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... Gospel in Foriegn Path Liverpool WEDNES THE TIMES , WEDNES Sept. 29-1555 RAJAH BROKE ON " MISSIONS . " boking to India alone , we have more especially religions to contend with on which we have never yet made any impression whatever ...
... Gospel in Foriegn Path Liverpool WEDNES THE TIMES , WEDNES Sept. 29-1555 RAJAH BROKE ON " MISSIONS . " boking to India alone , we have more especially religions to contend with on which we have never yet made any impression whatever ...
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... gospel . By degrees those missionaries introduced themselves into the inland country . They saw that in order to fix the attention of these people , gain their confidence , and get a hear- ing , it was indispensably necessary to respect ...
... gospel . By degrees those missionaries introduced themselves into the inland country . They saw that in order to fix the attention of these people , gain their confidence , and get a hear- ing , it was indispensably necessary to respect ...
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... gospel in all its naked sim- plicity ? They will candidly answer , " Not one ! not a single man ! " Behold the Nestorians in Travancore ! In- terrogate them ; ask them for an account of their success in the work of proselytism in these ...
... gospel in all its naked sim- plicity ? They will candidly answer , " Not one ! not a single man ! " Behold the Nestorians in Travancore ! In- terrogate them ; ask them for an account of their success in the work of proselytism in these ...
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... Gospel , I mentioned the circumstance of the prodigal's father having , through joy , killed the fatted calf to regale his friends , on account of the return of his reformed son . After the lec- ture some Christians told me , in rather ...
... Gospel , I mentioned the circumstance of the prodigal's father having , through joy , killed the fatted calf to regale his friends , on account of the return of his reformed son . After the lec- ture some Christians told me , in rather ...
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... missionaries , in the province of Sutchuen in China , were earnestly requested by the congregation De Propaganda Fide at Rome to translate the Gospel into Chinese , and send a copy to them D 4 39 ing at the manner in which the work is ...
... missionaries , in the province of Sutchuen in China , were earnestly requested by the congregation De Propaganda Fide at Rome to translate the Gospel into Chinese , and send a copy to them D 4 39 ing at the manner in which the work is ...
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Page 70 - So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.
Page 46 - 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.
Page 45 - And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Page 129 - The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
Page 70 - And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
Page 88 - There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
Page 47 - And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region. 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. 51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
Page 45 - And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it : but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
Page 101 - But I tell you of a truth, Many widows •were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land ; But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet ; and none of them •was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
Page 72 - Christians were put together during the several days that the ceremony lasted: and, oh shame! — oh scandall — will it be believed in the Christian world? — no one, not a single individual among so many thousands, had courage enough to confess his faith under this trying circumstance, and become a martyr to his religion.