 | John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 548 pages
...abroad through all the country, the chief of the place had the curiosity to see a person so wonderful in his works and in his words. He preached to them the...of a month ; and when they understood it, I charged (hem to teach it their fathers and mothers, all of their own family, and even their neighbours. " On... | |
 | James Hough - Christianity - 1839 - 526 pages
...were baptized ; and he thus described his mode of proceeding. " I went about, with my bell in my hand, and gathering together all I met, both men and children,...when they understood it, I charged them to teach it to their fathers and mothers, then to all of their own family, and even to their neighbours. " On Sundays... | |
 | 1846 - 586 pages
...Regina, and the whole of the Catechism;' and then he says, ' I went about with my bell in my hand, and gathering together all I met, both men and children,...when they understood it, I charged them to teach it to their fathers and mothers.' " When he made the children repeat the creed, he asked, after each article,... | |
 | 1847 - 490 pages
...coast, and thus describes his mode of proceeding : ' I went about with my bell in my hand, and gathered together all I met, both men and children ; I instructed them in the Christian doctrine. The children learned it easily by heart, in the compass of a month ; and when they understood it, I charged them... | |
 | Joseph Kingsmill - Missions - 1853 - 588 pages
...baptized ; and he thus describes his own mode of proceeding. I went about, with my bell in my hand, and gathering together all I met, both men and children,...when they understood it, I charged them to teach it to their fathers and mothers, then to all their own family, and even to their neighbours. " On Sundays,... | |
 | Joseph Kingsmill - 1854 - 600 pages
...baptized ; and he thus describes his own mode of proceeding. I went about, with my bell in my hand, and gathering together all I met, both men and children,...when they understood it, I charged them to teach it to their fathers and mothers, then to all their own family, and even to their neighbours. " On Sundays,... | |
 | Edward Henry Nolan - British - 1878 - 456 pages
...baptized, the rest being idolaters. " I went about," he himself records, " with my bell in my hand, and gathering together all I met, both men and children,...when they understood it I charged them to teach it to their parents, to all of their own family, and even to their neighbours. On Sunday I assembled the... | |
 | Africa - 1893 - 776 pages
...words, his extraordinary method of converting the heathen : — " I went about with my bell in my hand, and gathering together all I met, both men and children,...when they understood it, I charged them to teach it to their fathers and mothers, then to all of their own family, and even to their neighbours. On Sundays,... | |
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I went about, with my bell in my hand," says he himself, " and gathering together all I met, both men and children, I instructed them in the Christian doctrine. The children learnt it easily by heart in the compass of a month ; and when they understood... 