"If I mistake not Christ is deeply in earnest to have the good news of his salvation proclaimed in all the earth. His heralds mist be ever advancing. As has been said, there must soon be a pushing out of the fields of India, especially from the less productive ones, into the reigns beyond. The attention will be turned to those mountains about Assam, particularly to the pass into Central Assai and western China, shall we American Baptist cultivate these rich new fields convenient to us, where God has in His providence placed us, into which He, as it were bids us enter? Or shall we blind ourselves to the sign of the time and miss our opportunity? Lets us go forward and plant the banner of the cross on all these hills and make them voice the praises of our Master and King"

( Rev. E.W. Clark on 'Gospel Destitution about Assam,' 1886)