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Side iii
Why is it that while so many societies are at work , and so much money expended , the results bear no adequate proportion to the cost and labour ? The fact is notorious , both at home and abroad .
Why is it that while so many societies are at work , and so much money expended , the results bear no adequate proportion to the cost and labour ? The fact is notorious , both at home and abroad .
Side iv
... to exaggerate the success which has attended the labours of christian missionaries , or to form an extravagant idea of that success ; but when it is spoken of as nothing , and as bearing no proportion to the cost and labour bestowed ...
... to exaggerate the success which has attended the labours of christian missionaries , or to form an extravagant idea of that success ; but when it is spoken of as nothing , and as bearing no proportion to the cost and labour bestowed ...
Side v
There is such a thing as being impatient of labour , or of waiting for its results ; of entertaining too magnificent ideas of the amount of our own doings ; and of assuming the attitude of menace and reproach , because every thing is ...
There is such a thing as being impatient of labour , or of waiting for its results ; of entertaining too magnificent ideas of the amount of our own doings ; and of assuming the attitude of menace and reproach , because every thing is ...
Side vii
They are legitimate objects of christian labour ; many of them will not require to be done again ; and the man who has accomplished them ought not to be considered by his brethren as having lived in vain .
They are legitimate objects of christian labour ; many of them will not require to be done again ; and the man who has accomplished them ought not to be considered by his brethren as having lived in vain .
Side viii
labour employed , but in connexion with the opposition which we have to encounter . In this point of view our means are really insignificant . With our feeble energies directed against hundreds of millions , is it pothing that a few ...
labour employed , but in connexion with the opposition which we have to encounter . In this point of view our means are really insignificant . With our feeble energies directed against hundreds of millions , is it pothing that a few ...
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Side xxxvii - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Side 53 - ... as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Side 218 - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me : and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Side 183 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more •than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty.
Side 159 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another:, he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Side 132 - Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Side 221 - Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Side 259 - Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia ; how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Side 158 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled ; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts : and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear...
Side 182 - Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you : but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | Letters on Missions |
| Forfatter | William Swan |
| Udgave | 2 |
| Udgiver | Westley and Davis, Stationers' Court, 1830 |
| Oprindeligt fra | New York Public Library |
| Digitaliseret | 2. aug 2006 |
| Længde | 280 sider |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |