All the World, Volumes 4-6Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Board of Foreign Missions., 1908 |
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Page 1 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 87 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 102 - One sounJ always comes to the ear that is open; it is the steady drum-beat of Duty. No music in it, perhaps, — only a dry rub-a-dub. Ah, but that steady beat marks the time for the whole orchestra of earth and heaven! It says to you: "Do your work, — do the duty nearest you!
Page 23 - This is a great result of the Christian spirit. To be sure, Japan had her religions, and Buddhism prospered greatly ; but this prosperity was largely through political means. Now this creed has been practically rejected by the better classes who, being spiritually thirsty, have nothing to drink.
Page 5 - It is not death to bear The wrench that sets us free From dungeon chain, — to breathe the air Of boundless liberty.
Page 9 - Hence, we, the undersigned, wish to bear testimony to the sobriety, sense of international justice, and freedom from aggressive designs exhibited by the great majority of the Japanese people and to their faith in the traditional justice and equity of the United States. Moreover, we desire to place on record our profound appreciation of the kind treatment which we experience at the hands of both government and people ; our belief that the alleged
Page 100 - Church a new world to be won for Christ. The next ten years will in all probability constitute a turning-point in human history, and may be of more critical importance in determining the spiritual evolution of mankind than many centuries of ordinary experience. If those years are wasted, havoc may be wrought that centuries are not able to repair. On the other hand, if they are rightly used they may be among the most glorious in Christian history.
Page 59 - Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
Page 9 - While we, as missionaries, have nothing to do with questions of national economics and international politics, yet in matters affecting the mutual good-will of nations, we, as messengers of God's universal Fatherhood and man's universal Brotherhood, are peculiarly interested, and, as Americans now residing in Japan, we feel bound to do all that is in our power to remove misunderstandings and suspicions which are intended to interrupt the long standing friendship between this nation and our own.
Page 28 - I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls to Christ.