biblical

00:32:17.779 --> 00:32:18.899
 foundation,

00:32:19.619 --> 00:32:20.059
 drawing up

00:32:20.059 --> 00:32:20.799
 himself a

00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:21.559
 confession of

00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:22.559
 faith which

00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:23.000
 would guide

00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:23.879
 trustees in

00:32:23.879 --> 00:32:24.879
 ensuring all

00:32:24.879 --> 00:32:26.579
 instruction was

00:32:26.579 --> 00:32:27.220
 true to the

00:32:27.220 --> 00:32:27.819
 faith once

00:32:27.819 --> 00:32:28.399
 delivered to

00:32:28.399 --> 00:32:28.939
 the saints.

00:32:30.500 --> 00:32:31.519
 At Yale,

00:32:31.740 --> 00:32:32.579
 Borden battled

00:32:32.579 --> 00:32:34.279
 near single-handedly

00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:35.799
 yet successfully

00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:37.079
 to keep the

00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:38.339
 doctrinal basis

00:32:38.339 --> 00:32:40.019
 of the YMCA,

00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:40.659
 Young Men's

00:32:40.659 --> 00:32:42.019
 Christian Association,

00:32:42.439 --> 00:32:43.200
 which was under

00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:44.000
 much assault at

00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:44.480
 that time,

00:32:44.679 --> 00:32:45.619
 but he was able

00:32:45.619 --> 00:32:46.339
 to commit their

00:32:46.339 --> 00:32:47.359
 doctrinal basis,

00:32:47.740 --> 00:32:48.319
 their commitment,

00:32:48.799 --> 00:32:49.659
 committed to the

00:32:49.659 --> 00:32:50.619
 deity of Christ,

00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:52.460
 which was coming

00:32:52.460 --> 00:32:54.139
 under subtle and

00:32:54.139 --> 00:32:55.179
 sustained attack.

00:32:55.180 --> 00:32:57.640
 much of that,

00:32:57.759 --> 00:32:58.840
 you had to have

00:32:58.840 --> 00:32:59.940
 a certain discernment

00:32:59.940 --> 00:33:00.340
 because at the

00:33:00.340 --> 00:33:00.720
 times,

00:33:01.220 --> 00:33:01.779
 much of the

00:33:01.779 --> 00:33:02.560
 language that

00:33:02.560 --> 00:33:04.220
 was used in

00:33:04.220 --> 00:33:05.660
 liberalizing things,

00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:06.299
 they would use a

00:33:06.299 --> 00:33:06.560
 lot of the

00:33:06.560 --> 00:33:07.519
 religious language,

00:33:08.080 --> 00:33:09.000
 but they wouldn't

00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:09.860
 really mean the

00:33:09.860 --> 00:33:10.500
 same thing.

00:33:10.620 --> 00:33:11.140
 There was one

00:33:11.140 --> 00:33:12.880
 professor at Yale

00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:13.620
 who was under

00:33:13.620 --> 00:33:14.720
 suspicion of denying

00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:15.360
 the deity of

00:33:15.360 --> 00:33:15.799
 Christ,

00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:17.080
 and his response

00:33:17.080 --> 00:33:17.460
 was,

00:33:18.259 --> 00:33:19.600
 deny the deity

00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:20.360
 of Christ.

00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:22.360
 I deny the

00:33:22.360 --> 00:33:23.620
 deity of no man,

00:33:23.619 --> 00:33:24.959
 least of all of

00:33:24.959 --> 00:33:25.479
 Christ.

00:33:26.899 --> 00:33:27.859
 Wait a minute.

00:33:28.579 --> 00:33:29.379
 So,

00:33:29.779 --> 00:33:33.779
 Borden completed

00:33:33.779 --> 00:33:35.719
 his seminary

00:33:35.719 --> 00:33:37.959
 in May 1912,

00:33:38.819 --> 00:33:39.759
 graduating again

00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:40.639
 with high honors.

00:33:42.339 --> 00:33:43.039
 Oh, here's a

00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:48.819
 completing seminary,

00:33:49.239 --> 00:33:50.039
 Borden returned to

00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:50.879
 Chicago for

00:33:50.879 --> 00:33:51.699
 ordination and

00:33:51.699 --> 00:33:52.899
 commissioning at

00:33:52.900 --> 00:33:54.180
 Moody Church,

00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:54.940
 there it is,

00:33:56.040 --> 00:33:58.840
 which transpired

00:33:58.840 --> 00:33:59.880
 to the local

00:33:59.880 --> 00:34:00.720
 headlines,

00:34:01.560 --> 00:34:02.340
 Millionaire

00:34:02.340 --> 00:34:04.000
 Leaves Luxury

00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:04.759
 to Preach,

00:34:05.320 --> 00:34:06.560
 and Heathen

00:34:06.560 --> 00:34:07.600
 Tribes Rob

00:34:07.600 --> 00:34:08.860
 Chicago Society.

00:34:12.180 --> 00:34:12.980
 So,

00:34:13.180 --> 00:34:15.039
 many were the

00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:15.800
 high society

00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:16.760
 connections with

00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:17.180
 the Borden

00:34:17.180 --> 00:34:18.639
 family that

00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:19.460
 Moody Church,

00:34:19.680 --> 00:34:20.740
 on that night of

00:34:20.739 --> 00:34:21.419
 his ordination

00:34:21.419 --> 00:34:21.979
 service,

00:34:21.979 --> 00:34:22.639
 was,

00:34:22.759 --> 00:34:23.439
 according to

00:34:23.439 --> 00:34:24.299
 the Chicago

00:34:24.299 --> 00:34:24.939
 Examiner,

00:34:25.219 --> 00:34:26.019
 September 21,

00:34:26.259 --> 00:34:26.959
 1912,

00:34:27.419 --> 00:34:28.759
 expected to

00:34:28.759 --> 00:34:29.419
 assume the

00:34:29.419 --> 00:34:30.419
 appearance of

00:34:30.419 --> 00:34:30.919
 a social

00:34:30.919 --> 00:34:31.839
 soiree

00:34:31.839 --> 00:34:33.000
 there in the

00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:33.319
 church.

00:34:34.019 --> 00:34:34.379
 To

00:34:34.379 --> 00:34:35.719
 incredulous

00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:36.539
 reporters,

00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:37.339
 Borden

00:34:37.339 --> 00:34:38.739
 explained that

00:34:38.739 --> 00:34:39.219
 in his

00:34:39.219 --> 00:34:39.679
 estimate,

00:34:41.019 --> 00:34:41.539
 the rewards

00:34:41.539 --> 00:34:42.000
 of missionary

00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:43.099
 effort were

00:34:43.099 --> 00:34:44.299
 incalculably

00:34:44.299 --> 00:34:45.459
 greater than

00:34:45.459 --> 00:34:46.019
 any high

00:34:46.019 --> 00:34:47.539
 society life

00:34:47.539 --> 00:34:48.219
 had to

00:34:48.219 --> 00:34:48.599
 offer.

00:34:49.919 --> 00:34:50.599
 His

00:34:50.599 --> 00:34:51.599
 example also

00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:52.099
 had great

00:34:52.099 --> 00:34:52.859
 impact upon

00:34:52.859 --> 00:34:53.319
 the student

00:34:53.319 --> 00:34:53.699
 world.

00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:55.159
 For three

00:34:55.159 --> 00:34:55.899
 months before

00:34:55.899 --> 00:34:56.480
 he sailed,

00:34:56.779 --> 00:34:57.359
 he toured

00:34:57.359 --> 00:34:59.119
 campuses of

00:34:59.119 --> 00:34:59.980
 the East

00:34:59.980 --> 00:35:00.459
 Coast,

00:35:00.859 --> 00:35:01.559
 kindling a

00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:02.559
 vision for

00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:03.139
 the world.

