The Missionary Enterprise: A Collection of Discourses on Christian MissionsBaron Stow |
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... soul has trembled at the vastness of its own conceptions . But why need I multiply illustrations from nature ? Who does not recollect the emotion he has felt whilst surveying aught in the material world of terror or of vastness ? And ...
... soul has trembled at the vastness of its own conceptions . But why need I multiply illustrations from nature ? Who does not recollect the emotion he has felt whilst surveying aught in the material world of terror or of vastness ? And ...
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... soul swells with ecstasy whilst viewing the innumera- ble suns of midnight , feels no emotion of sublimity when thinking of their Creator ? Why is it that an enterprise of patriotism presents itself to his imagination beaming with ...
... soul swells with ecstasy whilst viewing the innumera- ble suns of midnight , feels no emotion of sublimity when thinking of their Creator ? Why is it that an enterprise of patriotism presents itself to his imagination beaming with ...
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... soul from everlasting wo . Hence you see that this undertaking requires courage . It is not the courage which , wrought up by the stimulus of pop- ular applause , can rush now and then upon the cannon's mouth ; it is the courage which ...
... soul from everlasting wo . Hence you see that this undertaking requires courage . It is not the courage which , wrought up by the stimulus of pop- ular applause , can rush now and then upon the cannon's mouth ; it is the courage which ...
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... souls with theirs , and join in the joy as though they were bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh ? Yes , dear missionaries , we will remember you and all the sacrifices you have made , till these hearts shall cease to beat . God ...
... souls with theirs , and join in the joy as though they were bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh ? Yes , dear missionaries , we will remember you and all the sacrifices you have made , till these hearts shall cease to beat . God ...
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... souls and sending your sons to them , I firmly believe that your prayers and bounty will return unto your own bosom . Such confidence I have in God , for I have heard him say , " He that watereth shall be watered also himself . " I ...
... souls and sending your sons to them , I firmly believe that your prayers and bounty will return unto your own bosom . Such confidence I have in God , for I have heard him say , " He that watereth shall be watered also himself . " I ...
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Page 187 - And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people ; to it shall the Gentiles seek : and his rest shall be glorious.
Page 121 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia ; for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Page 283 - And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about, and see : all they gather themselves together, they come to thee : thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
Page 141 - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me : and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Page 286 - And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee : though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid ; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song ; he also is become my salvation.
Page 33 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 112 - 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.
Page 131 - And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming...
Page 247 - Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the Name of the LORD thy GOD, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He hath glorified thee.
Page 207 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.