"To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! … Henceforth: For me to live is Christ. To die is gain."
— C.T. Studd
Source: The Chocolate Soldier, or Heroism — The Lost Chord of Christianity
One life, Christ, forever
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"He had no brilliant linguistic gifts and he did not set out to master the many languages of the trade-routes, but to make himself intelligible in as many of them as possible. He went up to Sinkiang with a working knowledge of Chinese, and his first stay in Kashgar afforded him an opportunity for a good start in the Turki language. Life among the nomads taught him to make himself understood in Mongol and in Qazaq."
— Mildred Cable & Francesca French (biographers)
Source: George Hunter: Apostle of Turkestan (1948), ch. 11
"Montagu Harry Proctor-Beauchamp was one of the "Cambridge Seven," who in 1885 went to China as missionaries with the China Inland Mission. Evacuated from China in 1900 because of the Boxer uprising, he returned in 1902; back in England from 1911, he served as a British Army chaplain and as Vicar of Monkton Combe in Somerset. His son became a second-generation missionary in China; in 1935 he himself returned to China, and in 1939 he died at his son's mission station in Paoning (Langzhong), where he was buried in the cemetery of St John's Cathedral."
"Beware of the bad habit of looking at yourself and saying, "But I am so weak." That is not humility, you know. Humility has done with self. It is occupied with Christ; it is occupied with facts. I believe that it is dishonouring to God, to Christ, to be talking about ourselves at all. "Not I, but Christ.""
— D. E. Hoste
Source: D. E. Hoste, "The Grace of God," in Phyllis Thompson, D. E. Hoste: "A Prince with God" (London: China Inland Mission, 1947), Selected Writings, p. 203
Holy Spirit, vessel, scaffold, glory
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"William Cassels (1858–1925), one of the “Cambridge Seven,” sailed for China in 1885 and was consecrated first Bishop in Western China in 1895. His biographer records that he was a profound believer in prayer, setting special times for intercession from his first entry into Szechwan; a colleague of twenty years said that in listening to his prayers one learned how much at home he was in the Secret Place—“there was a holy intimacy in his praying.” Around 1899 the pressure of work became almost overwhelming, and Mrs. Cassels wrote of her fears that he would break down."
— Marshall Broomhall (biographer)
Source: Marshall Broomhall, W. W. Cassels, First Bishop in Western China (1926), pp. 209, 358
Missionaries, souls, strength, morning
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"As this was the first time I had met a man of his stamp, I was dumb, and felt that his religious experience was not only much earlier than mine, but possessed a depth which astonished me. … I never saw him again, but have always felt that he, if not a Christian, was at any rate not far from the Kingdom of God."
— Timothy Richard
Source: Timothy Richard, Forty-Five Years in China: Reminiscences (1916), ch. II “Early Years in China”, §12 “Visit to Salt Manufacturer, perhaps a Lost Nestorian”, pp. 48–49