There is a Ruler above, and His Providence guides all things. He is our Friend and has plenty of work for all His people to do. It is such a blessing and a privilege to be led into His work instead of into the service of the hard taskmasters - the Devil and sin.

Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

Anywhere, provided it be forward-- farther still farther into the night.

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant.

Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!

It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.