Emphasis Preaching Journal

In September 1915 a small steamboat carried a world-famous medical missionary slowly up Africa's Ogowe River. Ten years earlier this young medical missionary had captured the world's imagination. Albert Schweitzer was a brilliant scholar -- he had doctorates in philosophy and theology. He was a concert organist. In 1905 he claimed God had called him away from all that to do what was really important. He resigned his university posts, trained to be a medical doctor, and then went overseas to serve the people of French Equatorial Africa.