Heroines of the Missionary Enterprise; Or, Sketches of Prominent Female Missionaries1850 |
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... they live by it . The world reads them as divine epistles , and Christians quote them as evidences of what grace has done , and as instalments of what it can do . It has happened that female missionaries , just because not.
... they live by it . The world reads them as divine epistles , and Christians quote them as evidences of what grace has done , and as instalments of what it can do . It has happened that female missionaries , just because not.
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... flash the rays of a Divine illumination across a world of darkness ; and send the electric thrill of a holy life throughout a universe of death . At first , the missionary enterprise was looked upon as 2 HARRIET NEWELL .
... flash the rays of a Divine illumination across a world of darkness ; and send the electric thrill of a holy life throughout a universe of death . At first , the missionary enterprise was looked upon as 2 HARRIET NEWELL .
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... Divine declaration , " The way of the transgressor is hard . " In her diary she tells of sleepless nights and anxious days ; of the Saviour wounded by her whom he died to save ; of the Spirit grieved , and almost quenched , yet ...
... Divine declaration , " The way of the transgressor is hard . " In her diary she tells of sleepless nights and anxious days ; of the Saviour wounded by her whom he died to save ; of the Spirit grieved , and almost quenched , yet ...
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... to be blasted . The East India Company was opposed to all attempts to Christianize the natives , and threw all their influence against the divine cause of missions . As soon as the government became apprized HARRIET NEWELL . 21.
... to be blasted . The East India Company was opposed to all attempts to Christianize the natives , and threw all their influence against the divine cause of missions . As soon as the government became apprized HARRIET NEWELL . 21.
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... Divine support and comfort . While contem- plating the sufferings of that godly man , her own trials dwindled away , and she lost sight of her own anguish in the deeper woes of another . Often did she ask , as she remembered what others ...
... Divine support and comfort . While contem- plating the sufferings of that godly man , her own trials dwindled away , and she lost sight of her own anguish in the deeper woes of another . Often did she ask , as she remembered what others ...
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Page 77 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 211 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Page 68 - JESUS shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run ; His kingdom spread from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
Page 24 - Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize, And sailed through bloody seas...
Page 3 - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till, o'er our ransomed nature, The Lamb, for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Page 242 - God o'erhead ! /!Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 88 - Welcome to a Land of Rest ! Thus the choir of angels sing, As they bear the soul on high, While with hallelujahs ring All the regions of the sky.
Page 155 - O'ER the realms of pagan darkness, Let the eye of pity gaze ; See the kindreds of the people Lost in sin's bewildering maze : Darkness brooding On the face of all the earth. 2 Light of them that sit in darkness ! Rise and shine — thy blessings bring : Light to lighten all the Gentiles ! Rise with healing in thy wing; To thy brightness Let all kings and nations come. 3...
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