Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray
Overview
Robert Jaffray was a missionary statesman of the early 20th century who turned his back on wealth and power to serve in China. He helped open French Indochina to The Christian and Missionary Alliance, an evangelical Protestant denomination that began as two separate organizations to promote a higher Christian life and to mobilize Christians in the work of foreign missionary efforts. Jaffray stayed in Wuzhou, China for 35 years where his keen administrating, voluminous writing and incessant strategizing made him a natural leader. He was arrested in 1942 by the Japanese during WWII and was kept in internment camps until he died in 1945 from illness and malnutrition. In this biography of Jaffray, Tozer’s aim was to “capture the spirit of Jaffray, to present him as a real human being.”
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Product Details
- Title: Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray
- Author: A. W. Tozer
- Publisher: WingSpread
- Publication Date: 1990
- Pages: 141
About A. W. Tozer
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897-1963) was born on a small farm in what is now Newburg, PA. His family moved to Akron, Ohio, when he was just a young boy. At the age of 17, Tozer heard a street preacher, responded to the calling of Christ, and began his lifelong pursuit of God. After becoming an active witness of Jesus as a lay preacher, he joined The Christian and Missionary Alliance and was soon serving as the pastor of West Virginia’s Alliance Church, in 1919. He transferred to the Southside Alliance Church in Chicago in 1928, and his ministry continued there for 31 years. During that time he preached on the Moody Bible Institute’s radio station. In the 1940s Tozer was invited to speak at Wheaton College, and seldom a year passed after World War II that he didn’t preach in the college’s Pierce Chapel. In 1950 he became the editor of The Alliance Life magazine and served in that capacity until his death.
Self-taught, with no formal Bible training, Tozer has been called a twentieth-century prophet within his own lifetime. Through years of diligent study and constant prayer, he sought the mind of God. A master craftsman in the use of the English language, he was able to write in a simple, cogent style the principles of truth he had learned. For Tozer, “there was no substitute for knowing God firsthand.” He wrote many of his books with one idea in mind—that his reader would achieve the heart’s true goal in God and maintain that relationship with Him.
Tozer moved to Toronto in 1959 and spent the final years of his life as the pastor of Avenue Road Church. He and his wife, Ada, lived a simple, non-materialistic lifestyle and let much of the royalties from his books go to those in need. The Tozers had seven children, six boys and one girl. James L. Snyder, said of Tozer that his “preaching as well as his writings were but extensions of his prayer life. He had the ability to make his listeners face themselves in the light of what God was saying to them.”
Top Highlights
“Our work is not to try to improve the social conditions of the people of Egypt, but to call them out of Egypt and into a new life.” (Page 6)
“‘To be a great soul winner,’ Simpson replied, ‘a man must first be a great lover.’” (Pages 32–33)
“years. Too often it has confused pure Christianity with Christianity as modified by a particular culture.” (Page 38)
“This mental habit of making the Scriptures mean some present-day and identifiable person or city or island was a marked feature of the workers who came at Jaffray’s call to carry the gospel to the Dutch East Indies. They all caught it from Jaffray. Every danger they faced, every opposition they met, every hardship they suffered could be accounted for by referring to the Word of God.” (Page 102)
“In spite of the blitz-like speed of advance, he never fell into the error of believing he had done the Lord’s work merely by announcing the gospel and moving on. He would not leave the new Christians to fall back into their old ways. Wherever a few converts were made a church must be formed; gains must be consolidated.” (Page 64)
- Title: Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray
- Author: A. W. Tozer
- Publisher: WingSpread
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Jaffray, Robert Alexander, 1873-1945; Christian and Missionary Alliance › Missions
- ISBNs: 9780875094274, 0875094279
- Resource ID: LLS:LETMYPPLGO
- Resource Type: text.monograph.biography
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:09:25Z
A. W. Tozer (1897–1963) was a dynamic preacher, prolific writer, and a no-nonsense man of God. Aiden Wilson Tozer responded to the call of Christ at the age of 17. After becoming an active witness of Jesus as a lay preacher, he joined The Christian and Missionary Alliance and was soon serving as the pastor of West Virginia’s Alliance Church.
In 1928, he transferred to the Southside Alliance Church in Chicago where he served for 31 years. During that time he preached on the Moody Bible Institute’s radio station and was often invited to speak at Wheaton College in Pierce Chapel. Tozer spent the final years of his life as the pastor of Avenue Road Church in Toronto and the editor of The Alliance Life magazine.
Tozer authored over 40 books, including The Attributes of God, Volume One, Tozer on Christian Leadership, We Travel an Appointed Way, The Pursuit of God, and God’s Pursuit of Man.