One Evangelical Idea

"I never think of my visit to you," writes Andrew Fuller to Dr. Chalmers, "but with pleasure. After parting with you, I was struck with the importance that may attach to a single mind receiving an evangelical impression. I knew Carey the missionary when he made shoes for the maintenance of his family, yet even then his mind had received an evangelical stamp, and his heart burned incessantly with desire for the salvation of the heathen; even then he had acquired a considerable acquaintance with Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and French; and why? Because his mind was filled with the idea of being some day a translator of the word of God into the languages of those who sit in darkness; even then he had drawn out a map of the world with sheets of paper pasted together with shoemaker's wax, and the moral state of every nation depicted with his pen."