Remains of Melville B. Cox, Late Missionary to Liberia: With a Memoir

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Light and Horton, 1835 - 240 páginas
 

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Página 234 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Página 57 - So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb.
Página 215 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Página 186 - Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me : — " My father, Thou art the guide of my youth?
Página 71 - ... to his own eaves, and the snow beating against -his own windows, would be far more pleasant to his eyes, than the bloom and verdure which only more forcibly remind him how far he is from that one spot which is dearer to him than the world beside. He may, indeed, find estimable friends, who will do all in their power to promote his comfort and assuage his pains ; but they cannot supply the place of the long known and...
Página 35 - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace Whose mind is stayed on Thee; because he trusteth in Thee. Trust ye in the Lord forever; For in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength...
Página 70 - IT is a sad thing to feel that we must die away from our home. Tell not the invalid who is yearning after his distant country, that the atmosphere around him is soft ; that the gales are filled with balm, and the flowers are springing from the green earth : he knows that the softest air to his heart would be the air which hangs over his native land ; that...
Página 32 - On the morning of the day on which he died he said to a brother itinerant, who asked him what message he should take to his...
Página 218 - carnal things," can we do less than return her intellectual and spiritual things? God help us to do it, nor to think we have done enough till Africa is redeemed. WHAT I WANT TO DO. — I want to establish a mission at Grand Bassa, a very promising settlement, about seventy miles to the eastward of Monrovia. Our Church has children already there who have emigrated from America.
Página 233 - I was hungry and ye gave me no meat, thirsty and ye gave me no drink, naked and ye clothed me not, a stranger and ye took me not in, sick and in prison and ye visited me not.

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