Outline of a History of Protestant Missions from the Reformation to the Present Time |
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already American Board amongst Anglican Apostles aries Baptists baptized Basel Basel Mission began beginning Bible Bishop Brethren British Catholic centre century chief stations China China Inland Mission Chinese Christ Christianising civilisation coast colonial communicants Congo congregations connection Danish-Halle mission Dutch East Africa England English Episcopal especially evangelical missions evangelists extended faith foreign missions founded Francke Free Church French German missionary Gospel Government Greenland heathen Herrnhut income independent India Indian influence Islands Japan labour Land language large number London Missionary London Missionary Society Lutheran Methodists millions mission field missionary service Missionary Society Mohammedan Moravians movement nations native Christians native helpers native pastors negroes non-Christian ordained organised Pietism population preachers preaching Presbyterians present Protestant Protestantism province Reformed religion religious schools Scottish sent Sierra Leone sionary slaves South Africa spirit statistics success Swedish Missionary Society tion to-day total number translated Warneck Wesleyans West Indies whole
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Page 22 - For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Page 109 - The General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America for Foreign Missions," popularly known as the Triennial Convention.
Page 47 - ... to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention, and the adventurers' free profession, is the principal end of this plantation.
Page 20 - And this gospel of the kingdom " shall be preached in all the world for a witness to all " nations ; and then shall the end come.
Page 50 - Majesty's subjects beyond the seas ; for the maintenance of Clergymen in the Plantations, Colonies, and Factories of Great Britain ; and for the propagation of the Gospel in those parts.
Page 345 - God? For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.
Page 156 - Sea on the north, the Atlantic Ocean on the east, and the Pacific Ocean on the west, a space quite fifteen times as large as the German Empire.
Page 80 - The sending out of missionaries into our Eastern possessions is the maddest, most extravagant, most costly, most indefensible project which has ever been suggested by a moonstruck fanatic. Such a scheme is pernicious, imprudent, useless, harmful, dangerous, profitless, fantastic. It strikes against all reason and sound policy; it brings the peace and safety of our possessions into peril.
Page 256 - The Government of India cannot but acknowledge the great obligation under which it is laid by the benevolent exertions made by those 600 missionaries, whose blameless example and self-denying labours are infusing new vigour into the stereotyped life of the great populations placed under English rule, and are preparing them to bo in every way better men and better citizens of the great empire in which they dwell.
Page 20 - Dei esse opus ; quia ad solam ejus benedictionem confugere docentur fideles." [We are taught that the kingdom of Christ is . neither to be advanced nor maintained by the industry of men, but this is the work of God alone...