Alvin E. Cook

Ministerial Secretary, Trans-Africa Division

"Let Marble Crumble This Is Living Stone!"

PIONEER medical missionary David Livingstone came to the end of his African safaris one hundred years ago, on May 1, 1873. He died alone, on his knees, in a temporary shelter near the shore of Lake Bangweulu in Northern Zambia. . .

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"Return and I'll Return"

"God looks for born-again men, sanctified men, fruitful men—in that order—and a balance between the three."

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Famous Last Words

LUDICROUS in the light of reason, but in the light of history, sublime . . ." is the way one expositor described the missionary proclamation of the risen Christ, recorded for us in the closing paragraphs of St. Matthew's gospel. The ex-taxation man pushed aside his inkhorn and laid down his stylus at that. . .

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