Numbers 34:2. “Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, ‘When ye come into the land of Canaan; (‘this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:’)”
THIS IS THE LAND. My inheritance started on father’s side when Emma Caroline Brown was saved as a girl. At 16 when she was at Plymouth, England listening to Robert Chapman preach the Gospel, she came to Christ. Then the man she married, Henry Goff from near Stratford was saved. On mother’s side David Scott was saved at 13 in Ireland when James Campbell was preaching. Nellie Rouse was saved as a young woman near Barrie, Ontario.
My father, Ralph Barnes Goff, was saved at the age of 21 under the preaching of Fred Elliott of Portland, Oregon at the Thatcher hall. My mother, Margaret Esther Hope Scott was saved at 17 after listening to Mr. Chowner preach the Gospel in Vancouver, BC.
I was saved under the preaching of L.K. McIlwaine and Sydney Maxwell at Hillsboro, Oregon at the age of
13. Linda was saved at the age of 7, in St. John’s, Newfoundland while speaking to her father, Albert Barbour who had not long been saved under the preaching of Herb Harris and Douglas Howard.
Lael Campbell, our oldest daughter, wife of David Campbell now living in Calgary, Alberta, was saved at St. John’s Newfoundland when she was 9 after attending meetings during the summer. She was talking with her mother, Linda, when she accepted Christ. Alison VandeKraak, our youngest daughter, wife of Wayne VandeKraak, was saved at the age of 8, after a Gospel meeting in St. John’s, Newfoundland, when she was talking to me.
Douglas George Campbell, our oldest grandson, was saved in Calgary, Alberta at the age of 10, while talking to his father, David. Our oldest granddaughter, Hilary Margaret Campbell, was saved when she was 8 years old after a Sunday School class in Calgary, Alberta. Gabriella Louise Ortiz VandeKraak was saved at the age of 10, while talking to her father, Wayne in Sherwood, Oregon. Two young grandsons, Gregory Campbell was saved as young boy in Calgary and Campbell VandeKraak recognizes the Lord Jesus Christ as the only way to heaven. I believe he will be truly assured of salvation when he is old enough to understand the Gospel.
All of this family line has been saved as a result of being given the inheritance of a clear Gospel presentation. We have inherited the land of promise and look to a bright future because of our God bringing us into this path of blessing. This land of spiritual plenty has been given to us for an inheritance and I pray that right through the generations yet to come, if the Lord tarries, we will continue to appreciate, claim and live in this land of God’s grace and favor. We do not deserve it but we are very grateful for it and give God all the thanks and glory.
“O God of all grace, and Father of all that believe in Jesus: this land of blessing I live in with my family is full of all pleasant fruits. The joy brought because of dutiful grandparents, faithful loving parents, of a wife who is a woman of grace and vital spiritual life, of thankful children who respect their parents, of grandchildren who will take time to talk to grandpa – is so much more than I deserve. I give Thee thanks, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”