Underwood of Korea: Being an Intimate Record of the Life and Work of the Rev. H.G. Underwood, D.D., LL.D., for Thiry One Years a Missionary of the Presbyterian Board in Korea, Volume 45; Volume 510 |
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Page 346 - If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And — which is more — you'll be a man, my son ! — Milwaukee Leader.
Page 345 - If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting, too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise...
Page 346 - If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim...
Page 346 - To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: " Hold on! " If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds...
Page 16 - God to the heathen ; and that it shall be left (as it ought to be left) to the minds of the persons whom God may call into the fellowship of his Son from among them to assume for themselves such form of church government as to them shall appear most agreeable to the Word of God.
Page 16 - As the union of Christians of various denominations in carrying on this great work is a most desirable object, so, to prevent, if possible, any cause of future dissension, it is declared to be a fundamental principle of the Missionary Society that its design is not to send Presbyterianism, Independency, Episcopacy, or any other form of church order and government (about which there may be difference of opinion among serious...
Page 99 - ... teaching that each was to be an individual worker for Christ, and to live Christ in his own neighborhood, supporting himself by his trade ; "Second, to develop church methods and machinery only so far as the native church was able to take care of and manage the same ; "Third, as far as the church itself was able to provide the men and the means, to set aside those who seemed the better qualified, to do evangelistic work among their neighbors ; "Fourth, to let the natives provide their own church...
Page 101 - We're beaten back in many a fray, But newer strength we borrow, And where the vanguard camps to-aay, The rear shall rest to-morrow.
Page 53 - ... us to ask questions, we would attempt to explain to them the book, its truths, and what it meant. But of course in all this it was necessary to find some common ground on which we both stood and lead them gradually from what was to them the known to the unknown. Later this street work developed further and gatherings were held on larger streets or in villages and in certain districts street chapels were opened.
Page 99 - Abide in the calling wherein he was found," teaching that each was to be an individual worker for Christ, and to live Christ in his own neighborhood, supporting himself by his trade.