“Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.”

—  C. T. Studd

The Chocolate Soldier ( text at Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22331)

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British cricketer and missionary 1860–1931

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