The Christian Souvenir, and Missionary Memorial, for 1851 |
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ANNA CORA MOWATT Basle beautiful Bible blessed boat Burmah captive Ceylon cheer Cherokee Christ Christian church conversion dark death devoted divine earth Eli Smith England English Erromanga eternal faith feel Fitch friends gathered gazed glorious glory Gospel grace hand heard heart heathen heaven Henley holy honor hope human hundred Indian influence island J. W. ALEXANDER king labor land language light ligion living London Missionary Society look Lord ment mighty crusade miles mind ministers Miss Huntington missionary missions Mohammedanism Moheagan mountains nations native never night o'er pagan passed peace Peada pious prayer preached Pulcheria race religion religious sachem salvation savage Saviour scene seemed shore soon soul spirit Susan sweet thee thing thou thought thousand throne tion toil tribe truth Unkus village visited wild William William Henley wind word yawl young youth
Popular passages
Page 4 - Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
Page 81 - For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
Page 6 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Page 269 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Page 143 - The voice at midnight came, He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Page 4 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days...
Page 2 - In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. I the Lord do keep it ; I will water it every moment: Lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
Page 67 - ... to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention, and the adventurers' free profession, is the principal end of this plantation.
Page 2 - Wittenberg still conceals truth, which the God of Luther can revive ; Geneva already shows some who " spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water-courses ;" and the prayers of Oakes and Harvard are not forgotten before God. Evil dies, in many places, by a divine law. What missions were ever more flourishing than those of the Jesuits of Brazil ? Their last traces are now disappearing in the beautiful country from which that mighty Order has been expelled. On the other hand, Elberfeld, and...