Annual Report of the Board of Missions for the Fiscal Year

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Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A., 1839
 

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Page 86 - More especially we pray for the good estate of the Catholic Church; that it may be so guided and governed by Thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.
Page 12 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Page 11 - As it is not for us to know the times or the seasons which the Father hath put in His own power...
Page 122 - with songs and everlasting joy upon our heads. D. " MISSIONS." MISSIONARY REPORT, AD 1885. The Committee appointed by the Board of Directors of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America...
Page 7 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
Page 8 - Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die : for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Page 92 - ARTICLE IX. The Board of Missions shall appoint for each Committee, a Secretary and General Agent, with a suitable salary, who shall be the executive officer of the Committee to collect information, to conduct its correspondence, to devise and recommend plans of operation and in general, to execute all the purposes of the Board, in his proper sphere, submitting all his measures, before their adoption, to the Committee for whom he is appointed, for their approval. Each Committee shall appoint a treasurer,...
Page 140 - Committees it is declared that the Missionary field is always to be regarded as one, THE WORLD — the terms Domestic and Foreign being understood as terms of locality, adopted for convenience. Domestic Missions are those which are established within, and Foreign Missions are, those which are established without, the territory of the United States.
Page 139 - Committee, to collect information, to conduct its correspondence, to devise and recommend plans of operation, and in general to execute all the purposes of the Board, in his proper sphere, submitting all his measures, before their adoption, to the Committee for whom he is appointed, for their approval. Each Committee shall appoint a Treasurer ; and the Board shall designate which of the Treasurers so appointed shall be authorized to receive all moneys not specifically appropriated, which moneys shall...
Page 91 - IV. To the Board of Missions shall be intrusted the supervision of the general missionary operations of the Church, with power to establish missionary stations, appoint missionaries, make appropriations of money, regulate the conducting of missions, fill any vacancies in their number which may occur, and also to enact all by-laws which they may deem necessary for their own government and the government of their committees.

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