The Indian missionary manual; or, Hints to young missionaries in IndiaGraves, Cookson & Company, United Scottish Press, 1864 - 456 pages |
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... respect to them . They consider that neophytes , who have just emerged from a heathenism which has been growing for three thousand years , far surpass in Christian character those who have been nurtured from their earliest childhood ...
... respect to them . They consider that neophytes , who have just emerged from a heathenism which has been growing for three thousand years , far surpass in Christian character those who have been nurtured from their earliest childhood ...
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... respect to outward associations must force themselves upon him . He cannot , like the mere traveller , divert his mind from such associations by observing foreign scenery and society , solacing himself meantime with a prospect of a ...
... respect to outward associations must force themselves upon him . He cannot , like the mere traveller , divert his mind from such associations by observing foreign scenery and society , solacing himself meantime with a prospect of a ...
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... respect in earlier years , for it is only private intercourse with God that can feed the soul ; and when we neglect it we are empty and starving , as the body is when deprived of its proper meal . And what is worse , sin , selfishness ...
... respect in earlier years , for it is only private intercourse with God that can feed the soul ; and when we neglect it we are empty and starving , as the body is when deprived of its proper meal . And what is worse , sin , selfishness ...
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... respect . Exposure to the Sun. - With regard to this , there is considerable difference of opinion . Some go to one ex- treme , some to another . Much depends on the consti- tution . According to the homely proverb , " one man's meat is ...
... respect . Exposure to the Sun. - With regard to this , there is considerable difference of opinion . Some go to one ex- treme , some to another . Much depends on the consti- tution . According to the homely proverb , " one man's meat is ...
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... respecting the character of the contri . butions which our mother - English has received from Anglo- Saxon and from ... respect between the Dravidian languages and the Sanskrit . The whole should be studied with great care . A few of ...
... respecting the character of the contri . butions which our mother - English has received from Anglo- Saxon and from ... respect between the Dravidian languages and the Sanskrit . The whole should be studied with great care . A few of ...
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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.