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"Were there no hereafter, my dying breath should praise him for giving me a heart decidedly for him and his glorious cause on earth."

"A good workman in the gospel lays his work well together.... Our discourses should hang as it were in a link or chain. When we name a text we should not take our farewell of it, as too many do, and not return to it again in our whole discourse. But we should closely follow the scope and design of the Spirit of God in that text..."

"The darkness of a material prison is nothing to the darkness of a spiritual one, material chains to spiritual chains. Deprivation of the body's liberty is not to be compared to the soul's being shut up from God." 56

"The mariner in a storm will cast all over-board to lighten his ship and save his life. Oh this world will sink you in an hour of temptation, if it lieth too near your hearts. Cast away all, shake off all, rather than lose a Christ, and an immortal soul, which once lost is irrecoverable." -Collins

"The fact that every letter of Paul begins and ends with mention of divine grace highlights the centrality of charis in the Christian life." 78-79

"O, when will the Sun of righteousness shine on my soul without cessation or intermission?"

"A Christian's heart ought to be as comprehensive as the universe. The Asiatic, the American, and the African, as well as the European, have a claim on your philanthropy." -Pearce

William Ward speaking of Samuel Pearce, "It is impossible to doubt the truth of experimental religion, if you are acquainted with Pearce."

"All things come to us through Christ Jesus: he is the golden pipe of the conduit of eternal love, the window through which grace shines, the door by which it enters." 69, C.H. Spurgeon

"David is able to bring healing and hope to his own land by being willing to suffer for his own people and by building an altar for sacrifice on the future site of the temple. David and his house -- understood in both senses -- are the key to the future of Israel and also of the nations." 147

"Brother Swain, you preach Christ sweetly, but remember if you are successful it must be by the blessing of the Holy Ghost." Samuel Pearce

"Created order leads to descendants who exercise dominion." 103

Referencing Exodus 15:16-17 "The goal of Exodus is thus the building of the Edenic sanctuary so that the Lord can dwell with his people, just as he once was Yahweh Elohim to the first human beings." 100

At the beginning of Israel’s history, then, is the fundamental fact that it has been made for the benefit of the world. Israel’s calling is fundamentally missiological; its purpose for existence is the restoration of the world to its pre-Edenic state. 76

(Referencing man being placed in the garden) For human beings to function as the image of God they need a territory, a domain to rule over. And to have the land without human beings is also pointless, for the kingdom needs a king, the dominion a dynasty. 62

How many pastors would return to a former site of ministry and try to contact all of the most difficult people? .... Tom did not even glimpse that his choice of whom to visit on that trip through Drummondivlle served as dramatic witness to the pastoral heart God had given him. 117

"The pastor again preached from 1 P. 5, this time about resisting the devil. His message was sober, good, but missed the text.... The message was true, but had nothing to do with the text." An entry from Tom Carson's journal, 105

But although the zest for challenges had dissipated and the joy of the Lord peeped through only intermittently, not once is there a suggestion that he missed his calling or that he wished to abandon ministry in francophone Canada. 77