In the Valley of the YangtseLondon Missionary Society, 1899 - 216 Seiten |
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Seite 97 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Seite 96 - Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them : I am the LORD your God.
Seite vi - I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.
Seite 69 - Under section cccxxix., it is ordered that any one who is guilty of addressing abusive language to his or her father or mother, or father's parents, or a wife who rails at her husband's parents or grandparents, shall be strangled ; provided always that the persons so abused themselves complain to the magistrates, and themselves had heard the language addressed to them.
Seite 185 - Her eyes were shining, her hands were clasped together at her side in the tenseness of her feeling, her indomitable spirit spoke in her face. Suddenly the old man brought his fist down on the table with a bang. " It's a crime — oh, it's a crime, to risk your life so! You ought to have been locked up. I'd have done it.
Seite 128 - But our Heavenly Father came down and showed us the way to break out. So we put our wives and children in the middle, and not only forced a passage but completely beat our enemies.' After a short pause he added — ' If it be the will of God that our Tae ping Prince shall be the Sovereign of China he will be the Sovereign of China. If not, then we will die here.
Seite 101 - Be it known to you, all ye soldiers and people, that if there be any one, whether of this or any other province, priest or such like, who can by any craft or arts bring down abundance of rain, I respectfully request him to ascend the altar of the dragon, and sincerely and reverently pray. And after the rain has fallen I will liberally reward him with money and tablets to make known his merits.
Seite 102 - Rain in Canton dressed in his burdensome robes, through the heat of a tropical sun, on one of his visits said, " The god supposes I am lying when I beseech his aid ; for how can he know, seated in his cool niche in the temple, that the ground is parched and the sky hot?" Whereupon he ordered his attendants to put a rope around his neck and haul his godship out of doors, that he might see and feel the state of the weather for himself; after his excellency had become cooled in the temple, the idol...
Seite 126 - the Lord of China is the Lord of the whole world; he is the second Son of God, and all people in the whole world must obey and follow him'.
Seite 125 - Manchoos, said, with a quiet air of thorough conviction, " It would be wrong for you to help them ; and, what is more, it would be of no use. Our Heavenly Father helps us, and no one can fight with Him.