Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.
In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.
There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.
Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.
If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.
If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?