How important is it that I should be in a peculiar manner devoted to God, and dead to the world! I shall need a large supply of the grace of the Gospel, and of the consolations of religion, to support me amid the numberless trials of a Missionary life. When dangers stand thick around, and the world is utterly incapable of affording me the least solid comfort—what will sustain me but entire confidence in God as my shield, my only sure defence? O my Father! let a sense of thy love to my soul influence me to yield implicit obedience to thy commands; and while this love is constraining me to walk in the path which thou hast selected for me, may thy grace be sufficient for me: as my day is, so may my strength be.
Harriet Newell — Memoirs of Mrs. Harriet Newell, Wife of the Rev. S. Newell, American Missionary to India, new ed., revised (London: John Mason, 1833), entry dated Oct. 13, 1811, pp. 105-106
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