This is the goal and the prize that I reach for

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson



Kidnapped, Chapter 4 page 33

I Press, Fred Hammond---

Uncle had no ambition for this boy, other than for his bones to be strewn out his back porch, in an accident. No one would have known, because the boy’s condition was only under the uncle’s care.

I imagine that he falls unconscious and dreams of the dry bones and that God intends for him to speak life to his own generation.

This rich uncle, of the House of Shaws, takes the form of the devil pushing the soul of that poor orphan over the edge of his own limit. God breathes purpose and expectation into his soul. God takes the weak things and the foolish things and the things that be not, so that no flesh should glory in His sight.


The Church, perhaps at that time would have been orphaned. The uncles of the Church having only imperialism on their minds.

Today’s Church is full of mothers and fathers bringing our defiled daughter, the bride of Christ to our Savior and asking for the crumbs from the table to be the healing of our defiled condition.