JEANIE GILCHRIST spent her early years in the quiet little village of Chapleton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, where her devoted father, known as "The Preaching Baker," told out the old, old story for many a day, and in the whole countryside as well. Jeanie was converted while a girl, living in the village of Larkhall, but she did not come out brightly for the Lord until a few years after.
We know some like her, they say they are saved, but if they are Christ's they do not have much to say about Him, or to show of Him in their life and ways. When she took her stand before the world as a disciple of Christ, confessing Him as her Lord, and taking His Word as her guide, she became happy in His love, and spoke of Him to others.
years she visited and served a her own sphere, then the Lord ted her out further, and in 1889 she went to Central Africa to carry the Gospel to the women of that dark land, who had never heard His Name. For fourteen years she earnestly, joyfully served the Lord in and on behalf of the women and girls of Africa.
When on her way for the third time to Koni Hill, she was attacked by fever, and went from the midst of the African forest to be with Christ in His own unclouded presence. African girls whom she led to the Saviour, wept greatly when they heard that their "true friend" had gone, but in that day when Jesus comes, she will have a bright reward for the life laid down for the Gospel's sake in Africa. In her newly issued Memoir there are some touching stories of African slave girls, Delunga, Nama, Mwewe, and others, who heard the Gospel from her lips, and are now saved and shining for Christ in their own dark land,
How much easier it is for you to be saved and confess Christ, than for those surrounded by heathen customs and awful depths of sin and ignorance! Yet with all your privileges you may perish, and you will, if you reject the God-sent Saviour, and neglect His great salvation. The best time to be saved is now, and the way is so simple that a child may know it. Only trust Him.
"How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation." Heb, 2:3.
Messages of God’s Love 8/26/1934