Across India at the Dawn of the 20th CenturyReligious Tract Society, 1898 - 260 pages |
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... district after district , Sind to the north , with the Indus flowing through its sandy plains , and the great port of Kurrachee threatening to rival Bombay , Sind so largely unevangelised ; Kutch , by its hot gulf , without a mis- B ...
... district after district , Sind to the north , with the Indus flowing through its sandy plains , and the great port of Kurrachee threatening to rival Bombay , Sind so largely unevangelised ; Kutch , by its hot gulf , without a mis- B ...
Page 42
... district live in villages " The people listened splendidly . They have never heard before in some cases , in others possibly once . " In the Surat Collectorate " there are hundreds of vil- lages of aboriginal races as reachable as the ...
... district live in villages " The people listened splendidly . They have never heard before in some cases , in others possibly once . " In the Surat Collectorate " there are hundreds of vil- lages of aboriginal races as reachable as the ...
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... . Accustomed to the active work of Christian benevolence here - to Sabbath schools , district visiting , the comforting of the bereaved , and the succour of the poor - such ladies INDIAN LADIES For Work 113 Nat 616 Schools 396 Pupils.
... . Accustomed to the active work of Christian benevolence here - to Sabbath schools , district visiting , the comforting of the bereaved , and the succour of the poor - such ladies INDIAN LADIES For Work 113 Nat 616 Schools 396 Pupils.
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... districts -some fallen into the hands of wicked people ; some ruined for life and turned out by their cruel masters owing to bad diseases , to die a mis- erable death ; some being treated in the hospitals , only to be taken back into ...
... districts -some fallen into the hands of wicked people ; some ruined for life and turned out by their cruel masters owing to bad diseases , to die a mis- erable death ; some being treated in the hospitals , only to be taken back into ...
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... districts . The funds sent to me by my friends in America are barely enough to feed and educate fifty girls , and people ask how I am going to support all these others . ' I do not know , but the Lord knows what I need . I can say with ...
... districts . The funds sent to me by my friends in America are barely enough to feed and educate fifty girls , and people ask how I am going to support all these others . ' I do not know , but the Lord knows what I need . I can say with ...
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Page 90 - And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
Page 228 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys : I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 50 - Europe, differ for the worse; and whether, when we can patronize sound philosophy and true history, we shall countenance, at the public expense, 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.
Page 211 - Others shall sing the song, Others shall right the wrong, — Finish what I begin, And all I fail of win. What matter, I or they? Mine or another's day, So the right word be said And life the sweeter made?
Page 226 - And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
Page 247 - The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream : and he that hath my word let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat ? saith the Lord. Is not my word like as a fire ? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words, every one from his neighbour.
Page 139 - Children of immortal bliss"— what a sweet, what a hopeful name! Allow me to call you, brethren, by that sweet name— heirs of immortal bliss— yea, the Hindu refuses to call you sinners. Ye are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye divinities on earth— sinners! It is a sin to call a man so; it is a standing libel on human nature.
Page 195 - Asia. It was commonly believed that half a million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants and not less holy bulls.
Page 202 - In childhood, a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, when her lord is dead to her sons; a woman must never be independent.
Page 82 - The courtesans are as much a part of the establishment of the temple, as much ministers of the god, as the priests. Crimes against life, crimes against property, are not only permitted but enjoined by this odious theology. But for our interference human victims would still be offered to the Ganges, and the widow would still be laid on the pile with the corpse of her husband, and burned alive by her own children.