Discovering talents for God’s kingdom
They had won an award for a three-page treatment and were looking for investors. Six years later Aneesh Daniel directed and Andrew Matthews wrote The Least of These — about a murder this magazine had covered ten months before we ever met them.
Sundar Singh was fifteen, had lost his mother, and had decided to end his life on the Ludhiana line. What he did afterwards — in a saffron robe, on foot, for twenty-four years — is the argument he is still remembered for.
William Carey was apprenticed indoors because sunlight blistered his skin. He made a globe out of scrap leather, and did not stop for forty-one years. “I can plod,” he said, when asked to account for himself.
Pandita Ramabai was orphaned by famine at sixteen, widowed at twenty-three, and went to England to train as a doctor. Deafness ended that. What she built instead at Kedgaon is still open.
Wanting to be rich is not the sin. An unsigned page from 2014 on bribes, substandard goods, and the bribe that has become normal procedure for moving a pastor from one parish to another.
Samuel Kellogg learned the language because he was posted alone to a station outside Farrukhabad with nobody to speak English to. The book he produced gave its name to forty-four years of Hindi scholarship, and it is on sale in Delhi today.
The woman on the corner who feeds her children first and sleeps hungry. The student who sits an exam she has not read for and thinks she might just make it. If that is not faith, what is she living on?
David Livingstone is the most famous missionary Britain ever produced. By the measure he chose for himself he failed almost completely, and the most remarkable act in his story was performed by men whose names are on no gravestone.
She would cry herself hoarse in front of the cameras insisting they were innocent, and go on saying it long after guilt was proved. Then she works out what she believes God would want instead.
The outrage lasts about a fortnight. Then the protests thin out, the panel discussions move on, and the country goes back to chalta hai until the next one is brutal enough to interrupt us.
Flags, the anthem, the telecast from the Red Fort. Then a year in which a girl was surrounded outside a bar in Guwahati and an infant died in Punjab over two hundred rupees.
