If ever there was missionary ground in America, it is there.
I cannot understand just why the call comes to me to go to a place and take up work that, in many ways, is so distasteful to me.

In one sense I shrink from it with a sensitiveness which no one except my wife and you could understand.

You know what an almost ridiculous excess of sensibility I have.

It seems sometimes impossible for me to do the work that the active ministry of this age demands of a man.

It almost kills me to know that I am criticised for all that I say and do.