Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.

When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.

It matters not how great the pressure is, only where the pressure lies. As long as the pressure does not come between me and my Savior, but presses me to Him, then the greater the pressure, the greater my dependence upon Him.

In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon.

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.