 | 1828
...inflexible opposition of the EastIndia Company. It was said, at the time, that one of the directors declared he would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries. Whatever may be said of the impiety of this speech, there is reason to fear that it had too much sincerity.... | |
 | John Morison - 1844 - 571 sivua
...president of the Board of Control. It has been publicly stated, that " one of the directors declared he would rather see a band of devils in India, than a band of missionaries." Every effort was made to overcome this opposition. Mr. Haldane was personally well acquainted with... | |
 | PARTRIDGE AND OAKEY, PATERNOASTER ROW: - 1852
...by Mr. Wilberforce and others, under the sanction of Bishop Portens; one of the directors declaring that he would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries. In 1816, the attention of Mr. Robert Haldane, who had devoted some years to the study of the Scriptures,... | |
 | Alexander Haldane - 1852 - 708 sivua
...Dr. Bennett, in his Life of Dr. Bogue, " It was said at the time that one of the Directors declared he would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries." Whatever may be alleged of the impiety of this speech, there is no reason to doubt its sincerity. "... | |
 | The Free Church Magazine.january-December 1852.New Series.-VOL.I - 1852
...gospel out of India ; but at the period referred to, one of the directors is reported to have said, " He would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries,"—and that opinion prevailed. Hoping against hope, Robert Haldane still wished to be... | |
 | William Hanna - 1858 - 358 sivua
...acts of any Government. One of the Indian Directors declared (says Dr. Bo'gue's biographer), — " he would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries." Mr. Haldane viewed this refusal as a Providential intimation that he must be a missionary at home —... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - 1859
...India House, though he never went so far as to say, as one of the Directors was reported to have said, that he would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries. When Mr. Haldane applied to the Court of Directors for permission to proceed to India, he received... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1859 - 486 sivua
...WILLIAM RAMSAY, Sec." t " On this occasion, one of the Directors declared, as waa said at the time, ' he would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries.' . . . Nothing truly Christian could obtain the sanction of the majority of those who then ruled the... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1859 - 486 sivua
...Haldane to establish a mission at Benares, was reported •to say, " I * Wayland's Life of Judson, i. 87. would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of Christian missionaries."* Captain Eastwick was, moreover, able to add, " The chairman, the deputy-chairman,... | |
 | 1904
...greedily determined to keep that vast peninsula a private commercial preserve that as late as 1 8"; 7 a director of the East India Company declared that...West Coast settlement after a desperate journey of nine hundred and ninety-nine days from Zanzibar through Central Africa, not till 1884 that the Berlin... | |
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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... 