00:35:04.339 --> 00:35:05.059
 In regard

00:35:05.059 --> 00:35:05.659
 to Borden's

00:35:05.659 --> 00:35:06.539
 visit to

00:35:06.539 --> 00:35:07.199
 UVA,

00:35:07.579 --> 00:35:08.459
 one YMCA

00:35:08.459 --> 00:35:09.939
 wrote,

00:35:11.399 --> 00:35:12.279
 Mr.

00:35:12.699 --> 00:35:13.059
 Borden

00:35:13.059 --> 00:35:13.819
 has come

00:35:13.819 --> 00:35:14.319
 and gone.

00:35:15.299 --> 00:35:15.919
 His visit

00:35:15.919 --> 00:35:16.299
 was an

00:35:16.299 --> 00:35:17.239
 inspiring one.

00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:18.479
 His deep

00:35:18.479 --> 00:35:19.619
 spiritual life

00:35:19.619 --> 00:35:20.379
 and his

00:35:20.379 --> 00:35:21.039
 absolute

00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:21.979
 dedication to

00:35:21.979 --> 00:35:22.399
 the missionary

00:35:22.399 --> 00:35:23.779
 cause has

00:35:23.779 --> 00:35:24.119
 made a

00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:25.099
 lasting impression

00:35:25.099 --> 00:35:26.079
 upon all

00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:26.339
 of our

00:35:26.339 --> 00:35:26.839
 leaders.

00:35:28.959 --> 00:35:29.359
 And great

00:35:29.359 --> 00:35:29.759
 was the

00:35:29.759 --> 00:35:31.000
 harvest of

00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:31.579
 volunteers,

00:35:32.539 --> 00:35:33.339
 but he

00:35:33.339 --> 00:35:33.959
 was eager

00:35:33.959 --> 00:35:35.119
 to turn

00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:35.879
 to the

00:35:35.879 --> 00:35:36.359
 harvest,

00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:37.199
 to be

00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:38.339
 reaped in

00:35:38.339 --> 00:35:38.819
 faraway

00:35:38.819 --> 00:35:39.159
 almonds.

00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:41.979
 I've got

00:35:41.979 --> 00:35:42.639
 the fever

00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:43.079
 in my

00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:43.759
 bones,

00:35:44.479 --> 00:35:45.119
 he writes

00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:46.179
 November

00:35:46.179 --> 00:35:47.440
 1912.

00:35:48.179 --> 00:35:48.759
 And I'm

00:35:48.759 --> 00:35:49.339
 anxious to

00:35:49.339 --> 00:35:49.779
 be off

00:35:49.779 --> 00:35:50.379
 to Egypt.

00:35:51.899 --> 00:35:52.619
 In a

00:35:52.619 --> 00:35:52.899
 month,

00:35:53.139 --> 00:35:53.399
 he was

00:35:53.399 --> 00:35:53.719
 on his

00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:54.019
 way.

00:35:55.019 --> 00:35:55.379
 The plan

00:35:55.379 --> 00:35:55.779
 was to

00:35:55.779 --> 00:35:56.239
 stop in

00:35:56.239 --> 00:35:56.599
 Cairo,

00:35:56.719 --> 00:35:57.039
 Egypt,

00:35:57.419 --> 00:35:57.940
 to study

00:35:57.940 --> 00:35:58.619
 Islam and

00:35:58.619 --> 00:35:59.219
 to perfect

00:35:59.219 --> 00:36:00.039
 his Arabic.

00:36:00.819 --> 00:36:01.219
 Then to

00:36:01.219 --> 00:36:01.879
 head to

00:36:01.879 --> 00:36:02.639
 Khansu

00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:03.359
 province in

00:36:03.359 --> 00:36:03.719
 China,

00:36:04.379 --> 00:36:04.759
 nestled

00:36:04.759 --> 00:36:05.460
 there between

00:36:05.460 --> 00:36:06.879
 Mongolia and

00:36:06.879 --> 00:36:07.339
 Tibet.

00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:09.079
 Borden hit the

00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:09.739
 ground running

00:36:09.739 --> 00:36:10.339
 when he

00:36:10.339 --> 00:36:11.399
 arrived.

00:36:11.859 --> 00:36:12.379
 As Samuel

00:36:12.380 --> 00:36:12.780
 Vamer,

00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:13.340
 his missionary

00:36:13.340 --> 00:36:13.720
 mentor,

00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:14.160
 writes,

00:36:14.940 --> 00:36:15.240
 I never

00:36:15.240 --> 00:36:15.820
 saw a

00:36:15.820 --> 00:36:16.559
 man come

00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:17.200
 to Egypt

00:36:17.200 --> 00:36:18.360
 with eyes

00:36:18.360 --> 00:36:19.340
 more open

00:36:19.340 --> 00:36:20.960
 to see

00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:21.559
 the kingdom

00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:22.260
 of God.

00:36:22.980 --> 00:36:23.660
 Other men

00:36:23.660 --> 00:36:24.240
 come to

00:36:24.240 --> 00:36:24.780
 see dead

00:36:24.780 --> 00:36:25.640
 pharaohs,

00:36:25.860 --> 00:36:26.380
 to study

00:36:26.380 --> 00:36:26.860
 history,

00:36:27.059 --> 00:36:27.599
 or to

00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:28.099
 join the

00:36:28.099 --> 00:36:28.720
 great company

00:36:28.720 --> 00:36:29.360
 of tourists

00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:29.840
 all over

00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:30.340
 the land,

00:36:30.780 --> 00:36:31.740
 never once

00:36:31.740 --> 00:36:32.700
 lifting their

00:36:32.700 --> 00:36:33.300
 eyes to

00:36:33.300 --> 00:36:33.700
 see the

00:36:33.700 --> 00:36:34.519
 fields white

00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:35.380
 unto harvest.

00:36:36.820 --> 00:36:37.200
 Borden had

00:36:37.200 --> 00:36:37.740
 not been in

00:36:37.740 --> 00:36:38.320
 Cairo two

00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:39.640
 weeks before

00:36:39.640 --> 00:36:40.220
 he organized

00:36:40.220 --> 00:36:41.160
 the students of

00:36:41.159 --> 00:36:41.739
 the theological

00:36:41.739 --> 00:36:42.779
 seminary to

00:36:42.779 --> 00:36:43.319
 attempt a

00:36:43.319 --> 00:36:43.980
 house-to-house

00:36:43.980 --> 00:36:45.379
 canvas with

00:36:45.379 --> 00:36:46.139
 Christian literature

00:36:46.139 --> 00:36:47.679
 for the entire

00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:48.960
 city with its

00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:51.000
 800,000 people.

00:36:51.379 --> 00:36:52.039
 I've seen one

00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:53.159
 photograph that

00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:53.599
 he got a little

00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:55.219
 bicycle and he

00:36:55.219 --> 00:36:55.960
 could carry like

00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:56.699
 three, he had

00:36:56.699 --> 00:36:57.259
 all these little

00:36:57.259 --> 00:36:58.699
 packs and bags

00:36:58.699 --> 00:36:59.440
 hanging with all

00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:00.119
 these tracks and

00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:00.559
 he would ride

00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:01.239
 through and he

00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:02.239
 could get 3,000

00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:03.879
 tracks onto his

00:37:03.879 --> 00:37:05.199
 little bicycle with

00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:05.980
 his contraption

00:37:05.980 --> 00:37:07.759
 that he was able

00:37:07.759 --> 00:37:08.399
 to design.

00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:11.579
 Well, it was a

00:37:11.579 --> 00:37:12.820
 grand beginning

00:37:12.820 --> 00:37:14.680
 but alas, it

00:37:14.680 --> 00:37:15.420
 was for Borden

00:37:15.420 --> 00:37:16.440
 nearly the

00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:16.840
 end.

