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.

Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.

If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.

Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.