At Palapchwe the missionary got off to call on Khama, the King of the Bechuanas, who likes missionaries, though not to eat.
And I did go them two days later behind eight prancing mules, in company with a cheerful telegraphist for Tuli, and a missionary who travelled in dancing pumps and a mackintosh.
Association with the masters, missionary effort and motives of expediency gave these rites an early veneer of Christianity, and after the lapse of many generations the Negro church became Christian.
The educational and industrial methods initiated at Lovedale have been widely adopted by other missionary bodies.
Until 1841 the missionaries had devoted themselves almost entirely to evangelistic work; in that year the Lovedale Missionary Institute was founded by the Rev.
But while Luke probably met Paul in Antioch, and thence started with him on his second great missionary enterprise (xv.
The station was founded in 1824 by the Glasgow Missionary Society and was named after Dr John Love, one of the leading members of, and at the time secretary to, the society.
On Sunday evening, February 17, an impressive missionary service was held in the chapel at Spelman.
As far as we have advanced in our missionary activities in America, we have hardly made a beginning in the great task of the proper development of Africa.
When the missionary had finished his prayer and opened his eyes, every person had stealthily left the place.
The secretary of the Society of the West wrote to Spelman to inquire if there was any one who could go to assist Miss Fleming, a missionary at work in Palabala in the Congo.
First of all she went to London, tarrying at the Missionary Training Institute conducted by Rev.
When Nora Gordon went from Spelman Seminary as a missionary to the Congo, she had the hope that in some little way she might be used for the furtherance of the Master's kingdom.
Howard, Spelman's second representative, under appointment of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the East.
Noteworthy for its specialmissionary emphasis is the National Training School of Washington, of which Miss Nannie H.
If all that the reverend missionary uttered had been true, it would still have been a very improper invocation of European sympathies in an American domestic question, and against a settled governmental policy: but it was not true.
Schermerhorn, of New-York, well known as a missionary laborer, composed the commission; and it had all the success which the President expected.
It must surely be that the ministry of intercession has never been put before our students in Theological Halls and Missionary Training Homes as the most important part of their life-work.
Take, in connection with missions, some special station or missionary you are interested in, or more than one, and plead for blessing.
At the first, a Dutch Missionary Conference at Langlaagte, Prayer had been chosen as the subject of the addresses.
I met a devoted young missionary lady from the interior.
They were doubtless going out from one of the great nunneries on a missionary expedition, and to May it seemed delightfully in harmony with the spirit of the scene.
And further, that the Indians do not lack sense, but instruction; and then goes on to speak of his plans for founding schools for the more docile children; thus anticipating the common-sense missionary policy of our own day.
After the supper there was tea, which, I confess, was welcome, and then the missionary put me through a kind of catechism.
He was, or fancied that he was, on duty, inspecting missionary establishments in those mountains.
Mrs. Clyde's discerning eye read in the patient worn face a history of privation and self-denial; and surmised that the enthusiasm of the missionary was paid for most dearly by this uncomplaining partner.
And Blue Bonnet, noticing the care-worn look in the eyes of her "missionary girl," decided that being the eldest of a big family might have its disadvantages.
She stopped abruptly; it was impossible to tell Knight about the missionary box; he might feel sensitive about it.
Blue Bonnet's only regret was that her purse which had been slipped into themissionary box, had not contained several times as much!
As the missionary feared, those having possession of the baby had taken alarm and removed it to another place.
All this was so new and dreadful to Mr. Dinneford that he was stunned and disheartened; and when, after an interview with the missionary that lasted over an hour, he went away, it was with a feeling of utter discouragement.
Bring Andy around in the morning," said the missionary as he turned to go.
As the missionary talked, the face of Mr. Hall underwent a remarkable change.
You are very much in earnest about this matter," said Mr. Dinneford, seeing how excited the missionary had grown.
The Lord Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost," said the missionary as they came down from the school-room, "and we are trying to do the same work.
I hope to see you here again soon," said themissionary as Mr. Dinneford was about going.
Mr. Dinneford put out his hand and grasped that of the missionary with a nervous grip.
I have brought you one;" and the missionarydrew a small Bible from his pocket.
He was most insistent on maintaining the missionary program, which he held to be the very heart-beat of the life of the Church.
At the close of the war, Mr. Nelson envisioned the continuance of this work on a scale far exceeding the conventional idea of church missionary work.
He also took part in the battles round Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge; fought in fact throughout all the campaign in the Southwest and was ultimately brevetted to the rank of Brigadier-General.
He took part in the battle of Wauhatchie and at Missionary Ridge, commanding the 80th.
He has written a really beautiful letter, a poem in itself, to the court missionary of the Reformed Priests' Protection Society which clears up everything.
