The Redemption of Africa: A Story of Civilization, with Maps, Statistical Tables and Select Bibliography of the Literature of African Missions, Band 2

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Revell, 1899 - 856 Seiten
 

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Seite 658 - ... visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will ; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — In moments when he feels he cannot die, And knows himself no vision to himself, -Nor the high God a vision, nor that One Who rose again : ye have seen what ye have seen.
Seite 680 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Seite 680 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Seite 636 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Seite 584 - She honored her place and was an ornament to the congregation. She usually sat in a convenient place in the congregation, with a little birchen rod in her hand, and kept little children in great awe from disturbing the congregation. She did frequently visit the sick and weak, especially women, and, as there was need, called out maids and young women to watch and do them other helps as their necessity did require ; and if they were poor, she would gather relief for them of those that were able, or...
Seite 680 - For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name : I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
Seite 681 - When the history of the great African states of the future comes to be written, the arrival of the first missionary will, with many of these new nations, be the first historical event in their annals.
Seite 747 - We cannot fairly compare these poor people with ourselves, who have an atmosphere of Christianity and enlightened public opinion, the growth of centuries, around us, to influence our deportment ; but let any one, from the natural and proper point of view, behold the public morality of Griqua Town, Kuruman, Likatlong, and other villages, and remember what even London was a century ago, and he must confess that the Christian mode of treating aborigines is incomparably the best.
Seite 716 - To the invaluable exertions of the Church Missionary Society more especially — as, also, to a considerable extent, as in all our African settlements, to the Wesleyan body — the highest praise is due. By their efforts, nearly one-fifth of the whole population — a most unusually high proportion in any country — are at school, and the effects are visible in considerable intellectual, moral, and religious improvement — very considerable, under the peculiar circumstances of such a colony.
Seite 698 - In the annals of exploration of the dark continent, we look in vain among other nationalities for such a name as Livingstone's.

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