"Faith staggers not: it is the voice of God, and must therefore be received and honored. Hard things and wonderful things were proclaimed to Noah; yet did he believe the future unseen things proclaimed, and ‘moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house’ (Hebrews 11:7). Hard things and wonderful things were proclaimed to Abraham; and yet how sublimely did his faith master the difficulty! ‘He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God’ (Romans 4:20). To assail the everlasting ramparts of heathenism in India, was deemed, some sixty years ago, an enterprise of stupendous folly; but by faith Carey and his associates went down into the dark well of pagan wretchedness with the torch of salvation; by faith [Andrew] Fuller and his associates held the rope at the mouth: it was enough for their guidance that Christ had commanded, ‘Go ye into all the world’ (Mark 16:15); enough for their solace that He had promised, ‘Lo, I am with you alway’ (Matthew 28:20)."
