But I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ, 'Go into all the world a…

- James Gilmour

I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.

- James Gilmour

This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a m…

- James Gilmour

This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction, and, as far as I can see, those to whom it was first delivered regarded it in that l…

- James Gilmour

To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European.

- James Gilmour

...in place of seeking a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home.

- James Gilmour

I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.

- James Gilmour

The ten days we passed there [at Ta Chêng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the abjects; but the peace of God passes all underst…

- James Gilmour

Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and f…

- James Gilmour