Unselfishness
Story★★★★Multitudes have unselfishly devoted themselves and all they have to the advancement of truth, goodness, and righteousness for Christ’s sake. There are possibly few pictures that are more pathetic and sublime, in the history of saintly lives, than that of Mrs. Adoniram Judson stand- ing in the doorway of her home by the sea in Burma, watching the ship sail away that was carrying her children to America for their education. The long-dreaded hour had come.
She must be separated for many years, if not for life, from her children in order to stand by her hus- band in his work. With long and tender farewells she had bidden them good-by, and now the great ship turned her prow to the open sea. The almost broken-hearted mother stood and watched the vessel until, through the mist in her eyes, it had ceased to be even a speck on the distant horizon, and then, going to her room, she sank into a chair and exclaimed: “All this I do for the sake of my Lord.”
And yet some people say that selfishness is the most power- ful force in life!
The point
Mrs. Adoniram Judson's tearful sacrifice of sending her children away to serve beside her missionary husband shows that unselfish devotion, not selfishness, can be the strongest force in a life.