History of Christian Missions from the Reformation to the Present TimeOliver & Boyd, 1842 - 346 עמודים |
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History of Christian Missions: From the Reformation to the Present Time אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2020 |
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עמוד 248 - For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King; he will save us.
עמוד 10 - GOD be merciful unto us, and bless us ; And cause his face to shine upon us. That thy way may be known upon earth, Thy saving health among all nations.
עמוד 182 - The situation of the prisoners was now distressing beyond description. It was at the commencement of the hot season. There were above a hundred prisoners shut up in one room, without a breath of air excepting from the cracks in the boards. I sometimes obtained permission to go to the door for five minutes, when my heart sickened at the wretchedness exhibited. The white prisoners, from incessant perspiration and loss of appetite, looked more like the dead than the living. I made daily applications...
עמוד 49 - Have you any Methodists, Seceders, or Independents there?" "No, no!" "Why who have you there?" "We don't know those names here. All who are here are Christians, believers in Christ — men who have overcome by the blood of the Lamb, and the word of his testimony.
עמוד 105 - ... almost regards him as a superior being, putting crowns and burning lights before his statue,) was purchased by some unwarrantable compromise with their prejudices. I find I was quite mistaken. He was really one of the most active and fearless (as he was one of the most successful) missionaries who have appeared since the Apostles.
עמוד 212 - Gloster, you mean," said Constance. Young Mrs Draper was watching the door, listening for Hilda's return. "Ssh," she said, at the sound of footsteps on the stairs and, to look at us, the men on one side of the room and the women on the other, silent, standing at attention, facing each other, we looked like soldiers. "Oh,
עמוד 254 - I doubt not but many, in the conclusion of the day, could say with their whole hearts, ' Verily, a day thus spent in God's house, is better than a thousand elsewhere.' There seemed to be but one heart among the pious people. The sweet union, harmony and endearing love and tenderness subsisting among them was, I thought, the most lively emblem of the heavenly world, which I had ever seen. April 28. " Concluded the sacramental solemnity with a discourse upon John xiv. 15. ' If ye love me, keep my commandments.
עמוד 255 - Happy experience, as well as the word of God, and the example of Christ and his apostles, has taught me, that the very method of preaching which is best suited to awaken in mankind a sense and lively apprehension of their depravity and misery in a fallen state, — to excite them earnestly to seek after a change of heart...
עמוד 251 - There is a cloud, a dark cloud, upon the work of the gospel, among the poor Indians. The Lord revive and prosper that- work, and grant that it may live when I am dead.
עמוד 311 - Comparing the past with the present state of the people, he said, "I was a mighty chief; the spot on which we are now assembled was by me made sacred for myself and family; large was my family, but I alone remain ; all have died in the service of Satan — they knew not this good word which I am spared to see; my heart is longing for them, and often says within me, Oh ! that they had not died so soon...