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... readers , many of whom do not know or have forgotten how triumphantly they were answered once and again years ago . But what is it doing , or what has it ever done for humanity ? Why do its advo- cates never go and seek to penetrate ...
... readers , many of whom do not know or have forgotten how triumphantly they were answered once and again years ago . But what is it doing , or what has it ever done for humanity ? Why do its advo- cates never go and seek to penetrate ...
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... readers , the three great divisions of Western Africa : 1. Sene- gambia , with its two great rivers , the Senegal and the Gambia ; 2. Northern Guinea , with its various coasts , the Sierra Leone , the Grain , the Ivory , the Gold , and ...
... readers , the three great divisions of Western Africa : 1. Sene- gambia , with its two great rivers , the Senegal and the Gambia ; 2. Northern Guinea , with its various coasts , the Sierra Leone , the Grain , the Ivory , the Gold , and ...
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... reader who entertains such ideas , is this : Do civilization and its attendant blessings indeed predispose any person or any people to receive Christianity in its real power or in its actual experience ? Is not the very genius of ...
... reader who entertains such ideas , is this : Do civilization and its attendant blessings indeed predispose any person or any people to receive Christianity in its real power or in its actual experience ? Is not the very genius of ...
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step further and ask the reader to consider another question , viz . : Does civilization always or necessarily insure the moral improve ment and elevation of a people ? The Chinese are probably the most civilized of all the pagan ...
step further and ask the reader to consider another question , viz . : Does civilization always or necessarily insure the moral improve ment and elevation of a people ? The Chinese are probably the most civilized of all the pagan ...
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... reader would justly apprehend the success of Christian missions , let him consider fairly the present state of the case . 1. Many important points have been already occupied . From these points the light is radiating in all directions ...
... reader would justly apprehend the success of Christian missions , let him consider fairly the present state of the case . 1. Many important points have been already occupied . From these points the light is radiating in all directions ...
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Page 368 - Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Page 358 - He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord ; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
Page 358 - But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Page 361 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Page 174 - But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. And he arose, and departed to his house. But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.
Page 402 - But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Page 506 - For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water : whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Page 575 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Page 525 - The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents : the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down before him : all nations shall serve him.
Page 232 - And with them the being beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saintlike, Looking downward from the skies.