“Seek one elsewhere than in me, St. John: seek one fitted to you.”

“One fitted to my purpose, you mean — fitted to my vocation. Again I tell you it is not the insignificant private individual — the mere man, with the man’s selfish senses — I wish to mate: it is the missionary.”

“And I will give the missionary my energies — it is all he wants — but not myself: that would be only adding the husk and shell to the kernel.

For them he has no use: I retain them.”

“You cannot — you ought not. Do you think God will be satisfied with half an oblation? Will He accept a mutilated sacrifice? It is the cause of God I advocate: it is under His standard I enlist you. I cannot accept on His behalf a divided allegiance: it must be entire.”