Life and Work in India: An Account of the Conditions, Methods, Difficulties, Results, Future Prospects and Reflex Influence of Missionary Labor in India, Especially in the Punjab Mission of the United Presbyterian Church of North America

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Pearl publishing Company, 1899 - 416 sider

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Side 382 - ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
Side 245 - But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty...
Side 53 - WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave...
Side 382 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance ; and to temperance patience ; and to patience godliness ; and to godliness brotherly-kindness ; and ' to brotherly-kindness charity.
Side 162 - While you engage in directly separating as many precious atoms from the mass as the stubborn resistance to ordinary appliances can admit, we shall, with the blessing of God, devote our time and strength to the preparing of a mine and the setting of a train which shall one day explode and tear up the whole from its lowest depths.
Side 157 - It must not be supposed by any that quietness is the distinguishing characteristic of a bazar audience. Far from it. Many persons, indeed, listen respectfully and make no sign of either approval or disapproval. But it is different with others. A few exhibit astonishment at the good news. Some, especially Hindus, will cry out "That's all true," or " The Sahib is right," or " Your religion is good for you, and ours is good for us; let every one follow the path that his fathers trod.
Side 210 - ... favor of heresy, and especially in behalf of the crudest superstition. For the simple, divine way of salvation in the gospel, it substituted an arbitrary, eccentric, ostentatious, and pretentious sanctity. It darkened the all-sufficient merits of Christ by the glitter of the over-meritorious works of man. It measured virtue by the quantity of outward exercises instead of the quality of the inward disposition, and disseminated self-righteousness and an anxious, legal, and mechanical religion....
Side 210 - ... mass of visions and miracles, which, if true, far surpassed the miracles of Christ and the apostles, and set all the laws of nature and reason at defiance. The Nicene age is full of the most absurd monks...
Side 167 - not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise...
Side 245 - Christians was almost entirely composed of the dregs of the populace, of peasants and mechanics, of boys and women, of beggars and slaves, the last of whom might sometimes introduce the missionaries into the rich and noble families to which they belonged.

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