The Christian keepsake and missionary annual, ed. by W. Ellis. [Continued as] Christian keepsakerev William Ellis 1835 |
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... regard an authentic memorial of the earliest Chris- tians of Britain , or a history of her first native preachers . Such a record would be numbered among our choicest treasures , and , connected with the mental and moral portraitures ...
... regard an authentic memorial of the earliest Chris- tians of Britain , or a history of her first native preachers . Such a record would be numbered among our choicest treasures , and , connected with the mental and moral portraitures ...
Page 108
... regard his movements and his character will be proportionably increased . Such an individual is Leang Afa , the first native evangelist in China . When we consider the process by which his mind was gradually enlightened , the subsequent ...
... regard his movements and his character will be proportionably increased . Such an individual is Leang Afa , the first native evangelist in China . When we consider the process by which his mind was gradually enlightened , the subsequent ...
Page 118
... regard to the second verse of the chapter , were generally entertained by Christians , the labourers would not be so dispropor- tioned in numbers to the extensive harvest . " His varied and important labours have been con- tinued with ...
... regard to the second verse of the chapter , were generally entertained by Christians , the labourers would not be so dispropor- tioned in numbers to the extensive harvest . " His varied and important labours have been con- tinued with ...
Page 120
... regard all attempts to propagate Christianity , and their efforts to suppress it where it was known to exist , as evinced by the edicts published in the early period of the history of the mission , render the exercise of great prudence ...
... regard all attempts to propagate Christianity , and their efforts to suppress it where it was known to exist , as evinced by the edicts published in the early period of the history of the mission , render the exercise of great prudence ...
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... regard to the requirements of imagined insatiate deities . This is the case in China , where the degradation to which the female sex is reduced causes the destruction of female infants to such an extent , that the police carts are said ...
... regard to the requirements of imagined insatiate deities . This is the case in China , where the degradation to which the female sex is reduced causes the destruction of female infants to such an extent , that the police carts are said ...
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Page 170 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 197 - Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Page 188 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide...
Page 203 - And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
Page 198 - And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman ; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
Page 288 - Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry ; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Page 199 - Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
Page 198 - Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, "This is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: and the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
Page 85 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 203 - Is it well with thee ? is it well with thy husband ? is it well with the child ? And she answered, It is well.