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Example sentences for "mission work"

  • The annual expenditure of more than one million dollars on mission work in South India alone is in itself a large trust which requires great care and breadth of wisdom.

  • In mission work, as in every other line of effort, specialization has become a feature and a necessity.

  • Buyers and Shurman, with whom I was to be for years associated in mission work.

  • During my second year in Benares I entered on every department of mission work, and had many opportunities for intercourse with the people.

  • I have throughout maintained the standpoint of one whose Indian life has been devoted to Mission work.

  • We felt the heat that year more than we had ever previously done, and were to a great extent incapacitated by it for the prosecution of mission work.

  • Numerous brotherhoods and sisterhoods, guilds and orders, organized after the style of Roman Catholic monasticism, promote the interests of ritualism, and zealously prosecute home and foreign mission work.

  • Archbishop Unni of Bremen then immediately began again the mission work.

  • Mission work was at once furthered and hindered by the selfish patronage of the Frankish rulers.

  • So far as I know the club is a new departure in mission work, and most worthy of support as a rational and hopeful method of presenting the best of Christian civilization to a class often repelled by missionary propaganda.

  • We turn then now to this larger view of mission work.

  • Every little piece of mission work ought to be directed on principles capable of bearing the weight of the whole.

  • Mission work is not a task which can be undertaken and finished on a predetermined plan, like the construction of a railway.

  • Until these leaders appear, mission work, for those who seek to understand it as a world enterprise, will, as a layman said recently, remain worse than a jigsaw puzzle!

  • Before turning to some of the other large centers of Mission work we must not forget to mention the Methodist Mission Press, which is the only mission press in Korea except a small one in Pyeng Yang, and the Y.

  • Mission work was at a standstill, and all looked once more grave enough.

  • Surely this is one of the outstanding features of mission work in the whole of China.

  • The object is to increase an interest in mission work.

  • We have recently organized a Church Aid Society in order that we may give the attention of our Union to mission work proper at home and abroad.

  • Our Union meets monthly, and usually discusses two or three subjects on mission work.

  • The results of mission work began to be seen in the young men who grew up, many of them desirous of adopting, in part at least, the habits and the dress of the whites.

  • In the previous spring, Secretary Treat had told me that there were two young ladies in Iowa who were anxious to engage in mission work.

  • Mrs. Pettijohn had been connected with the mission work since 1839, and Mr. P.

  • Then followed an endeavour on both sides to ascertain whether the inclination was a real earnest desire, or only fancy for the romance of mission work.

  • He was apparently about forty; intelligent, very experienced in mission work, and conversant with the habits and customs of French and English in the colonies; moreover, with plenty of firmness in putting forward his cause.

  • And now the romance of Mission work is over, and the real labour is to begin.

  • I am not surprised that anyone unacquainted with mission work in India should be staggered at the facts narrated in Things as They Are.

  • I have felt for many years that we missionaries were far too prone to dwell on what is called the "bright side of mission work.

  • There is too little desire to know what is the actual state of mission work in India, and a regard to the showy and attractive rather than to the solid and practical.

  • His Commentaries on the Gospels and the Epistles to the Romans and the Hebrews, so eminently useful in mission work, obtained well-deserved eminence.

  • After seven years of mission work, owing to the combined labour of carrying on the service and collecting funds for the maintenance of the mission, his health broke down and he gave up the work.

  • During the first few years of my mission work I had naturally to undergo much persecution, and the work was most arduous, but by the blessing of God this is in a great measure changed.

  • However well adapted to the beginnings of mission work, it fails to provide a properly qualified native leadership.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another question; burnt offering; but who; discussed here; easily recognized; ever knew; four millions; little man; many causes; middle life; mission house; mission school; mission station; mission work; missionary enterprise; missionary life; missionary work; much grown; need thee; opened them; pleasant voice; proper amount; same effect; sexual attraction; strong demonstration; there and