I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

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

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.

I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.

If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.

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

I saw the duty and inestimable privilege _immediately_ to accept salvation by Christ. Humbly believing that through sovereign mercy and grace I have been enabled so to do, and having felt in some measure its effects on my still depraved and deceitful heart, it is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to his service.