"1807... (Robert) Morrison had been in Boston arranging passage for China because the East India Company had refused to take a missionary of any kind to the Orient. Morrison's mission had been approved by such prominent men as Mr. Madison, then Secretary of State, soon to become President..... The owner of the ship on which he was to sail had commented skeptically, 'And so, Mr. Morrison, you really expect to make an impression on the idolatry of the great Chinese empire.' To which the missionary had made his now often repeated rejoinder: 'No, sir; I expect God will.'" To the Golden Shore, Courtney Anderson
