...spread of the gospel among heathen nations," an elderly divine 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." We see the old Calvinism and the new here in conflict. Carey found supporters in men who adopted the...

...spread of the Gospel among the heathen ; when Mr. Ryland, senior, sprang to his feet exclaiming, ' ' Young man, sit down ! When God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your help or mine ! ' ' Neither daunted nor discouraged by repulses, Carey embodied his views in a pamphlet,...

...spread of the gospel among the heathen, Dr. Ryland, as is well known, sprang to his feet exclaiming : "Young man, sit down! When God pleases to convert the heathen, he will do it without your help or mine." But when, a year later, May, 1792, Carey, by previous appointment, preached that epoch-making...

...spread of the gospel among the heathen, Dr. Ryland, as is well known, sprang to his feet exclaiming : " Young man, sit down ! When God pleases to convert the heathen, he will do it without your help or mine." But when, a year later, May, 1792, Carey, by previous appointment, preached that epoch-making...

...the spread of the Gospel among the heathen ; when Mr. Ryland, senior, sprang to his feet exclaiming, "Young man, sit down ! When God pleases to convert the heathen. He will do it without j'our help or mine ! " Neither daunted nor discouraged by repulses, Carey embodied his views in a pamphlet,...

...the advisability of sending missionaries to the heathen. Rev. Dr. Rylarid is reported to have said: "Young man, sit down ; when God pleases to convert the heathen he will do it without jour aid or mine." Dr. Hvlatid simply expressed the prevailing sentiment of ll.e majority of Christian...

...silent upon the duty of Christians to attempt the spread of the Gospel among the heathen, saying, " Young man, sit down ! When God pleases to convert...the heathen He will do it without your aid or mine." We have no part or lot in the everlasting glory and honor of that piety, that prompted the establishment...

...up in a conference in England to plead the cause of missions. He was rebuked by an aged minister : " Young man, sit down. When God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do so without you or me." But the society was organized which sent Carey to India. In 1810, when the American...

...meeting sprang to his feet in astonishment, denounced the propoH3 v sition, and, with a frown, exclaimed, "Young man, sit down ! When God pleases to convert the heathen he will do so without your help or mine." The question once started, however, could not be stopped, and has ever...

...sit down, the command being accompanied by an assertion of the venerable father, "When it pleases God to convert the heathen he will do it without your aid or mine." It was not, however, in an Association but in a Presbyterian General Assembly that a similar proposition...