“For my own part I would rather live in the lowliest hut with the enjoyment of God than in the most resplendent palace on earth without a hope of heaven….I tremble for myself when I contemplate the solemn relationship which I bear to those of my fellow-creatures about me. We either attract by our consistent and Christian deportment, or we repel by unbecoming behavior and indifference for their spiritual welfare.” — John Leighton Wilson, in a letter to his sister dated Feb. 27, 1831, found in Hampden C. DuBose, Memoirs of Rev. John Leighton Wilson, D.D., Missionary to Africa, and Secretary of Foreign Missions (1895), p. 35.