Word: missions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee on city missions does work on Sundays among the sailors both on board ship and in mission houses in the city. The foreign mission committee seeks to interest men in the general idea of missionary work. It is founded on a belief that most of the indifference toward this work arises through ignorance of it. The committee on Bible study has charge of the classes for systematic study of the Bible. A new branch, the visitation committee has for its aim, the care of members of the University who become sick during the college year. This is a very...
Paul's speeches were delivered for the most part while on his mission tours, and are ten in number. The two longest are those delivered at Antioch and at Athens. In all cases but one he spoke in Greek, and while there is sometimes a lack of that smoothness and polish found in the classical writers, there is at all times a force and directness of speech which is very impressive...
Yale proposes to send six men from the undergraduate department to do mission work in New York City...
...Francis G. Peabody spoke briefly on the last hours of the Savior. He said that a great lesson might be learned from our Lord's Supper. Jesus never better showed his mission than at this time. He came to minister, not to be ministered unto; and in performing the menial service of washing his disciples' feet, he set his followers a lasting example. We too should minister. It is not a question of ten talents or five talents, but the use we make of them...
...given to the Indians is pay and bestows upon them a certain independence. If they are paid, the stigma of pauperism cannot be applied to them. And if money should be given them monthly, there would be no danger of their indulging in revels. Secondly, the Indian educational and mission work should be strengthened...