Quote of the week

"The missionaries realized [that paying nationals to do the work of the ministry] would have proved a hindrance in the long run rather than a help. To pay young converts, however sincere, for making known the Gospel—and to pay them with money from foreign sources—must inevitably weaken their influence if not their Christian character. The time might come when their call of God to such a work would be evident to all, and when the Christians themselves would be ready to support them. How was China ever to be evangelized but by the Chinese [Christians]? And how were the converts ever to know the joy of unpaid, voluntary service, from love to the Lord Jesus Christ, unless the missionaries could be patient and wait for spiritual developments?" from Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret