'Some are fallen asleep': the story of our sixth year at the East London institute for home and foreign missionsLondon, 1880 - 121 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 13 - For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Page 99 - To be steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as we know that our labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Page 77 - They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Page 98 - The birds without barn Or storehouse are fed ; From them let us learn To trust for our bread : His saints what is fitting Shall ne'er be denied, So long as 'tis written, The Lord will provide.
Page 13 - For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...
Page 95 - Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Page 91 - My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. * He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
Page 45 - IN some way or other the Lord will provide : It may not be my way, It may not be thy way, And yet, in His own way, '
Page iii - Hindu, Parsee, Koordish, and Jewish. They have also been of various denominations. The large majority of those who have gone out as Missionaries are now connected with about twenty different societies and associations, while a number are working independently as self-sustaining Missionaries, medical or otherwise. MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED MISSIONARIES, former Students in the Institute, are now labouring in China, India, Syria, Armenia, Egypt ; in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy...
Page 17 - If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish : he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.