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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 390 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=22mm, Gew.=572gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 390 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=22mm, Gew.=572gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A TIE EARLIER MISSIONARY ENTERPRISES, The missionary enterprise was styled by John Foster "thk Glory OF The AGE." There is an important sense in which the appellation is just for until within little more than a half century past modern Christendom has not, since the reformation, been aroused to attempt the conquest of the world. As civilization seeks out the farthest nations, to unite them by ties of commercial interest in one great commonwealth of states, the church, in a like spirit of enlarged enterprise, girds herself to extend over all that kingdom which "Li not meat and drink," nor wealth and art, "but righteousness and peace." While, however, considered as a comprehensive scheme, planned upon a scale larger than the wisdom of Providence permitted earlier generations to devise, the missionary work of the present day has a character of its own, the enterprise itself is the same which was originally committed to the church by her adorable Head; and the spirit in which it is carried on is but a revival of that which animated the apostles and their immediate successors, and which in various degrees has been manifested during the intervening ages. As the present work concerns itself only with men whose names and memory are "the glory of this age," it is not inappropriate first to take a rapid glance at earlier missionary achievements, the record of which did much to kindle the flame that now burns so brightly on the evangelical altar. If the apostles did not literally go "into all the world," according to the terms of their commission, they went fearlessly as far as Divine Providence opened the way, and in conjunction with a body of faithful coadjutors, laid the foundation of churches in a large portion of the Roman empire and regions beyond the reach ofRoman arms. It i...<

1856, ISBN: 9780217220750

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A TIE EARLIER MISSIONARY ENTERPRISES, The missionary enterprise was styled by John Foster "thk Glory OF The AGE." There is an important sense in which the appellation is just for until within little more than a half century past modern Christendom has not, since the reformation, been aroused to attempt the conquest of the world. As civilization seeks out the farthest nations, to unite them by ties of commercial interest in one great commonwealth of states, the church, in a like spirit of enlarged enterprise, girds herself to extend over all that kingdom which "Li not meat and drink," nor wealth and art, "but righteousness and peace." While, however, considered as a comprehensive scheme, planned upon a scale larger than the wisdom of Providence permitted earlier generations to devise, the missionary work of the present day has a character of its own, the enterprise itself is the same which was originally committed to the church by her adorable Head and the spirit in which it is carried on is but a revival of that which animated the apostles and their immediate successors, and which in various degrees has been manifested during the intervening ages. As the present work concerns itself only with men whose names and memory are "the glory of this age," it is not inappropriate first to take a rapid glance at earlier missionary achievements, the record of which did much to kindle the flame that now burns so brightly on the evangelical altar. If the apostles did not literally go "into all the world," according to the terms of their commission, they went fearlessly as far as Divine Providence opened the way, and in conjunction with a body of faithful coadjutors, laid the foundation of churches in a large portion of the Roman empire and regions beyond the reach ofRoman arms. It i...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

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Heroes and Martyrs of the Modern Missionary Enterprise A Record of Their Lives and Labors Author :Lucius Edwin Smith 9780217220750 0217220754

1856, ISBN: 0217220754