Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view. Disinterested labor - benevolence - is so out of their line of thought, that many look upon us as having some ulterior object in view; but He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.

Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.

God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.

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

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that kingdom, it shall be given away or kept only in reference to whether giving or keeping will most promote the glory1 of him to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity.

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.