Labourers in the East, Or Memoirs of Eminent Men, who Were Devoted to the Service of Christ in India: Abridged for the Use of the Young, and Affectionately Inscribed to Sabbath School BoysI. Ashmead & Company, 1827 |
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... Dinapore , and , at the beginning of October , prepared to leave that Christian family who had received him into its bosom , and treated him with such t 1 E " tenderness and affection . He left them not , HENRY MARTYN . $ 49.
... Dinapore , and , at the beginning of October , prepared to leave that Christian family who had received him into its bosom , and treated him with such t 1 E " tenderness and affection . He left them not , HENRY MARTYN . $ 49.
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... Dinapore , the scene of his future labours . Here his object was to establish schools ; to study the native languages for the purpose of preaching to the people ; and to prepare the translations of the Scrip- tures and religious tracts ...
... Dinapore , the scene of his future labours . Here his object was to establish schools ; to study the native languages for the purpose of preaching to the people ; and to prepare the translations of the Scrip- tures and religious tracts ...
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... Dinapore at this time , on the Sabbath day , consisted of a service at seven in the morning to Europe- ans - another at two to the Hindoos - and a third at his own rooms in the evening , to such of the soldiers who were inquiring after ...
... Dinapore at this time , on the Sabbath day , consisted of a service at seven in the morning to Europe- ans - another at two to the Hindoos - and a third at his own rooms in the evening , to such of the soldiers who were inquiring after ...
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... Dinapore school is resorted to from all quarters , even from the other side of the river . The Bankipore school is also going on well . I do not institute more , till I see the christian books introduced . The more schools , the more ...
... Dinapore school is resorted to from all quarters , even from the other side of the river . The Bankipore school is also going on well . I do not institute more , till I see the christian books introduced . The more schools , the more ...
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... Dinapore ; but , about the middle of Feb- ruary , Mr. Martyn came to the resolution of receiving the people under his own roof ra- ther than have them remain longer without ordinances . On this occasion the following interesting passage ...
... Dinapore ; but , about the middle of Feb- ruary , Mr. Martyn came to the resolution of receiving the people under his own roof ra- ther than have them remain longer without ordinances . On this occasion the following interesting passage ...
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Abbas Mirza affection afterwards appears arrived bassador blessed Buchanan Calcutta Cambridge Cambuslang chanan Chandernagore Charlotte and Augusta Christ Christian church CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN comfort Cornwall dear dear Mary death delight desire Dinapore divine duty earth engaged England extracts faith farewell sermon father feel felt fever following letter give glory God's gospel grace happy hath heart heaven heavenly Henry Martyn Holy honour hope horses humility India Jesus Jews journey Kirby Hall labours live London Lord Lord Mornington Lord Wellesley ment mercy mind ministry Mirza Seid month Moollahs mother never Newton night occasion pain Persian Persian language pray prayer preached received rejoice religion religious Sabbath Saviour Scotland Scriptures sermon servant Shiraz soul spirit studies suffer sweet Syriac Testament thanks thing thou thought tion ture unto wish word writes young readers
Popular passages
Page 128 - Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Page 7 - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Page 116 - God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day : the angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads...
Page 82 - Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Page 52 - I will gather all nations and tongues ; and they shall come, and see my glory.
Page 122 - I sat in the orchard, and thought with sweet comfort and peace of my God; in solitude my company, my Friend, and Comforter. O ! when shall time give place to eternity ! When shall appear that new heaven and new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness ! There — ' there shall in no wise enter in...
Page 46 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 85 - If on my face, for Thy dear name, Shame and reproaches be, All hail reproach, and welcome shame, If Thou remember me.
Page 111 - My health, concerning which you " enquire, continues, we hope, to amend ; but it " will be long before I obtain much strength, even " if there should be no relapse of paralysis, which " can only be known to Him who ' said to the " sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee.
Page 142 - His extreme forbearance towards the violence of his opponents, the calm and yet convincing manner in which he exposed the fallacies and sophistries by which he was assailed (for he spoke Persian excellently), gradually inclined me to listen to his arguments, to inquire dispassionately into the subject of them, and finally to read a tract which he had written in reply to a defence of Islamism by our chief Mollahs.