To What Purpose? Biography of Emil Fischbacher, Missionary to China

Sixteen months after arriving in China, Dr. Emil Fischbacher was dead, his life apparently cut short just as it began.
Yet the story that follows is anything but wasted.
From the chaos of wartime China to a perilous motor journey across the Gobi Desert toward Chinese Turkestan, Fischbacher’s brief course on the mission field is marked by courage, prayer, and costly love. Through letters and first-hand accounts, you will meet a young physician whose ambitions were surrendered, whose comforts were refused, and whose days were poured out for souls.
His final months in the distant outpost of Tihwa brought crushing medical need, impossible demands, and relentless labor, until he collapsed and, within days, went home to be with the Lord.
Mark 14:4 asks whether such a life is waste. Christ’s answer is clear. Faithfulness to Him is never wasted.
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(0:00) Introduction and Dedication
(1:51) Foreword
(4:56) 1 - An Introduction to China
(10:33) 2 - It Might Have Been
(23:28) 3 - The Language School
(38:41) 4 - A School of Patience
(55:37) 5 - Crossing the Gobi Desert
(1:38:30) 6 - Chinese Turkestan
(1:49:27) 7 - Last Letters
(2:11:58) 8 - Faithful unto Death
(2:14:07) 9 - To What Purpose?
(2:27:01) Epilogue