Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern AfricaJ. Snow, 1846 - 164 pages |
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... hyenas - Conversation with Makaba - An attempt at instruction - Makaba's astonishment at the doctrine of a resurrection - Great excitement - Tsusane's rebellion - His visit to the Kuruman - A stratagem- Tsusane's affecting end ...
... hyenas - Conversation with Makaba - An attempt at instruction - Makaba's astonishment at the doctrine of a resurrection - Great excitement - Tsusane's rebellion - His visit to the Kuruman - A stratagem- Tsusane's affecting end ...
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... hyenas , sometimes destroying his sheep and travelling appurtenances , and even seizing the leg of beef at his tent door , though compelled to wander about in quest of lost cattle , and exposed to the perplexing and humbling caprice of ...
... hyenas , sometimes destroying his sheep and travelling appurtenances , and even seizing the leg of beef at his tent door , though compelled to wander about in quest of lost cattle , and exposed to the perplexing and humbling caprice of ...
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... hyenas , jackals , and sometimes the lion himself ; all which come to prowl for bones when a village has been deserted . Next morning our first concern would be to find water ; and taking our beasts of burden , we would seek the track ...
... hyenas , jackals , and sometimes the lion himself ; all which come to prowl for bones when a village has been deserted . Next morning our first concern would be to find water ; and taking our beasts of burden , we would seek the track ...
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... hyenas and other beasts of prey . We had scarcely ended our evening song of praise to Him whose watchful care had guided and preserved us through the day , when the distant and dolorous howls of the hyena , and the no less inharmonious ...
... hyenas and other beasts of prey . We had scarcely ended our evening song of praise to Him whose watchful care had guided and preserved us through the day , when the distant and dolorous howls of the hyena , and the no less inharmonious ...
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... hyenas looking on in a most daring manner , and resolved to attack us . Such as had both hands occupied soon relieved one , and with stones scared them a little . But , alas ! the light of the little fire we had left had disap- peared ...
... hyenas looking on in a most daring manner , and resolved to attack us . Such as had both hands occupied soon relieved one , and with stones scared them a little . But , alas ! the light of the little fire we had left had disap- peared ...
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Page 79 - 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 39 - 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 50 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 8 - 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 161 - 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 149 - 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 160 - God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved ; " so he had now another error to oppose.
Page 80 - And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
Page 135 - Seeing some individuals employed on the ground under its shade, and the conical points of what looked like houses in miniature protruding through its evergreen foliage, I proceeded thither, and found that the tree was inhabited by several families of Bakones, the aborigines of the country. I ascended by the notched trunk, and found, to my amazement, no less than seventeen of these aerial abodes, and three others unfinished. On reaching the topmost hut, about thirty feet from the ground, I entered,...
Page 9 - 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.