Daybreak in Livingstonia: The Story of the Livingstonia-Mission, British Central Africa |
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African Lakes African Lakes Company amid Arabs arrived attack Bandawé Blantyre British Central Africa calico Cape Maclear carried chief Christ Christian civilisation coast commenced Committee danger darkness David Livingstone death difficulty district Dr Elmslie Dr Laws Dr Livingstone Dr Stewart evangelists evil expedition Free Church friendly Glasgow God's Gospel heart heathen hundred Ilala influence journey Kafir Karonga Kilimane labour Lake Nyasa Lake Tanganyika Lakes Company land language live Livingstonia Mission Livingstonia missionaries Livlezi Lovedale Makololo matter miles Mission band Mission party Mission Station Moir Mombera natives never Ngoni Ngoniland night north end Nyanja Nyasaland peace plateau Portugal Portuguese reached realise regions road Sabbath savage Scotland sent settled settlement Shiré river slave-trade slavery slaves South Africa spears spirit steamer Tanganyika things tion Tonga took tree tribes village visited whole women Young Zambesi Zulus
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Page 116 - The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
Page 69 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 104 - I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
Page 117 - There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth, 17.
Page 192 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast.
Page 144 - All is of God ! If he but wave his hand, The mists collect, the rain falls thick and loud, Till, with a smile of light on sea and land, Lo ! he looks back from the departing cloud.
Page 135 - But not to-day. Then be content, poor heart, God's plans, like lilies pure and white, unfold ; We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart. Time will reveal the calyxes of gold.
Page 243 - But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you ; Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
Page 128 - Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
Page 237 - There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray ; Men of thought and men of action Clear the way!