Newfoundland and Its Missionaries: In Two Parts. To which is Added a Chronological Table of All the Important Events that Have Occurred on the Island |
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Page 112 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but. to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Page 265 - Jesus' blood. He by himself hath sworn : I on his oath depend ; I shall, on eagles' wings upborne, To heaven ascend ; I shall behold his face ; I shall his power adore, And sing the wonders of his grace For evermore.
Page 307 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth ; and they left off to build the city.
Page 143 - Some may wonder at the combination, and suppose that the qualities are incompatible with each other ; but the first Christians "walked in the fear of the Lord, and in the comforts of the Holy Ghost.
Page 25 - Moreover, it shall not be lawful for the subjects of France to fortify any place in the said island of Newfoundland, or to erect any buildings there, besides stages made of boards, and huts necessary and usual for drying of fish ; or to resort to the said island beyond the time necessary for fishing and drying of fish.
Page 147 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand : for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 27 - John, situated on the eastern coast of Newfoundland, in fifty degrees north latitude ; and his Majesty the King of Great Britain consents, on his part, that the fishery assigned to the subjects of his most Christian Majesty, beginning at the said Cape St. John, passing to the north, and descending by the western coast of the island of Newfoundland, shall extend to the place called Cape Raye, situated in forty-seven degrees fifty minutes latitude.
Page 124 - And the hand of the Lord was with them : and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
Page 26 - Article 13 of the Treaty of Utrecht : which article is renewed and confirmed by the present treaty (except what relates to the Island of Cape Breton, as well as to the other islands and coasts in the mouth and in the Gulph of St. Lawrence). And His Britannic Majesty consents to leave to the subjects of the Most Christian King the liberty of fishing in the Gulph St. Lawrence, on condition...
Page 374 - There stands the messenger of truth: there stands The legate of the skies! — His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispers peace.