Letters on MissionsWestley and Davis, Stationers' Court, 1830 - 280 sider |
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... Friend , DURING the years I have been a missionary , various thoughts have occurred to me touching the character , qualifications , motives , duties , trials , & c . of missionaries . I have long intended to offer you the result of my ...
... Friend , DURING the years I have been a missionary , various thoughts have occurred to me touching the character , qualifications , motives , duties , trials , & c . of missionaries . I have long intended to offer you the result of my ...
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... friends and associates will be thought easily bearable ; while the hope of living in their more endeared remembrance , the anticipated pleasure of frequently receiving their friendly letters , and the means which may be enjoyed of ...
... friends and associates will be thought easily bearable ; while the hope of living in their more endeared remembrance , the anticipated pleasure of frequently receiving their friendly letters , and the means which may be enjoyed of ...
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... friends . The very circumstance of his professed desire to engage in the service of God among the heathen , an undertaking so ar- duous , that many truly devoted men have shrunk back from its difficulties and dangers - produces an ...
... friends . The very circumstance of his professed desire to engage in the service of God among the heathen , an undertaking so ar- duous , that many truly devoted men have shrunk back from its difficulties and dangers - produces an ...
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... friends or constituents ascertaining the true state of matters , his real character may remain long undiscovered and unsuspected . His unconscientious waste of time - his engagement in pursuits foreign to his proper work - his devi ...
... friends or constituents ascertaining the true state of matters , his real character may remain long undiscovered and unsuspected . His unconscientious waste of time - his engagement in pursuits foreign to his proper work - his devi ...
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William Swan. LETTER II . THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINued . My dear Friend , THE promised sequel to the observations con- tained in my last letter , I now proceed to lay before you . If other motives than those which ought to actuate the mind ...
William Swan. LETTER II . THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINued . My dear Friend , THE promised sequel to the observations con- tained in my last letter , I now proceed to lay before you . If other motives than those which ought to actuate the mind ...
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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 43 - ... 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 208 - 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 173 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more •than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty.
Side 149 - ... 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 122 - Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Side 211 - 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 249 - 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 148 - 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 172 - 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.