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Excerpt from William Butler: The Founder of Two Missions of the Episcopal Church
Oses was willing to stay out of heaven long enough to see the land toward which he had been leading God's people for forty years. How pathetic the prayer, I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Leba non (deut. Iii, His petition was denied. He went up to Nebo to die, according to the divine command.' William Butler, the Founder of Missions, had just such a desire to see India. He prayed for two years that the way might be opened. One day, after listening to his wonderful lecture, I said to him, Dr. Butler, how would you like to go to India and see the Mission? He was startled. He wheeled and faced me, his countenance beaming with holy joy. Go to India? Said he, I would rather go to India than to go to heaven l The way was opened. He went through the land from Lucknow to Calcutta. His prayer was answered.
Later he was sent to review the work in Mexico. This great man was permitted to reap in joy, as he had been permitted to sow in tears. Not since Francis Asbury ascended to glory has Methodism produced a man whose life and work bear more clearly and more indelibly the seal of the divine approval than do the life and work of this man of God.
Let this book find its way into every Christian home and into every Sabbath school. A life so great as this belongs not to any one denomination, but to all of God's people of every name in all the world.
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