Romance of Modern Missions: A Home in the Land of Snows, and Other Sketches of Missionary Life |
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afterwards AMELIA OPIE Anna appeared arrived Bengalee Berbice blessing Boardman boat Brethren brother Burmese Burmese language Calcutta Carey Carey's CHAPTER child Christ Christian church coast companions conversation danger dear death distress Divine earnest endeavoured endured eyes faith father favourable fearful feelings felt Frederic Boehnish friends Gaures gave girl gospel Greenland dogs Greenland language Greenlanders Hackleton hand happy hear heard heart heathen Herrnhuth hope Indians Jesus John Beck Judson Kaiarnak labours land learned length Lichtenfels lived look Lord Matthew Stach Maulmain mind mission family missionary months Moravians morning mother natives night occasion passed perils poor prayer present Rangoon reached received RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY residence rocks Saviour says scarcely scene seemed Serampore sister soon soul speak spirit spoke suffered Tavoy tears things thou thought took trials voyage wife wild wonderful words young zayat
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Page 99 - A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him, half dead.
Page 169 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 59 - Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Page 118 - In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me : 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
Page 175 - He fell gloriously at the head of his troops in the arms of victory — thirty-eight wild Karens having been brought into the camp of King Jesus since the beginning of the year, besides the thirty-two that were brought in during the two preceding years. Disabled by wounds, he was obliged, through the whole of his last expedition, to be carried on a litter ; but his presence was a host, and the Holy Spirit accompanied his dying whispers with almighty influence.
Page 141 - They jumped up in an instant, one of them with a large knife cut a passage through the side of the house, and each seizing some part of the baggage, it was thrown out upon a higher part of the beach, brother Turner assisting the Esquimaux.
Page 192 - I ever love the Lord Jesus Christ.' I said again, ' Do you still love me?' She replied in the affirmative, by a peculiar expression of her own. ' Then give me one more kiss ; ' and we exchanged that token of love for the last time. Another hour passed, life continued to recede, and she ceased to breathe. For a moment I traced her upward flight, and thought of the wonders which were opening to her view.
Page 214 - We then went to the water side, where I addressed the people in Bengali; after having sung a Bengali translation of 'Jesus, and shall it ever be?
Page 228 - Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear ; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child : for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.
Page 175 - Is gone to his eternal rest He fell gloriously at the head of his troops — in the arms of victory, — thirty-eight wild Karens having been brought into the camp of king Jesus since the beginning of the year, besides the thirty-two that were brought in during the two preceding years. Disabled by...