International Review of Missions, Volume 6International review of missions, 1917 - Mission of the church |
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Page 114 - he goes on to say : But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth 1
Page 164 - Whoso hath this world's goods and seeth his brother have need and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him ?
Page 114 - Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; but
Page 148 - a far more rapid progress of education than would follow a mere increase of expenditure by the government ; while it possesses the additional advantage of fostering a spirit of reliance upon local exertions and combination for local purposes, which is of itself of no mean importance to the well-being of a nation.
Page 26 - English officials are gradually awakening to the fact that, high as were the aims and remarkable the achievements of their predecessors, a still nobler task lies before them in the present and the future in guiding the uncertain and faltering steps of Indian development along sure and safe paths. The new
Page 400 - a far greater proportional impulse is imparted to the educational and moral tone of the people by the education of women than by the education of men,
Page 361 - I believe nobody made a greater mistake than those Unitarian and other intellectually-minded missionaries who thought that we Orientals are intellectual peoples, and hence we must be intellectually converted to Christianity. We are poets and not scientists, and the labyrinth of syllogism is not the path by which we arrive at the truth.