The Life of Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.D.Hodder and Stoughton, 1879 - Missionaries |
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... converts , in contrast to the East India Company's Presbyterian chaplains , the eager response of every one of the fourteen sent to the peoples of India , from Dr. Wilson then in Jerusalem , to Mr. Anderson in Madras , and Dr. Duff in ...
... converts , in contrast to the East India Company's Presbyterian chaplains , the eager response of every one of the fourteen sent to the peoples of India , from Dr. Wilson then in Jerusalem , to Mr. Anderson in Madras , and Dr. Duff in ...
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... convert Behari Lal Singh . Up to this day the five missionaries stood alone . But the Christian society of the metropolis and of many an isolated station in the interior was being profoundly moved . The earliest sign of the movement ...
... convert Behari Lal Singh . Up to this day the five missionaries stood alone . But the Christian society of the metropolis and of many an isolated station in the interior was being profoundly moved . The earliest sign of the movement ...
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... and apparatus , rather than that the Arch - enemy of souls should again have it in his power to convert them into an enginery for wasting the Æt . 38 . MAGNANIMITY FOR CHRIST'S SAKE . 37 36 1844 . LIFE OF DR . DUFF .
... and apparatus , rather than that the Arch - enemy of souls should again have it in his power to convert them into an enginery for wasting the Æt . 38 . MAGNANIMITY FOR CHRIST'S SAKE . 37 36 1844 . LIFE OF DR . DUFF .
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... converts and students obtain a building large enough in all native Calcutta ? was this . Colonel Dundas and some Indian friends , in Scotland , had presented Dr. Duff with about four hundred pounds as " a mark of respect " and for ...
... converts and students obtain a building large enough in all native Calcutta ? was this . Colonel Dundas and some Indian friends , in Scotland , had presented Dr. Duff with about four hundred pounds as " a mark of respect " and for ...
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... converts . The price was £ 3,500 . On receiving a legacy of £ 1,000 he added this to the Dundas gift , and solicited the consent of Lord Auckland himself to the sale of the land for that sum , but the proposal had first to be sanctioned ...
... converts . The price was £ 3,500 . On receiving a legacy of £ 1,000 he added this to the Dundas gift , and solicited the consent of Lord Auckland himself to the sale of the land for that sum , but the proposal had first to be sanctioned ...
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Page 95 - When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils ; and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying; Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Page 186 - And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven...
Page 319 - Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 251 - I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
Page 281 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak : for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
Page 125 - Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the LORD's people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
Page 73 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Page 73 - The Lord, the Lord God merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth ; keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty.
Page 106 - I do not trust to Mr. Francis's promises of candour, convinced that he is incapable of it. I judge of his public conduct by his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour.
Page 73 - What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise : for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; as it is written, " There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.