Wandering in Sudan (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
Worldly desires were striving to keep me by their chains just where I was, while the voice of faith was calling, ‘To the road! to the road! What is left of life is but little and the journey before you is long. All that keeps you busy, both intellectually and practically, is but hypocrisy and delusion. If you do not prepare now for eternal life, when will you prepare? If you do not now sever these attachments, when will you sever them?’ On hearing that, the impulse would be stirred and the resolution made to take to flight…
