The Business of MissionsMacmillan, 1924 - 290 pages |
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Page 91 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 90 - And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd : and he began to teach them many things.
Page 3 - We thank Thee that Thy Church unsleeping, While earth rolls onward into light, Through all the world her watch is keeping, And rests not now by day or night. 3 As o'er each continent and island The dawn leads on another day, The voice of prayer is never silent, Nor dies the strain of praise away.
Page 87 - And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 41 - And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
Page 189 - In the recognition of the fact of that Fatherhood and of the divine purpose for the world which are central to the message of Christianity we shall discover the ultimate foundation for the reconstruction of an ordered and harmonious life for all men.
Page 186 - The Lord looketh from heaven ; he beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Page 33 - But all the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount...
Page 189 - Even the hope that lies before the world of a life of peace protected and developed by a League of Nations, is itself dependent on something deeper and more fundamental still. The cooperation which the League of Nations explicitly exists to foster will become operative in so far as the consenting peoples have the spirit of goodwill. And the spirit of goodwill among men rests on spiritual forces; the hope of a ' brotherhood of humanity' reposes on the deeper spiritual fact of the
Page 187 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, "I have no need of thee:" nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you.