Speeches on missions. Ed. by H. RowleyW. W. Gardner, 1874 - 347 pages |
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Page 99 - Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Page 330 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 99 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him ; and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.
Page 273 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 80 - I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Page 82 - By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples because ye have love one to another.
Page 191 - I believed in you the length of a Clergyman. I would have the Church to be the first building. A Colony of Germans is on its way out here with a lot of Portuguese. Were they Englishmen with their religious institutions along with them, slavery in this region would be an impossibility. I have more confidence in my countrymen and countrywomen than in any other people under the sun.
Page 103 - India for thirty years. He told me that, upon one occasion, the rajah of Gwalior, the ancestor of that rajah who has stood so faithfully by us in the present mutinies, said to him, ' How is it that you English have so great a command over us?
Page 319 - Calvin, who thereby gave another proof that " the blood of the martyr is the seed of the Church," for Geneva is now one of the strongholds of the Unitarian faith.
Page 262 - Man goeth forth to his work, and to his labour, until the evening.