Remains of the Rev. C. F. Schwartz, Missionary in India, Consisting of His Letters and Journals: With a Sketch of His Life |
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Page 120 - I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Page 296 - And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her : and the Highest himself shall establish her.
Page 58 - Senior Chaplain at Fort St George. " REVEREND SIR, " I am directed by the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, to...
Page 22 - Our venerable father then inquired whether he sometimes perused the Bible; and concluded with very affecting exhortations, to be mindful of the concerns of his immortal soul. The resident, Mr. Macleod, who had been on a visit to Trichinapally for some weeks, hearing on his arrival the ill state of Mr.
Page 22 - As the due administration of justice is indispensably necessary for the prosperity and happiness of every state, I request you will establish regular courts, and be careful that impartial justice be administered. I heartily wish you would renounce your idolatry, and serve and honour the only true God. May He be mersiful, and enable you to do it...
Page 26 - ... and exertion to remove him to a chair, when he would sit up. These exertions contributed to weaken him more and more. " During his last illness, the Rev. Mr. Gericke visited him frequently, and spent much of his time with him in conversing on the precious promises of God through Christ, in singing awakening hymns, and in offering his fervent prayers to God to comfort and strengthen his aged servant under his severe sufferings, to continue and increase his divine blessing upon his...
Page 63 - When he put on the robe of honour, and was clothed with the perfection of glory, when he went up to the holy altar, he made the garment of holiness honourable. When he took the portions out of the priests...
Page 23 - Before he received the Lord's Supper, he put up a long and affecting prayer. To hear this eminent servant of Christ, who had faithfully served his Redeemer very near half a century, disclaiming all merit of his own, humbling himself before the footstool of the Divine Majesty as the chief of...
Page 18 - Malabar school children in the doctrines of Christianity. He was very solicitous for their improvement in knowledge and piety, and particularly for those whom he had chosen and was training up for the service of the church; for whose benefit he wrote, during the latter part of his life, an explanation of the principal doctrines of Christianity, an abridgment of Bishop Newton's Exposition of the Revelation, and some other books.
Page 21 - In conversing with another heathen of consequence, he expressed his great regret at leaving him in his idolatry, when he was entering into eternity ; and added the following words. ' I have often exhorted and warned you, but you have hitherto disregarded it. You esteem and honor the creature more than the Creator.