Romans 15:20

Not where Christ was named; his object was to preach the gospel to the destitute who had never before heard it. The ministers who go and preach the gospel to those that have never heard it, and who are successful, through the power of the Holy Ghost, in converting them to God, gathering churches, and establishing Christian institutions, are, in a high and peculiar sense, imitators of apostles, and may hope, through grace, to be distinguished partakers of their gracious and glorious reward.