The Foreign Missionary: An Incarnation of a World MovementFleming H. Revell Company, 1907 - 412 pages |
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... duty to give them the clearer knowledge which , like Simeon of old , they would eagerly welcome , nor does it modify in the least our obligation towards the masses who are living on a lower level . The light shines for all and those who ...
... duty to give them the clearer knowledge which , like Simeon of old , they would eagerly welcome , nor does it modify in the least our obligation towards the masses who are living on a lower level . The light shines for all and those who ...
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... duty imposed , we must regard it as the weightiest of utterances . If it were the only motive , foreign missionary work would be a mechanical performance of duty , the missionary merely an obedient soldier ; but taken in connection with ...
... duty imposed , we must regard it as the weightiest of utterances . If it were the only motive , foreign missionary work would be a mechanical performance of duty , the missionary merely an obedient soldier ; but taken in connection with ...
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... duty of the Church , the main work of the Church .. So the first disciples understood it , for they immediately went forth as mission- aries . It is interesting to note that the word " apostle " is derived from a Greek word which means ...
... duty of the Church , the main work of the Church .. So the first disciples understood it , for they immediately went forth as mission- aries . It is interesting to note that the word " apostle " is derived from a Greek word which means ...
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... duty would not be affected . We are to do what is right , though we never see visible results . Christ's life was a failure , from the viewpoint of His own generation ; so were the efforts of Paul and Peter and Stephen ; but later ...
... duty would not be affected . We are to do what is right , though we never see visible results . Christ's life was a failure , from the viewpoint of His own generation ; so were the efforts of Paul and Peter and Stephen ; but later ...
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... duty of coöperating in this work . Every man who believes in God and who finds joy in Christ , aye , every man who receives the benefits of Christianity , whether he is personally a disciple of Christ or not , is bound to aid the effort ...
... duty of coöperating in this work . Every man who believes in God and who finds joy in Christ , aye , every man who receives the benefits of Christianity , whether he is personally a disciple of Christ or not , is bound to aid the effort ...
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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 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 322 - 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 380 - 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 301 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O 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 382 - 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 367 - 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.
Page 177 - For the words of Milton are true in all times, and were never truer than in this : " He who would write heroic poems must make his whole life a heroic poem.