After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.

We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.

Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.