The Indian missionary manual; or, Hints to young missionaries in IndiaGraves, Cookson & Company, United Scottish Press, 1864 - 456 pages |
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... labour upwards of forty years in India , enjoying excellent health . Season for Landing . The frightful mortality among European troops in the East some years ago , was due partly to their being despatched without the slightest ...
... labour upwards of forty years in India , enjoying excellent health . Season for Landing . The frightful mortality among European troops in the East some years ago , was due partly to their being despatched without the slightest ...
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... labour hard , whether their labour be for the State or for private interests and to enable English blood and English lungs to be invigorated by a more congenial atmosphere than the debili- tating vapours or parching winds of Hindoostan ...
... labour hard , whether their labour be for the State or for private interests and to enable English blood and English lungs to be invigorated by a more congenial atmosphere than the debili- tating vapours or parching winds of Hindoostan ...
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... labour should have any thing to do with English for a year and a half , even though he be appointed a teacher to one of the English colleges . He should be requested to spend his first year and a half entirely in * Proceedings , p . 36 ...
... labour should have any thing to do with English for a year and a half , even though he be appointed a teacher to one of the English colleges . He should be requested to spend his first year and a half entirely in * Proceedings , p . 36 ...
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lighten much the labours of the learner . The aid may be compared to furnishing a stranger in London with a map of the city . The young Missionary may begin with Max Muller's " Science of Language , " if he has not previously studi- ed ...
lighten much the labours of the learner . The aid may be compared to furnishing a stranger in London with a map of the city . The young Missionary may begin with Max Muller's " Science of Language , " if he has not previously studi- ed ...
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... labour know in reality hardly anything of the idiomatic colloquial , which , after all , is nearly all that most of them will want , and without which they can hardly expect to do any good ! ” * It is necessary to mix much with the ...
... labour know in reality hardly anything of the idiomatic colloquial , which , after all , is nearly all that most of them will want , and without which they can hardly expect to do any good ! ” * It is necessary to mix much with the ...
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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.