...began to unburden his heart at ministers' meetings, but found little response. The elder Ryland said, " Young man, sit down, when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid and mine." But presently others caught the infection of Carey's zeal. The moral beginning of the Baptist...

...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 your aid or mine." * Next, after the Baptist missionaries, came those of the London Missionary Society. The first missionary,...

...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...

...topic for discussion in a ministerial gathering, an honored father in the church frowningly said, " Young man, sit down ; when God pleases to convert the heathen He will do it without your aid or mine ; " and his views were entertained by " the aged and more influential ministers generally." The Rev....

...ministers, urged the duty of giving the gospel to the heathen, the President exclaimed, "Sit down, young man, sit down. When God pleases to convert the heathen He will do it without your aid or mine." But already Coke was meditating the vast missionary enterprises which are the glory of the Methodist...

...Affronted at the earnestness of the young man, if not at his ignorance, an eminent minister cried : "Young man, sit down! When God pleases to convert...heathen, he will do it without your aid or mine." Is it the ghost of that " spurious system of Calvinism?" Is it lost and wandering echoes of that. thundering...

...Mr. Ryland, sprang frowning to his feet, and thundered out, ' Young man, sit down ! When God means to convert the heathen, he will do it without your aid or mine.' He conversed, printed, and preached upon the subject, introducing it with neverfailing patience wherever...

...Carey, when he proposed foreign missions a* a suitable topic for discussion, "Young man, sit down I When God pleases to convert the heathen, he will do it without your help or mine." In this alone there is abundant room for the exercise of patience. Let it not be imagined...

...began to remember these, and to feel the power of the Saviour's ascending command, her voice was, " Young man, sit down : when God pleases to convert...heathen, he will do it without your aid or mine." When, sixteen years less than a century ago, the proposition was made in the General Assembly of the...

...began to remember these, and to feel the power of the Saviour's ascending command, her voice was, " Young man, sit down : when God pleases to convert...heathen, he will do it without your aid or mine." When, sixteen years less than a century ago, the proposition was made in the General Assembly of the...