The Martyr of Erromanga: Or, The Philosophy of Missions, Illustrated from the Labours, Death, and Character of the Late Rev. John WilliamsJ. Snow, 1842 - 478 pages |
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... less vengeance ! Aitutaki supplies the next illustration . When Williams first visited that island , its people presented an appalling picture of savage life . Some were tattooed all over ; others were fantastically painted with pipe ...
... less vengeance ! Aitutaki supplies the next illustration . When Williams first visited that island , its people presented an appalling picture of savage life . Some were tattooed all over ; others were fantastically painted with pipe ...
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... less bloodthirsty warriors , sitting down at the same sacramental table with the remnant of a people to whom his very name had been a terror , and whose race he had almost exterminated : thus , verifying what a speaker , at one of our ...
... less bloodthirsty warriors , sitting down at the same sacramental table with the remnant of a people to whom his very name had been a terror , and whose race he had almost exterminated : thus , verifying what a speaker , at one of our ...
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... less powerful remedy will entirely extinguish the present inducements to trade in human beings , or will afford to the inhabitants of those extensive regions a sure foundation for repose and happiness . " Christian people of England ...
... less powerful remedy will entirely extinguish the present inducements to trade in human beings , or will afford to the inhabitants of those extensive regions a sure foundation for repose and happiness . " Christian people of England ...
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... less reached by the healing hand of Christian benevolence . What then is to be done ? Parliaments and cabinets stand aghast , and mere philoso- phic philanthropy is mute ! To this question there is only one correct answer . Let the ...
... less reached by the healing hand of Christian benevolence . What then is to be done ? Parliaments and cabinets stand aghast , and mere philoso- phic philanthropy is mute ! To this question there is only one correct answer . Let the ...
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... less real than collu- sive . The common result has been the succession of one despot to another . Gunpowder has no moral power ; the bayonet and the battle - axe are slow reformers . Truly does Johnson remark , that " the wars of ...
... less real than collu- sive . The common result has been the succession of one despot to another . Gunpowder has no moral power ; the bayonet and the battle - axe are slow reformers . Truly does Johnson remark , that " the wars of ...
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Page 164 - BEHOLD, YE DESPISERS, AND WONDER, AND PERISH ; FOR I WORK A WORK' IN YOUR DAYS, A WORK WHICH YE SHALL IN NO WISE BELIEVE, THOUGH A MAN DECLARE IT UNTO YOU.
Page 129 - Thy pomp is .brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols : the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Page 149 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee ; so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Page 287 - And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
Page 294 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed ; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings...
Page 295 - Are they ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool,) I am more : in labours more abundant ; in stripes above measure ; in prisons more frequent ; in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one ; thrice was I beaten with rods ; once was I stoned...
Page 289 - For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
Page 134 - And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page 281 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season...
Page 145 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.