It was hard to stay. But no Christian white man had ever been in that land before carrying the Good News of Jesus, and Forder had come out to risk his life for that very purpose. So he stayed.
What made Forder put his life in peril and stand the heat, vermin, and hate? Why try to make friends with these wild bandits? Why care about them at all? He was a baker in his own country in England and might have gone on with this work. It was the love of Christ that gave him the love of all men, and, in obeying His command to "Go into all the world," he found adventure, made friends, and left with them the Good News in the New Testament.
FOOTNOTES:
[65] Thursday morning, December 13, 1900.
[66] Recall Henry Martyn and Sabat at work on this.
[67] Passing Es-Salt (Ramoth Gilead), Gerash and Edrei in Bashan.
[68] It took the caravan six days to go back.