The Indian missionary manual; or, Hints to young missionaries in IndiaGraves, Cookson & Company, United Scottish Press, 1864 - 456 pages |
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... better how plans should be carried on than those who have laboured twenty years . Re- commendations from young men , tendered in an offen- sive manner , are apt to provoke the retort , " Tarry at Jericho till your beards be grown . " Mr ...
... better how plans should be carried on than those who have laboured twenty years . Re- commendations from young men , tendered in an offen- sive manner , are apt to provoke the retort , " Tarry at Jericho till your beards be grown . " Mr ...
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... better to go slow than to go wrong ..... Should time reveal any of those errors or mistakes , into which precipitancy is sure to hurry the stranger , correc- tion will be an easy work when neither credit nor character has been publicly ...
... better to go slow than to go wrong ..... Should time reveal any of those errors or mistakes , into which precipitancy is sure to hurry the stranger , correc- tion will be an easy work when neither credit nor character has been publicly ...
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... better than Cure . - During the last thirty years the death - rate among European troops in India has diminished about one - half . This improve- ment is mainly due to more attention to sanitary mea- sures . A few directions may be ...
... better than Cure . - During the last thirty years the death - rate among European troops in India has diminished about one - half . This improve- ment is mainly due to more attention to sanitary mea- sures . A few directions may be ...
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... better to increase the number of meals and make each light ; but many Europeans eat often and each meal is heavy . An excess of animal food is especially injurious . Pork is to be entirely avoided . The very sight will be an abomination ...
... better to increase the number of meals and make each light ; but many Europeans eat often and each meal is heavy . An excess of animal food is especially injurious . Pork is to be entirely avoided . The very sight will be an abomination ...
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... better chance have we of avoiding sickness ; and the more slowly and gradually we devi- ate from this afterwards , so much the more retentive will we be of that invaluable blessing , health . Such is the opinion of Dr. James Johnson ...
... better chance have we of avoiding sickness ; and the more slowly and gradually we devi- ate from this afterwards , so much the more retentive will we be of that invaluable blessing , health . Such is the opinion of Dr. James Johnson ...
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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.