Indian MissionsJ. Murray, 1873 - 82 |
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Strona 37 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God " with all thy heart, and with all thy mind, and with " all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and thy
Strona 7 - The Societies for promoting Christian Knowledge, and for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, had committees, but no Missions or Missionaries.
Strona 38 - As regards Christianity, and its relation to the future Church of India, I have no doubt in my mind that it will exercise great influence on the growth and formation of that Church. " The spirit of Christianity has already pervaded the whole atmosphere of Indian society, and we breathe, think, feel, and move in a Christian atmosphere.
Strona 38 - ... the result of the purer elements of the leading creeds of the day, harmonized, developed, and shaped under the influence of Christianity. But the future church of India must be thoroughly national ; it must be an essentially Indian Church. The future religion of the world I have described will be the common religion of all nations, but in each nation it will have an indigenous growth, and assume a distinctive and peculiar character. All mankind will unite in a universal church ; at the same time,...
Strona 39 - America, and the various races and tribes and nations of tho world, with their own peculiar voice and music, sing His glory ; but all their different voices and peculiar modes of chanting, shall commingle in one sweet swelling chorus : one universal anthem...
Strona 21 - Deccan had abjured idolatry and caste, removed from their temples the idols which had been worshipped there time out of mind, and agreed to profess a form of Christianity which they had deduced for themselves from a careful perusal of a single Gospel and a few tracts. These books had not been given by any Missionary, but had been casually left with some clothes and other cast-off property by a merchant, whose name even had been forgotten, and who, as far as could be ascertained, had never spoken...
Strona 74 - Hindoo, for instance, has many noble qualities ; lofty idealism, singular strength of self-devotion, marvellous power of endurance, along with natural aptitude for many of the gentler virtues, as meekness, tenderness, delicacy — virtues which we may not rank very highly, but on which our Saviour has stamped his indelible approbation in the Sermon on the Mount.
Strona 39 - One religion shall be acknowledged by all men; one God shall be worshipped throughout the length and breadth of the world; the same spirit of faith and love shall pervade all hearts; all nations shall dwell together" in the Father's house; yet each shall have its own peculiar and free mode of action. There shall, in short, be unity of spirit, but diversity of forms; one body, but different limbs; one vast community with members laboring in different ways, and according to their respective resources...
Strona 39 - ... as they are interwoven with her very life. In common with all other nations and communities, we shall embrace the theistic worship, creed, and gospel of the future church — we shall acknowledge and adore the Holy One, accept the love and service of God and man as our creed, and put our firm...
Strona 39 - In common with all other nations and communities, we shall embrace the Theistic worship, creed, and gospel of the future church, — we shall acknowledge and adore the Holy One, accept the love and service of God and man as our creed, and put our firm faith in God's almighty grace as the only means of our redemption. But we shall do all this in a strictly national and Indian style. We shall see that the future church is not thrust upon us, but that we independently and naturally grow into it ; that...