The Indian missionary manual; or, Hints to young missionaries in IndiaGraves, Cookson & Company, United Scottish Press, 1864 - 456 pages |
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... never appear , directly or offensively , to impeach their character for wisdom , or judgment , or consistency . Let them gradually rise in the form of modest suggestions and gentle insinuations . Let it be seen and felt that it is the ...
... never appear , directly or offensively , to impeach their character for wisdom , or judgment , or consistency . Let them gradually rise in the form of modest suggestions and gentle insinuations . Let it be seen and felt that it is the ...
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... never knew you . " Even when the Missionary has the best ground of hope with regard to his state before God , double watchfulness is necessary in a heathen land . There is an erroneous idea that a Missionary on leaving his native ...
... never knew you . " Even when the Missionary has the best ground of hope with regard to his state before God , double watchfulness is necessary in a heathen land . There is an erroneous idea that a Missionary on leaving his native ...
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... never knew till after his decease , was hastiness of temper . Intimate as I had been with him for years , and constantly associated with him in committee , where unavoidably many things occur very trying to the temper , I had never once ...
... never knew till after his decease , was hastiness of temper . Intimate as I had been with him for years , and constantly associated with him in committee , where unavoidably many things occur very trying to the temper , I had never once ...
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... never was in a hurry . His biographer explains it . After describ- ing the work of a day , it is remarked : — " We have given this account at large , as a specimen of his exactness in redeeming the time . Those who have not been in ...
... never was in a hurry . His biographer explains it . After describ- ing the work of a day , it is remarked : — " We have given this account at large , as a specimen of his exactness in redeeming the time . Those who have not been in ...
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... never lost a minute when he could help it ; and he thus read through every volume of the Universal History ' during his periodical journeys to Calcutta on his College duties . " p . 478 . " A place for every thing and every thing in its ...
... never lost a minute when he could help it ; and he thus read through every volume of the Universal History ' during his periodical journeys to Calcutta on his College duties . " p . 478 . " A place for every thing and every thing in its ...
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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.