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Page viii
... whose peculiar office it is to urge on the Churches the claims of the whole heathen world . WM . CLARKSON , Missionary of the London Missionary Society . CAMBERWELL , March 15th , 1850 . PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION . THE Author , on.
... whose peculiar office it is to urge on the Churches the claims of the whole heathen world . WM . CLARKSON , Missionary of the London Missionary Society . CAMBERWELL , March 15th , 1850 . PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION . THE Author , on.
Page xvi
... heathen ? with Protestant missionaries and the changes ; and they who know its past know - I had almost said intuitively - its present , and , prophetically , its future . An old expression graphically pourtrays the converts and the sys ...
... heathen ? with Protestant missionaries and the changes ; and they who know its past know - I had almost said intuitively - its present , and , prophetically , its future . An old expression graphically pourtrays the converts and the sys ...
Page xvii
... heathenism , —the latter may- the former cannot tolerate us . Rome hates Calvary more than Mecca does . Let any one examine the life of Schultze , or even survey Popish movements at the present time , and this fact will be fully ...
... heathenism , —the latter may- the former cannot tolerate us . Rome hates Calvary more than Mecca does . Let any one examine the life of Schultze , or even survey Popish movements at the present time , and this fact will be fully ...
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... HEATHEN OPPO- SITION " A Standing Army " -Coalitions - Petitions to Government -Infidel Works Cases of Outrage - Appeal to Judicial Courts— MISSIONARY TRIALS - Solitariness of his Position , and Singularity of his Character ...
... HEATHEN OPPO- SITION " A Standing Army " -Coalitions - Petitions to Government -Infidel Works Cases of Outrage - Appeal to Judicial Courts— MISSIONARY TRIALS - Solitariness of his Position , and Singularity of his Character ...
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... heathenism is downward . Each successive age is the corruption of a preceding one ; until at length every vestige of the former faith is ob- literated , and an incongruous mass of wickedness and absurdity takes its place . ” Let us now ...
... heathenism is downward . Each successive age is the corruption of a preceding one ; until at length every vestige of the former faith is ob- literated , and an incongruous mass of wickedness and absurdity takes its place . ” Let us now ...
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Page 37 - If a country remain for a series of years the scene of continued pillage and massacre, so that the villages cannot be inhabited, the scattered villagers nevertheless return whenever the power of peaceable possession revives.
Page 36 - The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything that they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down : revolution succeeds to revolution; Hindu, Pathan, Moghul, Mahratta, Sikh, English are masters in turn ; but the village communities remain the same...
Page 262 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 261 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day.
Page 317 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 36 - An hostile army passes through the country. The village communities collect their cattle within their walls, and let the enemy pass unprovoked. If plunder and devastation be directed against themselves, and the force employed be irresistible, they flee to friendly villages at a distance, but when the storm has passed over they return and resume their occupations.
Page 295 - And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation...
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