This book is written every bit as well as the rest of the books in the Christian Heroes, Then & Now series. However, it is personally my least favorite missionary story I have heard (or read) about. He does not adequately care for his family after he is married. His wife and many children stay at a more established mission station or back home in Scotland while he is away in the middle of Africa exploring unmapped, dangerous, and unexplored countries for months or years at a time. His youngest child he does not lay eyes on until she was FIVE YEARS OLD. My opinion is, he needed to balance his time with his family so that he was only going off on short expeditions not often, or withdraw from being a missionary once he had a family. There is holiness in training up children to serve and spread the good news about Christ Jesus, also. But, I guess, without him, a vast majority of the interior Africa would have still had to mapped by someone else. So, I guess, what's done is done, but I think a father should be an active part of his family.

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