The Islands of the Pacific: From the Old to the New. A Compendious Sketch of Missions in the PacificAmerican tract society, 1895 - 515 pagina's |
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Pagina 459 - The land of Zeb'ulun and the land of Naph'tali, toward the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles - the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned'.
Pagina 52 - Society that its design is not to send Presbyterianism, Independency, Episcopacy, or any other form of church order and government (about which there may be difference of opinion among serious persons), but the glorious Gospel of the blessed God, to the heathen; and that it shall be left (as it ought to be left) to the minds of the persons whom God may call into the Fellowship of His Son from among them to assume for themselves such form of church government as to them shall appear most agreeable...
Pagina 181 - ... to consider the Sandwich Islands as an Independent State, and never to take possession, either directly or under the title of Protectorate, or under any other form, of any part of the territory of which they are composed.
Pagina 398 - The King gives her Majesty his old and favourite war-club, the former, and, until lately, the only known law of Fiji. In abandoning club law, and adopting the forms and principles of civilised societies, he laid by his old weapon and covered it with the emblems of peace.
Pagina 59 - ... mysterious gorges, showing almost black by contrast with the surrounding brightness ; precipitous peaks and pinnacles rising one above the other like giant sentinels, until they were lost in the heavy masses of cloud they...
Pagina 346 - The following extract from Dr. Hector's account of Milford Sound shows the probable mode of its formation : — "Three miles from the entrance of the Sound it becomes contracted to the width of half a mile, and its sides rise perpendicularly from the water's edge, sometimes for 2,000 feet, and then slope at a high angle to the peaks that are covered with perpetual snow. The scenery is quite equal to the finest that can be enjoyed by the most difficult and toilsome journeys into the Alps of the interior...
Pagina 116 - We were not long at a loss as to what to ascribe it ; the missionary had been at work here, and his exertions had been based upon a firm foundation ; the savage had been changed to a reasonable creature. Among the inhabitants was a native missionary, who had been instrumental in this work. If the missionaries had effected nothing else, they would deserve the thanks of all those who roam over this wide expanse of ocean, and incur its many unknown and hidden dangers.
Pagina 103 - We have given up our island to Jesus Christ, to be governed by him as our King. We have given ourselves to him that we may serve him. We have given our property to him for the advancement of his glory; we have given him our all, and desire to be entirely his.
Pagina 268 - Mangaia, in number about 1,900, after paving all their school and church expenses and the stipends of three native pastors, contributed for general missionary enterprises upwards of $1,700. CHAPTER X. SAMOA. No sooner did Mr. Williams gain a foothold in the Hervey Islands than he determined to push on in the missionary enterprise to the numerous islands farther west, and with this view began to build a vessel to be used exclusively for missionary purposes ; for it was difficult to obtain passage...
Pagina 253 - Roma-tane was powerfully impressed by these vivid representations of the folly of idolatry, especially by the words, " with part thereof he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; and the residue thereof he maketh a god, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me, for thou art my god.