00:37:18.380 --> 00:37:19.420
 Little did he

00:37:19.420 --> 00:37:20.559
 imagine that

00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:21.099
 this would be

00:37:21.099 --> 00:37:21.579
 among his

00:37:21.579 --> 00:37:22.300
 final earthly

00:37:22.300 --> 00:37:22.940
 labors for

00:37:22.940 --> 00:37:23.420
 his lord.

00:37:24.740 --> 00:37:25.200
 Borden would

00:37:25.200 --> 00:37:26.840
 never reach the

00:37:26.840 --> 00:37:27.480
 Muslims in

00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:27.920
 China.

00:37:28.740 --> 00:37:29.760
 While still in

00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:30.599
 Cairo mastering

00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:32.180
 Arabic and to

00:37:32.180 --> 00:37:32.720
 that end he

00:37:32.720 --> 00:37:33.500
 moved in with a

00:37:33.500 --> 00:37:34.440
 Syrian family and

00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:35.099
 stayed with them,

00:37:35.880 --> 00:37:36.440
 Borden there

00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:37.119
 contracted

00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:38.500
 spirocerebral

00:37:38.500 --> 00:37:39.319
 meningitis.

00:37:41.259 --> 00:37:42.259
 For three

00:37:42.259 --> 00:37:43.699
 weeks he

00:37:43.699 --> 00:37:44.859
 battled the

00:37:44.859 --> 00:37:45.759
 dread disease

00:37:45.759 --> 00:37:46.460
 but on April

00:37:46.460 --> 00:37:49.059
 9th, 1913

00:37:49.059 --> 00:37:51.699
 he passed on

00:37:51.699 --> 00:37:52.579
 through the

00:37:52.579 --> 00:37:54.960
 night into

00:37:54.960 --> 00:37:56.119
 the light of

00:37:56.119 --> 00:37:56.859
 his presence

00:37:56.859 --> 00:37:58.679
 whom he had

00:37:58.679 --> 00:37:59.699
 longed faithfully

00:37:59.699 --> 00:38:00.299
 to serve.

00:38:01.219 --> 00:38:02.119
 His mother and

00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:03.199
 his sister on

00:38:03.199 --> 00:38:03.859
 board a ship

00:38:03.859 --> 00:38:04.719
 to reach him

00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:05.599
 arrived just

00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:07.139
 hours too

00:38:07.139 --> 00:38:07.960
 late, just

00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:09.219
 hours, in

00:38:09.219 --> 00:38:10.019
 time only to

00:38:10.019 --> 00:38:11.599
 be present at

00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:12.960
 a small

00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:13.360
 missionary

00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:14.059
 gathering at

00:38:14.059 --> 00:38:14.799
 a graveside.

00:38:15.900 --> 00:38:16.539
 Here's a

00:38:16.539 --> 00:38:17.539
 picture of

00:38:17.539 --> 00:38:18.319
 that graveside.

00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:19.079
 We've actually

00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:19.500
 had a group

00:38:19.500 --> 00:38:20.059
 from Yale

00:38:20.059 --> 00:38:20.900
 contribute some

00:38:20.900 --> 00:38:21.739
 money to

00:38:21.739 --> 00:38:22.339
 fix the thing

00:38:22.339 --> 00:38:23.279
 up and it

00:38:23.279 --> 00:38:24.199
 was neglected

00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:26.139
 and it's

00:38:26.139 --> 00:38:27.739
 fixed up a

00:38:27.739 --> 00:38:27.880
 little bit

00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:28.339
 more now.

00:38:28.340 --> 00:38:34.400
 So they

00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:34.880
 were present

00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:35.360
 there at

00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:35.780
 this small

00:38:35.780 --> 00:38:36.300
 gathering at

00:38:36.300 --> 00:38:37.000
 the graveside.

00:38:38.579 --> 00:38:39.100
 Samuel

00:38:39.100 --> 00:38:40.579
 Zvamer was

00:38:40.579 --> 00:38:41.079
 among those

00:38:41.079 --> 00:38:41.539
 present.

00:38:44.680 --> 00:38:45.320
 Fittingly

00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:47.960
 read from

00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:48.840
 Bukum's

00:38:48.840 --> 00:38:49.320
 Progress

00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:51.019
 of the

00:38:51.019 --> 00:38:51.400
 death of

00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:51.940
 Valiant for

00:38:51.940 --> 00:38:52.260
 Truth.

00:38:52.940 --> 00:38:53.420
 See if I

00:38:53.420 --> 00:38:53.640
 can get

00:38:53.640 --> 00:38:54.100
 through this.

00:38:54.099 --> 00:38:57.380
 My sword

00:38:57.380 --> 00:38:58.239
 I give to

00:38:58.239 --> 00:38:59.539
 him that

00:38:59.539 --> 00:39:00.339
 shall succeed

00:39:00.339 --> 00:39:01.059
 me in my

00:39:01.059 --> 00:39:01.440
 pilgrimage

00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:03.900
 and my

00:39:03.900 --> 00:39:05.460
 courage and

00:39:05.460 --> 00:39:06.239
 strength to

00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:06.779
 him that can

00:39:06.779 --> 00:39:07.219
 get it.

00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:09.639
 My marks

00:39:09.639 --> 00:39:10.579
 and scars I

00:39:10.579 --> 00:39:11.139
 carry with

00:39:11.139 --> 00:39:12.619
 me to be a

00:39:12.619 --> 00:39:13.199
 witness for

00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:13.940
 me that I

00:39:13.940 --> 00:39:14.460
 have fought

00:39:14.460 --> 00:39:15.179
 his battles

00:39:15.179 --> 00:39:16.920
 who will

00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:17.599
 now be my

00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:18.179
 rewarder.

00:39:19.259 --> 00:39:20.259
 And so he

00:39:20.259 --> 00:39:20.920
 passed over

00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:23.139
 and all

00:39:23.139 --> 00:39:23.860
 the trumpets

00:39:23.860 --> 00:39:25.000
 sounded for

00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:26.400
 him on

00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:26.700
 the other

00:39:26.700 --> 00:39:27.119
 side.

00:39:31.380 --> 00:39:31.960
 A

00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:33.519
 finished

00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:34.380
 course but

00:39:34.380 --> 00:39:36.300
 an unfinished

00:39:36.300 --> 00:39:36.880
 task?

00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:37.980
 No.

00:39:39.380 --> 00:39:39.820
 Far,

00:39:40.099 --> 00:39:41.380
 I wonder

00:39:41.380 --> 00:39:41.700
 who will

00:39:41.700 --> 00:39:42.059
 take it

00:39:42.059 --> 00:39:42.260
 up.

00:39:43.380 --> 00:39:44.240
 Far away

00:39:44.240 --> 00:39:44.980
 in Kashmir,

00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:46.380
 news of

00:39:46.380 --> 00:39:47.159
 Borden's

00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:47.840
 death reached

00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:48.200
 a young

00:39:48.200 --> 00:39:48.599
 missionary.

00:39:49.019 --> 00:39:49.460
 One of his

00:39:49.460 --> 00:39:50.099
 old friends

00:39:50.099 --> 00:39:50.500
 and fellow

00:39:50.500 --> 00:39:50.900
 students

00:39:50.900 --> 00:39:51.300
 at Yale

00:39:51.300 --> 00:39:52.500
 and he

00:39:52.500 --> 00:39:52.740
 entered

00:39:52.740 --> 00:39:53.340
 these words

00:39:53.340 --> 00:39:53.639
 in his

00:39:53.639 --> 00:39:53.920
 journal.

00:39:56.139 --> 00:39:56.960
 I have

00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:57.800
 absolutely

00:39:57.800 --> 00:39:59.280
 no feeling

00:39:59.280 --> 00:39:59.920
 of a life

00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:00.720
 cut short.

00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:02.480
 A life

00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:03.059
 abandoned

00:40:03.059 --> 00:40:03.940
 to Christ

00:40:03.940 --> 00:40:05.500
 cannot be

00:40:05.500 --> 00:40:06.280
 cut short.

