"I open its exercises with religious instruction and prayer every morning … The improvement of the boys under their [the two lady teachers'] maternal, watchful, pains-taking culture, in their whole appearance, manners and conduct, strikes the most casual observer, so that you may almost judge of the length of time a boy has been in the school, by his very aspect."
— William Jones Boone
Source: "Report of the Rt. Rev. Wm. J. Boone, D.D., Missionary Bishop at Shanghai, China," The Spirit of Missions, vol. 12 (August 1847)
Preaching, school, truth, science, character, society, integrity
Views: 477
"A cobbler, a smith, a farmer, each has the work and office of his trade, and yet they are all alike consecrated priests and bishops, and every one by means of his own work or office must benefit and serve every other, that in this way many kinds of work may be done for the bodily and spiritual welfare of the community, even as all the members of the body serve one another."
— Martin Luther
Source: To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520), tr. C. M. Jacobs (1915)
Preaching, profession, equality
Views: 424
"This money method of making disciples and preachers seemed to me the very opposite of the course employed by Christ and His apostles. I saw clearly then, as now, that it must lead to utter corruption; and I said to myself, A true living Baptist church can never be built on mission money. From that moment my conscience rose to action and I resolved never to use or to sanction the use of mission funds in paying native converts to preach or to do any other kind of religious work. To me a hireling ministry implied a corrupt membership."
— Tarleton Perry Crawford
Source: Evolution in My Mission Views; or, Growth of Gospel Mission Principles in My Own Mind (1903)
preaching, employment, life, benefit, mission, support
Views: 393