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... tion to health and real rest . To their request he assented in part ; he would undertake the authorship , but the pressing claims of his home and of the Mission led him not to delay his return to Berbice . The attempt was made ...
... tion to health and real rest . To their request he assented in part ; he would undertake the authorship , but the pressing claims of his home and of the Mission led him not to delay his return to Berbice . The attempt was made ...
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... tion of Directors . About 200 out of more than 400 folio pages ; the sheets in hand , barring loss of 8 or 10 intervening pages , reaching from 16th June , 1811 , to 9th December , 1815 . II . Diary , January , 1824 , to September ...
... tion of Directors . About 200 out of more than 400 folio pages ; the sheets in hand , barring loss of 8 or 10 intervening pages , reaching from 16th June , 1811 , to 9th December , 1815 . II . Diary , January , 1824 , to September ...
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... tion of the negroes in the principles of Christianity ' in those days . " + 6 Mr. Post's first letters to this country were lost , and so went unanswered ; but at last , when about to despair , one * See Memoir of Mr. Post by Rev. J ...
... tion of the negroes in the principles of Christianity ' in those days . " + 6 Mr. Post's first letters to this country were lost , and so went unanswered ; but at last , when about to despair , one * See Memoir of Mr. Post by Rev. J ...
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... tion of men and things , long before William Ellis , or John Williams , or Robert Moffat , entered upon Mission labours , did John Wray enter upon his . All alone as regards fellow- missionaries , and one of the first of the Society's ...
... tion of men and things , long before William Ellis , or John Williams , or Robert Moffat , entered upon Mission labours , did John Wray enter upon his . All alone as regards fellow- missionaries , and one of the first of the Society's ...
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... tion with respect to future employment . An impression that the family was not one of great means or of high social position grows upon us as we read . Fond of nursery and garden work , his native neighbourhood would certainly furnish ...
... tion with respect to future employment . An impression that the family was not one of great means or of high social position grows upon us as we read . Fond of nursery and garden work , his native neighbourhood would certainly furnish ...
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Page 345 - That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
Page 236 - I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Page 170 - Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
Page 269 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Page 303 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
Page 7 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 164 - One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Page 92 - And such were some of you : but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Page 180 - That, through a determined and persevering, but at the hame time judicious and temperate enforcement of such measures, this House looks forward to a progressive improvement in the character of the slave population, such as may prepare them for a participation in those civil rights and privileges which are enjoyed by other classes of His Majesty's subjects.