Missions in South India, Volume 10W.H. Dalton, 1854 - 191 pages |
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... thing but their tracts , had declared they would become Christians . The translation of the New Testament was completed before Mr. Pritchett's death , and put , I believe , into circulation . That of the Old Testament was far advanced ...
... thing but their tracts , had declared they would become Christians . The translation of the New Testament was completed before Mr. Pritchett's death , and put , I believe , into circulation . That of the Old Testament was far advanced ...
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... things , too much importance should not be attributed to them : the very circum- stances of the case forbid it . At Peddapur , a blacksmith several times visited Mr. Gordon , declaring his dissatisfaction with Hinduism , and his desire ...
... things , too much importance should not be attributed to them : the very circum- stances of the case forbid it . At Peddapur , a blacksmith several times visited Mr. Gordon , declaring his dissatisfaction with Hinduism , and his desire ...
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... thing invites the missionary to come forth and exhibit to perishing idolaters the life- giving gospel of Christ . The town of Bangalore , in the centre of the province , is its chief city .. It contains more than 100,000 inhabitants ...
... thing invites the missionary to come forth and exhibit to perishing idolaters the life- giving gospel of Christ . The town of Bangalore , in the centre of the province , is its chief city .. It contains more than 100,000 inhabitants ...
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... Things went on unsatisfactorily for ten years , till 1830 ; when the system of government was changed , the province was taken under the charge of the Hon . East India Company and the way for preaching the gospel every where was opened ...
... Things went on unsatisfactorily for ten years , till 1830 ; when the system of government was changed , the province was taken under the charge of the Hon . East India Company and the way for preaching the gospel every where was opened ...
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... things we must pass by , in order rather to describe the progress of the gospel among the people generally . Instances might readily be multiplied of individual conversions that have occurred in connection with these various missions ...
... things we must pass by , in order rather to describe the progress of the gospel among the people generally . Instances might readily be multiplied of individual conversions that have occurred in connection with these various missions ...
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Page 150 - These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land. Where dwell we now ? See rudely swell Crag over crag, and fell o'er fell. Ask we this savage hill we tread, For...
Page 36 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Page 100 - We believe all that Paul meant, when he said, speaking of the general character of the heathen world in his time, " There is none that is righteous, no, not one; there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God ; they have all gone out of the way, there is none that doeth good, or is a doer of good, no, not one...
Page 148 - With the isolated villages of the desert it is far otherwise. They have no such meetings; they are compelled to traverse the wilds, often to a great distance from their native village. On such occasions, fathers and mothers, and all who can bear a burden, often set out for weeks at a time, and leave their children to the care of two or three infirm old people. The infant progeny, some of whom are beginning to lisp, while others can just master a whole sentence, and those still...
Page 148 - ... infirm old people. The infant progeny, some of whom are beginning to lisp, while others can just master a whole sentence, and those still further advanced, romping and playing together, the children of nature, through the livelong day, become habituated to a language of their own.
Page 166 - The worhing of a moral change among the people BY THE PROGRESS OF GENERAL INSTRUCTION AND CONSEQUENT CIVILIZATION can alone eradicate from among them the inclination to indulge in rites so horrible. But though the entire suppression of the practice of human sacrifice among this wild and barbarous race must be the work of time, yet much may be done even now, and no proper exertion should be omitted towards checking the frequency of the crime by the terror of just punishment.
Page 149 - ... 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.
Page 130 - ... by him : all their priests, all their scholars and students, were under his ecclesiastical authority. If any were obnoxious to him, or to the priests generally, by peculiar excellence or fidelity, he could refuse ordination, or he could forbid them to preach, or by himself he could keep up the error of ordaining boys as deacons. As head of the Mission, he could check, or alter, or refuse to sanction, measures for the improvement of the people. " In the course of time, all this opposition was...
Page 67 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 148 - ... tribes of Africa numbers of a nomadic character, whose origin will throw light on the history of the Bushmen. A parallel is furnished by the following facts of the case, which have hundreds of times come under my own observation, during a residence of more than twenty years among the Bechuana tribes. Connected with each of the towns among that people, there are great numbers of what are called "Balala...