00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:08.099
 Cut short

00:40:08.099 --> 00:40:09.539
 means not

00:40:09.539 --> 00:40:10.160
 complete,

00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:11.420
 interrupted,

00:40:12.200 --> 00:40:12.720
 and we

00:40:12.720 --> 00:40:13.300
 know that

00:40:13.300 --> 00:40:13.900
 our master

00:40:13.900 --> 00:40:14.900
 does no

00:40:14.900 --> 00:40:15.920
 halfway jobs.

00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:18.180
 We must

00:40:18.180 --> 00:40:19.099
 pray now

00:40:19.099 --> 00:40:20.380
 that those

00:40:20.380 --> 00:40:20.860
 to whom

00:40:20.860 --> 00:40:21.500
 God wants

00:40:21.500 --> 00:40:21.980
 this to

00:40:21.980 --> 00:40:22.380
 appeal

00:40:22.380 --> 00:40:23.539
 may

00:40:23.539 --> 00:40:23.960
 listen.

00:40:25.380 --> 00:40:26.160
 That was

00:40:26.160 --> 00:40:26.920
 Sherwood

00:40:26.920 --> 00:40:27.420
 Betty.

00:40:29.480 --> 00:40:30.079
 Borden's

00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:30.599
 home

00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:30.980
 going

00:40:30.980 --> 00:40:31.760
 seemed to

00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:32.260
 all a

00:40:32.260 --> 00:40:32.820
 strange

00:40:32.820 --> 00:40:33.539
 providence,

00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:34.920
 to some

00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:35.440
 a tragic

00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:36.140
 waste.

00:40:37.700 --> 00:40:38.079
 These,

00:40:38.240 --> 00:40:38.539
 of course,

00:40:38.619 --> 00:40:38.840
 were the

00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:39.180
 words

00:40:39.180 --> 00:40:41.880
 uttered over

00:40:41.880 --> 00:40:42.340
 the woman

00:40:42.340 --> 00:40:44.700
 when she

00:40:44.700 --> 00:40:45.079
 poured the

00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:45.400
 precious

00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:45.960
 ointment

00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:47.380
 over the

00:40:47.380 --> 00:40:47.840
 master's

00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:48.139
 feet.

00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:49.840
 What a

00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:50.260
 waste.

00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:52.599
 But the

00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:53.320
 master said,

00:40:53.880 --> 00:40:55.200
 she has

00:40:55.200 --> 00:40:55.519
 done a

00:40:55.519 --> 00:40:55.820
 beautiful

00:40:55.820 --> 00:40:56.280
 thing.

00:40:59.980 --> 00:41:00.579
 Was

00:41:00.579 --> 00:41:01.079
 Borden's

00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:01.559
 life a

00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:01.980
 tragedy?

00:41:04.340 --> 00:41:05.039
 As a

00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:05.539
 young man,

00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:06.200
 when his

00:41:06.200 --> 00:41:07.160
 sense of

00:41:07.160 --> 00:41:07.720
 God's call

00:41:07.720 --> 00:41:07.900
 had

00:41:07.900 --> 00:41:08.639
 crystallized,

00:41:10.500 --> 00:41:10.900
 Bill had

00:41:10.900 --> 00:41:11.460
 written two

00:41:11.460 --> 00:41:12.099
 words in the

00:41:12.099 --> 00:41:12.619
 back of his

00:41:12.619 --> 00:41:13.019
 Bible.

00:41:13.980 --> 00:41:14.299
 No

00:41:14.299 --> 00:41:14.880
 reserves.

00:41:16.339 --> 00:41:16.819
 Later,

00:41:17.699 --> 00:41:18.539
 turning down a

00:41:18.539 --> 00:41:19.380
 high-paying job

00:41:19.380 --> 00:41:20.579
 that was

00:41:20.579 --> 00:41:21.139
 offered to him

00:41:21.139 --> 00:41:21.599
 upon his

00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:22.500
 graduation from

00:41:22.500 --> 00:41:23.519
 Yale, he

00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:24.420
 added two

00:41:24.420 --> 00:41:25.139
 more words.

00:41:26.679 --> 00:41:27.199
 No

00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:27.940
 retreats.

00:41:30.900 --> 00:41:31.480
 Shortly

00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:32.980
 before his

00:41:32.980 --> 00:41:35.099
 death, he

00:41:35.099 --> 00:41:35.679
 had added two

00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:36.980
 more final

00:41:36.980 --> 00:41:37.400
 words.

00:41:38.900 --> 00:41:39.339
 No

00:41:39.339 --> 00:41:39.880
 regrets.

00:41:41.119 --> 00:41:41.339
 No

00:41:41.339 --> 00:41:41.779
 regrets.

00:41:42.619 --> 00:41:44.119
 So my

00:41:44.119 --> 00:41:44.659
 challenge to

00:41:44.659 --> 00:41:45.019
 us this

00:41:45.019 --> 00:41:46.980
 morning is

00:41:46.980 --> 00:41:47.779
 for us to

00:41:47.779 --> 00:41:48.420
 discover the

00:41:48.420 --> 00:41:48.739
 same.

00:41:50.279 --> 00:41:51.059
 For us to

00:41:51.059 --> 00:41:51.679
 give our

00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:53.139
 lives whole

00:41:53.139 --> 00:41:54.940
 heartedly to

00:41:54.940 --> 00:41:55.779
 Christ and

00:41:55.779 --> 00:41:56.940
 his mission,

00:41:57.359 --> 00:41:57.799
 whatever that

00:41:57.799 --> 00:41:58.500
 is for us,

00:41:59.119 --> 00:41:59.819
 with no

00:41:59.819 --> 00:42:01.579
 reserves and

00:42:01.579 --> 00:42:02.719
 no retreats,

00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:04.460
 and then for

00:42:04.460 --> 00:42:04.960
 us all to

00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:05.920
 discover, and

00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:06.279
 each to

00:42:06.279 --> 00:42:07.659
 discover, that

00:42:07.659 --> 00:42:08.480
 we will have

00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:10.299
 no regrets.

00:42:11.159 --> 00:42:11.400
 No

00:42:11.400 --> 00:42:11.739
 regrets.

00:42:12.619 --> 00:42:13.940
 Well, let

00:42:13.940 --> 00:42:14.259
 me end

00:42:14.259 --> 00:42:16.159
 there, having

00:42:16.159 --> 00:42:16.819
 promised to

00:42:16.819 --> 00:42:17.159
 leave some

00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:17.679
 time for

00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:19.299
 questions or

00:42:19.299 --> 00:42:19.799
 comments.

00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:19.860
 questions.

00:42:23.539 --> 00:42:24.320
 Oh, I

00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:25.780
 should say, one

00:42:25.780 --> 00:42:26.620
 quick comment.

00:42:28.240 --> 00:42:29.100
 So when I

00:42:29.100 --> 00:42:29.600
 was doing this

00:42:29.600 --> 00:42:32.400
 research, I

00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:32.900
 found this

00:42:32.900 --> 00:42:33.660
 postcard.

00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:35.680
 Well, I

00:42:35.680 --> 00:42:36.300
 found this

00:42:36.300 --> 00:42:37.460
 letter from

00:42:37.460 --> 00:42:38.420
 Samuels

00:42:38.420 --> 00:42:38.980
 Weimer saying

00:42:38.980 --> 00:42:39.620
 that he was

00:42:39.620 --> 00:42:40.060
 writing a

00:42:40.060 --> 00:42:41.340
 biography of

00:42:41.340 --> 00:42:43.220
 Borden, and I

00:42:43.220 --> 00:42:43.920
 looked everywhere

00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:44.560
 for this for

00:42:44.560 --> 00:42:45.260
 years and

00:42:45.260 --> 00:42:45.760
 years and

00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:47.740
 years, and

00:42:47.740 --> 00:42:48.500
 just wasn't to

00:42:48.500 --> 00:42:48.980
 be found.

