The Missionary Herald, Tom 69

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Board, 1873
Volumes for 1828-1934 contain the Proceedings at large of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

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Strona 137 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns, he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place...
Strona 316 - For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Strona 190 - And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul : and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.
Strona 57 - The spirit of Christianity has already pervaded the whole atmosphere of Indian society, and we breathe, think, feel, and move in a Christian atmosphere. Native society is being roused, enlightened, and reformed under the influence of Christian education.
Strona 365 - ... employ the services of 606 foreign missionaries, of whom 551 are ordained. They are widely and rather evenly distributed over the different presidencies, and they occupy, at the present time, 522 principal stations, and 2,500 subordinate stations. The entire presidency of Bengal, from Calcutta to Peshawar, is well supplied with missionaries, and they are numerous in the southern portion of the Madras presidency. The various missions in Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras are strong in labourers, and...
Strona 173 - Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Strona 137 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Strona 367 - 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 18 - Convention to agree that we will use our influence to secure, as far as possible, identity of name and organization in the native churches, in the formation of which we may be called to assist, that name being as catholic as the Church of Christ ; and the organization being that wherein the government of each church shall be by the ministry and eldership of the same, with the concurrence of the brethren.
Strona 18 - Whereas the Church of Christ is one in him, and the diversities of denominations among Protestants are but accidents which, though not affecting the vital unity of believers, do obscure the oneness of the Church in Christendom, and much more in Pagan lands, where the history of the divisions cannot be understood ; and whereas we, as Protestant missionaries, desire to secure uniformity in our modes and methods of evangelization, so as to avoid as far as possible the evil arising from marked differences,...

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