The Church Missionary Atlas: Containing Maps of the Various Spheres of the Church Missionary Society, with Illustrative Letter-pressChurch Missionary House, 1859 - 45 pages |
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Page 9 - Christ will come when a great multitude which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues...
Page 7 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, fear (Sob, aub git>e glorji to him ; for the hour of his judgment is come : and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Page 7 - A friendly intercourse shall be maintained with other Protestant Societies engaged in the same benevolent design of propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Page 23 - Above all, we may be quite sure that we are much safer if we do our duty than if we neglect it ; and that He who has brought us here, with His own right arm, will shield and bless us, if, in simple reliance upon Him, we try to do His will.
Page 13 - JOHN NEWTON, CLERK, Once an Infidel and Libertine, A servant of slaves in Africa, Was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, Preserved, restored, pardoned, And appointed to preach the Faith He had long laboured to destroy, Near sixteen years at Olney in Bucks And . . . years in this church.
Page 23 - India. Let us rejoice that it is not; let us rejoice that pure and impure motives, religious zeal and worldly ambition, are not so lamentably mixed up. "The duty of evangelizing India lies at the door of private Christians ; the appeal is to private consciences, private effort, private zeal, and private example.
Page 7 - So culpably indifferent, however, had our Church been to the state of heathen countries, that to Africa and the East no English Clergyman had ever gone forth as a Missionary. Our prayer had long been, that " God's way might be known upon earth, His saving health among all nations...
Page 43 - God ; all offering up daily their morning and evening prayers ; i all searching the Scriptures, to find the •way of eternal life ; all valuing the Word of God above every other gift; all, in a greater or less degree, bringing forth and visibly displaying in their outward lives some fruits of the influences of the Spirit.
Page 23 - ... and see nothing better in the distance than the physical improvement of a decaying world ? " We cannot think so meanly of Him with whom ' one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.' All His plans and purposes must look through time into eternity ; and we may rest assured that the East has been given to our country for a mission, neither to the minds nor bodies, but to the souls of men.
Page 19 - Sir J. Lawrence has been led, in common with others since the occurrence of the awful events of 1857, to ponder deeply on what may be the faults and shortcomings of the British as a Christian nation in India.