What would it be like to live in a country that had no cars or airplanes? And what if that country had no electric lights or running water? Can you imagine such a country? The story I am about to tell you takes place in a country that had none of these things. William Farel lived over 500 years ago and no light came on at the flip of a switch and no water gushed out at the turn of a tap.
But there was something far worse that William Farel’s country did not have. It did not have the Bible. If you have trouble thinking what it would be like to have no electricity or running water, cars or airplanes, then you will have an even harder time thinking what it would be like to live in a land where there was no light from God’s Word. It will be necessary to tell you something of the darkness of such a land in order for you to understand something of the great work that God gave His servant, William Farel, to do.
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But wait. So that you will not learn a wrong lesson from this book, I must tell you one more thing. This story is not to tell you how great a man William Farel was. No, that would be a useless story. It is rather to tell you how great William Farel’s Saviour is. May the greatness of Jesus be the story of your life and mine when our story is told!