Occupation: Missionary Birth: May 21, 1832 Death: June 3, 1905
Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people..
As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever ….
Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do..
To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, Come to me and rest. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same inv….
Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change..
God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness..
I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God's arms like a little child, and trust..
So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much grace; in circumstances of gr….
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me..
If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan..
Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference...instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weak….
The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross..
All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them..
Are you in a hurry, flurried, distressed? Look up! See the Man in the Glory! Let the face of Jesus shine upon you—the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. ….
I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me..
The Lord IS my shepherd. Not was, not may be, nor will be. . . is my shepherd on Sunday, is on Monday, and is through every day of the week; is in Ja….
Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there..
Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone.
Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it..
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….
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency..