Mission life, ed. by J.J. HalcombeJohn Joseph Halcombe 1882 |
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Africa Ahmednuggur amongst asked attended baptism baptized Bedawîn Bishop blind boat boys Brahman brought Calcutta called caste catechist chaplain chief Chinese Christ Christian Church Circassians clergy clergyman College colony congregation converts Coolies Demarara Diocese discipline district Divine England English Es-Salt European faith father friends girls give Gospel Government hand heathen Hindu Hinduism Holy hope India island J. R. Hill labour Lahore land large number live Luke Rivington Makua Marathi marriage Masasi matter miles Mission Missionary Mohammedan moral morning Mussulman native Christians never night Norfolk Island once Oxford Mission parish passed Peshawur poor Prayer present priest prison reached religion religious round seemed Service slave Society spirit station Sunday teacher teaching things thought tion told town Urdu village visited whilst wife women words worship young Zanzibar
Popular passages
Page 359 - Tis not for man to trifle ! Life is brief, And sin is here. Our age is but the falling of a leaf, A dropping tear. We have no time to sport away the hours, All must be earnest in a world like ours. Not many lives, but only one have we,— One, only one ; — How sacred should that one life ever be — That narrow span ! — Day after day filled up with blessed toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil.
Page 426 - Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of His great mercy to take unto Himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground .... in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life...
Page 523 - Praise the Lord, O my soul : and all that is within me praise his holy Name. Praise the Lord, O my soul : and forget not all his benefits...
Page 386 - Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Page 173 - We are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that we should show forth the praises of him who hath called us out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Page 149 - ... that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 303 - But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither : notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee : 23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 326 - Roy had left it, a mere platform, where people of different creeds used to assemble week after week to listen to the discourses and hymns. Men by joining it pledged nothing, incurred nothing, and lost nothing. Many who attended these services were idolaters at home, and in fact knew not what the spiritual worship of the one true God meant. He instantly applied himself to remove this spiritual want. He bound himself and...
Page 207 - I desire to be broad as the charity of Almighty God, who maketh His sun to shine on the evil and the good : who hateth no man, and who loveth the poorest Hindoo more than all their committees or all their Churches.
Page 217 - There was a time when I had no care or concern for the heathen — that was when I had no care or concern for my own soul.