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Example sentences for "missionary work"

  • That is why it is playing with edged tools to speak so much to our Christian audiences, as we sometimes hear done, about the condition of the heathen as a stimulus to missionary work.

  • We have a right to base our urging of Christian men and women to missionary work either at home or abroad, upon the ground of the condition of the men to whom the Gospel has to be carried.

  • I presume," she said, "that we could have looked at it as a missionary work.

  • But when his benefactor proposed to educate him for the ministry, with a view to his final use in missionary work, he revolted.

  • I hope you wouldn't object to it if it were a missionary work," said one of the elder sisters.

  • It is missionary work, you see--just as much as going to Siam or China.

  • The gentle child felt called of God to do missionary work for a weak and struggling people.

  • Within a few days of my arrival I was introduced to the missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, and to a few European residents who took an interest in missionary work.

  • Another great advantage in our home education was that we became interested in missionary work.

  • Thus we boys used to enjoy the no small privilege of becoming personally acquainted with many of the most devoted men of the day, as well as of being educated into an interest in missionary work.

  • He detested posing, but why wouldn't it be worth something to have laymen report on missionary work?

  • As in every Oriental city, missionary work is relatively small.

  • Could he show his visitor a little of missionary work in village environment?

  • Nairne wished to have a Protestant clergyman established at Murray Bay; he could make that place his headquarters and carry on missionary work in the neighbouring parishes.

  • The Church's missionary work in the Village.

  • The Church's missionary work in the villages.

  • Missionary work in Africa is so hard that missionaries need a place where they can rest from time to time.

  • Seems to me missionary work ought to begin at home.

  • Her mother was the one who had interested her in missionary work by telling her stories about it when she was only a little girl.

  • Bueltmann When Mary was young, she heard her mother read about the dangers and rewards of missionary work in Calabar, Africa.

  • That solemn Senior, who had not seen the slightest effect his "Missionary Work" was having on the stolid Thor, was in despair; but he did not know the truth.

  • Missionary work was in harmony, not only with his spiritual nature, but with the grand conceptions which he entertained for the future of the Church with which he had associated himself.

  • It is quite natural, therefore, that he should keep a careful account of missionary work both at home and abroad.

  • At a meeting of the Twelve Apostles on the 12th of August, the subject of missionary work came up for consideration.

  • She prayed especially for the children who were engaged in missionary work, and asked that they might have grace given them to devote their whole lives to the service of God.

  • I know I'll do better now, and I do want to help in missionary work.

  • Bulawayo, being of such recent growth and being surrounded by pagan tribes, would have afforded abundant opportunity for missionary work.

  • Perhaps some one who reads these lines may wonder whether building, farming, and such manual labor is missionary work.

  • There are so many sides to missionary work, and who can tell which will result in the greatest good?

  • Once or twice during the day, Genevieve wondered what Cordelia's missionary work could be; but for the most part study and recitation filled her thoughts and time.

  • He said you called it missionary work--and that 'twas missionary work, too.

  • I've taken my music lesson and done my hour, and I'm off on missionary work now," she beamed brightly.

  • A letter from Miss Le Baron, of Chicago, in regard to my engaging in missionary work in the West.

  • She weighed at its full value the argument that she could teach in Melbourne; of course, she could teach; but teaching must necessarily be subordinate to missionary work.

  • I have been talking to an old brother with his wife--mine host--on missionary work, trying to show that I am in as legitimate a business as the editor of the Review when he publishes a paper.

  • We are now to consider the second--her connection with the women's missionary work of her church.

  • Public lectures, properly advertised, designed to attract attention to missionary work, particularly to the work of our women, might do great good.


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