First (Eighty-second) report of the Association for Oxford and its vicinity in aid of the Church missionary society

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Strona 8 - How then shall they call on him, in whom they have not believed ? And how shall they believe in him, of whom they have not heard ? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent ? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them tiiat preach the Gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Strona 10 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Strona 3 - For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Strona 6 - Toil on, and in thy toil rejoice ; For toil comes rest, for exile home ; Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom's voice, The midnight peal, behold I come ! PASSING THROUGH.
Strona 4 - I assure you that, whatever you may be told to the contrary, the teaching of Christianity among 160 millions of civilized, industrious Hindus and Mohammedans in India is effecting changes, moral, social, and political, which for extent and rapidity of effect are far more extraordinary than anything you or your fathers have witnessed in modern Europe.
Strona 13 - For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent?
Strona 3 - Church been to the state of heathen countries, that to Africa and the East no English Clergyman had ever gone forth as a Missionary. Our prayer had long been, that " God's way might be known upon earth, His saving health among all nations ;" but at the period to which we allude, it was evident to every reflecting mind, that the adoption of additional measures had become absolutely necessary, to bring the heathen under the benign influence of the Gospel. Hence arose the necessity for the formation...
Strona 4 - Missionaries, whose blameless example and self-denying labours are infusing new vigour into the stereotyped life of the great populations placed under English rule, and are preparing them to be in every way better men and better citizens of the great empire in which they dwell.
Strona 4 - For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake; having the same conflict which ye saw in us and now hear to be in us.

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