Journal of a Visitation to the Provinces of Travancore and Tinnevelly: In the Diocese of Madras, 1840-1841 |
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affectionate Alleppie altar Apostolic appearance assured beautiful Bishop of Madras blessed Brahmins building catechists character charity Christ Christianity in India Church Missionary Society Church of England clergyman Cochin Coimbatore comfort confirmed congregation Cottayam dear delightful diocese district duty endeavour English faith favour feel G. T. MADRAS give God's Gospel grace heart heathen holy holy orders honour hope humbly Jesus Kotagherry labour land live London Missionary Society look Lord Lordship mercy mind minister mission missionary clergy morning native Christians offer Palamcotta palanquin Paulghaut peculiar peculiarly Peet pray prayer preached present pretty priest Quilon racter reason religion resident respect reverend brethren Roman Catholic church sermon sinner sionary sleep Society solemn soul Southern India speak spirit station Syrian Syrian Church thankful things thou Tinnevelly tion Travancore trees Trevandrum Trichoor truth unto village wish word worship yesterday
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Page 236 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He hath purchased with His own blood.
Page 82 - Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones : Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you and ye shall live, and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Page 5 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.
Page 151 - LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Page 161 - Charge them, who are rich in this world, that they be ready to give, and glad to distribute ; laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may attain eternal life.
Page 185 - Now I beseech you, brethren-, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Page 214 - Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Page 67 - Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded ; in all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works, in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned ; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Page 152 - And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
Page 208 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.