In fact, one of my objects in coming to you at this hour was, to apprise you of the state of things, if not to recommend your giving up the mission altogether.
To his father's house came likewise two learned civilians from Bologna, no doubt on some mission to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
John of Oxford began his mission at Rome by swearing undauntedly, that nothing had been done at Wurtzburg against the power of the Church or the interests of Pope Alexander.
The rank of his ambassadors implied the importance of their mission to France.
This proposal, however, it seems, did not alarm David in the least, he went forth at once on his terrible mission and actually brought back thrice the number of foreskins required of him by the King.
This review then made it its object “to show that his statements respecting the Protestant Mission in Tahiti are perversions of the truth--that he is guilty of deliberate and elaborate misrepresentation, and .
In the wars that followed, the mission seemed broken up: their house was burned, the printing press destroyed, and six of the brethren removed from Tahiti to Huahine.
On a low hill, a quarter of a mile away from the burning mission buildings, flew the Chinese flag, flanked by the flag of the governor of the province.
Our sixteen Chinese converts at the mission insisted on taking care of themselves.
The governor and his followers may have secretly fomented this rebellion, in order to have a chance to loot the mission and secure, as they thought, the buried treasure which we know doesn't exist.
All the mission Americans are safe at this yamen," retorted Sin Foo.
These missionmen and the other American residents are going to make as good fighting material as you can get out of untrained men," Dave remarked to Dan, in a low voice.
Our entire treasure, in wealth, consisted of about seven hundred dollars in gold, belonging to our mission treasury.
And the governor's conduct also is an outrage," Darrin retorted sternly, "in allowing mobs to burn the mission buildings and all but take the lives of the American missionaries and their families.
From the mission buildings, a quarter of a mile away, went up a wild cheer of hope.
Straight to the missionhurried these tardy fighting men.
What interest can he take in any missionof ours there?
And my own reason for coming back here was to get my own share of the loot which, until to-day, I really believed existed in the mission grounds.
I can't guess," answered Dave training his glass on the mission ruins.
In the compound before the burning mission buildings was a mass of yellow fiends, crowding, yelling and shooting.
Moreover, I am under strict orders to see the American mission party at once, and I must very respectfully insist upon no more delay.
At the same moment there happened to be at Jerusalem a Roman agent, having a mission from the Roman Government with exactly the same objects.
By what caprice, it would have been asked, is a divine mission abandoned suddenly for a human mission?
Once announcing himself, and attesting his own mission as a hakim, he could not be rejected or thwarted as a public oracle of truth and practical counsel to human weakness.
In either event the spiritual mission was at an end: it would have perished in shouts of derision, from which there could have been no retreat, and no retrieval of character.
Finally, indeed, they fell, king and people, shepherd and flock; but by that time their mission was fulfilled.
She had heard that it was said 'Jeanne received her mission at the tree of the fairy-ladies'.
The only resource left the Mission seems to be the one I have chosen.
Our people who sustain the Mission have a right to know the condition of that Mission.
The Mission at Amoy, and our Church, have thus been deprived of the benefit of his labors by means of an erroneous impression.
I have been advised by some to delay the publication of this paper a few months, until we learn the effect of the decision of the last Synod on the Mission at Amoy, and see what course the Church there may feel compelled to adopt.
The American Presbyterian Mission was removed to other parts of China.
True, that Mission has been very successful since they formed what is called a Classis in connection with the Synod in America.
Allow me also to ask whether you will open the columns of your paper for a full statement of the views of the Amoy Missionon the subject of the ecclesiastical relations of the churches under their care?
Another supposed advantage is the effect it will have in enlisting the sympathies of the Church in behalf of the Missionat Amoy.
Tabular View of the Churches and Mission Stations under the care of the Reformed Dutch Church, and English Presbyterian Church, in Amoy and vicinity.
There are, however, a few mission churches, where the subject is now becoming one of vast practical importance.
She sang snatches of old, remembered songs, and talked aloud for very fulness of heart and the sense of her Mission rising strong within her.
If only he could make her understand, he would take it as a sign from on high that his mission was not to be an unworthy one.
The cause of Hungary, which you so eloquently plead, and which it is your high and sacred mission to maintain, is the cause of freedom in every quarter of the world.
After returning his thanks for the compliment, he alluded to the mission of Kossuth.
In England I often avowed this principle; inasmuch as the very mission on which I come, is to ask that the right of every nation to arrange its domestic concerns may be respected.
That is the mission with which I come to your shores; and believe me, gentlemen, that is the key of that wonderful sympathy with which the people of this republic answers my humble appeal.