00:42:49.940 --> 00:42:50.480
 But I

00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:50.739
 knew it

00:42:50.739 --> 00:42:51.139
 existed.

00:42:51.300 --> 00:42:52.320
 I had seen

00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:53.139
 a little

00:42:53.139 --> 00:42:54.719
 mimeograph of

00:42:54.719 --> 00:42:55.559
 Samuels Weimer,

00:42:55.800 --> 00:42:57.619
 of an outline of

00:42:57.619 --> 00:42:58.019
 the different

00:42:58.019 --> 00:42:59.940
 chapters, and

00:42:59.940 --> 00:43:00.300
 then I had

00:43:00.300 --> 00:43:00.719
 found a

00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:02.579
 postcard written

00:43:02.579 --> 00:43:03.380
 by a Yale

00:43:03.380 --> 00:43:04.199
 professor who

00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:04.800
 had apparently

00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:05.340
 seen the

00:43:05.340 --> 00:43:06.239
 manuscript to

00:43:06.239 --> 00:43:06.780
 edit it and

00:43:06.780 --> 00:43:07.260
 said, this is

00:43:07.260 --> 00:43:08.079
 fantastic, here are

00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:08.519
 a couple of

00:43:08.519 --> 00:43:09.699
 editorial things, but

00:43:09.699 --> 00:43:10.139
 I couldn't find

00:43:10.139 --> 00:43:10.519
 it anywhere.

00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:11.139
 Couldn't find it

00:43:11.139 --> 00:43:11.519
 at Princeton,

00:43:11.659 --> 00:43:12.099
 couldn't find it

00:43:12.099 --> 00:43:12.760
 here, couldn't

00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:13.139
 find it, you

00:43:13.139 --> 00:43:13.719
 know, talked to

00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:14.179
 all kinds of

00:43:14.179 --> 00:43:15.139
 artists everywhere.

00:43:15.139 --> 00:43:16.579
 Couldn't find

00:43:16.579 --> 00:43:16.779
 it.

00:43:17.159 --> 00:43:17.639
 Even had

00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:18.259
 people, had

00:43:18.259 --> 00:43:19.000
 friends go over

00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:19.980
 to Egypt and

00:43:19.980 --> 00:43:21.639
 check there.

00:43:22.779 --> 00:43:24.019
 Well, last

00:43:24.019 --> 00:43:26.920
 year, we

00:43:26.920 --> 00:43:27.759
 found it.

00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:29.179
 We found the

00:43:29.179 --> 00:43:29.599
 manuscript.

00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:31.099
 It ended up

00:43:31.099 --> 00:43:32.059
 getting buried in

00:43:32.059 --> 00:43:34.159
 the Presbyterian

00:43:34.159 --> 00:43:34.960
 Mission Society

00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:35.739
 archives in

00:43:35.739 --> 00:43:36.259
 Philadelphia.

00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:37.199
 They had the

00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:37.839
 original thing.

00:43:37.879 --> 00:43:38.359
 It had never

00:43:38.359 --> 00:43:38.960
 been printed.

00:43:39.879 --> 00:43:40.799
 So we've just

00:43:40.799 --> 00:43:41.219
 got the

00:43:41.219 --> 00:43:42.119
 manuscript, and

00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:42.639
 I think we're

00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:43.079
 going to bring

00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:43.480
 it out.

00:43:43.619 --> 00:43:44.239
 It's Samuel

00:43:44.239 --> 00:43:45.019
 Zveimer's

00:43:45.019 --> 00:43:46.900
 biography of

00:43:46.900 --> 00:43:47.639
 Bill Borden.

00:43:47.940 --> 00:43:48.480
 So we have

00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:48.960
 the manuscript

00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:50.360
 now, so stay

00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:50.679
 tuned.

00:43:50.779 --> 00:43:51.159
 We'll see.

00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:52.139
 So that's kind

00:43:52.139 --> 00:43:52.519
 of exciting.

00:43:52.659 --> 00:43:52.860
 I know it

00:43:52.860 --> 00:43:53.819
 took years to

00:43:53.819 --> 00:43:54.500
 find this thing.

00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:55.500
 John, would

00:43:55.500 --> 00:43:56.019
 you spell

00:43:56.019 --> 00:43:57.139
 Samuel Zveimer's

00:43:57.139 --> 00:43:57.599
 last name?

00:43:57.619 --> 00:44:00.440
 Yes, Z-W-E-M-E-R.

00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:01.279
 Zveimer.

00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:02.259
 Sorry, Samuel

00:44:02.259 --> 00:44:03.059
 Zveimer.

00:44:03.239 --> 00:44:03.460
 Yeah.

00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:04.880
 When Borden

00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:05.699
 was at Princeton,

00:44:05.980 --> 00:44:06.619
 was there any

00:44:06.619 --> 00:44:07.139
 time that he

00:44:07.139 --> 00:44:07.980
 overlapped with

00:44:07.980 --> 00:44:08.440
 J. Grish

00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:09.380
 Mention, or was

00:44:09.380 --> 00:44:10.420
 it not an

00:44:10.420 --> 00:44:10.980
 overlapped time

00:44:10.980 --> 00:44:11.440
 between them?

00:44:11.799 --> 00:44:12.159
 No, he

00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:12.539
 would have.

00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:13.319
 That would

00:44:13.319 --> 00:44:14.019
 have been

00:44:14.019 --> 00:44:14.420
 Mention's

00:44:14.420 --> 00:44:14.639
 time.

00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:15.019
 Yeah.

00:44:16.500 --> 00:44:17.139
 Hold on.

00:44:17.940 --> 00:44:18.380
 20s.

00:44:19.059 --> 00:44:19.559
 Mention might

00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:20.539
 have, you

00:44:20.539 --> 00:44:20.699
 know, he

00:44:20.699 --> 00:44:21.340
 doesn't mention

00:44:21.340 --> 00:44:21.739
 Mention.

00:44:22.259 --> 00:44:22.779
 I'm trying to

00:44:22.779 --> 00:44:23.279
 remember when

00:44:23.279 --> 00:44:23.940
 Mention first

00:44:23.940 --> 00:44:24.639
 arrived there.

00:44:25.699 --> 00:44:26.400
 He might have

00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:27.400
 been there by

00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:28.380
 then, but that

00:44:28.380 --> 00:44:28.739
 might have been

00:44:28.739 --> 00:44:29.219
 the time that

00:44:29.219 --> 00:44:29.699
 he was in

00:44:29.699 --> 00:44:29.960
 Germany.

00:44:30.099 --> 00:44:30.579
 Mention spent

00:44:30.579 --> 00:44:31.139
 some time in

00:44:31.139 --> 00:44:32.380
 Germany studying,

00:44:32.799 --> 00:44:33.599
 so I need to

00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:33.980
 check the

00:44:33.980 --> 00:44:34.539
 chronology.

00:44:34.900 --> 00:44:35.599
 So there should

00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:36.079
 have overlapped,

00:44:36.139 --> 00:44:36.380
 but I don't

00:44:36.380 --> 00:44:36.840
 remember him

00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:37.559
 mentioning Mention,

00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:39.599
 so maybe Mention

00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:40.139
 was in Germany

00:44:40.139 --> 00:44:40.739
 studying then.

00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:41.599
 Yeah, yeah.

00:44:42.059 --> 00:44:42.239
 Sure.

00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:43.659
 Where exactly

00:44:43.659 --> 00:44:44.959
 is Mention?

00:44:45.959 --> 00:44:46.979
 So it's in

00:44:46.979 --> 00:44:47.619
 Cairo, Egypt.

00:44:47.839 --> 00:44:48.419
 It's the

00:44:48.419 --> 00:44:49.059
 Foreigner

00:44:49.059 --> 00:44:49.659
 Cemetery.

00:44:49.899 --> 00:44:50.259
 The what?

