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... ship or proselytism to the Christian faith ; designed to teach unto all their moral defilement in the sight of God , and their need of that washing of regeneration and spiritual purification which it figuratively signified . The duties ...
... ship or proselytism to the Christian faith ; designed to teach unto all their moral defilement in the sight of God , and their need of that washing of regeneration and spiritual purification which it figuratively signified . The duties ...
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... ship , which we considered a subsequent measure . An address on the nature of baptism , and the duties of those who had received it , was printed after the first administration , and widely circulated , apparently with good effect . The ...
... ship , which we considered a subsequent measure . An address on the nature of baptism , and the duties of those who had received it , was printed after the first administration , and widely circulated , apparently with good effect . The ...
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... ship , which called at the islands in 1790 : this proved fatal to a vast portion of the popu- lation . In the year 1800 the Britannia , a London vessel , anchored at Taiarabu . Two seamen absconded , and a disease followed , less fatal ...
... ship , which called at the islands in 1790 : this proved fatal to a vast portion of the popu- lation . In the year 1800 the Britannia , a London vessel , anchored at Taiarabu . Two seamen absconded , and a disease followed , less fatal ...
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... . Mr. Caw , who had been sent out to instruct the natives in ship - building and other arts , but who had been long incapacitated by illness died about the same time . CHAPTER III . General view of a Christian church -
... . Mr. Caw , who had been sent out to instruct the natives in ship - building and other arts , but who had been long incapacitated by illness died about the same time . CHAPTER III . General view of a Christian church -
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... ship were required to perform towards each other , towards those desirous of uniting with them , and to the careless or irreligious , were also fully and frequently brought under their notice , together with the paramount duty of every ...
... ship were required to perform towards each other , towards those desirous of uniting with them , and to the careless or irreligious , were also fully and frequently brought under their notice , together with the paramount duty of every ...
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afterward Aimata appeared arrival attended baptism baptized Barff boat Borabora bread-fruit brought canoe captain chapel chiefs Christ Christian church circumstances cloth crime death desire distance district Divine dwellings Eimeo endeavoured Fa-re father favour feeling formerly frequently friends furnished gods gospel harbour hope Huahine idolatry idols individual influence inhabitants instruction judge kind king king of Tahiti labour land leeward islands Maeva magistrate Marquesas ment miles mind mission missionaries murder nation native teachers New-Zealand Nott occasion Palliser Islands Papeete parents party person Pomare Pomare II Port Jackson prayer present priests proceeded punishment raatiras Raiatea received reef regarded regulation rendered residence respect Rimatara Rurutu Sabbath sacred sailed Sandwich Islands Scriptures sent settlement ship shore sionaries Society Islands sometimes soon South Sea islands South Wales spirit station supposed Tahaa Tahiti Tahitian temple tion trees Tubuai vessel visited voyage wife worship
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Page 14 - I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Page 212 - In these regions may be seen islands in every stage of their formation : " some presenting little more than a point or summit of a branching coralline pyramid, at a depth scarcely discernible through the transparent waters ; others spreading, like submarine gardens or shrubberies, beneath the surface ; or presenting here and there a little bank of broken coral and sand, over which the rolling wave occasionally breaks...
Page 68 - ... have, nevertheless, when the river has been deep, seated ourselves upon their shoulders, and in this position have passed the stream, without any other inconvenience than that which has arisen from the apprehension of losing our balance, and falling headlong into the water. — The inhabitants of Rurutu have a singular and less pleasant method of conveying their friends from a boat, &c. to the shore. On the arrival of strangers, every man endeavours to obtain one as a friend, and carry him off...
Page 8 - Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold ! Hear Him, ye deaf; and all ye blind, behold ! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: 'Tis he the obstructed paths of sound shall clear, And bid new music charm th' unfolding ear: The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting, like the bounding roe.
Page 44 - Do we then eat the body of Christ ? No ; but we eat the bread which means his body : and, as we eat bread that our bodies may not die, so our souls love Jesus Christ, and receive him for their Saviour, that they may not die.
Page 45 - What is a new heart ? It is one which loves God, and loves the word of God, and does not love sin, or sinful ways. Do you think you have obtained a new heart ? At one time I think I have, and then again I think I have not. I do not know, — I hope I have a new heart.
Page 94 - ... in eighteen articles. After reading and explaining the several articles, he asked the chiefs if they approved of them. They replied aloud, ' We agree to them ; we heartily agree to them.' The king then addressed the people, and desired them, if they approved of the laws, to signify the same by lifting up their right hands. This was unanimously done, with a remarkable rushing noise, owing to the thousands of arms being lifted at once.
Page 198 - Go your ways : behold, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves.
Page 56 - The harp of heaven Had lack'd its least, but not its meanest string Had children not been taught to play upon it, And sing, from feelings all their own, what men Nor angels can conceive of creatures, born Under the curse, yet from the curse redeem'd, And placed at once beyond the power to fall...
Page 284 - Christianity teacheth people to beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks, and to learn war no more...