The American Missionary, المجلد 45

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American Missionary Association., 1891
Vols. 13-62 include abridged annual reports and proceedings of the annual meetings of the American Missionary Association, 1869-1908; v. 38-62 include abridged annual reports of the Society's Executive Committee, 1883/1884-1907/1908.
 

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الصفحة 304 - God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are: that no flesh should glory before God.
الصفحة 203 - Behold, these shall come from far : and, lo, these from the north and from the west ; and these from the land of Sinim.
الصفحة 40 - FORM OF A BEQUEST. I bequeath to my executors the sum of dollars, in trust, to pay over the same...
الصفحة 11 - They reply, not in reproach; only in kindliest explanation. But what say they? That she has legislatures a hundred years old, but often no adequate popular reverence for law; that she has judges and courts, but often no patience to wait for their decrees or honor their mandates; that her frightful prisons defend neither the criminal's rights nor those of society; that her provisions for public education will not bear comparison with that of any region bidding successfully for immigration; that her...
الصفحة 302 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
الصفحة 307 - For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance : but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away.
الصفحة 139 - according to the deeds done in the body," when " they that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever...
الصفحة 12 - Negroes' plank; and he cannot in his own exclusively white party command a majority willing to vote a sufficient school tax. For neither the Southern white people, nor any other people except a whole people, can ever furnish a majority that will vote a school tax ample for the whole people. Instead, we find the whole mass of three million colored people held under an incessant, galling, and tremendous pressure to abandon that claim. If they would but say: "All we want is education. All we want it...
الصفحة 308 - ... poverty, their ignorance, their superstitious fears and, perhaps more than all, the apathy that comes with a broken spirit, bind them in their place and to their fate. To apply to human beings in their condition, maxims derived from the contemplation of the Economic Man, is little lees than preposterous. Such populations do not migrate ; they abide in their lot; sinking lower in helplessness, hopelessness and squalor; economic forces have not the slightest virtue either to give them higher wages,...
الصفحة 284 - ... long career of usefulness. * * * Wherever the services of our undergraduates have been once had, there they are held most in demand — a testimonial to their efficiency and the need of them as workers in the common schools." From report of the American Missionary Association committee in 1891. — "The total number under instruction during the year has increased by several hundred, and almost every school is crowded to overflowing, compelling in many cases the sad necessity of sending away great...

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