William Whiting Borden

==Apocryphal anecdote== 
According to an oft-repeated anecdote, following Borden's death, his mother found in his Bible the words "No Reserve" and a date suggesting it had been written shortly after he had renounced his fortune in favor of missions. Later he was said to have written "No Retreat," after his father supposedly told him that he would never hold a position in the family business. Finally, shortly before he died in Egypt, he is supposed to have added the phrase "No Regrets." There is no evidence for the historicity of this anecdote. If Borden ever wrote those words in a Bible, the Bible has not been discovered.<ref name=Casper/><ref>On December 31, 1988, the apocryphal story was featured in the popular devotional ''[[Our Daily Bread (devotional)|Our Daily Bread]]''  [https://bible.org/illustration/no-reserves%E2%80%94no-retreats%E2%80%94no-regrets Bible.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.</ref>