No Life in God’s Service Is Wasted: Three Lessons from a Brief Ministry

Imagine you’re 22 years old. You’ve just graduated from an Ivy League university. You’re a powerful communicator, unusually athletic, and — if all that wasn’t enough — you’re also a multimillionaire. The world, it seems, is yours for the taking. What would you do with your life?This was William Borden’s situation in 1909, and for Borden, the answer was simple: He would devote his life to sharing the gospel among Muslims in China’s impoverished Gansu province. He spent three years at Princeton Se