Journal ... during a journey from London to Bagdad. Also, a journal of some months' residence at Bagdad |
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... sent us by the Lord for that very end , and others important to the mission . He seems happy , and I trust is so , which comforts us greatly . There is nothing I feel more difficult than to be understood ; and I apprehend that it is on ...
... sent us by the Lord for that very end , and others important to the mission . He seems happy , and I trust is so , which comforts us greatly . There is nothing I feel more difficult than to be understood ; and I apprehend that it is on ...
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... sent them next morning with an officer by the steam packet to St. Petersburgh to be examined there . When we arrived at Cronstadt , we heard that the ship in which we had at one time intended to come , had struck on the Fal- sterbo Reef ...
... sent them next morning with an officer by the steam packet to St. Petersburgh to be examined there . When we arrived at Cronstadt , we heard that the ship in which we had at one time intended to come , had struck on the Fal- sterbo Reef ...
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... sent to bless them , as their own priest ( of the Greek Church ) only came once a year to receive the dues , and to baptize and marry . They pressed him to stay with them , and promised to give him fish and flour , which last article ...
... sent to bless them , as their own priest ( of the Greek Church ) only came once a year to receive the dues , and to baptize and marry . They pressed him to stay with them , and promised to give him fish and flour , which last article ...
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... sent coffee , sugar , and cakes ; she also gave me a few Russian Testaments for distribution ; ano- ther sent us a quantity of lemons . There is something so overwhelming in all this kindness , that we all feel quite overcome ; and pray ...
... sent coffee , sugar , and cakes ; she also gave me a few Russian Testaments for distribution ; ano- ther sent us a quantity of lemons . There is something so overwhelming in all this kindness , that we all feel quite overcome ; and pray ...
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... sent out , it may perhaps be granted that some measure of blame was to be attached to the missionaries , in that they spent more than they need have done . The first missionaries to this place worked for their bread , and a great ...
... sent out , it may perhaps be granted that some measure of blame was to be attached to the missionaries , in that they spent more than they need have done . The first missionaries to this place worked for their bread , and a great ...
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Aleppo amongst Arabic Armenian arrived Astrakhan Bagdad Baku Bibles bless Brother Dittrick Bussora carriage Charvadar Christ Christian church comfort courier dear brethren dear brother dear friends desire Diarbekir England English Erivan expense Father favour feel gave give God's Gospel Groves happy heard heart Holy hope horses interest journey June Karass kind kindly Kourdish Kourdistan Kourds labour language letters living Lord Lord's Mahomedan Major Taylor Meerza Mehmander ment mercies mind mission missionary Moolah morning Moscow Mosul mountains Mozdok Nestorian never night obtain ourselves party Pasha perhaps Persian person Petersburgh Pfander prayers priest rain reached received rejoice rest road Roman Catholic roubles Russian Sadik Khan Sarepta Scriptures seems sent servant Shiraz Shushee spirit Suleimania Tabreez Teflis Testament things thought tian tion to-day travelling trust truth Turkish versts village wish yacht Zaremba
Popular passages
Page ix - Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee ; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Page 106 - Thus saith the Lord ; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Page vi - And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
Page vi - And when they bring you unto the synagogues and unto magistrates and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say ; for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour, what ye ought to say.
Page xi - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, That thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 61 - But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment : yea, I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing by myself, yet am I not hereby justified ; but He that judgeth me is the Lord.
Page 205 - God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen; yea, and things that are not, to bring to nought things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 206 - Who am I, O Lord God? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come.
Page v - If any man will smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also :' 'If any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also:' 'Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain ; ' though they appear in the form of specific precepts, are intended as descriptive of disposition and character.
Page 70 - Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats ; but God will destroy both it and them.