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The highest service demands the greatest sacrifice, but it secures the fullest blessing and the greatest fruitfulness.
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(J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 15-16.)

 

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