Letters on MissionsWestley and Davis, Stationers' Court, 1830 - 280 sider |
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Side iii
... question to every mind - why is it that with such large and varied means our suc- cess is so trifling ? Why is it that while so many societies are at work , and so much money expended , the results bear no adequate proportion to the ...
... question to every mind - why is it that with such large and varied means our suc- cess is so trifling ? Why is it that while so many societies are at work , and so much money expended , the results bear no adequate proportion to the ...
Side vii
... question that I could say ; but I can confidently answer , that the mis- sionaries have been busily and successfully employed ; their translation of the entire Scrip- tures into the Mongolian , beside other works , will , I doubt not ...
... question that I could say ; but I can confidently answer , that the mis- sionaries have been busily and successfully employed ; their translation of the entire Scrip- tures into the Mongolian , beside other works , will , I doubt not ...
Side x
... questions , require a mature and deliberate answer . The materials for such an answer exist . And can none of the officers whose time is wholly devoted to the management of our missionary societies , furnish such a digest ? Are they so ...
... questions , require a mature and deliberate answer . The materials for such an answer exist . And can none of the officers whose time is wholly devoted to the management of our missionary societies , furnish such a digest ? Are they so ...
Side xliii
... question , they could and they did lay their several preferences on the altar of charity . Is there a triumph to be won on the field of theological strife that can equal in true brilliancy the one that would be obtained by such a ...
... question , they could and they did lay their several preferences on the altar of charity . Is there a triumph to be won on the field of theological strife that can equal in true brilliancy the one that would be obtained by such a ...
Side 4
... I think there is reason to form a different conclusion with regard to most of those who actually become missionaries , and that not merely upon a speculative view of the subject as a question in the philosophy of the mind , but 4.
... I think there is reason to form a different conclusion with regard to most of those who actually become missionaries , and that not merely upon a speculative view of the subject as a question in the philosophy of the mind , but 4.
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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.