The Missionary Gazetteer: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Account of the Various Stations of the American and Foreign Protestant Missionary Societies of All Denominations, with Their Progress in Evangelization and Civilization ...W. Hyde & Company, 1832 - 419 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 413 - ... delivered from the power of darkness, and translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son ; as having redemption through Christ's blood, and the forgiveness of sins.
الصفحة 390 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
الصفحة 222 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
الصفحة 390 - I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
الصفحة 332 - Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom, to preach the word ; to be instant in season, and out of season...
الصفحة 35 - I beheld another distressing scene this morning at the Place of Skulls ; — a poor woman lying dead, or nearly dead, and her two children by her, looking at the dogs and vultures which were near. The people passed by without noticing the children. I asked them where was their home. They said, ' they had no home but where their mother was.
الصفحة 222 - A few gardens still remain on the sloping base of Mount Zion, watered from the Pool of Siloam ; the gardens of Gethsemane are still in a sort of ruined cultivation : the fences are broken down and the...
الصفحة 310 - I, Moung Nau, the constant recipient of your excellent favor, approach your feet. Whereas my Lord's three have come to the country of Burmah, — not for the purposes of trade, but to preach the religion of Jesus Christ, the Son of the eternal God, — I, having heard and understood, am, with a joyful mind, filled with love.
الصفحة 379 - To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
الصفحة 196 - There he lies and sleeps. I might kill him, and throw him out into the wood, a.nd who would regard it? But this gives him no concern.