00:44:50.659 --> 00:44:51.319
 There's a

00:44:51.319 --> 00:44:52.079
 cemetery for

00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:53.019
 foreigners there

00:44:53.019 --> 00:44:55.519
 in Cairo, and

00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:57.299
 it's, yeah, it's

00:44:57.299 --> 00:44:58.359
 there, and you

00:44:58.359 --> 00:44:59.239
 just inquire of the

00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:00.399
 little caretaker,

00:45:00.819 --> 00:45:02.519
 and they'll, but if

00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:03.079
 you're going over

00:45:03.079 --> 00:45:03.719
 there, let us know,

00:45:03.779 --> 00:45:04.199
 and we'll put you

00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:04.619
 in touch with

00:45:04.619 --> 00:45:05.000
 some people.

00:45:05.359 --> 00:45:05.919
 I was there last

00:45:05.919 --> 00:45:06.099
 year.

00:45:06.099 --> 00:45:06.420
 Oh, you were

00:45:06.420 --> 00:45:06.839
 there last

00:45:06.839 --> 00:45:07.339
 year, okay.

00:45:07.659 --> 00:45:08.480
 Okay, yeah, yeah.

00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:09.880
 It's worth seeing.

00:45:10.619 --> 00:45:11.380
 Yeah, yeah.

00:45:11.380 --> 00:45:20.300
 So there's

00:45:20.300 --> 00:45:24.340
 probably the best

00:45:24.340 --> 00:45:26.340
 biography on him,

00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:30.559
 Zemers is a fun one,

00:45:30.640 --> 00:45:32.180
 it's good, but the

00:45:32.180 --> 00:45:33.780
 classic is by Mrs.

00:45:33.780 --> 00:45:34.800
 Howard Taylor,

00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:35.960
 descendant of Hudson

00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:37.900
 Taylor, and it's just

00:45:37.900 --> 00:45:38.980
 called Borden of Yale,

00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:39.960
 1909.

00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:41.340
 Oh, you know, there's

00:45:41.340 --> 00:45:42.500
 one other picture I

00:45:42.500 --> 00:45:43.760
 should show you.

00:45:44.780 --> 00:45:45.160
 This will be

00:45:45.160 --> 00:45:46.019
 familiar to some.

00:45:46.539 --> 00:45:48.000
 So at Dwight Hall, if

00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:48.700
 ever you get a chance

00:45:48.700 --> 00:45:49.920
 to go into Dwight Hall

00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:51.680
 on the Yale campus,

00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:53.300
 there, right when you

00:45:53.300 --> 00:45:54.440
 go in, there's what's

00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:55.099
 called the Borden

00:45:55.099 --> 00:45:55.559
 Fountain.

00:45:57.000 --> 00:45:58.720
 So it's been

00:45:58.720 --> 00:45:59.940
 beautiful, beautifully

00:45:59.940 --> 00:46:01.619
 restored, but

00:46:01.619 --> 00:46:03.280
 underneath it has,

00:46:03.579 --> 00:46:04.900
 you can't quite see

00:46:04.900 --> 00:46:07.880
 it here, but it's

00:46:07.900 --> 00:46:09.019
 it says, whoever

00:46:09.019 --> 00:46:11.200
 thirsts, let him

00:46:11.200 --> 00:46:12.619
 come and drink

00:46:12.619 --> 00:46:13.039
 freely.

00:46:13.579 --> 00:46:14.619
 So this is a little

00:46:14.619 --> 00:46:16.000
 gospel Borden

00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:16.440
 fountain.

00:46:18.099 --> 00:46:19.639
 When they

00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:20.200
 renovated the

00:46:20.200 --> 00:46:21.400
 building, they

00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:22.280
 polished it all up

00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:23.139
 on the outside and

00:46:23.139 --> 00:46:24.200
 removed the water.

00:46:25.079 --> 00:46:26.180
 I'm sure that's not

00:46:26.180 --> 00:46:27.400
 symbolic of anything

00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:27.920
 at all.

00:46:30.059 --> 00:46:31.180
 I'm glad that they

00:46:31.180 --> 00:46:31.780
 renovated it.

00:46:31.900 --> 00:46:32.380
 We're very

00:46:32.380 --> 00:46:32.720
 thankful.

00:46:33.579 --> 00:46:33.740
 Yeah.

00:46:34.740 --> 00:46:35.740
 For missionaries

00:46:35.739 --> 00:46:38.259
 today, it

00:46:38.259 --> 00:46:38.839
 sounds like there

00:46:38.839 --> 00:46:39.539
 were missionaries

00:46:39.539 --> 00:46:40.439
 before this time

00:46:40.439 --> 00:46:41.939
 that denied the

00:46:41.939 --> 00:46:42.659
 inerrancy of

00:46:42.659 --> 00:46:42.939
 scripture.

00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:43.339
 Yeah.

00:46:43.459 --> 00:46:44.239
 There was a big

00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:45.639
 push to have

00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:46.359
 missionaries in the

00:46:46.359 --> 00:46:46.859
 field that were

00:46:46.859 --> 00:46:49.679
 supported that had

00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:50.679
 the doctrines of the

00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:50.919
 faith.

00:46:51.919 --> 00:46:52.279
 Yeah.

00:46:52.539 --> 00:46:52.719
 Yeah.

00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:55.559
 nowadays, is there

00:46:55.559 --> 00:46:57.099
 when IMB or

00:46:57.099 --> 00:46:58.419
 whomever or

00:46:58.419 --> 00:46:59.279
 whatever organization

00:46:59.279 --> 00:46:59.899
 is going to support

00:46:59.899 --> 00:47:00.739
 a missionary to

00:47:00.739 --> 00:47:02.259
 China or elsewhere,

00:47:03.079 --> 00:47:04.279
 how much betting is

00:47:04.279 --> 00:47:05.379
 there for their

00:47:05.379 --> 00:47:06.679
 doctrinal beliefs and

00:47:06.679 --> 00:47:07.659
 their beliefs about

00:47:07.659 --> 00:47:08.119
 the Bible?

00:47:08.279 --> 00:47:08.879
 Is that something

00:47:08.879 --> 00:47:11.719
 that is left to

00:47:11.719 --> 00:47:14.039
 a judgment call by

00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:15.259
 the organization,

00:47:15.399 --> 00:47:16.719
 or is that an

00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:17.759
 imperative that every

00:47:17.759 --> 00:47:18.959
 missionary that is

00:47:18.959 --> 00:47:21.839
 sent out in these

00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:23.039
 fundamental doctrines?

00:47:23.200 --> 00:47:23.420
 Yes.

00:47:23.420 --> 00:47:23.700
 Do we have

00:47:23.700 --> 00:47:24.300
 missionaries out

00:47:24.300 --> 00:47:25.000
 there today that

00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:25.680
 are denying the

00:47:25.680 --> 00:47:26.100
 inerrancy of

00:47:26.100 --> 00:47:26.700
 scripture and

00:47:26.700 --> 00:47:27.440
 denying the

00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:27.740
 trinity?

00:47:28.539 --> 00:47:28.940
 No.

00:47:29.220 --> 00:47:30.780
 Not only does one

00:47:30.780 --> 00:47:32.260
 need to sign the

00:47:32.260 --> 00:47:33.880
 doctrinal basis,

00:47:34.680 --> 00:47:35.559
 which you can read,

00:47:35.740 --> 00:47:37.200
 we probably even have

00:47:37.200 --> 00:47:37.960
 some on file here,

00:47:39.140 --> 00:47:40.000
 not only do they

00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:42.700
 need to sign it,

00:47:43.260 --> 00:47:44.000
 but you need to

00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:45.380
 continue to sign it.

