{"id":3040,"date":"2024-07-09T17:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2024-07-09T17:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:22:27","slug":"godly-men-who-died-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=3040","title":{"rendered":"Godly Men Who Died Young"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>William Borden, 26\u2014Son of rich businessman, missionary to muslims<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jim Elliot, 28\u2014Missionary, murdered along with 4 of his friends<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conrad Grebel, 28\u2014Godly Baptist killed by reformers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robert Murray McCheyne, 29\u2014Pastor with unusual devotion and humility<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>David Brainerd, 29\u2014Missionary, risked his life and saw revival<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>George Boardman, 30\u2014Missionary to Myanmar, died after baptizing converts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Henry Martyn, 31\u2014Missionary to Iran, brilliant mind<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jonathan Edwards, 54\u2014Unusual mind and godliness, died from vaccination<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>George Whitefield, 55\u2014Saw thousands converted when he preached<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Charles Spurgeon, 57\u2014Perhaps used more than any other Christian<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>God could have prolonged the lives of any or all of these men, but He was pleased to allow their lives to have what we might call \u201cfew\u201d days.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Such a surprising number of very gifted and godly men died young, that we should not think highly of ourselves or much of our own lives, but rather be very content if only our King is obeyed, and as the essence of sweetness and beauty, is adored.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conclusions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[356],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unusual-character","tag-lists"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QrZa-N2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}