A Memoir of the Rev. John Jenkins: Late a Wesleyan Missionary in the Island of Jamaica : Including Character Notices of West Indian Slavery, &c., &c.,

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J. Mason, 1832 - Jenkins, John, 1798-1830 - 220 pages
 

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Page 150 - Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness" sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Page 49 - The God that rules on high, That all the earth surveys, That rides upon the stormy sky, And calms the roaring seas ; This awful God is ours, Our Father and our Love ; He will send down his heavenly powers, To carry us above.
Page 218 - THE peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord : And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you and remain with you always.
Page 54 - Soon to the sport of death the crew repair, Dart the long lance, or spread the baited snare. One in redoubling mazes wheels along, And glides, unhappy ! near the triple prong : Rodmond, unerring, o'er his head suspends The barbed steel...
Page 218 - O GoD, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home.
Page 54 - What radiant changes strike the astonish'd sight ! What glowing hues of mingled shade and light ! Not equal beauties gild the lucid west With parting beams all o'er profusely drest, Not lovelier colours paint the vernal dawn, When orient dews impearl the...
Page 92 - My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations ; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Page 46 - There we shall meet again, When all our toils are o'er, And death, and grief, and pain, And parting are no more ; We shall with all our brethren rise, And grasp thee in the flaming skies.
Page 54 - When orient dews impearl th' enamell'd lawn, Than from his sides in bright suffusion flow, That now with gold empyreal seem to glow ; Now in pellucid sapphires meet the view, And emulate the soft celestial hue ; Now beam a flaming crimson on the eye, And now assume the purple's deeper dye : But here description clouds each shining ray, What terms of art can Nature's...
Page 107 - ... estates by the crack of the lash, or the power with which drivers are provided to exercise punishment, it would be desirable that such a weapon of arbitrary and unjust authority were taken from them. It is at present customary to crack the whip to turn out the gangs at stated hours to the field. When a Negro seems to be tardy at his work, the driver sounds the lash near him, or lets him feel it, as he thinks proper.

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