The Fortune Poured Out in Cairo
In 1912, William Borden walked away from a fortune worth roughly sixteen million dollars. The twenty-five-year-old heir to the Borden dairy empire had graduated from...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on John 12:1-8.
In 1912, William Borden walked away from a fortune worth roughly sixteen million dollars. The twenty-five-year-old heir to the Borden dairy empire had graduated from Yale, turned down every lucrative offer extended to him, and booked passage to Egypt as the first leg of a journey to minister among Muslims in China's Gansu Province. His friends were bewildered. His family's social circle whispered what Judas Iscariot had said centuries earlier in Bethany — what a waste.…
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