The Missionary Enterprise: A Collection of Discourses on Christian MissionsBaron Stow |
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... civilization cannot do it . The cross of Christ alone has power to bend the stubborn will to obedi- ence , and melt the frozen heart to love . For , said one who had experienced its efficacy , the love of Christ constraineth us ...
... civilization cannot do it . The cross of Christ alone has power to bend the stubborn will to obedi- ence , and melt the frozen heart to love . For , said one who had experienced its efficacy , the love of Christ constraineth us ...
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... civilization , as a handmaid to science ? What nation since the commencement of the Christian era ever arose from savage to civilized without Christianity ? If you are the friends of the human family , I call upon you to weep over the ...
... civilization , as a handmaid to science ? What nation since the commencement of the Christian era ever arose from savage to civilized without Christianity ? If you are the friends of the human family , I call upon you to weep over the ...
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... civilization which the gospel has conferred upon our own New England is the highest and best , in a religious point of view , the world has yet seen . But on the other hand , this very perfection of our own social religious state ...
... civilization which the gospel has conferred upon our own New England is the highest and best , in a religious point of view , the world has yet seen . But on the other hand , this very perfection of our own social religious state ...
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... civilization but in office , work and spirit , an ambassador for Christ , to preach the gospel where it has not been preached . And , whatever may be said with respect to pastors , it is true of the missionary , that he is to keep ...
... civilization but in office , work and spirit , an ambassador for Christ , to preach the gospel where it has not been preached . And , whatever may be said with respect to pastors , it is true of the missionary , that he is to keep ...
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... civilization not far distant rolling onward , and knows that there will soon be all around him gospel institutions and a Christian community . But it is not so with the foreign mis- sionary . It requires great strength of faith in ...
... civilization not far distant rolling onward , and knows that there will soon be all around him gospel institutions and a Christian community . But it is not so with the foreign mis- sionary . It requires great strength of faith in ...
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Page 185 - 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 207 - His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Page 284 - 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 244 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Page 110 - 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 129 - 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 245 - 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 205 - 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.
Page 281 - Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged ; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.