 | Robert Young (of the Free ch. of Scotland.) - 1881 - 460 sivua
...very complimentary reply and a very peremptory refusal." One of the directors is reported to have said that " he would rather see a band of devils in India, than a band of missionaries ! " In consequence, Mr Haldane's noble scheme had to be abandoned. Marshman and Ward, along with two... | |
 | George Smith - 1884 - 264 sivua
...Bogue, which on his refusal fell to Sir Henry Moncreiff. As to the Company's directors, one of them said he would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries. What India lost at that time — and who shall estimate the loss ? — Scotland gained in the home... | |
 | Walter Baxendale - 1888 - 708 sivua
...introduce the gospel into India, one of the directors of the East India Company was heard to declare that he would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries. — Dr. Bennett. 3812. MISSIONS, Prejudice conquered by. А few weeks ago a poor diseased and crippled... | |
 | Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson - 1888 - 660 sivua
...by its policy of hostility to missions. One of the directors of the company is quoted as saying, " I would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries." In 1873 the Secretary of State for India made the following statement in his report: The government... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1892 - 480 sivua
...that time may be gathered from the fact that one of the directors in the conversation or debate said " he would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries ! " The Bengal Mission was thus for the moment arrested, but in the course of events the way was opened,... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - 460 sivua
...Christian religion should be urged. One of the directors of the company is credited with saying, " I would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries." Sidney Smith, in a contribution to the " Edinburgh Review " in 1808, was not much more friendly toward... | |
 | 1894 - 666 sivua
...the Lord. ONE of the directors of the East India Company, in the beginning of this century said, " I would rather see a. band of devils in India than a band ot missionaries." The Secretary of State for India recently recorded the sentiment of the Government... | |
 | Samuel Haskell - 1895 - 314 sivua
...with your request.'' It was then that in their discussions a member is reported to have said : " I would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries" — a confession honest and natural for those who are doing the devil's work. So would not have felt... | |
 | 1886 - 594 sivua
...Company was the worst foe of missions, and had left on record the utterance of one of her directors that he "would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries." Turkey punished apostasy with death ; Africa was an unexplored mystery ; the isles of the sea were... | |
 | 1903 - 598 sivua
...missionaries. In tho early part of this century one of the directors of the East India Company said he " would rather see a band of devils in India than a band of missionaries '' Note the contrast between this aud the sentiments of the Secretary of State, in a minute recorded... | |
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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... 
