The East & the West: A Quarterly Review for the Study of Missionary Problems, 24. cilt

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1926
 

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Sayfa 329 - O Love Divine! — whose constant beam Shines on the eyes that will not see, And waits to bless us, while we dream Thou leavest us because we turn from thee! All souls that struggle and aspire, All hearts of prayer by thee are lit; And, dim or clear, thy tongues of fire On dusky tribes and twilight centuries sit.
Sayfa 385 - For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Sayfa 165 - ... to the mentality, aptitudes, occupations and traditions of the various peoples, conserving as far as possible all sound and healthy elements in the fabric of their social life; adapting them where necessary to changed circumstances and progressive ideas, as an agent of natural growth and evolution.
Sayfa 11 - And in these our doings, we condemn no other nations, nor prescribe any thing, but to our own people only. For we think it convenient that every country should use such ceremonies, as they shall think best to the setting forth of God's honour or glory, and to the reducing of the people to a most perfect and godly living, without error or superstition.
Sayfa 328 - Looking from far and above, from our high places of safety in the developed civilization, it is easy to see all the crudity and irrelevance of magic. But without its power and guidance early man could not have mastered his practical difficulties as he has done, nor could man have advanced to the higher stages of civilization.
Sayfa 114 - As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
Sayfa 11 - It is not necessary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in all places one, and utterly like'; for at all times they have been divers, and may be changed according to the diversities of countries, times*, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained against God's Word.
Sayfa 158 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
Sayfa 197 - The design is, in the first place, to settle the State of Religion as well as may •be among our own People there, which by all accounts we have, very much wants their Pious care : and then to proceed in the best Methods they can towards the Conversion of the Natives...
Sayfa 112 - Arise, O God, maintain thine own cause : remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily. 24 Forget not the voice of thine enemies : the presumption of them that hate thee increaseth ever more and more.

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