Answer to the Abbé́ Dubois: In which Misrepresentations, Etc. in His "Letters on the State of Christianity in India", are Pointed Out and the Evangelization of India is Demonstrated Practicable1824 - Missions - 214 pages |
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... kind of Don - Quixote appeal to their sensibility and compassion , for the purpose of soliciting their support and assistance towards the establishment of schools to enlighten the female Hindoos . The ladies of Liverpool are not aware ...
... kind of Don - Quixote appeal to their sensibility and compassion , for the purpose of soliciting their support and assistance towards the establishment of schools to enlighten the female Hindoos . The ladies of Liverpool are not aware ...
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... kind ( far be from me the blasphemy ) as the mischievous Hin- doo deities , Cohly , Mahry , Darma - rajah , and other infernal gods , whose wrath cannot be ap- peased but by the shedding of blood , and the immolating of living victims ...
... kind ( far be from me the blasphemy ) as the mischievous Hin- doo deities , Cohly , Mahry , Darma - rajah , and other infernal gods , whose wrath cannot be ap- peased but by the shedding of blood , and the immolating of living victims ...
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... kind of contradictions . I several times repeated , in treating this topic , that the Christian religion had for its founder a peasant of Galilee , the son of a humble carpenter , who took for his assistants twelve low - born men ...
... kind of contradictions . I several times repeated , in treating this topic , that the Christian religion had for its founder a peasant of Galilee , the son of a humble carpenter , who took for his assistants twelve low - born men ...
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... kind happened to me a few years ago in this part of the country , when , in explaining to the congregation the parable of the prodigal son in the gospel , I men- tioned the circumstance of the prodigal's father having , through joy ...
... kind happened to me a few years ago in this part of the country , when , in explaining to the congregation the parable of the prodigal son in the gospel , I men- tioned the circumstance of the prodigal's father having , through joy ...
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... kind , and especially the two master - sins of our fallen nature - pride and sen suality . The cross of Christ comes , as with an axe , to the root of both these trees of iniquity . It tells the proud Pharisee in Judea , and the proud ...
... kind , and especially the two master - sins of our fallen nature - pride and sen suality . The cross of Christ comes , as with an axe , to the root of both these trees of iniquity . It tells the proud Pharisee in Judea , and the proud ...
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