"It is a most blessed work. If some celestial messenger were to arrive from the court of heaven and acquaint me with the circumstance that my children would grow up to carry on my poor labours; and that they should live to be far more holy, devoted, faithful, and laborious than their parents; I would sing with good old Simeon, 'Now, Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.'"
— Samuel Dyer
Source: Letter from Malacca, 17 Sept. 1836, to his former pastor, in Evan Davies, Memoir of the Rev. Samuel Dyer (1846)