The Cross in the Land of the Trident; Or, India from a Missionary Point of ViewReligious Tract Society, 1896 - 127 pages |
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Page 61 - If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant — I should point to India.
Page 100 - Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
Page 114 - Let us give ourselves up unreservedly to this glorious cause. Let us never think that our time, our gifts, our strength, our families, or even the clothes we wear, are our own. Let us sanctify them all to God and His cause.
Page 83 - This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Who art thou, O great mountain ? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Page 77 - Then at last, when society is completely saturated with Christian knowledge, and public opinion has taken a decided turn that way, they will come over by thousands.
Page 114 - Let us often look at Brainerd, in the woods of America, pouring out his very soul before God for the perishing heathen, without whose salvation nothing could make him happy. Prayer, secret, fervent, believing prayer, lies at the root of all personal godliness.
Page 43 - All the world is subject to the gods ; the gods are subject to the holy texts ; the holy texts are subject to the Brahman ; therefore the Brahman is my God. " Yes, the sacred man could breathe the spell which made earth and hell and heaven itself to tremble. He therefore logically called himself an earthly god. Indeed, the Brahman is always logical. He draws conclusions from premises with iron...
Page 16 - Hinduism is a social league and a religious alliance. As a social league, it rests upon caste, and has its roots deep down in the race elements of the Indian people. As a religious alliance, it represents the union of the Vedic faith of the Brahmans with Buddhism on the one hand, and with the ruder rites of the non-Aryan peoples on the other.
Page 62 - they eat religiously, drink religiously, bathe religiously, dress religiously, and sin religiously." In a few words, the religion of these natives, as I have all along endeavoured to point out, is their existence, and their existence is their religion.
Page 111 - December, 1892, overwhelmed by the vastness of the work, contrasted with the utterly inadequate supply of workers, earnestly appeal to the Church of Christ in Europe, America, Australasia, and Asia. We re-echo to you the cry of the unsatisfied heart of India. With it we pass on the Master's Word for the perishing multitude,