User:Astynax/Miscquotes

Some random quotations, some negative, for future reference...

Another account re: John Long
"I believe that in the Templederry Mission already referred to, and probably some others of which I have scanty knowledge, John was William Irvine's sole companion, in fact, I would go the length of saying (again to John's credit) that at the time he was more forward than William in the boldness and simplicity of his faith in God to provide and sustain on line of Matthew 10, while at the same time it was equally true that John always had and still has the weakness of the "sponge-nature" for absorption, and that William's stronger and more masculine character often provided the wherewithal for John, with John never suspecting that anybody beside the Lord and himself had much to do with it, for mind you John was always, and still is, powerful in self-esteem, and regarded all that he got, whether coming through another's endeavors or not, as his own lawful and well-deserved right; but surely I have been often sorry for the separation later on, and other conditions still later on, which so far as usefulness is concerned, have left both men high and dry and stranded." (Pattison, a CC member)

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