IN complying with the request made to me to undertake the
Memoir of a beloved friend, who, in his thirty-second year, fell asleep in
Jesus, I felt that in so doing I might be said to be writing "words
concerning the King."
For, the example set forth here is that of one
whose rare single-mindedness, affection to his Lord, watchfulness of spirit,
and most cheerful self-sacrifice in the Master's service, show what gifts our
King can give to His own; and may stir us up to serve that same Lord, as men
should do in whose ear the trumpet-voice is ringing, "Now it is high time to
awake out of sleep! for now is your salvation nearer than when you believed.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand" (Rom. 13.11,12).
Mr Sandeman's
like-minded brother, Frederick, with the aid of his intimate friend, Mr
Coventry, furnished the materials to my hand. They prepared the stones for the
building, and my chief work has been putting the stones in their place.
"Let the beauty of our Lord God be upon us! and establish thou the work of our
hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it !"
Transcribed from Memoir of the Life and brief Ministry
of the Rev. David Sandeman,
missionary to China
first published
LONDON, JAMES NISBET & CO
Berners Street
1861
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