The Indian missionary manual; or, Hints to young missionaries in IndiaGraves, Cookson & Company, United Scottish Press, 1864 - 456 pages |
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... attended with peculiar diffi- culties . Want of time prevents the Compiler from giving a list of Errata , which he regrets are numerous . At page 17 , line 29 , for other , " substitute " several ; " " Everts , " page 19 , should be ...
... attended with peculiar diffi- culties . Want of time prevents the Compiler from giving a list of Errata , which he regrets are numerous . At page 17 , line 29 , for other , " substitute " several ; " " Everts , " page 19 , should be ...
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... attended with all the natural pains and unpleasantness of an operation in moral chirurgery . ... " Clear your way well before you assume the onerous and invidious office of a reformer of the measures of your predecessors and associates ...
... attended with all the natural pains and unpleasantness of an operation in moral chirurgery . ... " Clear your way well before you assume the onerous and invidious office of a reformer of the measures of your predecessors and associates ...
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... attending to the duty you went to perform . " To stand inactive in the sun is much more injurious than to move about with the mind engaged . Proper food is a great preservative . A Missionary in Travan- core , when visiting village ...
... attending to the duty you went to perform . " To stand inactive in the sun is much more injurious than to move about with the mind engaged . Proper food is a great preservative . A Missionary in Travan- core , when visiting village ...
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... attended to and filth removed . Houses should be white- washed . Unripe fruit and other indigestible articles of food should be avoided . Heavy meals should not be taken at night . The body should not be weakened by fasting , exposure ...
... attended to and filth removed . Houses should be white- washed . Unripe fruit and other indigestible articles of food should be avoided . Heavy meals should not be taken at night . The body should not be weakened by fasting , exposure ...
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... attended on a Missionary protesting in the strongest language , and with seeming sincerity their con- tempt of idolatry and their readiness to embrace Christianity , were all the while actuated only by some sordid motive , such as the ...
... attended on a Missionary protesting in the strongest language , and with seeming sincerity their con- tempt of idolatry and their readiness to embrace Christianity , were all the while actuated only by some sordid motive , such as the ...
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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.