Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-e...dged sword in their hand; to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute upon them the judgment written.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
John Eliot came to preach to the Podunks in 1657, translated the Bible into their language, but made little progress in aboriginal... soul-saving. The Indians answered his pleas with: 'No, you have taken away our lands, and now you wish to make us a race of slaves.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Passing through here in 1795, Bishop Asbury commented, 'The country improves in cultivation, wickedness, mills, and stills.' Five ...years later, he held a meeting in the neighborhood and remarked that he thought most of the congregation had come to look at his wig.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labours for his race; he clears their painful way to improveme...nt; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon. His is the exaction of the apostle, who speaks but for Christ, when he says, "Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me." His is the ambition of the high master-spirit, which aims to fill a place in the first rank of those who are redeemed from the earth--who stand without fault before the throne of God, who share the last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
SWEENEY: I'll carry you off To a cannibal isle.... DORIS: You'll be the cannibal! SWEENEY: You'll be the missionary! I'll gobble you up. I'll be the cannibal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, wi...thout any of the sentiments that are dear to us.... Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions of... the multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American autho...rities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of sacralizing person and community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »