Only Grasping the Shadow?
At age 20, Henry Martyn gained the highest honors in mathematics at the Cambridge University.
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You may think that Martyn was fulfilled and ecstatic of his success.
But, when the celebrations were over, he said:
“To my surprise, I found that I had only grasped a shadow.”
Shortly after that, I read from J. Oswald Sanders that he went to India as a missionary.
He knelt on the shore when he reached India and prayed, “And now let me burn out for God!”
Martyn lived for only 7 more years.
But in his brief time of serving, he gave the world translations of the New Testament in 3 hard to learn Eastern languages.
Those 3 New Testament translations are certainly no shadow!
They all lived beyond Martyn’s earthly existence.
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