 | William Maxwell Hetherington - 1843 - 322 pages
...knowledge of the gospel among harharous and heathen nations, seems to he highly preposterous, in as far as it anticipates, nay it even reverses, the order of nature. Men must he polished and refined in their manners hefore they can he properly enlightened in religious truths.... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - Presbyterianism - 1854 - 512 pages
...diffusion, and to expect it, is taught us in the sacred volume of Scripture." — " To spread abroad the knowledge of the gospel among barbarous and heathen nations, seems to be highly preposterous, in as far as it anticipates, nay it even reverses, the order of nature. Men must be polished and refined... | |
 | Missions - 1855 - 396 pages
...have the sentiments of the majority of the Church of Scotland thus expressed: — "To spread abroad the knowledge of the gospel among barbarous and heathen nations seems to be lighly preposterous, in as far as it anticipates, nay, it even reverses, the order of nature." To aid... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - 1859 - 572 pages
...among barbarous and heathen nations seemed to him highly preposterous, inasmuch as it anticipates, nay, reverses the order of nature. Men must be polished...can be properly enlightened in religious truths." After extolling the simple virtues of the untutored Indian or Otaheitan, he ventured to affirm that... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pages
...because the object is plausible.'' He next proceeded to develop his theory of missions : " To spread the knowledge of the gospel among barbarous and heathen nations seems to me highly preposterous, as it anticipates, nay reverses, the order of nature. Men must be polished... | |
 | Baptists - 1862 - 560 pages
...and heathen nations seemed to him highly preposterous, inasmuch as it anticipates, nay, révérées the order of nature. Men must be polished and refined...can be properly enlightened in religious truths." After extolling the simple virtues of the untutored Indian or Otabeitan, he ventured to affirm that... | |
 | Henry Stanley Newman - Society of Friends - 1865 - 30 pages
...barbarous and heathen nations, seemed to him highly preposterous, inasmuch as it anticipates, nay, reverses, the order of nature. Men must be polished...can be properly enlightened in religious truths." Boyle afterwards addressed the meeting, and said, that " as for these Missionary Societies, it is the... | |
 | James Sime (F.R.S.E.) - 1877 - 316 pages
...barous and heathen nations seems to me highly prepos" terous, in so far as it anticipates, nay, as it even reverses " the order of nature. Men must be...before they can be properly enlightened " in. religious truths."1 If we had not overwhelming evidence to the contrary, it might be allowable, in the face of... | |
 | George Smith - 1879 - 524 pages
...as its Moderator the minister who in 1796 carried this opinion by a majority — " To spread abroad the knowledge of the gospel among barbarous and heathen...anticipates, nay, it even reverses the order of nature." What the Kirk of Scotland refused to do till 1829, one of the greatest of its sons was for half a century... | |
 | James Culross - Baptists - 1881 - 236 pages
...Gospel among barbarous and heathen nations" was "highly preposterous, inasmuch as it anticipates, nay, reverses the order of nature : men must be polished...before they can be properly enlightened in religious truth ; " and, singling out the untutored Indian or Otaheitan, he affirmed that Christianity would... | |
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To spread abroad the knowledge of the Gospel among barbarous and heathen nations seems to me to be highly preposterous in as far as it anticipates, nay, it even reverses, the order of nature. 
