There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.

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.

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

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.

To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.

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.