Griffith John: The Story of Fifty Years in ChinaReligious Tract Society, 1906 - 544 sivua |
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Sivu 479 - Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies : Thou hast anointed my head with oil ; my cup runneth over.
Sivu 274 - And let us not be weary in well-doing ; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Sivu 107 - The principles of the Christian religion, as professed by the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, are recognized as teaching men to do good, and to do to others as they would have others do to them.
Sivu 276 - Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Sivu 63 - Tien-Cheu ; for in the first are the handsomest people, in the second the richest luxuries, and in the third the best coffins.
Sivu 261 - ... were made to yield precedence to ritual forms and outward ceremonies. And yet, never did the polytheism of ancient or of modern Rome assign a seat among the demi-gods to a hero of nobler mould, or of more exalted magnanimity, than Francis Xavier.
Sivu 255 - I have heard of men using the doctrines of our great land to change barbarians, but I have never yet heard of any being changed by barbarians.
Sivu 283 - Oh, young men, think of it ; dwell upon it ; and if you hear the voice of God bid you go, manfully take up your cross and go, and you will never cease to " thank Christ Jesus our Lord " for counting you worthy to be missionaries.
Sivu 246 - It is a duty which they owe to themselves, as well as to their Protestant fellow-subjects, whose good opinion they value, to endeavor once more to remove the false imputations that have been frequently cast upon the faith and discipline of that Church which is intrusted to their care, that all may be enabled to know with accuracy their genuine principles.
Sivu 81 - ... depends. Though not to be compared as a work of art with canals existing in the West, yet, even to this day, there is no work in Asia which can compare with it, and when first completed there was none equal to it in the world.