Indian Missionary Reminiscences, Principally of the Wyandot Nation: In which is Exhibited the Efficacy of the Gospel in Elevating Ignorant and Savage Men

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T. Mason and G. Lane for the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1837 - Wyandot Indians - 216 pages
 

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Page 20 - Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, 7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.
Page 21 - And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
Page 28 - Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Page 207 - He makes the grass the hills adorn, And clothes the smiling fields with corn, The beasts with food His hands supply, And the young ravens when they cry.
Page 147 - Yield to me now, for I am weak, But confident in self-despair; Speak to my heart, in blessings speak, Be conquered by my instant prayer! Speak, or Thou never hence shalt move, And tell me, if Thy name is Love?
Page 77 - God," spoken by the tongues of men and angels ; and the blessed spirits in heaven cease not from saying, night and day, their Tgiedyiov, ' their song of glory' to him that sitteth on the throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever...
Page 134 - that God is no respecter of persons, but that in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him.
Page 65 - I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
Page 65 - Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division : for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Page 20 - And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.

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