Some Account of the Life of Reginald HeberCrocker and Brewster, 1829 - 244 pages |
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... native catechists recom- mend to the missionaries candidates for bap- tism , for whose competency they are them- selves the vouchers ) a degree of hesitation is felt about admitting to this rite , that some may think , and perhaps ...
... native catechists recom- mend to the missionaries candidates for bap- tism , for whose competency they are them- selves the vouchers ) a degree of hesitation is felt about admitting to this rite , that some may think , and perhaps ...
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... natives in our own times have actually courted baptism , and thereby broken caste , even where the caste was honourable ; and that more have been pre- vented from taking the same step , by the im- portunate entreaties of parents and ...
... natives in our own times have actually courted baptism , and thereby broken caste , even where the caste was honourable ; and that more have been pre- vented from taking the same step , by the im- portunate entreaties of parents and ...
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... native preachers , over such a country as India -more especially when the civil government cannot , for obvious reasons , give more than their best wishes to the work . The history of our own Reformation ( were not the reason of the ...
... native preachers , over such a country as India -more especially when the civil government cannot , for obvious reasons , give more than their best wishes to the work . The history of our own Reformation ( were not the reason of the ...
Page 99
... native Christians was withheld from Dr. Middleton ; and though he subsequently sued for it under restrictions , it was still denied to him . On trial , however , it was found that a bishop had not been nearly so mischievous as had been ...
... native Christians was withheld from Dr. Middleton ; and though he subsequently sued for it under restrictions , it was still denied to him . On trial , however , it was found that a bishop had not been nearly so mischievous as had been ...
Page 108
... native land ? -to exchange the delights of home for a tedious voyage to distant regions ? —to separate yourself from the friends with whom you had conversed from your earliest years ? What , but an ardent wish to become the instrument ...
... native land ? -to exchange the delights of home for a tedious voyage to distant regions ? —to separate yourself from the friends with whom you had conversed from your earliest years ? What , but an ardent wish to become the instrument ...
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Page 68 - GOD, that madest earth and heaven, darkness and light; who the day for toil hast given, for rest the night; may thine angel-guards defend us, slumber sweet thy mercy send us, holy dreams and hopes attend us, this livelong night.
Page 161 - An Evening Walk in Bengal. Our task is done ! on Gunga's breast The sun is sinking down to rest; And, moored beneath the tamarind bough, Our bark has found its harbour now. With furled sail and painted side Behold the tiny frigate ride. Upon her deck, 'mid charcoal gleams, The Moslem's savoury supper steams ; While all apart, beneath the wood, The Hindoo cooks his simpler food.
Page 163 - Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never trod. Yet who in Indian bower has stood, But thought on England's "good green wood?
Page 159 - If thou wert by my side, my love ! How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale ! ' If thou, my love ! wert by my side, My babies at my knee, How gaily would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea...
Page 62 - We meekly beseech thee, O Father, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness ; that, when we shall depart this life, we may rest in him, as our hope is this our brother doth...
Page 166 - A species of litter. material of the buildings is a very good stone, from Chunar, but the Hindoos here seem fond of painting them a deep red colour, and, indeed, of covering the more conspicuous parts of their houses with paintings in gaudy colours of flower-pots, men, women, bulls, elephants, gods and goddesses, in all their many-formed, manyheaded, many-handed, and many-weaponed varieties.
Page 210 - Hindostanee language, as well as Persian and Arabic, the senior boys could pass a good examination in English grammar, in Hume's History of England, Joyce's Scientific Dialogues, the use of the globes, and the principal facts and moral precepts of the Gospel, most of them writing beautifully in the Persian, and very tolerably in the English, character, and excelling most boys I have met with in the accuracy and readiness of their arithmetic.
Page 161 - mid charcoal gleams, The Moslems' savoury supper steams. While all apart, beneath the wood, The Hindoo cooks his simpler food. Come walk with me the jungle through; If yonder hunter told us true, Far off, in desert dank and rude, The...
Page 228 - ... (employments which he never sought for, but which fell in his way) he never pretended to impartiality, but acted as the avowed, though, certainly, the successful and judicious agent of the orphan prince entrusted to his care, and from attempting whose conversion to Christianity he seems to have abstained from a feeling of honour. His other converts were between six and seven thousand, besides those which his predecessors and companions in the cause had brought over.
Page 85 - ... whether he describes the duties, or dangers, or hopes of man, or the mercy, power, and justice of the Most High ; whether he exhorts or instructs his brethren, or offers up his supplications in their behalf to the common Father of all, his conceptions and his expressions belong to the loftiest and most sacred description of poetry, of which they only want, what they cannot be said to need, the name and the metrical arrangement.