From Cape Horn to Panama: A Narrative of Missionary Enterprise Among the Neglected Races of South America by the South American Missionary Society |
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Page 39 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 194 - Go, labour on, while it is day; The world's dark night is hastening on ; Speed, speed thy work, cast sloth away, It is not thus that souls are won. Men die in darkness at your side, Without a hope to cheer the tomb ; Take up the torch, and wave it wide, The torch that lights time's thickest gloom.
Page 10 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
Page 158 - ... until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
Page 1 - He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God ; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Page 27 - Redeemer, whom he served so faithfully; yet a little while, and through grace we may join that blessed throng to sing the praises of Christ throughout eternity. I neither hunger nor thirst, though five days without food!
Page 92 - It is sad to reflect," he says, " that prelates, priests and other clergy are never to be found doing service among the poor ; they are never in the hospitals or lazar house ; never in the orphan asylum or hospice, in the dwellings of the afflicted or distressed or engaged in works of beneficence, aiding primary instruction or found in refuges or prisons. ... As a rule they are ever absent where human misery exists, unless paid as chaplains, or a fee is given. On the other hand you (the clergy) are...
Page 24 - Harbour. Blowing a severe gale. Went on shore, and found the boat on the beach, with one person dead inside, supposed to be Pearce, as we cut the name off his frock ; another we found on the beach ; another buried, which is John Badcock. These, we have every reason to believe, are Pearce, Williams, and Badcock. The sight was awful in the extreme. Books, papers, medicine, clothing, and tools, strewed along the beach, and on the boat's deck and cuddy.
Page 25 - He is happy beyond expression. " They speak in their journals of going to the Falklands, but they found their boats not fit, and, in fact, they waited until all their provisions were gone, and they were taken with the scurvy so bad, that it was impossible for them to go. They had no rest ; they were driven from place to place by the Indians, always in dread and fear.
Page 26 - On one of the papers was written legibly, but without a date, ' If you will walk along the beach for a mile and a half you will find us in the other boat hauled up in the mouth of a river at the head of the harbour on the south side. Delay not, we are starving,' At this sad intelligence it was impossible to leave that night, though the weather looked very threatening.