Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern AfricaJ. Snow, 1846 - 164 pages |
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Page 24 - and casting the seed into an ungenial soil, where, though in some instances it remained long buried, it eventually produced " an abundance of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; the fruit whereof shall shake like Lebanon!" To none is this comparison more applicable than to Dr.
Page 17 - sent forth her missionaries more than a century ago, first to the negroes of the West, and then to the fur-clad inhabitants of Greenland. " Fired with a zeal peculiar, they defy The rage and rigour of a polar sky, And plant successfully sweet Sharon's rose On icy plains, and in eternal snows.
Page 96 - as the ministers of God, in much patience, in Afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watching, in fastings,
Page 312 - united again and again in fervent supplication to Him who had said, " Call upon me in the time of trouble, and I will deliver." Our souls sickened at the idea of seeing the ground of the mission station dyed with human blood, and we felt a strong persuasion that it would be prevented. Another night, in which
Page 394 - If there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels of mercies
Page 222 - that the one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives." It was at noonday when a fine large hartebeest (khama of the Bechuanas.) the swiftest of the antelope species,* darted close
Page 179 - He who knew his Lord's will, and did it not, shall be beaten with many stripes ; but he who knew not his Lord's will. and
Page 39 - but suffer the dirt to accumulate, so that it will hang a considerable length from their elbows. Their huts are formed by digging a hole in the earth about three feet deep, and then making a roof of reeds, which is however insufficient to keep off the rains. Here they lie close together
Page 39 - as they are able to crawl about in the field. In some few instances, however, you meet with a spark of natural affection, which places them on a level with the brute creation." Oh the miseries to which human nature is heir! Hard is the Bushman's lot, friendless, forsaken, an outcast from
Page 396 - reason for such unlocked for kindness to strangers. The solitary tear stole down her sable cheek, when she replied, " I love Him whose servant you are, and surely it is my duty to give you a cup of cold water in his name. My heart is full, therefore