I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been.

How many million more souls are to pass into eternity without having heard the name of Jesus?

It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have met in no land.

A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: “Go.”

Why this strange indifferences to missions? Why these scant contributions? Why does money fail to be forthcoming when approved men and women are asking to be sent to proclaim the “unsearchable riches of Christ” to the heathen?

I would I had a thousand lives that I might give them to ... China!

I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done.