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"Yes, he says I've got to go. Please tell him to come right along. You can't do me any good. He's the only one as can help me now." "Very well," said Dr Macphail. During the next three days the missionary spent almost all his time with Sadie Thompson. He joined the others only to have his meals. Dr Macphail noticed that he hardly ate. "He's wearing himself out," said Mrs Davidson pitifully.
In my appointment as Chaplain to the Company, my instructions were, to reside at the Red River Settlement, and under the encouragement and aid of the Church Missionary Society, I was to seek the instruction, and endeavour to meliorate the condition of the native Indians. The anchor was weighed early on the following morning, and sailing with a fine breeze, the sea soon opened to our view.
Much of this criticism is ignorant, and to say the best of it, ungracious, considering what we have done in the way of substantial appliances for education, in the field of science, in vast charities, and missionary enterprises, and what we have to show in the diffused refinements of life.
Well, captain, come right into my chimbeque, and chop." "I'll have some quinine with you, and a cocktail. Chop doesn't tempt me just now. I've a dose of fever on hand." "Got to expect that here, anyway," said the missionary. "I haven't had fever for three days now, but I'm due for another dose to-morrow afternoon. Fever's quite regular with me.
Henry Williams accepted the overture tardy as it was and from his residence at Pakaraka continued to carry on his old work during the remainder of his life. But the bishop did more than render justice to one ill-used helper. He won over the Society itself to his side by proposing to establish three new bishoprics in New Zealand, each of which should have a missionary as its first head.
He seemed to be making good progress. But about this time he received word that his brother and the missionary R. E Neighbor were coming to see him. The priest had also heard of the approaching visit and had sent a letter to Captain Egydio's son warning him against the coming men, saying that they were emissaries of the United States and wished to lead the Almeidas astray.
She was fidgetting with her rings as she spoke and looked back anxiously at the onrushing train. Her brother, hurrying down the platform to their car, called to her to hasten as he passed her, and she knew she would be allowed but a moment more. She caught her breath and looked at the tall missionary wistfully.
"The missionary and the corporal, as well as my brother, seem willing to trust him what can two females do, when their male protector has made up his mind in such a matter?" "One who would very gladly be your protector, pretty Margery, has not made up his mind to the prudence of trusting Peter at all.
"The vessel in which your passage is taken will, with the favor of Providence, convey you to Calcutta, where you will probably have the opportunity of conferring with some of those venerable men who led the way in the missionary enterprises of the last forty years.
They were delighted to think of my going where no missionary lady had ever been, and said, 'We will do all we can for the girls, and we will pray for you, if you will only go and try to do those poor women good. It was hardly two o'clock before we were on horseback. Marbeeshoo is about fifty miles from us, and in Turkey.
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