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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... thousands away . The last rush has been tremendous , and is still going on . These great changes are ex- ceedingly ... thousand , scattered on the hills and in the gullies . Nor have we reached the end of the exodus . The winter has ...
... thousands away . The last rush has been tremendous , and is still going on . These great changes are ex- ceedingly ... thousand , scattered on the hills and in the gullies . Nor have we reached the end of the exodus . The winter has ...
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... thousand persons . " We have also in efficient operation four public day - schools , attended by nearly three hundred scholars . " In conclusion , we trust that Your Excellency will long be preserved to administer the government of this ...
... thousand persons . " We have also in efficient operation four public day - schools , attended by nearly three hundred scholars . " In conclusion , we trust that Your Excellency will long be preserved to administer the government of this ...
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... thousands of fine woolled sheep , which metamorphose stunted shaggy bush into fat mutton and fine fleece , making their proprietors wealthy men . My labours in the town are confined Feb. , It to two classes , English and Fingoe , who ...
... thousands of fine woolled sheep , which metamorphose stunted shaggy bush into fat mutton and fine fleece , making their proprietors wealthy men . My labours in the town are confined Feb. , It to two classes , English and Fingoe , who ...
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... thousand persons have already fallen victims to the fell destroyer , -death . So you see that , from our proximity to that island , we are in great danger of a second visita- tion . But we throw ourselves Divine protection . May our ...
... thousand persons have already fallen victims to the fell destroyer , -death . So you see that , from our proximity to that island , we are in great danger of a second visita- tion . But we throw ourselves Divine protection . May our ...
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... thousand to this date . My mind is kept in perfect peace , stayed upon God . I am incessantly employed in preparing and dispensing medicines to the poor and others , who could not otherwise procure them . The American spice - mixture ...
... thousand to this date . My mind is kept in perfect peace , stayed upon God . I am incessantly employed in preparing and dispensing medicines to the poor and others , who could not otherwise procure them . The American spice - mixture ...
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Africa amongst arrived attended Beecham blessing brethren British called cause chapel Cheers Chief China Christ Christian church Circuit commenced Committee Conference congregation connexion DAVID HAY death DEVONPORT DISTRICT Ditto Divine England English Extract faith favour Feejee feel Fingoe friends George Cathcart give Gospel grace happy Hear heard heart Heathen honour hope HOXTON-SQUARE hundred India Indians interest island JAMES NICHOLS Jesus John Kaffir King labours land late Leeds LEEDS DISTRICT Letter Lord Meeting ment Messrs Methodist miles Ministers Mission Mission-house Missionary Society months morning native Negapatam NEWCASTLE DISTRICT Nomuka pray prayer prayer-meeting preached Preacher present received rejoice religious Robert Young Rotumah Sabbath sent Sierra-Leone sionary souls South Spilsby spirit Stations Teachers thankful thing Thomas tion Tonga town TRICT truth Tui Levuka Vavau village Wesleyan Missionary William worship young
Popular passages
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.