Dad and I watched a biographical film of William Carey on Netflix last Sunday evening. It was really quite good, and made me think again about this incredible man, self-taught, who learned about forty languages over the course of his life, translating not only the Bible into many Indian laanguages, but Indian classics - including religious ones - into English, for his countrymen, and starting, I believe, an Indian Renaissance of learning...He advocated for a change in different laws, successfully, and did groundbreaking horticultural research...Wow!...And he said he succeeded becuase he was a plodder, would never give up...And he didn't...I was talking with young Stephen at work about Carey. He has been to India twice on mission trips, and visited Carey's grave. From the description he gave, it seems that it is very ordinary, and perhaps even run down...It reminded me of an incident I read about in Brother Yun's book (One of the five heads of the underground church in China)...After years of intense suffering and persecution in his country, he eventually escaped to the west - to Germany. He soon went to visit the grave of a woman who had spent years in his part of China - a faithful, (single, I believe) Christian who had laid the foundation for great harvest. She was remembered and revered by the whole church...He found her grave completely unkempt...He gave a Christian tonguelashing to the local body of believers and made sure this was changed. I found this very interesting...A man who knew what it was to be starved, beaten, penniless - and there were many others he knew still in that situation - who still wanted time and money spent on the dust and ashed of a woman who had served the church well...The body of the Christian is never considered inconsequential, is it, either in life or death...

Anyway, today is "1890's" day in Ringgold, so Andrew and I will go over, and meet Fryes and Helms, plus a lovely young Korean coupld attending our church, for the day. Weather should be hot and clear, so should be fun...Plucky iittle Ringgold is just going on with life! And so are we all, right?