James Fraser on discouragement

"I have given way to discouragement, dark discouragement far too much in the past. Now I know rather better, and thoroughly agree with the assertion, 'all discouragement is of the devil.'

      'Discouragement is to be resisted just like sin,' he continued. 'To give way to one is just as bad and weakens us as much as to give way to the other."

p81-82, Mountain Rain, The Biography of James O. Fraser

Faith and Provision

"After gaining his degree, James applied to the China Inland Mission. Everything about this society answered a chord in his heart. For one thing they never asked anyone for money, nor even seemed to mention it. No collections, no appeals, no needs advertised, yet within forty years they supported over a thousand members! The general director and the newest recruit had equal allowances. All their needs had been supplied. 'God means just what he says,' Hudson Taylor said, 'and He will do all that He has promised.'"

p10, Mountain Rain, The Biography of James O. Fraser