The New World of Central Africa: With a History of the First Christian Mission on the Congo |
Contents
| 170 | |
| 173 | |
| 184 | |
| 191 | |
| 198 | |
| 203 | |
| 218 | |
| 227 | |
| 53 | |
| 57 | |
| 58 | |
| 69 | |
| 77 | |
| 79 | |
| 81 | |
| 90 | |
| 91 | |
| 99 | |
| 109 | |
| 110 | |
| 115 | |
| 118 | |
| 119 | |
| 128 | |
| 138 | |
| 147 | |
| 153 | |
| 155 | |
| 161 | |
| 247 | |
| 267 | |
| 274 | |
| 291 | |
| 299 | |
| 306 | |
| 307 | |
| 310 | |
| 312 | |
| 318 | |
| 319 | |
| 325 | |
| 334 | |
| 337 | |
| 355 | |
| 385 | |
| 411 | |
| 429 | |
| 461 | |
| 489 | |
| 519 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Arabs Balolo Banana banks Banza Manteka basin Bemba Berlin Conference blessed Bolobo Boma boys brethren brother canoes carried Cataract Central Africa Christ Christian Church civilized climate coast colonies Congo Free course Craven dangerous Dark Continent dear death difficulties donkeys England European expedition explorer feet fever friends gospel ground heart heathen Henry Reed hope interior Isangila Jesus journey Kabinda king Kroo-boys labour Lake Lake Tanganyika land Leopoldville live Livingstone Inland Mission Lord Lukunga Manyanga Manyema Matadi McCall McKergow missionaries months native never Nyangwe Palabala party passed population Portugal Portuguese pray prayer races reached region Richards sailed seemed sent Sierra Leone Sims slave-trade slaves soon square miles Stanley Pool Stanley's station steamer stream things thousand town trade traveller tribes Upper Congo upper river valley villages women wrote young Zambesi
Popular passages
Page 201 - If any man serve me, let him follow me ; and where I am, there shall also my servant be : If any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Page 305 - But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the Gospel of the grace of God.
Page 290 - ... the gates were opened to let in the men, I looked in after them, and behold the city shone like the sun; the streets also were paved with gold ; and in them walked many men with crowns on their heads, palms in their hands, and golden harps, to sing praises withal. There were also of them that had wings, and they answered one another without intermission, saying, " Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord.
Page 290 - Now I saw in my dream that these two men went in at the gate; and lo! as they entered, they were transfigured; and they had raiment put on that shone like gold. There...
Page 197 - For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ; 30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
Page 290 - Now just as the Gates were opened to let in the men, I looked in after them, and behold, the City shone like the Sun: the Streets also were paved with Gold, and in them walked many men, with Crowns on their heads, Palms in their hands, and golden Harps to sing praises withal. There were also of them that had wings, and they answered one another without intermission, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord.
Page vi - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 19 - Hidden away in these endless forests, like birds' nests in a wood, in terror of one another, and of their common foe, the slaver, are small native villages ; and here in his virgin simplicity dwells primeval man, without clothes, without civilisation, without learning, without religion — the genuine child of nature, thoughtless, careless, and contented.
Page 45 - Something strange must surely lie in the vast space occupied by total blankness on our maps, between Nyangwe and 'Tuckey's Farthest!'" " I seek a road to connect these two points. We have laboured through the terrible forest, and manfully struggled through the gloom. My people's hearts have become faint. I seek a road. Why, here lies a broad watery avenue cleaving the Unknown to some sea, like a path of light!
Page 290 - The river was very deep. At the sight, therefore, of this river the pilgrims were much stunned ; but the men that went with them said, You must go through or you cannot come at the gate.