The Foreign Missionary: An Incarnation of a World MovementFleming H. Revell Company, 1907 - 412 pages |
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... gifts . Mission boards often find it difficult to sus- tain interest in apparently unproductive fields , but compara- tively easy to arouse enthusiasm for fields in which converts are quickly made . The churches are eager and even impa ...
... gifts . Mission boards often find it difficult to sus- tain interest in apparently unproductive fields , but compara- tively easy to arouse enthusiasm for fields in which converts are quickly made . The churches are eager and even impa ...
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... gifts and prayers for the cause and perhaps a strong desire to go to the foreign field . But what object is the missionary to seek when he gets there and by what methods is he to accomplish his purpose ? Of course all know in a gen ...
... gifts and prayers for the cause and perhaps a strong desire to go to the foreign field . But what object is the missionary to seek when he gets there and by what methods is he to accomplish his purpose ? Of course all know in a gen ...
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... gifts to one field , while others equally or per- haps more important , would be neglected . The wise ex- penditure of large sums of money in far distant lands , the checks and safe - guards essential to prudent control , the equitable ...
... gifts to one field , while others equally or per- haps more important , would be neglected . The wise ex- penditure of large sums of money in far distant lands , the checks and safe - guards essential to prudent control , the equitable ...
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... gifts , but with a multitude of details incident to the conduct of so vast and 1 " A Study of Christian Missions , " p . 127 . varied an enterprise and its related financial , industrial , Missionary Administration 51.
... gifts , but with a multitude of details incident to the conduct of so vast and 1 " A Study of Christian Missions , " p . 127 . varied an enterprise and its related financial , industrial , Missionary Administration 51.
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... gifts . In the support of the native work , too , " there is a power in the concentrated individual interest that must be reckoned with and , if possible , encouraged frankly and honestly . " The inclinations of multitudes of earnest ...
... gifts . In the support of the native work , too , " there is a power in the concentrated individual interest that must be reckoned with and , if possible , encouraged frankly and honestly . " The inclinations of multitudes of earnest ...
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Page 267 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 224 - As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Page 173 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 118 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 338 - Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you : but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Page 305 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they.
Page 106 - Go your way and tell John what things ye have seen and heard : the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up...
Page 396 - BLESSED be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead...
Page 398 - Therefore are they before the throne of God ; and they serve Him day and night in His temple ; and He that sitteth on the throne shall spread His tabernacle over them.
Page 383 - Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.