"With a Bible and a Press posterity will see that a my. will not labour in vain even in India. There is a time to break down, a time to sow, and a time to reap."--Stennett, Samuel: Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. William Ward, London: J. Haddon., 1825, p. 81.
"A city is not illuminated by filling abundantly with light in a single house, or even a small street therein, but by distributing light through all its principal parts. To enlighten India effectually, the Scriptures must be given in the dialects of its different provinces."--Carey, W., et al.: Seventh Memoir Respecting the Translations of the Sacred Scriptures into the Languages of India conducted by the Bretheren at Serampore, Serampore: Mission Press, 1820, p. 13.
"William Milne felt that learning Chinese required "bodies of iron, lungs of brass, heads of oak, hands of spring steel, eyes of eagles, hearts of apostles, memories of angels, and lives of Methuselah."34"-- 34 Quoted in Taylor, Howard: Hudson Taylor in Early Years: the Growth of a Soul, London: China Inland Mission, 1930, p. 86.
