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Page 100 - Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.
Page 89 - How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Page 98 - To a young professor of religion who was in attendance, he said, " You have professed religion while young; so did I, I rejoice in it. All I have to say to you is, endeavor to aim at great attainments. The present age demands great things of Christians. Be not satisfied with being half a Christian. Be entirely consecrated to the service of Christ.
Page 98 - I cannot pursue a train of thought ; but I bless God, it is tranquil. Not my will, but thine, O God, be done ! ' To one who remarked — We hardly know how to spare you from the missionary cause, he said, 'Don't mention it, don't mention it ; the Lord knows best.
Page 100 - While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there." Immediately he burst forth with expressions of rapture which cannot be described : — " Praise him, praise him, praise him in a way which you know not of.
Page 89 - Vail and Chapman, among the Osages. Again we look north, and at a distance of 180 miles, we see two missionaries; but from thence, (with two or three doubtful exceptions,) through all the north of Asia to the pole, not a single missionary is to be seen. In a northwestern direction, it is doubtful whether there is now one missionary between us and St.
Page 89 - Looking a little to the north of east, at the distance of 1,300 miles, we see ten or twelve missionaries in little more than as many miles in length, on the banks of the Ganges. — Turning thence northward, at nearly the same distance from us, we see three, four, or five more, separated from each other by almost as many hundred intervening miles. And looking onward beyond these distant posts, in a northeast direction, through the Chinese empire and Tartary to Kamschatka. and thence down the northwestern...
Page 98 - To several young Christians he said: " I feel a great interest in young Christians. I want to exhort you to help each other. Live near to God. Be bold in his service. It is the only thing worth being bold in. Do not be afraid. The Lord be with you.
Page 90 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Page 89 - ... the comparative surface, and the other the comparative population, of the different sections of the earth all presenting a black ground, except those spots where the Gospel is preached. And on a slip of white ground, I would have a note of reference to Mark xvi, 15...