Historical Sketches of the Missions Under the Care of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian ChurchWomen's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church, 1881 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Africa American Board baptized Beirut Bible blessed Board of Foreign boarding-school Brazil Buddhism Canton Cattaraugus Reservation China Chinese Chris Christ Christian civilization coast connected converts Corisco day-schools death Druses efforts established evangelical faith favorable field FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY Foreign Missions Gaboon girls gospel Happer heathen Hindu hundred India Indians influence instruction Japan Japanese John land language Liberia living Lodiana Maronites Messrs Mexico miles Miss Mary Mohammedans Moslems mountains native Christians native helpers Nestorians Nevius Ningpo occupied opened organized Oroomiah out-stations pastor Persia population prayer preachers preaching Presbyterian Board PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH present priests Protestant Protestantism province pupils received religion religious Rio de Janeiro river scholars Scriptures seminary sent Siam Siamese sionary spirit square miles station Syria Tabriz teachers teaching thousand tion transferred translation tribes truth Tungchow wife William Wilson wives WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY women worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 14 - 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 14 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me ; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people ? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
Seite 4 - Thy people also shall be all righteous : they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation : I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
Seite 19 - and Jesus is the Son of God.' They had no sooner heard this, which I had avoided mentioning till then, than they all exclaimed, in contempt and anger, 'He is neither born, nor begets,' and rose up, as if they would have torn me in pieces.
Seite 22 - We have no place to flee for shelter but under the covert of His wings, and there we are safe ; not but that He may suffer our bodies to be slain, and if He does, we know He has wise reasons for it. I sometimes think our deaths would do more good than we would do in all our lives; if so,
Seite 19 - I was afraid they would trample upon the book, so I went in among them to take it up, and wrapped it in a towel before them; while they looked at it and me with supreme contempt. " Thus I walked away alone to my tent, to pass the rest of the day in heat and dirt. What have I done, thought I, to merit all this scorn? Nothing, I trust, but bearing testimony to Jesus. I thought over these things in prayer, and my troubled heart found that peace which Christ hath promised to his disciples...
Seite 20 - 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 21 - Europeans, and they taught the Siamese to speak and read the English language The American missionaries have always been just and upright men. They have never meddled in the affairs of government, nor created any difficulty with the Siamese. They have lived with the Siamese just as if they belonged to the nation. The government of Siam has great love and respect for them and has no fear whatever concerning them. When there has been a difficulty of any kind, the missionaries have many times rendered...
Seite 15 - ... From such thorns, what fruits can we hope should sprout of good life, of sound morality? what piety toward God, what justice, truth, or goodness toward man ; what sobriety or purity in themselves, can we expect should arise from such conceits and such practices? Surely no other than those which St. Paul describes in the first chapter of his Epistle to the Romans, and in the second of the Epistle to the Ephesians, and St. Peter 1 Ep. iv. 3. which history plainly shows to have been no slanderous...