General Charles Gordon ndash served Queen Victoria in China and elsewhere but when living in England he rsquo d give away percent of his income When he heard about a famine in Lancashire he scratched off the inscription from a pure gold medal he rsquo d received from a world leader and sent it up north saying they should melt it down and use the money to buy bread for the poor That day he wrote in his diary ldquo The last earthly thing I had in this world that I valued I have given to the Lord Jesus rdquo [... more]