Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern AfricaR. Carter, 1845 - 406 pages |
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... arrived at Graaff Reinet on June 29 , after having , with their attendants and cattle , experienced many narrow escapes from lions , panthers , and other wild beasts , as well as from Bushmen and Hottentots , of character still more 28 ...
... arrived at Graaff Reinet on June 29 , after having , with their attendants and cattle , experienced many narrow escapes from lions , panthers , and other wild beasts , as well as from Bushmen and Hottentots , of character still more 28 ...
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... arrived there just before our brethren , a circum- stance which left the latter no reason to doubt of being call- ed of God to labour in that quarter . The brethren received unbounded kindness and attention from the government , and ...
... arrived there just before our brethren , a circum- stance which left the latter no reason to doubt of being call- ed of God to labour in that quarter . The brethren received unbounded kindness and attention from the government , and ...
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... arrived missionary listen to the apparently romantic tale of a veteran of the above order , with the conviction , that the exaggerated picture he drew of past trials must have been the effect of an intellect partially weakened . It is ...
... arrived missionary listen to the apparently romantic tale of a veteran of the above order , with the conviction , that the exaggerated picture he drew of past trials must have been the effect of an intellect partially weakened . It is ...
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... arrived , a tailor by trade , remarking , as he looked on a graceful African team , " How barbarous the people must be not to be able to harness their oxen better ; any one would improve it . " He has not done it yet . He then finds ...
... arrived , a tailor by trade , remarking , as he looked on a graceful African team , " How barbarous the people must be not to be able to harness their oxen better ; any one would improve it . " He has not done it yet . He then finds ...
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... tain , where we had to go twice a day for our nauseous but grateful beverage . At last , when we were beginning to fear that the men had either perished or wandered , Mr. Bartlett ARRIVAL AT PELLA . 77 4 arrived on horseback ,
... tain , where we had to go twice a day for our nauseous but grateful beverage . At last , when we were beginning to fear that the men had either perished or wandered , Mr. Bartlett ARRIVAL AT PELLA . 77 4 arrived on horseback ,
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Page 169 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 359 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone...
Page 216 - However true it may have been, or still may be, that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, it is a libel upon the curiosity of mankind to attribute this ignorance to indifference.
Page 388 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 23 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence ; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes." Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Page 304 - Call upon me in the time of trouble, and I will deliver thee.
Page 22 - There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon : and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Page 70 - In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Page 96 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings ; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 9 - ... advanced, romping and playing together, the children of nature, through the live-long day, become habituated to a language of their own. The more voluble condescend to the less precocious, and thus, from this infant Babel, proceeds a dialect composed of a host of mongrel words and phrases, joined together without rule, and in the course of a generation the entire character of the language is changed.