 | 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...accordance with the usual custom. Mackay was the youngest of the party, being twenty-seven years of age, and was called upon last. " There is one thing," were...that might be felt. Then he went on : " Yes, is it all likely that eight Englishmen should start for Central Africa, and all be alive six months after... | |
 | Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 672
...responses. The last to speak was Mr. Mackay, the youngest of the band, who said, " There is one thing which my brethren have not said and which I want to...months they will probably hear that one of us is dead. Is it at all likely that eight Englishmen should start for central Africa and all be alive six months... | |
 | Edward Payson Tenney - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 714
...Uganda. When Alexander Mackay took leave of the Church Missionary Society committee in 1876, he said: "I want to remind the committee that within six months they will probably hear that one of us is dead. Is it at all likely that eight Englishmen should start for Central Africa and all be alive after six... | |
 | Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 632
...words manifested the courage and martial spirit of a veteran soldier. " There is one thing," he said, " which my brethren have not said and which I want to...will probably hear that one of us is dead." The words startled every one present and there was profound silence. "Yes," he resumed, " is it at all likely... | |
 | Eugene Stock - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 972
...to Mackay's say a few words in reply to the Instructions. " There is one words'!" thing." he said, "which my brethren have not said, and which I want...startling, and there was a silence that might be felt. "Yes," he continued; "is it at all likely that eight Englishmen should start for Central Africa, and... | |
 | Stephen Earl Taylor - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...reply. Alexander Mackay, the youngest of the five, was called upon last. He said: "There is one thing which my brethren have not said, and which I want...they will probably hear that one of us is dead." The sentence startled the committee, and after a moment of silence which might be felt, Mackay said: "Yes,... | |
 | Robert Elliott Speer - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...as much in the farewell meeting before leaving England. "I want to remind the committee," he said, " that within six months they will probably hear that one of us is dead." In the silence that followed, he went on, " Yes, is it at all likely that eight Englishmen should start... | |
 | Johannes Du Plessis - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 242
...Livlezi River, I hope to speak in another letter. CHAPTER III IN THE FEVER DISTRICTS There is one thing -which my brethren have not said, and which I want...months they -will probably hear that one of us is dead. Yes ; is it at all likely that eight missionaries should start for Central Africa, and all be alive... | |
 | Wilson Samuel Naylor - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...of Directors is characteristic. "There is one thing which my brethren have not said and which I wish to say. I want to remind the committee that within...months they will probably hear that one of us is dead. Yes, is it at all likely that eight Englishmen should start for Central Africa and all be alive six... | |
 | Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...replied in his turn. Mr. Mackay being the youngest was the last to speak. "There is one thing," he said, "which my brethren have not said, and which I want...months they will probably hear that one of us is dead." He paused, • and there was a solemn stillness in the room. Then, he went on: "Yes; is it at all likely... | |
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Yes ; is it at all likely that eight Englishmen should start for Central Africa and all be alive six months after ? One of us at least — it may be I — will surely fall before that But... 
