The Indian missionary manual; or, Hints to young missionaries in IndiaGraves, Cookson & Company, United Scottish Press, 1864 - 456 pages |
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... remarks , " To walk a mile in a tropical sun , with the heat reflected upon you from the ground , and burning your feet , as well as scorching you from above , will generally exhaust the power of the body , and conse- quently depress ...
... remarks , " To walk a mile in a tropical sun , with the heat reflected upon you from the ground , and burning your feet , as well as scorching you from above , will generally exhaust the power of the body , and conse- quently depress ...
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... remarks , " Such institutions are hard to regulate . There is a tendency in them to grow , and to degene- rate into mere watering places . ' Sanitaria are of chief use as prophylactic , or for recovery after illnesses not of a severe ...
... remarks , " Such institutions are hard to regulate . There is a tendency in them to grow , and to degene- rate into mere watering places . ' Sanitaria are of chief use as prophylactic , or for recovery after illnesses not of a severe ...
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... remarks by Mrs. Weitbrecht : - 66 Simplicity in dress , in household arrangements , and in our general ideas we must studiously practise . From the habits of European Society , and from various circumstances peculiar to , and ...
... remarks by Mrs. Weitbrecht : - 66 Simplicity in dress , in household arrangements , and in our general ideas we must studiously practise . From the habits of European Society , and from various circumstances peculiar to , and ...
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... remarks , which we should guard against allowing them any opportunity to do . I have often observed that some things which startle us in others on our arrival , become eventually rather too familiar , and we are in danger of forgetting ...
... remarks , which we should guard against allowing them any opportunity to do . I have often observed that some things which startle us in others on our arrival , become eventually rather too familiar , and we are in danger of forgetting ...
Page 56
... a very perfunctory manner and I must confess , that my own observations have abundantly confirmed the truth of his remark . A man soon be- gins to feel the enervating effects of a tropical climate 56 STUDY OF THE VERNACULARS .
... a very perfunctory manner and I must confess , that my own observations have abundantly confirmed the truth of his remark . A man soon be- gins to feel the enervating effects of a tropical climate 56 STUDY OF THE VERNACULARS .
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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.