The History of Protestant Missions in India: From Their Commencement in 1706 to 1871Religious Tract Society, 1875 - 482 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 224 - And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above his master : but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.
الصفحة 351 - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
الصفحة 223 - Father's hand, under our feet and over our heads, but only the Hebrew of the Old Testament and the Greek of the New.
الصفحة 468 - Missionaries, whose blameless example and self-denying labours are infusing new vigour into the stereotyped life of the great populations placed under English rule, and are preparing them to be in every way better men and better citizens of the great empire in which they dwell.
الصفحة 464 - The large body of European and American missionaries settled in India bring their various moral influences to bear upon the country with the greater force, because they act together with a compactness which is but little understood. Though belonging / ' to various denominations of Christians, yet from the nature of their work, their isolated position, and their long experience, they have been led to think rather of the numerous questions on which . f they agree, than of those on which they differ,...
الصفحة 465 - Native community, and have suggested valuable improvements in existing laws. During the past twenty years, on five occasions, general conferences have been held for mutual consultation respecting their missionary work ; and in January last, at the latest of these gatherings at Allahabad, 121 missionaries met together, belonging to twenty different societies, and including several men of long experience, who have been forty years in India.
الصفحة 228 - Khan, who had served the English well before t.he gates of Delhi, was sent on this secret mission to Central Asia, where he died in the snows, a victim to the treachery of the King of Chitral. His last words were : " Tell the Sarkar that 1 am glad to die in their service ; give my saliiam to the Commissioner of Peshawur and the Padri Sahib.
الصفحة 468 - India from these signs of solid advance already exhibited on every hand, and gained within the brief period of two generations. This view of the general influence of their teaching, and of the greatness of the revolution which it is silently producing, is not taken by Missionaries only. It has been accepted by many distinguished residents in India, and experienced officers of the Govemment ; and has been emphatically endorsed by the high authority of Sir Bartle Frere.
الصفحة 466 - The Missionary schools in India are chiefly of two kinds, purely vernacular and Anglo-vernacular schools. The former are maintained chiefly, but not exclusively, in country districts and small towns ; the education given in them is confined pretty much to reading, writing, geography, arithmetic, and instruction in simple religious works, such as the "Peep of Day.
الصفحة 467 - EDUCATION. results which have sprung from their labours. No statistics can give a fair view of all that they have done. They consider that their distinctive teaching, now applied to the country for many years, has powerfully affected the entire population. The moral tone of their preaching is recognised and highly approved by multitudes who do not follow them as converts.