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arrival attended bêche-de-mer become Christian blessing body Calvert cannibal canoe chapel Christ Christian circuit club cocoa-nut death earnest eaten enemy favour fear feet Fiji Fijian Fijian language Friendly Islands friends give gods Gospel greatly hand heart heathen hundred influence Jesus killed king king's labour Lakemba land language Levuka live Lomaloma Lord Lotu Lyth mats Mbau Mbau chief Mbua miles mission mission-house missionaries murdered Nakelo Nandi native Ndengei night offered once Oneata Ovalau party peace persons pray prayer preacher present priest rank Ratu Ratu Nggara reached received religion Rewa Sabbath sail sent sinnet Somosomo soon station strangled supply Tanoa teachers temple Thakombau things Tongans town Tui Levuka Tui Nayau Vanua Levu Vatoa Verani vessel Viti Levu Viwa Vunivalu Waterhouse wife wives woman women worship yams yaqona young
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Page 506 - They did promise and vow three things in my name. First, that I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Page 514 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not : yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Page 383 - And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, And their queens thy nursing mothers: They shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, And lick up the dust of thy feet ; And thou shalt know that I am the Lord: For they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
Page 520 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded...
Page 430 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Page 170 - For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
Page 97 - And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim : and Absalom invited all the king's sons.
Page 293 - And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: 18. Where they crucified him, and two others with him, on either side one. and Jesus in the midst.
Page 206 - when any one faints or dies, their spirit, it is said, may sometimes be brought back by calling after it ; and occasionally the ludicrous scene is witnessed of a stout man lying at full length, and bawling out lustily for the return of his own soul.
Page 192 - " It is I ! " fill the air, and the god is supposed thus ' to notify his approach. While giving the answer the ' priest's eyes stand out and roll as in a frenzy; his ' voice is unnatural, his face pale, his lips livid, his ' breathing depressed, and his entire appearance like that ' of a furious madman; the sweat runs from every pore, ' and tears start from his strained eyes; after which the ' symptoms gradually disappear.