The Centenary Volume of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1792-1892

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Baptist Missionary Society, 1892 - 344 páginas

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Página 79 - Europe, differ for the worse; and whether, when we can patronize sound philosophy and true history, we shall countenance, at the public expense, medical doctrines which would disgrace an English farrier, astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings thirty feet high and reigns thirty thousand years long, and geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter.
Página 19 - And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem. 13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Página 4 - These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
Página 3 - Judea: for thus it is written by the prophet, and thou Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, art not the least among the Princes of Judah: for out of thee shall come a governor that shall rule my people Israel.
Página 14 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Página 8 - Thomas's account we saw,' said Mr. Fuller, ' there was a gold mine in India, but it seemed almost as deep as the centre of the earth. Who will venture to explore it ? 'I will go down,' said Mr. Carey to his brethren, ' but remember that you must hold the ropes.
Página 244 - For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Página 112 - It is in addition permitted to French missionaries to rent and purchase land in all the provinces, and to erect buildings thereon at pleasure...
Página 257 - ... torture of having the flesh cut off from his bones in small pieces by the knives of the savage crowd who rush on him and contend with each other for a portion of the gory and quivering substance. Great value is attached to the first morsel thus severed from the victim's body, for it is supposed to possess superior virtues, and a proportionate eagerness is evinced to acquire it.
Página 248 - Lone Star !" in grief and tears, And sad reverses oft baptized; Shine on amid thy sister spheres; Lone stars in heaven are not despised. Shine on, "Lone Star !" Who lifts his hand To dash to earth so bright a gem, A new "lost pleiad" from the band That sparkles in night's diadem? Shine on, "Lone Star!

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