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... speak and write , as I do now , about missionaries with sincere admiration . There are others who gladly take the opportunity , as I have also done myself , of visiting scenes where missions have been carried on , or of following up ...
... speak and write , as I do now , about missionaries with sincere admiration . There are others who gladly take the opportunity , as I have also done myself , of visiting scenes where missions have been carried on , or of following up ...
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... speaking burning words , and looking at us all the while from beneath his shaggy eyebrows with intensely earnest eyes ! My next remembrance of him dates from a visit which in 1849 ( eight years before I myself entered the ministry ) , I ...
... speaking burning words , and looking at us all the while from beneath his shaggy eyebrows with intensely earnest eyes ! My next remembrance of him dates from a visit which in 1849 ( eight years before I myself entered the ministry ) , I ...
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... speak of our Church being intrusted with a mission to Roman Catholics , we simply mean that in obedience to the outgoings of Christian love she is bound to deliver this same message not merely to her own flock , but to those also who ...
... speak of our Church being intrusted with a mission to Roman Catholics , we simply mean that in obedience to the outgoings of Christian love she is bound to deliver this same message not merely to her own flock , but to those also who ...
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... speak of has been brought against us in a shape demanding more notice than the wild and irresponsible statements of an anonymous correspondent . It was upon the ground of our having failed in the discharge of our missionary ...
... speak of has been brought against us in a shape demanding more notice than the wild and irresponsible statements of an anonymous correspondent . It was upon the ground of our having failed in the discharge of our missionary ...
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Henry Seddall. bringing against our Church the charge of which I have spoken . Speaking of our Church , he said , “ I think it but fair to admit that until very recent times it has not had a perfectly fair trial as a religious community ...
Henry Seddall. bringing against our Church the charge of which I have spoken . Speaking of our Church , he said , “ I think it but fair to admit that until very recent times it has not had a perfectly fair trial as a religious community ...
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Page 80 - Transubstantiation, (or the change of the substance of bread and wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by Holy Writ ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.
Page 20 - We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father ; knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
Page 233 - Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low : and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together ; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 296 - For he looketh to the ends of the earth, And seeth under the whole heaven ; To make the weight for the winds ; And he weigheth the waters by measure. When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 304 - Thou wilt show me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy, and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 142 - He burneth part thereof in the fire, with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself and saith, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire." And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth unto it and saith, "Deliver me; for thou art my God.
Page 281 - And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Page 22 - 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...
Page 9 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ; Thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair ; Thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sit'st above these Heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 186 - Whoever, knowing what Italy and Scotland naturally are, and what, four hundred years ago, they actually were, shall now compare the country round Rome with the country round Edinburgh, will be able to form some judgment as to the tendency of Papal domination.