Our 4th episode About MOSES ORIMOLADE may seem so short, but kindly note that as short as it is, therein are some insightful lessons pointing to the fact that, LIFE itself is challenge-driven; whoever you are does not amount to you NOT HAVING LIFE CHALLENGES, and these will in turn, prepare you ahead of so many great feats ahead.
Here is an account of our MOSES ORIMOLADE was Confined by Illness.
A more independent account of this was given by Rev. E. S. Sodeinde of the African Church in a speech he read at the funeral of Orimolade on October 19, 1933.
According to Sodeinde, Orimolade was stricken by an undisclosed disease and the illness became so serious that his people abandoned him, expecting him to die. But in a dream he was assured that he would recover if he would take water drawn from a nearby stream.
This done, he began to gradually recover until he could walk again [17] but he remained a lame man for the rest of his life and, according to Phillips, he used an umbrella stick for support.
From all these accounts, we can safely conclude that Orimolade actually suffered from an illness which paralyzed him and rendered him immobile for seven years. The popular view is that he refused the advice of his friends to seek medical aid during his illness. We can also assume that it was during this period that he made far-reaching decisions about his evangelistic life.
The period spent in confinement therefore represented Orimolade’s training and preparation for his missionary work.
At the end of it he was fully equipped to begin in earnest the task for which he had been ordained.
For the next five years Orimolade travelled from place to place, like St. Paul in the Bible, preaching with great zeal the gospel of Christ.
Many miracles of healing were credited to him all to God's GLORY during this period. He finally arrived and settled in Lagos where the C & S was later founded.
EPISODE 5 and 6 come up shortly.
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