The Wesleyan Missionary Notices, Relating Principally to the Foreign Missions First Established by the Rev. John Wesley, M.A. the Rev. Dr. Coke and Others, and Now Carried on Under the Direction of the Methodist ConferenceJames Nichols, 1855 |
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... converted to God , while many others have been led to serious reflection . God has greatly blessed the devoted efforts made there by Sergeant Mealie , and his excellent part- ner , who are as lights shining in a dark place ; and their ...
... converted to God , while many others have been led to serious reflection . God has greatly blessed the devoted efforts made there by Sergeant Mealie , and his excellent part- ner , who are as lights shining in a dark place ; and their ...
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... converting grace of God is greatly needed . Pray for us , that the wilderness may become a fruit- ful field , and the fruitful field as the garden of the Lord ! IT is encouraging to state that the Sabbath and day - schools have , with ...
... converting grace of God is greatly needed . Pray for us , that the wilderness may become a fruit- ful field , and the fruitful field as the garden of the Lord ! IT is encouraging to state that the Sabbath and day - schools have , with ...
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... convert among our deep and often double - dealing Bech- uanas . He was a man of some decision ; he had much good sense , and a readiness of argument in his animadversions on the Heathens , whose lying excuses he often effectually ...
... convert among our deep and often double - dealing Bech- uanas . He was a man of some decision ; he had much good sense , and a readiness of argument in his animadversions on the Heathens , whose lying excuses he often effectually ...
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... converted into cotton plantations . It is easily planted . Deep holes must be made for yams ; but to turn up the earth with a spade suffices for cotton planting , and children may be employed to gather it . And Mr. Thomas has reason to ...
... converted into cotton plantations . It is easily planted . Deep holes must be made for yams ; but to turn up the earth with a spade suffices for cotton planting , and children may be employed to gather it . And Mr. Thomas has reason to ...
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... converted to God , and his peo- ple built up on their most holy faith . VISIT TO VERULAM . I HAVE just returned from a ten days ' tour in the more remote parts of my Circuit . The Sabbath I spent at Verulam , a settlement of importance ...
... converted to God , and his peo- ple built up on their most holy faith . VISIT TO VERULAM . I HAVE just returned from a ten days ' tour in the more remote parts of my Circuit . The Sabbath I spent at Verulam , a settlement of importance ...
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Page 98 - We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 91 - But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort ? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
Page 15 - I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
Page 34 - Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
Page 34 - This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other ; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Page 194 - ... through our Lord Jesus Christ ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working, •whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.
Page 205 - His marvellous light : which in time past were not a people, but are now the People of God : which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Page 206 - Gilfillan again smiled scornfully as he made this indirect answer, — " Even thus are the children of this world wiser in their generation than the children of light...
Page 98 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 32 - In a rapture of joy My life I employ, The God of my life to proclaim ; 'Tis worth living for this, To administer bliss And salvation in Jesus's name.