The Indian missionary manual; or, Hints to young missionaries in India

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Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1870 - 585 páginas
 

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Página 124 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He hath purchased with His own blood.
Página 6 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Página vi - Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
Página 543 - 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?
Página 20 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Página 11 - 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.
Página 230 - ... medical doctrines which would disgrace an English farrier, astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings thirty feet high and reigns thirty thousand years long, and geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter.
Página 543 - 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. Toil on, faint not, keep watch and pray; Be wise the erring soul to win; Go forth into the world's highway, Compel the wanderer to come in. Toil on, and in thy toil rejoice; For toil comes rest, for exile home. Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom's voice, The midnight peal, Behold, I come ! 5 tbat &i& it.
Página 100 - ... with contempt. All those arts which are the natural defence of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according to the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee.
Página 82 - The terms for God, for house, for father, mother, son, daughter, for dog and cow, for heart and tears, for axe and tree, identical in all the Indo-European idioms, are like the watchwords of soldiers.

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