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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... Religion , without which the nations of Europe and all other lands had still been dwelling amid the darkness of idolatry . On departing from our world , the Mes- siah commanded his disciples to go and teach all nations ; they obeyed ...
... Religion , without which the nations of Europe and all other lands had still been dwelling amid the darkness of idolatry . On departing from our world , the Mes- siah commanded his disciples to go and teach all nations ; they obeyed ...
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... religious instructors it is the peculiar province , and it will be the special glory , to cast the mind of the juvenile millions of our race in the mould of Missions . To them it belongs to create and foster the spirit of this great ...
... religious instructors it is the peculiar province , and it will be the special glory , to cast the mind of the juvenile millions of our race in the mould of Missions . To them it belongs to create and foster the spirit of this great ...
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... religion , the utility of your not to be estimated by their earthly reward . millions of which society is composed , cannot yet appre- ciate them . Be not discouraged , however , but , with the faithful missionaries of the cross ...
... religion , the utility of your not to be estimated by their earthly reward . millions of which society is composed , cannot yet appre- ciate them . Be not discouraged , however , but , with the faithful missionaries of the cross ...
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... own bursting , grateful abundance . The question of missions - the question of the world's salvation — will be mainly discussed and carried at the Christian fireside , and in the bosom of religious circles OF THE MISSIONARY SPIRIT .
... own bursting , grateful abundance . The question of missions - the question of the world's salvation — will be mainly discussed and carried at the Christian fireside , and in the bosom of religious circles OF THE MISSIONARY SPIRIT .
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... religious circles . When the current of enlightened missionary feeling shall have set strongly into churches , it will , at the same time , penetrate households . Godly parents will then come to consider it the choicest of all ...
... religious circles . When the current of enlightened missionary feeling shall have set strongly into churches , it will , at the same time , penetrate households . Godly parents will then come to consider it the choicest of all ...
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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.