Patience in Doing Good

When we remember that the missionaries labored five years in Orissa, fifteen in Greenland, sixteen in Tahiti, and seventeen in New Zealand, before they saw any of the heathen converted to Jesus, and then gathered a rich harvest of precious souls, we need not, and indeed must not, despond. "Behold," says James, "the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath Long Patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient/" for "in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."