Christian Missions: Their Agents, and Their Results, Volume 2

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D. & J. Sadlier & Company, 1864
 

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Page 199 - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us, in the likeness of men.
Page 230 - Covtez, with the sword in one hand and the cross in the other, some share in the noble work to which it is their glory, and almost their justification, to have contributed.
Page 369 - There is a cloud, a dark cloud, upon the work of the gospel, among the poor Indians. The Lord revive and prosper that work, and grant that it may live when I am dead.
Page 293 - Thus did the religious zeal of the French bear the cross to the banks of the St. Mary and the confines of Lake Superior, and look wistfully towards the homes of the Sioux in the valley of the Mississippi, five years before the New England Eliot had addressed the tribe of Indians that dwelt within six miles of Boston harbor.
Page 402 - Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church...
Page 347 - Sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents. Sometimes the case alters ; but we will not dispute it now. We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings.
Page 243 - I say all this to you my friend ? truely that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh, and I am still soe full of it, that I cannot forbeare expressing my thoughts to you.
Page 476 - When we reflect on the tremendous assaults which she has survived, we find it difficult to conceive in what way she is to perish.
Page 392 - Brother, you say you have not come to get our land or our money, but to enlighten our minds. I will now tell you that I have been at your meetings, and saw you collecting money from the meeting.
Page 293 - The history of their labors is connected with the origin of every celebrated town in the annals of French America : not a cape was turned, nor a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way.

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