The New Acts of the Apostles, Or, The Marvels ...

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By Arthur Tappan Pierson
, Andrew Thomson

Published 1894
J. Nisbet

451 pages

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Oct 19, 2006

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SECTION PAGE	3
apostles, apostolic, designedly
THE CALLING OF THE NEW APOSTLES	51
barnabas, antioch, apollos
THE NEW PIONEERS	63
ziegenbalg, egede, tranquebar
THE NEW APOSTOLATE OF WOMAN	133
mullens, apostola, fidelia
THE NEW LESSONS	141
hannington, patteson, livingstone
THE VISION OF THE FIELD	171
housetop, troas, macedonia

THE NEW LESSON OF THE POWER	189

XX11 CONTENTS	148
housetop, samaria, samarian
THE NEW CONVERTS AND MARTYRS	207

SECTION PAGE I THE MIRACLE OF CONVERSION	209
cesarea, derbe, magians
NEW CONVERTS AND MARTYRS	213
karens, ranavalona, thah
TRANSFORMED COMMUNITIES	249
banza, viwa, knibb
THE NEW WITNESSES AND WORKERS	285
converts, evangelists, missionary
PART V	291

THE NEW MIRACLES	293
interpositions, shutteth, cesarea
NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND PREPARATIONS	305
mcall, mirabilis, annus
PROVIDENTIAL PRESERVATIONS	309
preservations, paton, nyassaland
NEW JUDGMENTS OF GOD	318
hatti, interpositions, puna
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION	322
doshisha, suttee, bentinck
MIRACLES OF GRACE	329
aneityum, bechuana, gesta
RAPIDITY OF RESULTS	340
ongole, raiatea, oncken
ANSWERS TO PRAYER	352
pesth, saphir, ongole
PART VI	373

THE LOOK FORWARD	375
incentives, motives, acts
THE NEW ORDER OF THINGS	377
gwan, gospel, coils
MEDICAL MISSIONS	382
presbyterian, healing, dialects
THE NEW ACTIVITY OF WOMAN	386
patients, christ, india
NEW LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE	389
apostasy, sagacious, carnal
NEW INCENTIVES TO GIVING	395
beatitude, worships, scion
HARMONY WITH GODS PURPOSE	410
evangelization, motto, oars
THE BLESSED HOPE	414
tares, imminence, leaven
THE NEW OUTLOOK	428
giberne, nisbet, marbeck

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A Standard Library Catalogue of 2500 Approved Books Selected from the Lists of All Publishers ... - Page 115
by Baker & Taylor Co - 1902 - 150 pages
"Revised edition."
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Papers of the American Society of Church History - Page ccxvi
by American Society of Church History - 1934
Includes annual reports.
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Supplementary Catalogue of the California State Library, General Department: Authors - Page 704
by California State Library, Edward Dennis McCabe - 1898 - 980 pages
... CF History and camp life of company C, Fifty-first regiment, Massachusetts volunteer militia, 1862-63. Worcester, 1886. 130 p. pors. maps. O. PIERCE, Edward Lillie. ...
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Ongole - Page 283
With the exception of one such scene at Ongole, just forty years later, probably no siich a sight has been witnessed since the day of Pentecost. ...
more pages: 345 348

Kuruman - Page 124
War with Britain closed that door, but " Moffat's Appeal for the Dark Continent" opened another, and so in 1840, he sailed for Kuruman, ...
more pages: 309 332

Kyoto - Page 324
Just when this great work of Christian education at Kyoto hung in the balance and final failure seemed to threaten, there came a strange accession of ...
more pages: 323 325

Mt. Hermon, Massachusetts - Page 411
as its author, because he first gave it expression at the inauguration of this move-ment at Mount Hermon, Mass., eight years ago. ...
more pages: 366 445

Zanzibar - Page 135
Rebecca Wakefield spent but three years in Zanzibar, but her heroic fight with hardship and privation, and all the foes of a hostile climate and a ...
more pages: 244 273

Jerusalem - Page 57
The mother church at Jerusalem was the natural cradle of missionaries to the gentiles; yet God passes her by, and at the breast of her eldest gen tie ...
more pages: 16 429

Freetown - Page 253
Hundreds of them went on foot with him to Freetown, five miles off, and when the sea prevented their going with him further, they said, ...

Calcutta - Page 135
Joseph Mullens, of the London Missionary Society in Calcutta, and from that time forth the very roots of her being struck deep into the work of a ...
more pages: 127 379

Hyderabad - Page 239
239 Hyderabad to the kingdom of Christ. This was in the year 1863, when he was about forty years of age. His evangelistic work was unceasing and ...
more pages: 442

Cairo - Page 35
The market for human bodies and souls has long been transferred from London and New York to Cairo and Constantinople. ...
more pages: 33 209

Leicester - Page 185
185 and Edinburgh, Leeds and Leicester, are asking vainly for one evangelist to come to their hundreds of thousands, and tell how God loved the world. ...
more pages: 94 143

Glasgow - Page 363
Wodrow, of Glasgow, whose private diary shows whole days of fasting and prayer on behalf of Israel. The next step was the appointment of a deputation, ...
more pages: ix 364

Rangoon - Page 222
and was, no doubt, at least accessory to no less than thirty murders. His natural temper was vicious. After the Burmese war he went to Rangoon, and.
more pages: 225

Copenhagen - Page 78
Trained at Halle in theology and biblical literature, and ordained at Copenhagen in 1705, he arrived at Tranquebar after eight months at sea, ...
more pages: 79 81

Bombay - Page 239
He sought to train over a thousand converts into intelligent disciples and workers. He left Bombay for Japan on account of.
more pages: 263

Edinburgh - Page xviii
By an undesigned coincidence, the opening lecture of this course fell, in Edinburgh, upon the exact anniversary of the death of Doctor Duff, ...
more pages: ix xiii

Jalna - Page 239
He secured a tract of some three hundred acres near Jalna, and formed a Christian Church and commun-ity which he called by the name of Bethel. ...

Augsburg - Page 305
of Worms and of Spires and of Augsburg, of the Council of Trent, and the final triumph of the Protestant cause, and the birth of religious liberty. ...
more pages: 309 444

Rome - Page 204
However much we rejoice over converts, we are not unduly depressed when Paul's experience at Rome is repeated; when notwithstanding untiring toil and ...
more pages: 185 198

Madrid - Page 185
Think of Bible carts in Madrid unable to supply books sufficient for those who would buy; and a few elect messengers of the cross struggling to meet ...
more pages: 265

Blantyre - Page 126
The hero of Blantyre was Conscience Incarnate. His watchword was duty. To keep his word and do.
more pages: 123

London - Page 35
The market for human bodies and souls has long been transferred from London and New York to Cairo and Constantinople. ...
more pages: 109 305

Nottingham - Page 355
355 at Moulton luminous with divine light and vocal with a world's mute appeal; it was prayer that led to that sermon in Nottingham and that gathering ...
more pages: 97

Cambridge - Page 370
The previous everting Secretary Wigram was summoned to Cambridge to '' see a number of graduates and undergraduates who desired to dedicate themselves ...
more pages: 70 453

Surinam - Page 77
The zeal of this first missionary martyr within the Lutheran Church, who found a grave at Surinam, may have flamed with excess of enthusiasm, ...

Hong-Kong - Page 100
He had laid at Malacca in 1818 the foundations of the Anglo-Chinese College, which was afterward removed to Hong-Kong; and himself gave toward the ...
more pages: 241 387

Tunis - Page 65
just seven centuries before that famous meeting at Kettering when the first Baptist missionary society led the way, himself landing in Tunis, ...

Paris - Page 69
Barbara in Paris as master of philosophy, and licensed to lecture upon Aristotle; when he taught with applause at the College of Beauvais, ...
more pages: 85 326

Hanover - Page 120
When that disabled candidat came to that obscure parish in Hanover, and told his simple tale of the wants and woes of the heathen, little did he know ...

Bologna - Page 69
After his ordination as priest, he went to Bologna, and there in his preaching and visits to hospitals and prisons, evinced such apostolic zeal and ...

New York - Page 35
The market for human bodies and souls has long been transferred from London and New York to Cairo and Constantinople. ...
more pages: 99 105

Gloucester - Page 166
But God was behind the movement that started in Gloucester, and by it He was leading out believers into new fields of work. ...

Athens - Page 337
Did the refinement and culture of Athens, even in the age of Pericles, or the noble statesman-ship and heroic courage of Rome in the days of Augustus, ...
more pages: 181 436

Oak Park, Illinois - Page xix
Blackstone, of Oak Park, Illinois, whose careful research largely forms the basis of this valuable addition to my published lectures. ...

Damascus - Page 302
Paul's conversion at the very climax of his triumph as persecutor, and when he was just enter-ing Damascus, left no doubt that he had seen Jesus in ...
more pages: 157

Lahore - Page 306
It was that same year that the "week of prayer" began, upon recommendation of the missionaries in Lahore, and how quickly came the answer! ...

Portland, Maine - Page 169
And so it has come to pass that live coals from the altar at Portland, Maine, have been borne from church to church, until, as we write, the number of ...

Osaka - Page 243
seventy graduates from all parts of the empire, gov-ernment officials, and even a delegation of Buddhist priests from Osaka, thronged the procession ...

Northampton - Page 97
Scott was glad to stop at " Carey's College " as he went from Olney to Northampton, and so the commentator sat at the cobbler's feet to be taught. ...

Brighton - Page 70
Chief Waban's wigwam preached the first sermon in their language ever known on American soil. This memorable service in camp, near Brighton, lasted.

Bethesda - Page 73
the Temple of God flow softly through their hidden channels, and come up to the surface, from time to time, in some Siloam basin or Bethesda pool. ...

Mandalay - Page 343
When Theebau was inaugurated as King of Upper Burma, at Mandalay, he was a monster of cruelty, and the event was celebrated by a massacre so horrible ...

Oxford - Page 357
Nearly twenty years before that trumpet-call to prayer, another great movement had started at Oxford, where John and Charles Wesley, and Morgan and ...
more pages: 358 450

Philadelphia - Page 239
He was at the Presbyterian Alliance in Philadelphia in 1880. He was made doctor of divinity by the University of Montreal. ...

Ashdod - Page 422
The dialect of Ashdod corrupts the language of Canaan. The strait gate is wider and the narrow way is broader than of old; and those who would come ...

Shanghai - Page 338
During two winters he was in Shanghai printing his dictionary, and has more than once visited America. But over the entire empire for the period of a ...
more pages: 241

Cape Town - Page 219
And when Moffat found it needful to go to Cape Town, although there was still a premium upon his head, Africaner went with him. ...
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Holyoke, Mass - Page 139
feeling this vulture gnawing at her heart, she not only pleaded ceaselessly for mis-sions, but actually took the principalship at Holyoke, Mass., ...
more pages: 442

Yokohama - Page 338
In December, 1862, he located at Yokohama, doing daily dispensary and lexicographic work, and teaching on Sundays. ...
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Princeton - Page 366
While there the young men, whose hearts had begun to burn at Princeton, sought to kindle fires on other altars; and the number who chose the foreign ...
more pages: 447

Birmingham - Page 184
heard in Britain and America, was only a repre-sentative of the race. The needs of Siam have been referred to; there, cities as large as Birmingham.

Boston - Page 241
Nothing happens by chance; and it was a part of God's strange ordering that the owner of the ship in which he had come to Boston should be Alpheus ...
more pages: 71 358

Hamburg - Page 343
Barnas Sears of Brown University, then in Hamburg, to baptize him and six others and form them into a Baptist Church, of which Oncken became pastor; ...

Vicksburg - Page 432
had that same day looked down on the fall of Vicksburg and the victory at Gettysburg, which were the decisive turning points of the war for the Union. ...

Dundee - Page xviii
Hence, I undertook to give the full course in Edin-burgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee, and three lectures in St. ...

Dublin - Page x
William Fleming Stevenson, DD, minis-ter of Rathgar Presbyterian Church, Dublin, and convener of the Foreign Mission Committee of the Irish ...

Calabar - Page 268
Take one contrast: In 1845, one of the kings of old Calabar died. Into his grave, according to long- established custom, many living people were put ...

Waterloo - Page 33
France has never forgotten nor forgiven Waterloo, and the memory of conflicts more remote than the Crimean War, the Battle of Plassey, ...

Albany, New York - Page 368
In 1853, at Albany, New York, the American Baptist Missionary Union was considering whether the fruitless field among the Telugus should not be given ...

Detroit, Michigan - Page 366
Convention," held in Detroit, Michigan, in February, 1894, had the largest body of accredited delegates, ever gathered in any missionary conference.

Peking - Page 387
Five years ago, the medical missions of China were scarcely less numerous than in India, extend-ing from Hong Kong and Canton to Peking, and even into ...

Berlin - Page 34
In 1884, in Berlin, fourteen nations sent representatives to the conference that gave a constitution to the Congo Free State. ...

Bristol - Page 113
the mission shall not be abandoned;" and the Allen Gardiner left Bristol in 1854, and in 1855 once more anchored in Spaniards' Harbour. ...

San Francisco - Page 40
and so far outrun the sun's apparent motion that an afternoon message, cabled from London, is read in San Francisco on the morning of the same day, ...

Sheffield - Page 332
Greaves, of Sheffield, wrote, asking what could be sent her that would be of use—the sublime answer of Mary Moffat was: "Send us a communion service; ...

Chicago - Page 453
Moody's Bible Institute, Chicago. First English Edition. Crown Svo. Is. 6d. THE BOOKS OF JUDGES. By the Eev. CHARLES LETT FELTOE, MA, Late Fellow of ...

Andover, Mass - Page 435
Andover, Mass., 102. 135 Aneityum, 339, 344. Angekoks, 213. Angelo, M., 3, 107. Aniline dyes, 39. Aniwa, 316, 347. "Annus Mirabilis," 305. ...

Opoa - Page 117
Tomatoa and his followers approach Opoa. A crowd is at the beach to seize the usual captives of war. But a herald shouts from the canoes, ...