Memoir of Samuel John MillsPerkins & Marvin, 1829 - 259 páginas |
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... Orleans ; thence across through Missis- sippi ; and on their return , take a course through the western parts of Georgia , Carolinas , and Virginia . Five or six hundred miles of this route was a mere wilderness . In perusing the ...
... Orleans ; thence across through Missis- sippi ; and on their return , take a course through the western parts of Georgia , Carolinas , and Virginia . Five or six hundred miles of this route was a mere wilderness . In perusing the ...
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... Orleans the 19th . The distance is 300 miles . For 100 miles above New Orleans , the banks of the river are cleared , and in descend- ing the river you pass many very elegant planta- tions . The whole of this distance the banks appear ...
... Orleans the 19th . The distance is 300 miles . For 100 miles above New Orleans , the banks of the river are cleared , and in descend- ing the river you pass many very elegant planta- tions . The whole of this distance the banks appear ...
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... Orleans on the 6th of April , and on the 6th of May arrived at Nash- ville . Some of the hardships sustained on this Mission may be conjectured from a few passages of the journal , on the route from New Orleans to Georgia , a country ...
... Orleans on the 6th of April , and on the 6th of May arrived at Nash- ville . Some of the hardships sustained on this Mission may be conjectured from a few passages of the journal , on the route from New Orleans to Georgia , a country ...
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... Orleans . On this second visit to New Orleans , Mr. , Mills pursued nearly the same route , and exhib- ited the same indefatigable zeal and effort as on the first . He arrived at New Orleans shortly after the celebrated battle of the ...
... Orleans . On this second visit to New Orleans , Mr. , Mills pursued nearly the same route , and exhib- ited the same indefatigable zeal and effort as on the first . He arrived at New Orleans shortly after the celebrated battle of the ...
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... Orleans and its vicinity , we shall present by an extract from his Report to the Philadelphia Society . " As has already been stated , I reached New Orleans on the tenth of February . I soon as- certained that the 3000 copies of the ...
... Orleans and its vicinity , we shall present by an extract from his Report to the Philadelphia Society . " As has already been stated , I reached New Orleans on the tenth of February . I soon as- certained that the 3000 copies of the ...
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Página 51 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Página 51 - Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness ; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Página 52 - Come then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy ! It was thine By ancient covenant ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood.
Página 35 - They now offer the following inquiries, on which they solicit the opinion and advice of this association : Whether, with their present views and feelings, they ought to renounce the object of missions, as either visionary or impracticable ; if not, whether they ought to direct their attention to the eastern or the western world ; whether they may expect patronage and support from...
Página 58 - Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Página 10 - The first idea his father had of his change of mind, arose from an observation he made, " that he could not conceive of any course of life in which to pass the rest of his days, that would prove so pleasant, as to go and communicate the gospel salvation to the poor heathen.
Página 130 - Resolve, That the Executive be requested to correspond with the President of the United States, for the purpose of obtaining a territory upon the coast of Africa, or at some other place, not within any of the . States or territorial governments of the United States...
Página 35 - They beg leave to state that their minds have been long impressed with the duty and importance of personally attempting a mission to the heathen ; that the impressions on their minds have induced a serious, and, as they trust, a prayerful consideration of the subject in its various attitudes, particularly in relation to the probable success and the difficulties attending such an attempt; and that, after examining all the information which they can obtain, they consider themselves as devoted to this...
Página 7 - She felt his sorrows, and her own: and God was pleased not only to show her that all her help was in him, but to enable her to feel that to him could her heart turn as her only God in covenant, and from him could it find unutterable relief.