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The future is a bright as the promises of God.
Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.
I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.
God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.
God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.
Believe in the doctrine of perfect sanctification attainable in this life.
We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.
No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.
See the hand of God in all events, and thereby become reconciled to His dispensations.
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.
It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.
I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.
Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'
Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
I never realized what a great privilege it is to be able to use the voice for Christ until I was deprived of it.
Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.
I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.
If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.
A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.
Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion.
When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.
O, my past years in Rangoon are spectres to haunt my soul; and they seem to laugh at me as they shake the chains they have riveted on me.
On thee, Jesus, all our hopes depend. In thee all power is vested, even power to make sinful creatures instrumental in enlightening the heathen.
If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.
If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.
A person employed in direct missionary work among the natives, especially if his employ is somewhat itinerant, can easily make long and interesting journals.
Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.
Perhaps the secret of living a holy life is to avoid every thing which will displease God and grieve the Spirit, and to be strictly attentive to the means of grace.
A mission to Rangoon we had been accustomed to regard with feelings of horror. But it was now brought to a point. We must either venture there or be sent to Europe.
I have considered the subject of missions nearly a year and have found my mind gradually tending to a deep conviction that it is my duty personally to engage in this service.
God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.
There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, or nigban, is an evil - a fearful evil. A happy future existence is alone good.
For many years, the work advanced but slowly. One denomination after another embarked in the undertaking; and now, American missionaries are seen in almost every land and every clime.
I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.
My prospects for life, though in a measure shaded with uncertainty, hardship and danger, are very animating and bright. My prospects for another life, blessed be God, are still brighter.
The Israelites frequently forsook God, and he as frequently forsook them. But when they repented and returned to him, he remembered his covenant and delivered them from their distresses.
There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.
While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.
Ah-rah-han, the first Buddhist apostle of Burma, under the patronage of King Anan-ra-tha-men-zan, disseminated the doctrines of atheism and taught his disciples to pant after annihilation as the supreme good.
We had never before seen a place where European influence had not contributed to smooth and soften the rough features of uncultivated nature. The prospect of Rangoon, as we approached, was quite disheartening.
There can be no doubt that the blessing, of which believers are heirs, is justification by faith; and that the promise, according to which they are heirs of this blessing, is the gospel promise made to Abraham.
The places chosen for the administration of the ordinance, and the circumstances attending those instances, in which the act of baptizing is particularly described in the New Testament, plainly indicate immersion.
We should naturally expect that the baptism of infants, if enjoined at all, would have been enjoined in the law which instituted the ordinance of Christian baptism. But this law is silent on the subject of infants.
Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.