00:47:45.780 --> 00:47:46.860
 So I, as one of

00:47:46.860 --> 00:47:47.260
 the missionaries,

00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:47.840
 not with the IMB,

00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:48.860
 but with other

00:47:48.860 --> 00:47:51.160
 missions groups and

00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:52.299
 supporting churches,

00:47:52.899 --> 00:47:54.500
 so as a missionary

00:47:54.500 --> 00:47:56.440
 myself of some of

00:47:56.440 --> 00:47:56.899
 these supporting

00:47:56.899 --> 00:47:59.239
 churches, I need to

00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:02.659
 not only read through

00:48:02.659 --> 00:48:03.500
 all of these

00:48:03.500 --> 00:48:04.239
 statements, and

00:48:04.239 --> 00:48:06.440
 they're even, I

00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:07.440
 need to indicate,

00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:08.359
 and I do it every

00:48:08.359 --> 00:48:09.879
 single year, every

00:48:09.879 --> 00:48:10.619
 single year I need

00:48:10.619 --> 00:48:11.219
 to say, no, I've

00:48:11.219 --> 00:48:11.839
 re-read it again

00:48:11.839 --> 00:48:14.039
 thoroughly, and if I

00:48:14.039 --> 00:48:15.460
 have any exception or

00:48:15.460 --> 00:48:16.839
 scruple to anything,

00:48:17.420 --> 00:48:18.299
 I need to write

00:48:18.299 --> 00:48:19.679
 extensively about what

00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:21.239
 that is, and then

00:48:21.239 --> 00:48:22.199
 they need to continue

00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:23.419
 to judge every year

00:48:23.419 --> 00:48:25.139
 whether that's

00:48:25.139 --> 00:48:26.739
 adequate or compromising.

00:48:27.739 --> 00:48:29.899
 Has that been a

00:48:29.899 --> 00:48:30.799
 practice for?

00:48:31.019 --> 00:48:31.719
 That's been a

00:48:31.719 --> 00:48:32.399
 practice for quite

00:48:32.399 --> 00:48:34.299
 some time, yeah, and

00:48:34.299 --> 00:48:36.299
 especially when people

00:48:36.299 --> 00:48:39.980
 discover that that has

00:48:39.980 --> 00:48:40.779
 not been the case.

00:48:40.919 --> 00:48:42.079
 It was easy to assume

00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:43.379
 that for a while, but

00:48:43.379 --> 00:48:44.219
 then when you can't

00:48:44.219 --> 00:48:45.019
 assume that anymore,

00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:46.899
 they want to check.

00:48:46.900 --> 00:48:47.860
 Yeah, yeah.

00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:49.200
 It's been contentious

00:48:49.200 --> 00:48:49.960
 because there have

00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:51.059
 been some who are

00:48:51.059 --> 00:48:52.700
 frustrated at how

00:48:52.700 --> 00:48:53.639
 tight it is, but,

00:48:54.019 --> 00:48:55.740
 but, yeah, the

00:48:55.740 --> 00:48:56.480
 Baptists are doing a

00:48:56.480 --> 00:48:57.220
 good job keeping that

00:48:57.220 --> 00:48:57.500
 tight.

00:48:59.260 --> 00:49:00.700
 They're good at some

00:49:00.700 --> 00:49:01.019
 things.

00:49:01.700 --> 00:49:02.500
 Yeah, yeah.

00:49:03.420 --> 00:49:03.940
 Yes?

00:49:04.700 --> 00:49:08.000
 Liz, talk a little

00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:09.300
 bit about how that

00:49:09.300 --> 00:49:11.039
 early missionary movement

00:49:11.039 --> 00:49:12.840
 progressed.

00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:13.360
 Yes.

00:49:13.360 --> 00:49:16.640
 Because I believe, you

00:49:16.640 --> 00:49:18.980
 know, my parents were

00:49:18.980 --> 00:49:21.000
 born in 08.

00:49:21.220 --> 00:49:21.519
 Uh-huh.

00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:24.840
 And then in 34, they

00:49:24.840 --> 00:49:25.900
 went, but I know it

00:49:25.900 --> 00:49:27.920
 was a big movement of

00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:28.500
 some sort.

00:49:28.620 --> 00:49:29.019
 Yes.

00:49:30.220 --> 00:49:32.280
 So the student

00:49:32.280 --> 00:49:34.280
 volunteer movement, I

00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:36.140
 should give a, if ever I

00:49:36.140 --> 00:49:37.019
 get a chance, maybe I'll

00:49:37.019 --> 00:49:37.940
 give another talk about

00:49:37.940 --> 00:49:38.559
 that, the student

00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:39.760
 volunteer movement, the

00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:41.960
 genesis and the development

00:49:41.960 --> 00:49:42.700
 of the student volunteer

00:49:42.699 --> 00:49:43.099
 movement.

00:49:43.759 --> 00:49:46.199
 But, yes, remarkable.

00:49:46.539 --> 00:49:48.319
 It, it actually went

00:49:48.319 --> 00:49:50.339
 back, this, this, the

00:49:50.339 --> 00:49:51.159
 student volunteer

00:49:51.159 --> 00:49:52.379
 movement pledge was

00:49:52.379 --> 00:49:53.500
 originally based on what

00:49:53.500 --> 00:49:54.299
 was called the Princeton

00:49:54.299 --> 00:49:54.799
 Pledge.

00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:57.139
 There was a missionary

00:49:57.139 --> 00:49:58.559
 from China who had come

00:49:58.559 --> 00:49:59.980
 back in retirement, Royal

00:49:59.980 --> 00:50:04.199
 Wilder, and he had in

00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:06.159
 his rooms a little group

00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:08.319
 of Princeton students in

00:50:08.319 --> 00:50:11.419
 the 1880s would, would

00:50:11.420 --> 00:50:13.280
 meet and they had as their

00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:14.220
 little group what they

00:50:14.220 --> 00:50:14.840
 called the Princeton

00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:16.139
 Pledge, which read simply,

00:50:16.260 --> 00:50:17.300
 it is my purpose if God

00:50:17.300 --> 00:50:18.639
 permit to become a foreign

00:50:18.639 --> 00:50:19.059
 missionary.

00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:20.780
 And they began to start

00:50:20.780 --> 00:50:21.099
 this.

00:50:21.220 --> 00:50:22.220
 Well, then D.L.

00:50:22.260 --> 00:50:23.480
 Moody was having a college

00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:24.559
 conference up in Mount

00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:26.180
 Hermon to bring a bunch of

00:50:26.180 --> 00:50:27.700
 college students in and

00:50:27.700 --> 00:50:29.940
 Robert Wilder took the

00:50:29.940 --> 00:50:31.119
 Princeton Pledge up there

00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:33.739
 and had a real vision for

00:50:33.739 --> 00:50:35.799
 missions in his day and asked

00:50:35.799 --> 00:50:36.500
 if he could make a

00:50:36.500 --> 00:50:38.539
 presentation to the, the,

00:50:38.539 --> 00:50:39.900
 the complete student body

00:50:39.900 --> 00:50:43.359
 there and was able to find

00:50:43.359 --> 00:50:46.199
 10 among the students who

00:50:46.199 --> 00:50:47.799
 were either born abroad, were

00:50:47.799 --> 00:50:50.119
 foreigners themselves, or, or,

00:50:50.119 --> 00:50:55.579
 or, or, so had some sort of

00:50:55.579 --> 00:50:57.039
 connection to, to, to foreign

00:50:57.039 --> 00:50:57.420
 lands.

00:50:57.420 --> 00:50:59.259
 And each, there were 10 and

00:50:59.259 --> 00:51:01.480
 each made a presentation of

00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:03.460
 three minutes to the desperate

00:51:03.460 --> 00:51:05.480
 spiritual needs of some foreign

00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:08.219
 land and then ended their tongue

00:51:08.219 --> 00:51:10.420
 in, in their language, their,

00:51:10.519 --> 00:51:11.659
 their other foreign language

00:51:11.659 --> 00:51:12.759
 with God is love.

