Letter to Mr. Judson, in James B. Taylor, Memoir of Rev. Luther Rice, One of the First American Missionaries to the East (Baltimore: Armstrong and Berry, 1840), pp. 231-232

I have been lately meditating more and more on keeping the heart with all diligence. I am, I trust, more and more impressed, sweetly too, with the idea of living for heaven. O! that day by day, I could bring more and mor…