Lives of Missionaries: India : third series : Bishop Middleton, Bishop HeberSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1863 - 291 pages |
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administered afterwards ancient appearance Archdeacon arrived attended beautiful better Bishop Heber Bishop Middleton Bishop preached blessing Bombay Brahmins British Calcutta Ceylon chaplain Christ Christianity in India Church Missionary Society Cingalese clergy Colombo Communion confirmed congregation consecrated conversation Corrie Dacca death delight Diamond Harbour diocese Divine Service duty England English European feeling flock Gospel Government Governor heart heathen Hindoo Hindoostanee Hodnet holy honour hope India inhabitants interest island Jaffna journey labours land language Lucknow Madras Malabar means Meerut ment mind minister mission morning mountains Mussulmans native Christians night officers Palamcottah passed pastoral Penang persons pleased poor Portuguese pray prayers present priest promised Promoting Christian Knowledge racter Rajah received regret religion religious residents respect round Salsette says Scriptures seen sermon Society for Promoting spirit station Sunday Syrian Tanjore tion Tranquebar Travancore travelling village voyage whole writes the Bishop
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Page 91 - Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ : that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, witji one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Page 122 - We meekly beseech thee, O Father, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness ; that, when we shall depart this life, we may rest in him, as our hope is this our brother doth...
Page 51 - And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men...
Page 74 - But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to them that are weak.
Page 284 - This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ ; not by water only, but by water aud blood.
Page 270 - A shepherd was mourning over the death of his favourite child, and in the passionate and rebellious feeling of his heart was bitterly complaining that what he loved most tenderly, and was in itself most lovely, had been taken from him. Suddenly a stranger, of grave and venerable appearance, stood before him, and beckoned him forth into the field. It was night, and not a word was spoken till they arrived at the fold, when the stranger thus addressed him : — " When you select one of these lambs from...
Page 140 - ... had disappeared, large tracts of a pale translucent green, such as I had never seen before, except in a prism, and surpassing every effect of paint, or glass, or gem. Every body on board was touched and awed by the glory of the scene, and many observed that such a spectacle alone was worth the whole voyage from England. One circumstance in the scene struck me as different from all which I had been led to expect in a tropical sunset. I mean...
Page 155 - I alluded, the children are allowed to pelt him with stones and mud. The man of whom I am speaking was found in this state and taken care of by a passing European, but if he had died, his skeleton would have lain in the streets till the vultures carried it away, or the magistrates ordered it to be thrown into the river.
Page 120 - ... be denied or mortified, so much as to be forgotten. . . . That he was sometimes deceived in his favorable estimate of mankind, it would be vain to deny; such a guileless, unsuspicious singleness of heart as his cannot always be proof against cunning. But if he had not this worldly knowledge, he wanted it, perhaps, in common with most men of genius and virtue ; the ' wisdom of the serpent ' was almost the only wisdom in which he did not abound.
Page 150 - Town" of Calcutta. The singularity of this spectacle is best and least offensively enjoyed on a noble quay which Lord Hastings built along the shore of the river, where the vessels of all forms and sizes, Arab, Indian, Malay, American, English, the crowds of Brahmins and other Hindoos washing and saying their prayers ; the lighted tapers which, towards sun-set, they throw in, and the broad bright stream which sweeps them by, guiltless of their impiety and unconscious of their homage, afford a scene...