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... feeling assured that , under God , the adaptation of the agency to the work to be accomplished is of the first importance . Among these Missionaries there have been , and still are , men of superior education ; but the generality have ...
... feeling assured that , under God , the adaptation of the agency to the work to be accomplished is of the first importance . Among these Missionaries there have been , and still are , men of superior education ; but the generality have ...
Page xv
... feeling a deep interest , and making some effort to aid this hallowed object . The Lord works by human instrumentality , the universe is a universe of means , but the Society must look through the means to the hand that moves them , to ...
... feeling a deep interest , and making some effort to aid this hallowed object . The Lord works by human instrumentality , the universe is a universe of means , but the Society must look through the means to the hand that moves them , to ...
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... just been brutally murdered in the execution of his duty - I could not but feel impressed with the circumstance , that the first person I casually addressed in such a neighbourhood , should prove by his 8 A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF.
... just been brutally murdered in the execution of his duty - I could not but feel impressed with the circumstance , that the first person I casually addressed in such a neighbourhood , should prove by his 8 A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF.
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... feel surprised she should have many dupes . Mrs. was in the habit , I am informed , of waving a lighted torch outside her window every morning at two o'clock . She always received my missionary visits very re- spectfully , and listened ...
... feel surprised she should have many dupes . Mrs. was in the habit , I am informed , of waving a lighted torch outside her window every morning at two o'clock . She always received my missionary visits very re- spectfully , and listened ...
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... feel herself a sinner- previously she always maintained the contrary . I told her it was useless to talk about repentance unless she broke off her sins , and urged her to give up fortune - telling . She would not promise , she said . A ...
... feel herself a sinner- previously she always maintained the contrary . I told her it was useless to talk about repentance unless she broke off her sins , and urged her to give up fortune - telling . She would not promise , she said . A ...
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