Lights and Shadows of Mission Work in the Far East: Being the Record of Observations Made During a Visit to the Southern Presbyterian Missions in Japan, China, and Korea in the Year 1897Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1899 - 133 páginas |
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Página 88 - What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Página 119 - ALL hail the power of Jesus' name ! Let angels prostrate fall ; Bring forth the royal diadem, And crown him Lord of all.
Página 107 - Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown, For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the Christian down ; And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear : ' A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.
Página 36 - I regard religion itself as quite unnecessary for a nation's life. . . . Science is far above superstition, and what is any religion but superstition, and . . . therefore a source of weakness to a nation...
Página 39 - God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty... That no flesh should glory in his presence...
Página 78 - I hold firmly to the opinion that all worthy schools of art must be in the future, as they have been in the past, the outcome of the aspirations of the people towards the beauty and true pleasure of life.
Página 67 - Surely the Lord is in this place. This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Página 105 - ... character a general indifference to truth and respect for successful wile, in deportment dignity, in society the rigid maintenance of the family union, in government the mute acquiescence of the governed, in administration and justice the open corruption of administrators and judges, and in everyday life a statuesque and inexhaustible patience, which attaches no value to time, and wages unappeasable warfare against hurry.
Página 103 - ... be in readiness for the emergency as it might arise. When any member of a family dies, the family is expected to go into mourning from one to three years, according to the nearness of the relationship. The badge of this family mourning for the men is an enormous bamboo hat, of conical shape, coming down over the face and shoulders like an umbrella, and signifying that "Heaven is angry with the mourner, and does not wish to look upon his face.
Página 78 - Solomon saith there is more hope of a fool, than of one wise in his own...