00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:13.859
 And that, and that called,

00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:14.759
 it's called the meeting of 10

00:51:14.759 --> 00:51:15.159
 nations.

00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:18.659
 And apparently this had very

00:51:18.659 --> 00:51:20.299
 riveting effects and many of the

00:51:20.299 --> 00:51:21.599
 students came forward to sign

00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:23.639
 and by the end of the, that

00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:25.139
 conference, Moody's conference

00:51:25.139 --> 00:51:28.739
 up at Mount Hermon, there were

00:51:28.739 --> 00:51:31.399
 actually 99 that, that, that,

00:51:31.399 --> 00:51:32.440
 that had been signed and just

00:51:32.440 --> 00:51:33.420
 before they left as they were

00:51:33.420 --> 00:51:34.779
 praying there, one more entered

00:51:34.779 --> 00:51:36.420
 in and got down his knees and

00:51:36.420 --> 00:51:37.799
 signed the pledge so they were

00:51:37.799 --> 00:51:39.299
 called the Mount Hermon 100.

00:51:39.659 --> 00:51:41.480
 And that was the start of the

00:51:41.480 --> 00:51:43.159
 student volunteer movement of, of,

00:51:43.159 --> 00:51:44.199
 of the missionaries that went

00:51:44.199 --> 00:51:46.319
 out and that it began to, to,

00:51:46.460 --> 00:51:48.519
 to grow remarkably.

00:51:49.259 --> 00:51:51.899
 And you have some of the more

00:51:51.899 --> 00:51:53.219
 famous people involved.

00:51:53.339 --> 00:51:55.399
 There was a John R. Mott from

00:51:55.399 --> 00:51:57.319
 Cornell who signed the

00:51:57.319 --> 00:51:57.879
 missionary pledge.

00:51:57.939 --> 00:51:59.019
 He was about to go, but they

00:51:59.019 --> 00:52:00.439
 realized, oh my goodness, this

00:52:00.439 --> 00:52:01.219
 guy is one of the most

00:52:01.219 --> 00:52:02.639
 organized people that we've

00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:04.579
 ever encountered in, ever.

00:52:04.839 --> 00:52:07.059
 So they urged him to stay and

00:52:07.059 --> 00:52:08.980
 organize the thing rather than go

00:52:08.980 --> 00:52:09.539
 himself.

00:52:09.659 --> 00:52:11.619
 And he did that marvelously well.

00:52:11.980 --> 00:52:14.019
 So literally thousands, Elizabeth,

00:52:14.019 --> 00:52:16.519
 thousands went to the foreign

00:52:16.519 --> 00:52:17.259
 fields.

00:52:18.699 --> 00:52:20.739
 And you would say what, what

00:52:20.739 --> 00:52:23.420
 changed, it began to peter out.

00:52:23.800 --> 00:52:25.219
 See, after the First World War,

00:52:26.099 --> 00:52:28.679
 with all the carnage that there

00:52:28.679 --> 00:52:32.179
 was, people were so struck by the

00:52:32.179 --> 00:52:35.739
 material woes of this world that

00:52:35.739 --> 00:52:38.639
 they began, there began to be a

00:52:38.639 --> 00:52:40.920
 shift to social action.

00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:44.799
 That it's, we must desperately get

00:52:44.799 --> 00:52:46.879
 people food.

00:52:48.639 --> 00:52:51.039
 And soul work, what they called

00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:52.900
 soul work, started to take a

00:52:52.900 --> 00:52:54.000
 secondary place.

00:52:54.500 --> 00:52:56.059
 And that ended up being functionally

00:52:56.059 --> 00:52:56.920
 the death of the student

00:52:56.920 --> 00:52:57.699
 volunteer report.

00:52:58.440 --> 00:53:00.059
 The numbers began to really peter

00:53:00.059 --> 00:53:01.920
 out after the First World War into

00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:02.500
 the 20s.

00:53:02.500 --> 00:53:03.840
 So, yeah.

00:53:04.059 --> 00:53:05.960
 And Mount St.

00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:07.219
 Herman is Connecticut?

00:53:07.780 --> 00:53:09.099
 So it's in Massachusetts.

00:53:09.260 --> 00:53:09.539
 Okay.

00:53:11.219 --> 00:53:14.679
 And that's where Moody, Dale

00:53:14.679 --> 00:53:16.500
 Moody, had his student conference.

00:53:17.960 --> 00:53:21.059
 And there in Mount

00:53:21.059 --> 00:53:21.320
 Herman.

00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:22.699
 You can still go up there and

00:53:22.699 --> 00:53:25.659
 there's a little pillar and there are

00:53:25.659 --> 00:53:27.280
 memorials that you can see that's

00:53:27.280 --> 00:53:27.579
 wonderful.

00:53:27.699 --> 00:53:28.599
 I should bring in some pictures

00:53:28.599 --> 00:53:29.079
 sometime.

00:53:29.079 --> 00:53:31.759
 Long story and a great one.

00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:32.319
 Yeah, Mike?

00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:34.940
 Did Urbana, you know, that, that

00:53:34.940 --> 00:53:35.539
 Yeah, yeah.

00:53:35.539 --> 00:53:38.179
 That arise later on of this kind of

00:53:38.179 --> 00:53:38.860
 same kind of...

00:53:38.860 --> 00:53:39.519
 Same, yes.

00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:40.340
 Same sort of spirit.

00:53:40.539 --> 00:53:40.900
 Yes.

00:53:42.340 --> 00:53:45.960
 And Urbana really took up the

00:53:45.960 --> 00:53:46.219
 torch.

00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:48.599
 Now Urbana connected particularly

00:53:48.599 --> 00:53:50.019
 with the InterVarsity Christian

00:53:50.019 --> 00:53:52.039
 Fellowship, which was a slightly

00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:52.539
 different thing.

00:53:52.619 --> 00:53:53.980
 That had its origin in England.

00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:56.119
 Slightly different story, but same

00:53:56.119 --> 00:53:56.759
 sort of spirit.

00:53:57.159 --> 00:53:57.420
 Yes.

00:53:57.559 --> 00:53:57.960
 Absolutely.

00:53:58.579 --> 00:53:58.699
 Yeah.

00:53:58.699 --> 00:54:00.239
 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:54:00.299 --> 00:54:01.500
 I'm just noticing the time, team.

00:54:01.699 --> 00:54:02.699
 I think we better...

00:54:02.699 --> 00:54:04.219
 Hey, thanks so much.

00:54:04.259 --> 00:54:05.019
 This has been fun.

00:54:05.179 --> 00:54:06.359
 Hopefully we'll get a chance to do

00:54:06.359 --> 00:54:07.839
 some other history, church history

00:54:07.839 --> 00:54:08.919
 together sometime.

00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:10.699
 Next week, I believe...

00:54:12.299 --> 00:54:13.179
 Oh, the topic?

00:54:13.339 --> 00:54:15.099
 I think it's the arts.

00:54:16.019 --> 00:54:18.000
 The gospel and the arts, I think,

00:54:18.119 --> 00:54:19.719
 is what we're going to continue with.

00:54:20.379 --> 00:54:22.339
 Emily, thank you so much.

00:54:22.339 --> 00:54:22.460
 Thank you.

00:54:22.460 --> 00:54:22.899
 Thank you.

00:54:22.899 --> 00:54:23.159
 Thank you.

00:54:23.159 --> 00:54:23.480
 Thank you.

00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:23.539
 Thank you.

00:54:23.539 --> 00:54:23.679
 Thank you.

00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:23.699
 Thank you.

00:54:23.699 --> 00:54:24.199
 Thank you.

00:54:24.199 --> 00:54:24.279
 Thank you.

00:54:24.279 --> 00:54:24.319
 Thank you.

00:54:24.319 --> 00:54:24.460
 Thank you.

00:54:24.460 --> 00:54:24.480
 Thank you.

00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:24.500
 Thank you.