Add to this occasional journeys, ministers’ meetings, etc., and you will rather wonder that I have any time, than that I have so little. I am not my own, nor would I choose for myself. Let God employ me where he thinks fit, and give me patience and discretion to fill up my station to his honour and glory.

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines he is to teach, and acquire a complete knowledge both of the Sacred Scriptures and of these philosophical and mythological dogmas which form the souls of the Buddhist and Hindu Systems.

I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.

The future is as bright as the promise of God.

We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.

Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.