The African Repository, Volumes 60-62American colonization society., 1886 - African Americans |
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... duty . This indeed , may be said of most all the missionaries who , for nearly one hundred years , labored amongst the heathen in those parts of Africa which were brought under the power and influence of Portugal . Though many of them ...
... duty . This indeed , may be said of most all the missionaries who , for nearly one hundred years , labored amongst the heathen in those parts of Africa which were brought under the power and influence of Portugal . Though many of them ...
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... duties and responsibilities of citizenship ; —all these facts put the colored race of to - day in an attitude which compels at- tention . Many of them are Christians , —then all may be ; many of them have secured the benefits of ...
... duties and responsibilities of citizenship ; —all these facts put the colored race of to - day in an attitude which compels at- tention . Many of them are Christians , —then all may be ; many of them have secured the benefits of ...
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... duty which lies next to us . We may see in part , or we may not see at all what shall be on the morrow ; but if we know what we ought to do to - day and do it , so far we are safe be- cause so far we are right . But we can see some ...
... duty which lies next to us . We may see in part , or we may not see at all what shall be on the morrow ; but if we know what we ought to do to - day and do it , so far we are safe be- cause so far we are right . But we can see some ...
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... duty which God makes plain to - day . A second thing seems to me important - in- deed , it is the conclusion for which the large introduction has been chiefly written : -The organization of Missionary Societies by the col- ored people ...
... duty which God makes plain to - day . A second thing seems to me important - in- deed , it is the conclusion for which the large introduction has been chiefly written : -The organization of Missionary Societies by the col- ored people ...
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... duties of his high office brought into contact with large numbers of his race throughout the United States , says through the Christian Recorder : " There nev- er was a time when the colored people were more concerned about Africa in ...
... duties of his high office brought into contact with large numbers of his race throughout the United States , says through the Christian Recorder : " There nev- er was a time when the colored people were more concerned about Africa in ...
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Page 10 - And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more : and he went on his way rejoicing.
Page 10 - And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
Page 55 - And he arose and went : and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, 28 Was returning; and, sitting in his chariot, read Esaias the prophet.
Page 102 - Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 2 - And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms : because there was pasture there for their flocks.
Page 5 - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Page 5 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 122 - German influences in that part of the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, or in the interior districts to the east of the following line : that is, on the coast, the right river bank of the Rio del Rey entering the sea between 8° 42
Page 87 - And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 49 - All the Powers exercising sovereign rights or influence in the aforesaid territories bind themselves to watch over the preservation of the native tribes, and to care for the improvement of the conditions of their moral and material well-being, and to help in suppressing slavery, and especially the Slave Trade.