". . .Those first few weeks I was discouraged. I wrote a letter home to my good father and said that I felt I was wasting my time and his money. He wrote a very short letter to me which said; 'Dear Gordon, I have your recent letter. I have only one suggestion: forget yourself and go to work.' Earlier that morning my compnaion and I had read these words of the Lord: 'Whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's the same shall save it' (Mark 8:35).
Those words of the Master, followed by my father's letter, went into my very being. I went into our bedromm and got on my knees and made a pledge to the Lord. I covenanted that I would try to forget myself and lose myself in His service."
