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1. "I have come across black men and women who remembered the only white man they ever saw before----David Livingstone; and as you cross his footsteps in that dark continent, men's faces light up as they speak of the kind Doctor who passed there years ago. They could not understand him; but they felt the Love that beat in his heart."
2. "You can take nothing greater to the heathen world than the impress and the reflection of the love of God upon your character. That is the universal language."
3. "People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa....It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege."
4. "Find preacher's of David Brainerd's spirit, and nothing can stand before them...Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man." [his biography of David Brainerd, who died of tuberculosis at 29]
5. "Cannibals Need Missionaries." poster for Africa at a C. T. Studd mtg. in England
6. "Go not to those who want you, but to those who want you most."
7. "There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience."
8. "God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician."
9. "I will go down, if you will hold the ropes." [his missions philosophy]
10. "As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!"
