“I would I had a thousand lives that I might give them to … China!”
Do you have a passion for reaching the lost? Do you strive to take that extra step to reach your goals? Lottie Moon was just such a person who became a very influential figure in missionary history.Lottie Moon was born in 1840 and died in 1912. She was well educated receiving one of the first Master’s degrees awarded to a woman in the South. Edmonia Moon, Lottie’s sister, became a missionary to Tengchow, China in 1872 and the following year Lottie followed in her footsteps as a missionary to China also. During her life she spent almost 40 years on the mission field in China. She began her time in China as a teacher but soon this was not enough for Lottie. She had a heart for evangelism and for reaching the lost especially in China but also on other international mission fields. She wrote many letters urging Southern Baptists to give to missions or to become missionaries themselves.
“How many million more souls are to pass into eternity without having heard the name of Jesus?”
This was the question Lottie Moon posed often in her writing especially when pressing for more giving of both money and self to the missionary cause in China. Lottie was so instrumental in organizing and urging for the collection of funds for international missions that in 1918 the Woman’s Missionary Union named their Christmas offering designated for international missions the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.
We now know that Lottie’s question of “how many million more souls” was indeed a good question. Current estimates place the number of people in China alone that have no access to the gospel at almost 200 million. If Lottie Moon was still alive I am sure she would be asking you – wont you go, can’t you give to help save just one more soul?
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dragon by Heather Bickle
