If you knew the satisfaction of performing such a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel, in being chosen for so noble, so sacred a calling, you would have no hesitation in embracing it.

I view the end of the geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise.

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

There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.

Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.

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

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.