The Indian missionary manual; or, Hints to young missionaries in IndiaGraves, Cookson & Company, United Scottish Press, 1864 - 456 pages |
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Page 4
... true that very difficult ideas prevail in the East amongst worldly Europeans . One of the first lessons which an " old Indian " seeks to impress upon a griffin , as they sit together after dinner , with cheroots and brandy and water ...
... true that very difficult ideas prevail in the East amongst worldly Europeans . One of the first lessons which an " old Indian " seeks to impress upon a griffin , as they sit together after dinner , with cheroots and brandy and water ...
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... true virtue . Let the Missionary walk with God . The Bible should be the chief book for devotional study . Next to it will proba- bly be a good selection of Hymns . There are many practical works which may be read in portions , as those ...
... true virtue . Let the Missionary walk with God . The Bible should be the chief book for devotional study . Next to it will proba- bly be a good selection of Hymns . There are many practical works which may be read in portions , as those ...
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... true religion . He is likely to do best as a Missionary who feeds his own soul well with the bread and water of life , and as regularly as the poor , mortal body is fed . " Memoir , p . 518 . Love to Man - This is the great key to the ...
... true religion . He is likely to do best as a Missionary who feeds his own soul well with the bread and water of life , and as regularly as the poor , mortal body is fed . " Memoir , p . 518 . Love to Man - This is the great key to the ...
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... true noblemen were , like the Marquis of Hastings , or men of talent , like Sir Thomas Munro or Sir John Malcolm . The natives remarked of one of the greatest and most heroic Englishmen that ever landed in India , that he would return ...
... true noblemen were , like the Marquis of Hastings , or men of talent , like Sir Thomas Munro or Sir John Malcolm . The natives remarked of one of the greatest and most heroic Englishmen that ever landed in India , that he would return ...
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... true , as has been observed , that this cannot be the simple love of approbation or complacency . A Missionary cannot be blind to the defects in the character of the people of India . His love , to a large extent , must be the love of ...
... true , as has been observed , that this cannot be the simple love of approbation or complacency . A Missionary cannot be blind to the defects in the character of the people of India . His love , to a large extent , must be the love 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.