The Indian missionary manual; or, Hints to young missionaries in IndiaGraves, Cookson & Company, United Scottish Press, 1864 - 456 pages |
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... Catholics , 204 . NATIVE CHRISTIANS , GENERAL VIEW , ..... 204 Protestant Native Christians , Number and Distribution , 205. Original Castes , 208 . Motives for embracing Christianity , 211. Character of Converts , 216 . XIII . NATIVE ...
... Catholics , 204 . NATIVE CHRISTIANS , GENERAL VIEW , ..... 204 Protestant Native Christians , Number and Distribution , 205. Original Castes , 208 . Motives for embracing Christianity , 211. Character of Converts , 216 . XIII . NATIVE ...
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... Christians at home have very incorrect ideas of the state of things in India . They do not realize the vast extent of the field ; the individual cases of reli- gious inquiry or conviction they read of in Missionary Journals , they are ...
... Christians at home have very incorrect ideas of the state of things in India . They do not realize the vast extent of the field ; the individual cases of reli- gious inquiry or conviction they read of in Missionary Journals , they are ...
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... Native Agents and 5,000 Native Christians , has been made . over to a Missionary as soon as he landed in India . The Church Missionary Society in such a case would have given the oversight to an experienced Missionary in the ...
... Native Agents and 5,000 Native Christians , has been made . over to a Missionary as soon as he landed in India . The Church Missionary Society in such a case would have given the oversight to an experienced Missionary in the ...
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... Native Christians remark that a change some- times take place in European Missionaries as they get " acclimated . " At first they seem all love , inclined to shake hands even with a cooly ; by degrees they be- come reserved and stand ...
... Native Christians remark that a change some- times take place in European Missionaries as they get " acclimated . " At first they seem all love , inclined to shake hands even with a cooly ; by degrees they be- come reserved and stand ...
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... Christian men that this evil habit is spreading like a contagious disease among the Native Christians . So far has it already spread that many Hindus and Mahomedans regard it as almost an inevitable result of becoming Christians . It ...
... Christian men that this evil habit is spreading like a contagious disease among the Native Christians . So far has it already spread that many Hindus and Mahomedans regard it as almost an inevitable result of becoming Christians . It ...
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Page 10 - And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
Page 5 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Page 17 - Be ye angry, and sin not : let not the sun go down upon your wrath : neither give place to the devil.
Page 275 - ... they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword : they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented ; (of whom the world was not worthy :) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page 435 - Go, labor on; spend and be spent, Thy joy to do the Father's will: It is the way the Master went; Should not the servant tread it still?
Page 18 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Page 429 - Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts : for the Coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Page 435 - Men die in darkness at your side, Without a hope to cheer the tomb ; Take up the torch and wave it wide, The torch that lights time's thickest gloom.