Our venerable senior missionary read the texts and the Gospel for the day, and gave out suitable hymns, which were well sung by the company of brethren, and sisters, and children assembled in the dining-room around the long table.
Then the procession from the missionary benches files out through the schoolroom into the mission-house and the people disperse to their homes.
About forty men and sixty women occupied the same relative positions to the minister behind the table and to the missionary brethren and sisters to right and left of him, as at Hopedale and Zoar.
Mr. Wirth takes his place behind the table, and, what with residents and visitors, there is a goodly row of missionary brethren and sisters to right and left of him, facing the Eskimo congregation.
It will be a year before they have visitors again, unless it be a missionary brother from Hebron or Mr. MacLaren, the Hudsons Bay Company's agent at Nachvak.
He and his family proved useful helpers of the missionary effort.
It is but a room divided by a curtain, but it served the first missionary couple here as dwelling-room, bedroom, church, and everything else.
Our English missionary sister has also been passing through woman's time of trial and honour, and we are now able to rejoice with her and her husband in the gift of a little girl, their firstborn.
The chapel being small, the people were rather near to the benches occupied by the missionary brethren and sisters, and this proximity was evident to the organs of smell.
Yes, it does look like Salisbury Crags on a large scale, as a missionary remarked to me last year on the Calton Hill in Edinburgh.
This meeting lasted about two hours, and was, as elsewhere, an arduous time for the missionary who acted as my interpreter.
In China, not long ago, the house of a missionarywas entered and valuables taken by the thieves.
The missionary went to the authorities with his tale and told them whom he suspected.
At length, at the end of three months, Joseph Brigniel, a veteran Missionary of the Abipones and Guaranies, accompanied by Father Jeronymo Rejon, was appointed my successor.
In short, I performed the part of a missionary for eighteen years, spending seven amongst the Abipones, eleven amongst the Guaranies.
These things I told the Governor with the greatest sincerity; but let it be known that I never received a single penny from the royal treasury, either in the character of missionary or of soldier.
Among them came Aunt Olive, whose missionary work among her neighbors was as untiring as her tongue.
I am on my way to Rock Island, Illinois, to meet Black Hawk, the chief, who has promised to assist me with a guide and interpreter for my missionary journeys among the new settlements and the tribes.
The family gathered around the story-telling missionary after supper, and listened to his tales of the Rhine, all of which had some soul-lesson in his view, and enabled him to preach by parables.
So blind is he that, if he wants a heathen, he puts on his spectacles and reads you an account of one out of some old Missionary Magazine.
I see he has just issued an account of one of the sufferers in that unhappy missionary expedition to the island of Terra del Fuego, the result of which was the slow death, by hunger, of the parties engaged.
In 1835 the Doctor left England for a Missionary tour in Abyssinia--thence for Bombay--thence for the United States.
I felt like a missionary among a lot of cannibals.
Eccentricity becomes a moral passion; every drunken man is a missionary of the peculiar.
The Widow had begun her missionarybusiness where all the world ought to begin it--at home.
Come, let's do a little missionary business, and begin at home," urged the Gopher.
Here is an extract from a letter in which he invites a distinguished traveling Yankee philanthropist and missionary to come to him and make his house his home.
Who could she have been, this half hermit, this little missionary who had in one winter half civilized, almost christianized, a thousand savage men without preaching a single sermon?
Gradually the barriers were thrown down, and the East has become accessible to literature and to civilization as it never had been to the various Charity and Church missionary organizations.
He had been graduated with high honours at the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, and had consecrated his life to medical missionary work in China, where his large abilities promptly won him wide influence.
I think of James Chalmers, the martyred missionary of New Guinea.
A missionary of the gospel has been among them and they have received the word of the Lord Jesus.
It is not improbable that the Lascar host may have partaken of the same particular species of fish or shell-fish that the missionary and his wife partook of.
When, in the month of February, 1875, I saw the missionary a second time, professionally, I found that all the old symptoms had returned.
As even a missionary could not live by milk alone I insisted upon a more substantial diet.
I need hardly say that he was a highly cultured and intelligent gentleman, since only such persons are chosen for missionary work in China.
Somewhat improved in general health, the missionary resolved to go back to his duties in China.
Some other doctor treated this missionary for parasites, administering both male-fern and santonine without effect.
If it be asked what were the symptoms produced, I can only furnish such few and hitherto unpublished particulars as the missionary himself supplied.
No well-authenticated second instance of the occurrence of this worm took place until the year 1873, when a missionary and his wife from China consulted Dr George Johnson respecting parasites from which they were suffering.
Whilst in the country the missionary and his wife freely partook of freshwater fish, and on one occasion they received a quantity of oysters that had been sent up from Ningpo.
In the following September, or about ten months subsequently, the missionary was attacked with diarrhœa, which persisted until expulsion of some of the parasites had occurred.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "missionary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
