"You must pray for me, dear, dear Brother. I cannot be blind to the fact that as yet the real responsibility of the work at home rests on me."
— Emily Blatchley
Source: Letter to Hudson Taylor from London, c. 1872-73 (A. J. Broomhall, Hudson Taylor & China's Open Century, Book 5: Refiner's Fire, p. 365; quoted in the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity)