The Oregon Missions: The Story of how the Line was Run Between Canada and the United StatesAbingdon Press, 1918 - 311 σελίδες |
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The Oregon Missions: The Story of How the Line Was Run Between Canada and ... James Whitford Bashford Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2019 |
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Σελίδα 286 - For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
Σελίδα 147 - And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise, God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Σελίδα 160 - In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.
Σελίδα 201 - For the seed shall be prosperous ; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew ; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
Σελίδα 259 - Two things, and it is true those which were the most important, were accomplished by my return to the States. "By means of the establishment of the wagon road, which is due to that effort alone, the emigration was secured and saved from disaster in the fall of '43. Upon that event the present acquired rights of the United States by her citizens hung. And not less certain is it that upon the result of emigration to this country the present existence of this Mission and of Protestantism in general...
Σελίδα 86 - I considered, as a great public acquisition, the commencement of a settlement on that point of the western coast of America, and looked forward with gratification to the time when its descendants should have spread themselves through the whole length of that coast, covering it with free and independent Americans, unconnected with us but by the ties of blood and interest, and enjoying like us the rights of self-government.
Σελίδα 220 - From what I have since heard I am inclined to think I did not understand Mr. Waller correctly, but I am not certain it is so. You will here allow me to say that a Citizen of the United States by becoming a Missionary does not renounce any civil or political right. I cannot controul any man in these matters, though I had not the most distant idea when I stationed Mr.
Σελίδα 258 - States in the winter of 1842-3, after the 3rd of October. It was to open a practical route and safe passage, and secure a favorable report of the journey from emigrants, which, in connection with other objects, caused me to leave my family and brave the toils and dangers of the journey...
Σελίδα 270 - ... the Book is not among them. When I tell my poor blind people, after one more snow, in the big council, that I did not bring the Book, no word will be spoken by our old men or by our young braves. One by one they will rise up and go out in silence. My people will die in darkness, and they will go on the long path to the other hunting grounds. No white man will go with them, and no white man's Book to make the way plain. I have no more words.
Σελίδα 185 - They waste us — ay — like April snow In the warm noon, we shrink away ; And fast they follow, as we go Towards the setting day, — Till they shall fill the land, and we Are driven into the western sea.