Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern AfricaJ. Snow, 1846 - 164 pages |
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... scarcely one ex- on her bosom , bearing the ensigns of the mystery of Babylon , the crescent of the false prophet , and the emblems of pagan darkness , from the shores of the Mediterranean to the colony of the Cape of Good Hope . " The ...
... scarcely one ex- on her bosom , bearing the ensigns of the mystery of Babylon , the crescent of the false prophet , and the emblems of pagan darkness , from the shores of the Mediterranean to the colony of the Cape of Good Hope . " The ...
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... scarcely any difficulty . All use the same weapons . the quiver , bow , and poisoned arrows , of which the tribes beyond are ignorant , except such as border on them , like the Batlapis , who say they adopted that new mode of warfare in ...
... scarcely any difficulty . All use the same weapons . the quiver , bow , and poisoned arrows , of which the tribes beyond are ignorant , except such as border on them , like the Batlapis , who say they adopted that new mode of warfare in ...
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... scarcely a family is to be It is impossible to look over these now un- inhabited plains and mountain - glens without feeling the deepest melancholy , while the winds moaning in the vale seem to echo back the sound , " Where are they ...
... scarcely a family is to be It is impossible to look over these now un- inhabited plains and mountain - glens without feeling the deepest melancholy , while the winds moaning in the vale seem to echo back the sound , " Where are they ...
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... scarcely any possibility of making progress among a people so proscribed by government , and at the mercy of their white neighbours , on whom they could not look without indignation , as any other human beings would have done in similar ...
... scarcely any possibility of making progress among a people so proscribed by government , and at the mercy of their white neighbours , on whom they could not look without indignation , as any other human beings would have done in similar ...
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... scarcely doublejees ( pence ) sufficient to carry him back to the colony . ' 6 " It does not appear that any one of this party died a natural death . Faber , ' said my informant , who was well acquainted with all the circumstances ...
... scarcely doublejees ( pence ) sufficient to carry him back to the colony . ' 6 " It does not appear that any one of this party died a natural death . Faber , ' said my informant , who was well acquainted with all the circumstances ...
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Africaner appeared arrived attack attendants Barolongs Batlapis Bauangketsi Bechuanas Berend blessing brought Bushmen called Cape Town cattle character chief Christian colony Corannas course dark desert distance Divine Divine grace Dutch language enemy eyes farmers father fear feel fire fled gospel gospel of Luke Graaff Reinet Griqua Town ground hand head hear heard heart heathen hills horses Hottentots human hyenas inhabitants journey Kafirs killed king Kuruman labours language leaving lion Lithako living London Missionary Society look Makaba Mantatees Matabele miles mind mission missionary Morimo morning Moselekatse Mothibi mountains Namaqua-land Namaquas natives never night object obtain Orange River oxen party plain present prey racter rain rain-maker reached reason remarks replied savage scarcely seen seized sent sionary soon soul spear spot station things tion traveller tribes village wagon warriors Waterboer women Zak River
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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.