The Children's missionary newspaper [sometimes entitled The Children's monthly missionary newspaper] ed. by C.H. Bateman, Volume 6Christian Henry Bateman |
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Page 30 - For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.
Page 23 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 37 - ... boys mingle with the flocks and bring up the rear. The gay costume, the varied noises of the cattle, and the high glee attending the party on this annual expedition, must be supplied by the imagination. I should think that twenty families passed in succession during our halt, few of them having less than one hundred head of stock, and many had more.
Page 36 - ... yeeilassies. I was much struck by the simplicity and patriarchal appearance of the several families, which brought forcibly to mind the descriptions of pastoral life in Bible history. What a picture would Landseer make of such a pilgrimage ! The snowy tops of the mountains were seen through the lofty and dark green fir-trees, terminating in abrupt cliffs many thousand feet of perpendicular height.
Page 37 - ... summers on the mountains: the old man, grasping a long stick, leads his children with a firm step. His son, the master of the flocks, follows with his wife; she is often seated on a horse, with a child in her arms, and other horses are led all clothed with the gay trappings of a Turkish steed.
Page 53 - ... were soon made. I moved away the large stones in a small ravine, and, under a few wild plantain leaves to defend me from the dew, lay down to sleep to the music of a sleepless brook that rolled at my feet. We awoke with the wailing cry of the long-armed apes,* hounding from tree to tree in the forests beyond us. 'The morning has whitened...
Page 43 - Karens, living two or three days' journey distant, who, by their frequent visits to us, over almost impassable mountains and through deserts, the haunt of the tiger, evince a love for the gospel seldom surpassed. What would the Christians in New England think of travelling forty or fifty miles on foot to hear a sermon and beg a Christian book? A good Christian woman, who has been living with us several months, told me that when she came, the water was so deep that she was obliged to wait till the...
Page 8 - The husbandman rises with the earliest dawn, washes, and says a prayer, then sets out with his cattle to his distant field. After an hour or two he eats some remnants of his yesterday's fare for breakfast, and goes on with his labour till noon, when his wife brings out his hot dinner ; he eats it by a brook or under a tree, talks and sleeps till two o'clock, while his cattle also feed and repose. From two till sunset he labours again; then drives his cattle home, feeds them, bathes, eats some supper,...
Page 12 - The woman, doing as Satan told her, went and coaxed her husband, till she won him over to her own mind ; and he took the fruit from the hand of his wife, and ate. When he had eaten, she went to Satan and said, ' My husband has eaten the fruit.' On hearing that, he laughed exceedingly, and said, ' Now you have listened to me, very good, my son and daughter.
Page 37 - Asses are allotted to the younger children, who are placed amidst the domestic stores, and never without a pet cat in their arms : long tresses of hair hang down their necks, and are kept closely to the head by a circlet of coins. By their side walks the eldest son, with all the air and alacrity of a young sportsman; over his shoulder hangs a long-barrelled gun, in his hand is the cage of a decoy partridge, and a classiclooking hound follows at his heels : a number of shepherd boys mingle with the...