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.

I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.

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

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

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.

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.

The future is a bright as the promises of God.