| 1859 - 1200 páginas
...proposition with astonishment, not unmingled with displeasure ; and, springing to his feet, thundered out, "Young man, sit down. When God pleases to convert...Heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine." Mr. Fuller confesses that his own feelings ou the occasion were like those of the unbelieving courtier... | |
| William King Tweedie - 1840 - 278 páginas
...heathen, even a grave, devoted, reverend man hastily ordered him to sit down, and sarcastically said, " When God pleases to convert the heathen, he will do it without your aid or mine." Such was the dense ignorance which then prevailed, and such the indifference to the chief work of the... | |
| 1869 - 406 páginas
...among heathen nations." The old man was taken aback. He sprang to his feet, and thundered out, '• Young man, sit down. When God pleases to convert the...heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine." Even Mr. Fuller, the future indefatigable secretary of the Mission, was startled at the novelty and... | |
| 1876 - 782 páginas
...nations, when Mr. Ryland, Sen., sprang to his feet and denounced the proposition. "Young man," said he, "sit down ; when God pleases to convert the heathen, he will do it without yonr aid or mine."* Next, after the Baptist missionaries, came those of the London Missionary Society.... | |
| 1860 - 620 páginas
...Gospel among heathen nations." The venerable preacher sprang to his feet, frowned, and thundered out : " Young man, sit down ! When God pleases to convert...heathen, he will do it without your aid or mine!" All the old men of his denomination were steadily against him. By degrees the young were brought to... | |
| Samuel Colcord Bartlett - 1850 - 310 páginas
...benighted. What a startling indication was that too famous reply of Ryland to Carey, not ninety years ago, " Young man, sit down. When God pleases to convert the heathen he will do it without your aid or mine." But God used the young shoemaker as a forerunner of a revolution of sentiment that has spread through... | |
| John Clark Marshman - 1859 - 574 páginas
...astonishment, and, springing on his feet, denounced the proposition with a frown, and thundered out, " Young man, sit down. When God pleases to convert the...heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine." Mr. Fuller himself, who, in after years, built up the Mission at home, while Mr. Carey was employed... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 624 páginas
...Gospel among heathen nations." The venerable preacher sprang to his feet, frowned, and thundered out : " Young man, sit down ! When God pleases to convert...heathen, he will do it without your aid or mine!" All the old men of his denomination were steadily against him. By degrees the young were brought to... | |
| Halwin Caldwell - 1860 - 416 páginas
...early enough ; and when he once mooted the question at a meeting, a worthy minister answered sharply, "Young man, sit down. When God pleases to convert...heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine." Carey thought otherwise. He knew an agent is wanted in every great work, and that agent he longed to... | |
| William Anderson - 1860 - 346 páginas
...Spirit-commission, revealed the state of his mind to the venerable Eyland : " My young man," said the doctor, " sit down ; when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or • mine." — Was not this deplorable 1 Now that the true light shineth, does it not feel for us to be a profanity,... | |
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