New Forces in Old China: An Unwelcome But Inevitable Awakening

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F.H. Revell Company, 1904 - 382 sivua
 

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Sivu 363 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Sivu 34 - THINK gently of the erring one ! O let us not forget, However darkly stained by sin, He is our brother yet ! Heir of the same inheritance, Child of the selfsame God, He hath but stumbled in the path We have in weakness trod.
Sivu 34 - if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is. and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be that, in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh, God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!
Sivu 168 - Those who quietly profess and teach these doctrines shall not be harassed or persecuted on account of their faith. Any person, whether citizen of the United States or Chinese convert, who, according to these tenets, peaceably teaches and practices the principles, of Christianity shall in no case be interfered with or molested therefor.
Sivu 240 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Sivu 43 - That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Sivu 102 - he would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries." Korea was rightly called "the hermit nation" until 1882 ; and as for Africa, it was not till 1873 that the world learned of that part of it in which the heroic Livingstone died on his knees, not till 1877 that Stanley staggered into a West Coast settlement after a desperate journey of...
Sivu 129 - ... manhood respected, womanhood honored, and human life held in due regard — when skeptics can find such a place ten miles square on this globe, where the Gospel of Christ has not gone and cleared the way and laid the foundation and made decency and security possible, it will then be in order for the skeptical literati to move thither and there ventilate their views.
Sivu 355 - When the microscopic search of skepticism, which has hunted the heavens and sounded the seas to disprove the existence of a Creator, has turned its attention to human society, and has found a place on this planet ten miles square, where a decent man can live in decency, comfort and security, supporting and educating his children, unspoiled and unpolluted ; a place where age is reverenced...
Sivu 230 - But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

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