Robert Moffat

For more than fifty years Robert Moffat, of Scotland, faithfully toiled as a missionary to South Africa. His oldest daughter, Mary, married the man who was to eventually become far more famous than he — David Livingstone. Amazingly, Moffat outlived Livingstone by ten years. On his single furlough back to England, Moffat found young Livingstone and with inspiring and haunting words, including those quoted above, persuaded him to change his plans to go to China and instead follow him back to Africa. That providential intersection of two lives—as well as the ensuing inspiration of literally HUNDREDS of other heroic missionaries in the Nineteenth Century—unveils much of the secret of what Kenneth Scott Latourette termed THE GREAT CENTURY in the history of Christian expansion. WOW! How can we be indifferent when we contemplate such heroes of the faith?