Facts and Reflections on the Condition of the Heathen World, and the Importance of Missions...Free-will Baptist printing establishment, W. Burr, printer, 1848 - 174 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 58 - Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low : and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together ; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
الصفحة 63 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
الصفحة 25 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
الصفحة 15 - Bakones , the aborigines of the country. I ascended by the notched trunk, and found, to my amazement, no less than seventeen of these aerial abodes, and three others unfinished. On reaching the topmost hut , about thirty feet from the ground , I entered , and sat down. Its only furniture was the hay which covered the floor, a spear, a spoon, and a bowl full of locusts. Not having eaten...
الصفحة 55 - God, an awakening took place among us. I say therefore, Brethren, preach Christ our Saviour and his sufferings and death, if you would have your words to gain entrance among the heathen."* The following year, 1742, Rauch was joined by * T.oskiel's History, Part II.
الصفحة 82 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
الصفحة 15 - Seeing some individuals employed on the ground under its shade, and the conical points of what looked like houses in miniature protruding through its evergreen foliage, I proceeded thither, and found that the tree was inhabited by several families of Bakones; the aborigines of the country. I ascended by the notched trunk, and found, to my amazement, no less than seventeen of these aerial abodes, and three others unfinished.
الصفحة 126 - Others come from the frontiers of Kathay, a hundred miles north of Ava — " Sir, we have seen a writing that tells about an eternal God. Are you the man that gives away such writings ? If so, pray give us one, for we want to know the truth before we die.
الصفحة 54 - I have been a heathen and have grown old among the heathen; therefore I know how heathen think. Once a preacher came and began to explain to us, that there was a God. We answered, — ' Dost thou think us so ignorant as not to know that ? Go back to the place from whence thou earnest. Then again another preacher came and began to teach us and to say, " You must not steal, nor lie. nor get drunk,