it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.

I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me.

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.

Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.

The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that - if it is only arranging a window blind!

If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.