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GIVE PROOF OF YOUR CALLING (9 OF 10)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:1-5
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Give Proof of Your Calling (9 of 10)
Series: The Aged Apostles Swan Song
Donald Cantrell
2 Timothy 4: 1 - 5


I - The Preaching Mandate (1 - 4)
A) The Direct Charge (1 - 2)
B) The Doctrinal Change (3 - 4)

II - The Proven Ministry (5)
A) Timothy and His Watchfulness (5a)
B) Timothy and His Willpower (5b)
C) Timothy and His Work (5c)
D) Timothy and His Worth (5d)

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Theme: ''Paul is challenging Timothy to live up to his calling''

Time Magazine's obituary - Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell's

Wilfred Grenfell spent his boyhood on the Sands of Dee near Cheshire, England.

He used to filch biscuits and wine from his school larder to give to fishermen as they left at dawn to catch the early tide. One day the family doctor showed him a pickled brain, and young Wilfred, ''thrilled,'' decided to become a physician.

After he graduated from the University of London, he set up an office in fashionable Mayfair, but he longed for the sea. So in June 1892 he set sail with a British hospital ship to spend a summer treating the natives of Labrador.

On his first evening in the harbor of Domino Run, a silent fisherman took him ashore to a sod-covered hut with a pebble floor. There the young doctor saw ''a very sick man coughing his soul out in the darkness, while a pitiably covered woman gave him cold water to sip out of a spoon.''

The people had no money. All they owned was fishing equipment. All they ate was cod, bread, tea, wild berries. They were plagued with tuberculosis, scurvy, anemia, beriberi. They had never seen a doctor, and they treated their sick with charms: sugar blown into babies' eyes to cure them of ophthalmia, haddock fin bones to ward off rheumatism, burned nail parings to drive away sea boils. A scratch with a fish hook often meant infection and the loss of a limb.

After his first year Dr. Grenfell built two small hospitals, got the help of two doctors and two nu ...

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