Cherish the words, You were...
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Cherish the words, "You were bought with a price." That means you belong to God, and you are responsible only to God ultimately. Jean Henry Dunant was the founder of the Red Cross. Actually he was a businessman. Just at the time he became well-known as the founder of the Red Cross, because he had spent so much time away from his business, he became bankrupt. What would he do? He could have become bitter or he could have resolved to become an extremely wealthy man. He did neither. He labored unceasingly to have prisoners of war treated humanely, worked for the abolition of slavery, sought international arbitration and disarmament and a Jewish homeland. In all this Dunant received so little public attention that in 1895 after almost 30 years of obscurity he was "discovered," and in 1901 he was one of the first winners of the Nobel peace prize. Dunant had written in his diary, "I am a discipie of Jesus as in the first century, nothing more." He felt a direct relationship with Jesus, who bought you for a price, the scandalous death of the Cross.
- Richardson
- Richardson
