Chain of Daisies Part 2

When Amy Carmichael wasn't going to waste her time making daisy chains, I wonder if she had the words of William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, ringing in her ears:

"'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face - whose mercy you have professed to obey - and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world."

The great missionaries of the world packed their belongings in their coffin. They never expected to return home once they heard and responded to the call.

While the rest of us in North America sit around making daisy chains, oblivious to the men and women drowning in the nearby river.

Paul's words are hard to take when he writes in Romans 8:36, "As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."