And so there was a continual struggle, in which the Congregation did all it could to favour the missionaries of Italy and her allies.
The Popish missionaries have acted in the case just as I should have done myself when a Romish priest, in obedience to the instructions given by the infallible church.
I venture to say, it will be discovered, at no distant day, that all the good which our Protestant missionaries have done there will soon be undone by Popish agents.
But let us resume the subject of the Jesuit missionariesfrom the Propaganda in France to Tahiti.
I here give an instance of the manner in which those Popish missionaries discharge their duties.
It is due to the Protestant missionaries to state, that they took no part whatever in the expulsion of these Jesuits; nor could they, in justice to themselves or to the cause of morality, interfere in preventing it.
We are told by the early missionaries that the Maoris possessed an oral mythology rudely resembling that of the classics.
The missionaries have taught the women when they are on shore to wear a small strip of cloth with a hole in the centre for putting over the head, and which hanging down back and front partially covers the otherwise exposed bosom.
We had as fellow-passengers a family of English missionaries to land at Tutuila, who were on their return to the islands after a brief visit to their European home.
The modern Maori accepts the creed of the missionaries because it is the easiest thing for him to do; but he still believes in witchcraft, the evil-eye, and sorcery as openly practised by his designing priests.
When the missionaries were here they planted fruit-trees, which are still thriving and annually productive of pears, apples, peaches, and the like.
When the missionaries first came here, about the year 1814, the main subsistence of the natives who lived around what is now Auckland harbor, was human flesh.
Though the missionaries half invented and half transcribed an oral Maori language, it is almost solely applied to a translation of the Bible, and there cannot be said now to exist any native literature.
Wash off all them fiery streaks from your cheeks, put on these garments, and here is a hat, such as it is, that will give you an awful oncivilized sort of civilization, as the missionaries call it.
Hetty, the love of the missionaries isn't the sort of likin' I mean.
Do the missionaries teach their white brethren to think it is so?
Yes, if one could see that come to pass, there wouldn't be much difficulty in yieldin' faith to all that the missionaries say.
The missionariesnow in the East will certainly be of very singular use to the natives.
It may be news to you that the houses of missionaries are a cause of mocking on the streets of Honolulu.
Most of themissionaries I've met are poor men, and they are willing to remain so.
Mr. Trott, I have just received an appointment to a desirable post among the missionaries in China.
Thirty years ago a friend of mine made a voyage from Boston to Smyrna in the Henry Hill, a ship which often took out missionaries to the East, and now had on board a mixed cargo of missionaries and rum!
Happily the missionaries have not succeeded as yet in teaching the Japanese to make religion a dismal thing.
Much less is it to be sought for in the efforts of proselytising missionaries from the West--most of whom profess an earnest belief in devils.
Among the missionaries was "Old Father De Smidt," as he afterwards came to be familiarly called.
Besides the usual traders and trappers, the party met at this rendezvous some missionaries and a distinguished English nobleman, Sir William Stuart.
I was forced in my last lecture to pass by altogether, and to-day can only with momentary definition notice, the part taken by Scottish missionaries in the Christianizing of England and Burgundy.
The missionaries are always to her, not from her:--for the very reason that she is learning so eagerly, she does not take to preaching.
The Government still assumes to control these schools, and to tell themissionaries how much of the vernacular they may use, and how they must divide the hours between the two languages.
Professional training without previous course of liberal education cannot provide the men that are required for this day and generation among the colored people of the United States or for missionaries on the Dark Continent.
The queens afterward sent the missionaries sugar-cane, bananas, cocoanuts and other foods, as a token of their pleasure.
They had been among the earliest missionaries in the Philippines, and were probably the wealthiest and most influential of all the clergy there.
A small grandstand had been erected in the plaza, and there we stood with the Secretary and the few white teachers and the missionaries from about, while the procession was reviewed.
The mild climate of Hawaii makes very little clothing necessary for warmth, and before the advent of the missionaries the women wore only a short skirt of tapa that reached just below the knees, and the men a loin-cloth, the malo.
