Thirty Eventful Years: The Story of the American Board Mission in Japan, 1869-1899 |
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Thirty Eventful Years: The Story of The American Board Mission in Japan ... M L 1843-1900 Gordon No preview available - 2023 |
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Page 4 - The Lord, ye know, is God indeed ; Without our aid he did us make : We are his flock, he doth us feed, And for his sheep he doth us take.
Page 1 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Page 8 - The meetings grew in interest and were continued from week to week until the end of February. After a week or two, the Japanese, for the first time in the history of the nation, were on their knees in a Christian prayer-meeting, entreating God, with great emotion, with the tears streaming down their faces, that he would give his Spirit to Japan as to the early church and to the people around the Apostles. These prayers were characterized by intense earnestness. Captains of men-of-war, English and...
Page 9 - Our church does not belong to any sect whatever ; it believes only in the name of Christ, in whom all are one ; it believes that all who take the Bible as their guide and who diligently study it are the servants of Christ, and our brethren. For this reason all believers on earth belong to the family of Christ in the bonds of brotherly love.
Page 33 - Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
Page 8 - Acts in course day by day, and, that the Japanese present might take part intelligently in the service, the Scripture of the day was translated extemporaneously into their language. The meetings grew in interest, and were continued from week to week until the end of February. After a week or two, the Japanese, for the first time in the history of the nation, were on their knees in a Christian prayer-meeting, entreating God with great emotion, with the tears streaming down their faces, that He would...
Page 15 - ... convention to agree that we will use our influence to secure, as far as possible, identity of name and organization in the native churches, in the formation of which we may be called to assist, that name being as catholic as the Church of Christ ; and the organization being that wherein the government of each church shall be by the ministry and eldership of the same, with the concurrence of the brethren.
Page 32 - Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean...
Page 15 - Him, and the diversities of denominations among Protestants are but accidents which, though not affecting the vital unity of believers, do obscure the oneness of the Church in Christendom, and much more in Pagan lands, where the history of the divisions cannot be understood ; and whereas we, as Protestant missionaries, desire to secure uniformity in our modes and methods of evangelization, so as to avoid as far as possible the evil arising from marked differences, we therefore take this earliest...