We want you to do it.īut how? Many are the ways in which a man has won a maiden, but the wisest man who ever lived confessed that this was a matter too amazing for him. We may be as educated, as smart, as capable of making big money as you are, but we were not created to be competitors, and we really don’t want to do the hunting. Most of us women would like to have a husband, and quite a few of us believe that men should do the wooing. To marry or not to marry is first of all, gentlemen, an issue for you. I hope my readers will discern which examples are worth following. Some of them, following the best of all guides, did it wisely. This is mostly a book of stories, stories about how men and women find each other. At present it seems to have become a minefield-a very dangerous place through which, in order to thread one’s way safely, one needs a guide who is thoroughly acquainted with the course. The universal quest for love has always had its difficulties. Pollock for excerpts from Hudson Taylor and Maria. Fred Malir for her husband’s story to Jan Winebrenner, author of Steel in His Soul and Overseas Crusades for Dick Hillis’s story to Courtney Anderson for excerpts from To the Golden Shore, the Adoniram Judson story to John C. Special thanks to Tom Griffith, Ivy George, Frank Murray, John Mallon, John Vanderhorst, and Diane Poythress for the use of their published writings. My sincere thanks to all those correspondents who allowed me to use excerpts from their letters. Let us be Christ’s men from head to foot, and give no chances to the flesh to have its fling.Ģ9.

Such is the destiny of all who forget God Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?Ĭan papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Other versions cited are the King James Version (KJV) and the New English Bible (NEB).įor we were born only yesterday and know nothing, Scripture marked Phillips is from the New Testament in Modern English, translated by J. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

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