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May Our Sacrifices Not Be In Vain
Our world is filled with many people who sacrificed their lives for one cause or the other
It is easy for people to remember people like Mary Slessor, who came to Calabar, Nigeria, in 1876.
She learned to speak the native language and, with her bold personality, shared the gospel of Jesus Christ whilst standing against evils like the killing of baby twins and the killing of slaves that accompanied the death of influential men.
She battled fevers all the while, which started when she contracted malaria in the third year of her arrival.
She eventually died in 1915 after a particularly serious bout of fever.
We can also remember Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., who is the most famous civil rights leader in U.S. history — so much so that he has a federal holiday in his honor.
Even though he had many legitimate threats on his life, King forged ahead with his powerful message of racial equality amid one of America’s most divided periods in history.
Ultimately, his bold stance and unwillingness to cower in the shadows cost him his life when James Earl Ray assassinated him with a sniper’s bullet in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
