Expounding on his personal experience when exposed to the Scriptures, he says: “I happened to meet with certain barbaric writings, too old to be compared with the opinions of the Greeks, and too divine to be compared with their errors; and I was led to put faith in these by the unpretending cast of the language, the inartificial character of the writers, the foreknowledge displayed of future events, the excellent quality of the precepts, and the declaration of the government of the universe as centered in one Being. ”
त्याच्या काळातील ख्रिस्ती धर्मात धर्मांतर करतानाच्या रंजक अहवालात टेशन असा दावा करतो: “सत्य कसे मिळवता येईल यासाठी मी धडपड केली. ”