bigtime book

I've been reading my father's day present, John G. Paton's autobiography. Needless to say it is amazing, and has already lifted my heart to God in many ways and areas of my life. I wanted to share his introductory note to the reader. This is perhaps the best note I've ever read, and the best reason for writing a book that I've ever heard of.

PS - upon reading this book and hearing his story, you will soon find why we named our little boy after this man.

"What I write here is for the glory of God. For more than twenty years have I been urged to record my story as a Missionary of the cross; but always till now, in my sixty-fourth year, my heart has shrunk from the task, as savouring too much of self. Latterly the conviction has been borne home to me that if there be much in my experience which the Church of God ought to know, it would be pride on my part, and not humility, to let it die with me. I lift my pen, therefore, with that motive supreme in my heart; and, so far as memory and entries in my note-books and letters of my own and of other friends serve or help my sincere desire to be truthful and fair, the following chapters will present a faithful picture of the life through which the Lord has led me. If it bows any of my readers under as deep and certain a confidence as mince, that in "God's had our breath is, and His are all our ways," my task will not be fruitless in the Great Day."