Gentlemen, the success of mymission here may ensure the victory of freedom; may prevent torrents of martyrs' blood; may weaken the earthquake of impending war; and restore a solid peace.
Perhaps this chivalric character of my nation, so full of regard toward the fair sex, may somewhat commend my mission to the ladies of America.
The safety of themission depends wholly upon our order and harmony.
A letter from Father Chaumonot at the mission in Onondaga reported favorable progress.
The gentlemen who had been forced either by poverty or the roving hand of adventure to take parts in this mission drama were gathered before the fire, discussing the days of prosperity and the court of Louis XIII.
I asked Mazarin for this mission simply because I feared to remain in Paris and dare not now return.
Still, I am not sure that a lad of the kind is worth your worrying over, and I am a trifle curious as to what induced you to entrust the mission to me?
Each wave of lustrous clods that rolled from the gleaming shares was so much rent from the virgin prairie, and a promise of what would come when man had fulfilled his mission and the wilderness would blossom.
The woman took the note, and departed on the mysterious mission entrusted to her.
I mentioned to you when we last met that my mission to England is from a lady now enjoying a sovereign rank, and that it is devoted to good and liberal purposes.
I am delighted to hear that yourmission to England has been so successful, in thwarting the machinations of that bad man," observed Mrs. Arlington.
The difficulties attending such a mission were great; and Richelieu could not have been ignorant of them.
Volusenus zealously carried out the mission confided to him.
In 1841, while residing in Florence, he was named United States minister to Great Britain, and arrived in London to enter upon the duties of his mission at the close of that year.
An interval of fifty-eight years is passed over in silence, and the rest of the book of Ezra comprises his account of his mission to Jerusalem (vii.
In 1872 he went on a scientific mission to Upper Egypt, where he studied the monuments and inscriptions.
Ezra's mission was obviously concerned with the Law and Temple service (vii.
If we whip a dog, we shall soon break its spirit and transform it into a cringing cur, and it is deplorable that some parents seem to regard it as their mission in life to break the spirit of their children with the rule of the rod.
On the same day on which the trumpeter of the Duke of Calabria entered Florence, a distinguished Florentine set out on a confidential mission to Naples.
Manuel Chrysoloras, who had originally come to Italy on a diplomatic mission for John Paleologus, the oppressed Emperor of the East, laid the foundation of the earnest and successful studies which, as it were, opened a new world to the West.
His mission to Hintzen performed, he would spend the night at Forest City, and push on to Downieville the next morning.
As his mission to San Francisco was confidential, and inasmuch as Palmer's Mrs. Somers was an unknown quantity, Keeler refrained from mentioning her.
But the thing that really worried Francis was his own mission and not the fruitless one of Brown's.
If the building of the transcontinental railroad had served no other purpose, it had sent a steady stream of people away from the gold fields--a circumstance that made his mission seem all the more hopeless.
My little mission is fulfilled, and the public has had enough of me.
His mission on this occasion was to assist in the inauguration of a creche, founded and supported by the charitable contributions of the friends of poor children.
For myself, I cannot but be proud of the mission which has been entrusted to me.
Jasmin again went to Paris in May 1853, and this time on his mission of mercy.
Throughout the mission the English had no more courteous sympathizer than the Aragonese ambassador: "I promise your Grace he spareth not to answer your faithful servant.
Des Farges, on learning the nature of the mission at first was uncertain as to how he should act.
The object of this mission was to demand that engineers should be sent to instruct the Siamese in the art of fortification and in the methods of attack and defence of positions.
He sent him back, satisfied with the success of his mission and gave him many valuable gifts.
They went on eating and discussing the work of a medical mission at Mukden that had won Benham's admiration.
The normal woman centres upon herself; her mission is her own charm and her own beauty and her own setting; her place is her home.
The Mission duly returned with its object accomplished.
It's a long way and a dangerous mission for such an object.
The mission of the Prince was to invest a distinguished personage with the insignia of the Lion and the Sun in order to mark the Persian monarch's appreciation of the Garter which had been recently conferred upon him.
The special Mission was due to arrive in London on the 10th of the month.
To fail in his mission was exasperating; but the annoyance was increased tenfold with the knowledge that he had been forestalled.
He had declined to take hints about the former treaty between Russia and Persia, and now, with the Shah's Mission at his door, he would probably refuse to believe that this was but another blind, covering a further and bolder intrigue.
You will remember that when we were fooling the English Mission in Teheran I knew nothing of the treaty just concluded with Russia.
My mission here is to do away with any ill-effects consequent on our treaty with Russia.
He received the news of his mission without comment, and proceeded to make himself acquainted with the habits of his lordship of Lothersdale.
