If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.

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 am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

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

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.