"God made you without you. For you gave no consent that God should make you; how could you consent when you did not exist? So He who made you without you does not justify you without you. He made you without your knowing; He justifies you with your willing. Yet it is He who justifies, lest the righteousness be your own."
— Augustine
Source: Sermon 169.11.13 (translated from the Latin, PL 38)
Salvation, Response
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"Christ crucified is all my hope, all my desire. … O that the issue of my labours may be the bringing of some poor soul to Jesus. My young brother, let the glory of God, in the salvation of souls, be the point to which all our labours tend. May we constantly keep our eye on the mark."
— Robert Morrison
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Labours of Robert Morrison (1839), vol. 1, letter of July 31, 1804, from Gosport
Salvation, Mission
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"Huang Naishang (Wong Nai Siong, 1844–1924), of Minqing, Fujian, was baptized in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1866. He later helped the missionaries translate the Bible and from 1874 was the key helper on their Chinese paper Zion's Messenger, where he wrote for smallpox vaccination and against foot-binding. In 1896 he used his own funds to launch Fubao, the first newspaper started by a Chinese in Fujian, which closed after a year for lack of money. He held his faith to the end: on his deathbed he asked his wife to hold up a picture of Christ and lay it on his chest, and he died on 22 September 1924."
— Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
Source: BDCC, "Huang Naishang" by John Barwick (bdcconline.net)
Salvation, public enlightenment, newspapers, gospel, truth, education of the people
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