Many of the missionaries settled in Hawaii, and their descendants have become rich and prominent citizens.
The Kanakas received us with enthusiasm and assured us that the place was a paradise before the coming of the missionaries and mosquitoes.
After the missionaries arrived, the hula was modified, and to-day it has almost died out.
His appeal led the first missionaries to embark for those far-away shores.
They had been handed down entirely by word of mouth until the missionaries arrived.
No missionaries or other persons had been allowed by the natives to land on their shores until a few Japanese police arrived in 1909.
In the island of Borabora the missionaries found not less than two hundred and twenty of these structures crowded within an area only ten miles in circumference.
A less cheerful picture, however, of the state of souls in the other world was painted for Commodore Wilkes by the missionaries who furnished him with information on the native religion of the Tongans.
The story is told from the point of view of the Protestant (Wesleyan) missionaries by Miss S.
On this subject the first missionaries to these islanders tell us that, in addition to the greater gods, "for general worship they have an inferior race, a kind of dii penates.
The tomb described and illustrated by the first missionaries had four massive and lofty steps, each of them five and a half feet broad and four feet or three feet nine inches high.
A similar sacrifice seems to have been formerly offered at the obsequies of a king; for at the funeral of King Moomoeoe the first missionaries to Tonga saw two of the king's widows being led away to be strangled.
According to Stewart, in those parts of Hawaii to which the influence of the missionaries had not penetrated, two-thirds of the infants born were murdered by their parents within the age of two years.
After the conversion of the natives to Christianity the missionaries were shown the spot.
The missionaries saw many mouldering fragments of skeletons.
Again and again they petitioned to be sent as missionaries to the New World, and again and again were disappointed.
Missionaries and persecuted brethren would be the strangers to whom the enrolled widows used hospitality, and whose feet they washed.
But the Protestant missionaries and the British Resident came to the rescue of the Metropolitan, and exercised their influence with the ruler of Travancore, who forthwith deported Athanasius.
During his regime, there grew up among the Syrians a party, who suspected that the missionaries were using their influence with the Metropolitan, and secretly endeavouring to bring the Syrians under the Protestant Church.
The missionaries had friends among the Jacobites, some of whom became members of the Church of England.
Syrians finally parted company with themissionaries in 1838.
Nine-tenths of the Native clergy in Tinnevelly are said to be converted Shanans, and Tinnevelly claims Native missionaries working in Madagascar, Natal, Mauritius, and the Straits.
I meant I'd been trying to pick out the missionaries and ministers, and the bishop.
The insecurity of life and property in many parts of Turkey has given rise to correspondence with the Porte looking particularly to the better protection of American missionaries in the Empire.
If white missionaries cannot, black ones can survive in Africa.
But our missionaries have not counted their lives dear unto themselves; and, as fast as one is cut down, another stands ready to supply his place.
If we are to send away the colored population because they are profligate and vicious, what sort of missionarieswill they make?
Therefore it is always very stimulating and highly instructive to tarry among them, and there is none among the Europeans now living who can vie with these missionaries in their knowledge of the Ladak people and their history.
Many of my dearest recollections of the long years I have spent in Asia are connected with the Mission stations, and the more I get to know about the missionaries the more I admire their quiet, unceasing, and often thankless labours.
Let our missionaries in the bosom of our own forest, in the distant regions of the East, and on the islands of the great Pacific, answer the question.
This led me to ask the missionaries assisting the church to make a search for a few weeks and collect as many such children as possible.
It was an intimation that he was master--that missionaries were somewhat feeble-minded and had to do with weak people.
One of the missionaries of the church came next day and helped to make arrangements for the funeral which was to take place in the afternoon.
He was the only one of the group who seemed at ease; for the twomissionaries could not forget the death of Anno--and Gilbert, from some cause or other, had lost his sprightliness.
These noble missionaries slowly but surely prepared the canvas on which were afterward laid, in colors of enduring brightness, the features of Christian civilization.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "missionaries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
