Anyone could do that!

talk about the matter of slavery. He responded,
“I have been battling slavery for years, and yet
after all the petitions, all the speeches, and all the
bills presented to Parliament, ships filled with
human souls in chains continue to sail around
the world as cargo!”
He was right. Slaves continued to be beaten,
brutalized, raped, and killed. Little children were
separated from their families or even burned
alive. Masses of slaves died in the hulls of slave
ships. After years and years of fighting the slave
trade, Wilberforce felt nothing seemed to have
changed, and he was deeply discouraged.
Those of us in ministry to street and
underprivileged children and orphans can be
just as easily discouraged. We have had camps for
thousands of needy children, street children, and
orphans. We’ve cared for thousands of precious
little ones, rescued hundreds from pedophiles,
opened hundreds of orphan homes and day
care centers, and we’ve challenged church after
church in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America
to reach out to needy children. Yet, there are
27,000 children dying daily from malnutrition
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