"No Reserves. No Retreats. No Regrets."
     In 1904 William Borden graduated from a Chicago high school. As heir to the Borden Dairy estate, he was already a millionaire. For his high school graduation present, his parents gave 16-year-old Borden a trip around the world. As the young man traveled through Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, he felt a growing burden for the world's hurting people. Finally, Bill Borden wrote home about his "desire to be a missionary."
     One friend expressed surprise that he was "throwing himself away as a missionary."
     In response, Bill wrote two words in the back of his Bible: "No reserves."

     Even though young Borden was wealthy, he arrived on the campus of Yale University in 1905 trying to look like just one more freshman. Very quickly, however, Borden's classmates noticed something unusual about him and it wasn't his money. One of them wrote: "He came to college far ahead, spiritually, of any of us. He had already given his heart in full surrender to Christ and had really done it. We who were his classmates learned to lean on him and find in him a strength that was solid as a rock, just because of this settled purpose and consecration."

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No Reserves. No Retreats. No Regrets.
"Do not put out the Spirit's fire." -- 1 Thessalonians 5:19
William Borden's Life
by Dr. Howard Culbertson

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