Chinese Scenes and People: With Notices of Christian Missions and Missionary Life in a Series of Letters from Various Parts of ChinaJ. Nisbet, 1863 - 307 Seiten |
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Amoy Ardrossan arrived asked beautiful boat bright brother Burdon busy called captain chapel Chefoo China Chinaman Chinese Christ Christian coolies crowded dear mamma delightful divine door Eastern King English feel felt foreign friends gate green heart heaven Heavenly Father hills Holy Holy Spirit Hong-Kong hope Hung-sieu-tsiuen husband insurgent interesting JEANIE Jesus John JOSEPH EDKINS Kan-wang labour ladies letters London Missionary Society look Lord Lord Elgin Mandarin miles Ming dynasty Mission missionary morning MOTHER Muirhead Nankin Nanking night pagoda parlour passed Peiho pleasant pray prayer preaching-room pretty reached rebel religious returned river round Sabbath Saviour scene Scriptures Shanghai side soldiers Soochow soon Soungkong Stronach Sucheu sweet Taiping chief Taku talk temple things thought Tien-wang Tientsin to-day trees trust verandah walk walls week wind Woosung write yesterday
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 102 - Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Seite 37 - For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Seite 233 - I know the Lord is nigh, And would, but cannot pray ; For Satan meets me when I try, And frights my soul away.
Seite 233 - Wilt thou not crown at length The work thou hast begun ? And with a will afford me strength In all thy ways to run.
Seite 276 - ... young. They had better not be seen in public. He also urged the cultivation of a kind spirit towards the aged and destitute, of whom there were many, and he urged that their case demanded sympathy and aid. After these addresses, all the listeners, standing on the green sward of the review ground, within a large semicircle of flaunting banners, knelt towards the table where the young chief also knelt. There was silence for a few minutes, as if they were all praying to the Heavenly Father. Then...
Seite 281 - ... of a reconstituted China, modelled by themselves, or rather by some force of fate, which is to work the change for...
Seite 37 - For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Seite 274 - Add to your faith. Do not suppose that I am deceived. I am the one saviour of the chosen people. Why do you feel uncertain of the fact of divine communications to me] When Joshua formerly destroyed the enemies of God the sun and moon stood still When Abraham sat under the oak three men stood by him. Carefully think of all this. Do you become conscious of it 1 Do you believe! I am grieved at heart, having written very many edicts on these matters, and all men being with me as one family. When Kan...
Seite 279 - Nanking was famed for the grandeur of its monasteries, and the number of its priests. They have all disappeared. Hung-sieu-tsiuen lives within a double yellow wall, with imperial dragons painted on the gates. Every morning a few scribes may be seen copying new edicts, written on yellow satin, and pasted on boards near the palace entrance. They are in red ink in the chiefs own handwriting, and consist in great part of statements on the subject of the Taiping religion. In some I read he attempted to...