On December 31, 1988, the apocryphal story was featured in the popular devotional Our Daily BreadBible.org. The anecdote was likely developed from a sentence in an early biography of Borden by Mary Geraldine Guinness Taylor:"Had not his prayer from childhood been that the will of God should be done in his life? There was no shrinking now... What if, for himself too, the call had come? No reserve, no retreat, no regrets had any place in Borden's consecration to God." Taylor, Borden of Yale (China Inland Mission, 1926), 260.
