As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.

The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.

The reason why we fail to prevail with unconverted men is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the world.

The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.

The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.