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Page 7 - Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Page 3 - Resolved, That the Report, an abstract of which has now been read, be accepted and adopted, and be printed under the direction of the Executive Committee.
Page 11 - ... the kingdoms of this world become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and to His name shall be the glory forever.
Page 116 - Jehovah, and the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, should be given to the people of the saints of the Most High God, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and of whose dominion there is no end.
Page 5 - Certainly,' replied our preacher, and told him when he wanted more to come to him. He came to me also, and, as he was a learned man, I was obliged to quote Pa-li too, in confirmation of my assertions. After conversing an hour with him, I gave him some books, and he went away. He returned in a few days, and repeated his visits until he had read all our Christian books. He was convinced of his errors, he made a public profession of Christ, was admitted to the Church, and became the first convert in...
Page 25 - If man designs a shade or a shelter upon earth, we look to see preparations, — materials, scaffolding, and workmen. But God, when he will give shade or shelter, takes the small seed which the new-born infant might clasp in its feeble hand, and deposits it in the bosom of the earth, and from that seed, imperceptible in its beginning, he produces the majestic tree, under whose spreading boughs the families of men may find shelter.
Page 96 - Gospel; they are waiting to receive it; and may the day be very near in which they will enjoy that blessing! But, believing that there is not on the surface of our globe, among unevangelized men, a spot where the labor of the Christian husbandman is more needed than that which we are called...
Page 85 - O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
Page 5 - Kiucaid held up to the audience] . Yes ; the first man who came to a knowledge of the truth, and publicly professed Christ, was brought to do so by this little tract. A company of elderly people were sitting in a zayat, and one of them was discoursing or preaching to them the mysteries of the Pa-li, or sacred language of the Hindoos. A native preacher went near and heard this Pa-li, which is to the Buddhist what Latin is to the Papist. The priests never preach except in this language, and while the...
Page 96 - ... allow. The whole district is, in the most accurate and strictest sense, open to the reception of divine truth and the christian teacher. Yea, more. There is hardly a town or village of any consequence, from which we have not received a formal request — I had almost said entreaty — to send among them a teacher. When we look at the district in the light of the apostolic injunction, ' Let us do good unto all men as we have opportunity,