| Christianity - 1857 - 542 pages
...Testament, and place the old in the syna' gogue, without respect to the donors. The Albanian Klephts ' make wadding for their guns of the leaves of the Society's Bibles, ' when they have no other. I must, however, add that the mis' sionaries do not labour wholly in vain.... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 570 pages
...Testaments, and place the Old Testaments in their synagogues, sneering at the donors. The Albanian Kleptes make wadding for their guns of the leaves of the Society's...them of the charge of keeping such forbidden books. " I must, however, add, that the missionaries do not entirely labour in vain. Converts are obtained,... | |
| Thomas William M. Marshall - Missionaries - 1862 - 576 pages
...Testaments, and place the Old Testaments in their synagogues, sneering at the donors. The Albanians make wadding for their guns of the leaves of the Society's Bibles, if they have no other. (1) And so he continues an enumeration , which, coupled with what we have already heard of the fate... | |
| Thomas William M. Marshall - Church growth - 1863 - 664 pages
...Testaments, and place the Old Testaments in their synagogues, sneering at the donors. " The Albanians make wadding for their guns of the leaves of the Society's Bibles, if they have no other."f And so he continues an enumeration, which, coupled with what we have already heard of the... | |
| 1864 - 684 pages
...Testaments, and place the Old Testaments in their synagogues, sneering at the donors. "The Albanians make wadding for their guns of the leaves of the Society's Bibles, if they have no other." — (p. 47-48.) Again, a certain Protestant Missionary smuggled some Bibles among the Persians, but,... | |
| Thomas William M. Marshall - Missions - 1864 - 652 pages
...Testaments, and place the Old Testaments in their synagogues, sneering at the donors. uThe Albanians make wadding for their guns of the leaves of the Society's Bibles, if they have no other."f And so he continues an enumeration, which, coupled with what we have already heard of the... | |
| Thomas Scott Preston - Protestantism - 1888 - 236 pages
...destroying the New Testament, place the Old in their synagogues, sneering at the donors." "The Albanians make wadding for their guns of the leaves of the Society's Bibles." \ In Russia "missionaries may introduce Bibles in any quantity, but let them only venture to attempt... | |
| Stephen K. Batalden, Kathleen Cann, John Dean - Bible - 2004 - 396 pages
...Testaments and place the Old Testaments in their synagogues, sneering at the donors. The Albanian klepthes make wadding for their guns of the leaves of the Society's...them of the charge of keeping such forbidden books. . . If I do not mistake, it was said in one of the Bible Society reports, "that the Smyrniote Greeks... | |
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