Mission Stories of Many Lands: A Book for Young People. With Three Hundred and Forty IllustrationsAmerican board of commissioners for foreign missions, 1885 - 391 Seiten |
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Mission Stories of Many Lands a Book for Young People with Three Hundred and ... Elnathan Ellsworth Strong Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2012 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Africa Ahmednagar American Board Armenians Bible Bihé boat built called Captain carried chief China Chinese Christian church cloth Constantinople dear death dress English Erzroom faith father feet friends girls give gospel head hear heard heart heathen Hindus honor hope hundred idols India island Japan Japanese Jesus Christ king Kioto kraal Kusaie lagoon land live Lord Madagascar Madura Marshall Islands Micronesia Mikado miles mission missionaries Mohammed Mohammedan Morning Star Moslem mother Mtesa Namoluk natives never night parents Parsees picture Ponape pray prayer priests Protestant reached religion river ROBERT MOFFAT sacred sailed SAMOKOV Saviour seen sent Sesheke slaves soon soul story teach teachers tell temple Thakombau thought thousand told trees tribes Turkey Uganda Ujiji vessel village wife woman women wonderful words worship young Zulus
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 215 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Seite 14 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Seite 366 - The blood of the martyrs has always been the seed of the Church, out of which she springs forth afresh toward her Easter Day.
Seite 228 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Seite 58 - And she said; Truth, Lord; yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table.
Seite 356 - Jehovah is my God. He kindled these fires. I fear not Pele. If I perish by the anger of Pele, then you may fear the power of Pele ; but if I trust in Jehovah, and he shall save me from the wrath of Pele when I break through her tabus, then you must fear and serve the Lord Jehovah. All the gods of Hawaii are vain.
Seite 254 - The men are about the middle height, broadchested, broad-shouldered, 'thick-set,' very strongly built, the arms and legs short, thick, and muscular, the hands and feet large. The bodies, and specially the limbs, of many are covered with short bristly hair. I have seen two boys whose backs are covered with fur as fine and soft as that of a cat.
Seite 67 - She trembled as she held me by the hand and called me by the familiar names by which I well remember I used to be called by my grandmother, who has since died in slavery.
Seite 13 - I have done anything yet in the way of killing. Why do the white people start at nothing ? I have not yet begun ; I have yet to kill ; it is the custom of our nation, and I shall not depart from it.
Seite 6 - Here, gentlemen, is your opportunity embrace it! The people on the shores of the Nyanza call you ; obey your own generous instincts, and listen to them; and I assure you that in one year you will have more converts to Christianity than all other Missionaries united can number.