Only one life

At the end of last week’s Bible talk, I read a famous poem by Charles Studd, a British missionary and international cricketer. According to Wikipedia:

“As a cricketer he played for England in the 1882 match won by Australia which was the origins of The Ashes. As a British Protestant Christian missionary to China he was part of the Cambridge Seven, and later was responsible for setting up the Heart of Africa Mission which became the Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade (now WEC International).”

He was a man with a great passion for seeing the world evangelised for Jesus, and did this at his own personal cost.

As requested by a number of people on Sunday, here is a link to the poem for which he is so famous: http://hockleys.org/2009/05/quote-only-one-life-twill-soon-be-past-poem/

Here is the final verse of this great poem:

Only one life, yes only one,
Now let me say,”Thy will be done”;
And when at last I’ll hear the call,
I know I’ll say “twas worth it all”;
Only one life,’twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last. ”