Memoirs of American Missionaries, Formerly Connected with the Society of Inquiry Respecting Missions, in the Andover Theological Seminary: Embracing a History of the Society, Etc., with an Introductory Essay"Consists of a historical sketch of the society and synopses of its standing committees; brief biographies of some 60 members of the society who became missionaries to the American Indians or missionaries in foreign lands; a selection of letters received from these missionaries; and dissertations read before the society. Of particular interest is a Report of the committee on Colonization (pp. 296-317) on a plan to resettle the free black population of the United States on the coast of Africa. To achieve this end, the committee resolves to support the work of the American ColonizationSociety and to callt he public's attention to the matter."--Book dealer's description. |
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Page 257 - Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer; behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried ; and ye shall have tribulation ten days : be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Page 215 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Page 299 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 299 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 16 - ... in relation to the probable success and the difficulties attending such an attempt; and that, after examining all the information which they can obtain, they consider themselves as devoted to this work for life, whenever God, in his providence, shall open the way.
Page 207 - Redeemer, was that he should see the travail of his soul ; that he should have the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession...
Page 66 - The first idea his father had of his change of mind, arose from an observation he made, " that he could not conceive of any course of life in which to pass the rest of his days, that would prove so pleasant, as to go and communicate the gospel salvation to the poor heathen.
Page 258 - It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Page 16 - They beg leave to state, that their minds have been long impressed with the duty and importance of personally attempting a mission to the heathen...
Page 312 - There are men in the southern states, who long to do something effectual for the benefit of their slaves, and would gladly emancipate them, did not prudence and compassion alike forbid such a measure, of.