History of the China Mission of the Reformed Church in the United States

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Board of foreign missions, Reformed church in the United States, 1914 - 175 páginas
 

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Página 16 - If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Página 19 - Have not I commanded thee ? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Página 148 - I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills : From whence shall my help come? My help cometh from the Lord Who made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep.
Página 95 - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ...
Página 11 - It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus...
Página 145 - Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen.
Página 42 - China, the Nirvana was found to be too subtle an idea for popular contemplation, and in order to furnish the people with a more attractive object of worship, the Budhists brought forward a Goddess of Mercy, whose highest merit was that having reached the verge of Nirvana, she declined to enter, preferring to remain where she could hear the cries and succor the calamities of those who were struggling with the manifold evils of a world of change.
Página 27 - Comprising within its limits every variety of soil and climate ; watered by large rivers, which serve not only to irrigate and drain it, but, by means of their size and the course of their tributaries, also afford unusual facilities for intercommunication...
Página 27 - Its civilization has been developed under its own institutions ; its government has been modelled without knowledge or reference to that of any other kingdom ; its literature has borrowed nothing from the genius or research of the scholars of other lands ; its language is unique in its symbols, its structure, and its antiquity...
Página 42 - Nirvana, she declined to enter, preferring to remain where she could hear the cries and succor the calamities of those who were struggling with the manifold evils of a world of change. From this circumstance she is called the Ts'e Pei Kuan Yin, the " Merciful Hearer of Prayers

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