The Indian missionary manual; or, Hints to young missionaries in IndiaGraves, Cookson & Company, United Scottish Press, 1864 - 456 pages |
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Page 28
... the excise re- venue has increased a hundred per cent . All over India during the most enlightened period of our rule , the number of drunkards and drug consumers has in- creased by one - half , and those who drank 28 HEALTH .
... the excise re- venue has increased a hundred per cent . All over India during the most enlightened period of our rule , the number of drunkards and drug consumers has in- creased by one - half , and those who drank 28 HEALTH .
Page 45
... rule near the surface . Burn- ing with a hot iron is another remedy . Lunar caustic may also be applied . Bleeding should be encouraged by warm water . Sucking the wound is very useful . No injury will follow to the person sucking , if ...
... rule near the surface . Burn- ing with a hot iron is another remedy . Lunar caustic may also be applied . Bleeding should be encouraged by warm water . Sucking the wound is very useful . No injury will follow to the person sucking , if ...
Page 49
... rule , are not accustomed to domestic service . Mere nominal Christians are not more honest than heathens , and sometimes drink , which the latter , as a rule , do not . Heathen servants are to be preferred to bad Christians , as they ...
... rule , are not accustomed to domestic service . Mere nominal Christians are not more honest than heathens , and sometimes drink , which the latter , as a rule , do not . Heathen servants are to be preferred to bad Christians , as they ...
Page 58
... rules empirically , are a great help ; but they are very dry , and the ordinary student is long in mastering them . The works of Bopp , Max Muller , Caldwell , and other writers , have shed a flood of light over the whole subject ...
... rules empirically , are a great help ; but they are very dry , and the ordinary student is long in mastering them . The works of Bopp , Max Muller , Caldwell , and other writers , have shed a flood of light over the whole subject ...
Page 77
... rules of caste form the standard of public opinion . It may be observed , that all the crimes committed by Nana Sahib had no effect upon his position as a Brahman . If , however , conscience - smitten , he had taken into his house a ...
... rules of caste form the standard of public opinion . It may be observed , that all the crimes committed by Nana Sahib had no effect upon his position as a Brahman . If , however , conscience - smitten , he had taken into his house a ...
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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.