One Hundred Years in Ceylon: Or, The Centenary Volume of the Church Missionary Society in Ceylon, 1818-1918 |
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aged Anuradhapura appointed arrived Baddegama baptism baptized Bible Bishop of Colombo Boarding School boys Buddha Buddhist C.M.S. missionaries Camb catechists Ceylon Mission Chaplain Christ Church Christian Chundicully Church Missionary Church Missionary Society commenced communicants confirmed congregations Copay Copleston Cotta Institution daughter died district Dodanduwa Dowbiggin Dutch E. T. Higgens England estates European evangelistic four furlough Galle Face Gampola girls Gospel Government Gunasekara Hanan heathen Hillwood Hinduism Hindus Home India Ireland Jones island Itinerancy J. W. Balding Jaffna John's Kandy Kandyan Kegalle Kurunegala labour Lambrick land Mary Matale Mayor Miss mission house Missionary Society Mohammedans native Nawalapitiya Nellore November Nugegoda ordained Pastor Perera Pickford preached priests Principal pupils religion retired returned Secretary Simmons Sinhalese stationed superintendence Talangama Tamil Cooly Mission teachers Thomas Tinnevelly took charge Training Trinity College vernacular village visited W. E. Rowlands whilst women workers worship writes
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Page 204 - Say not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field.
Page 204 - Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light ; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is light.
Page 92 - For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.
Page 163 - Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days.
Page 142 - These two Counties I last named , have the preeminence of all the rest in the Land. They are most populous, and fruitful. The Inhabitants thereof are the chief and principal men : insomuch that it is a usual saying among them, that if they want a King, they may take any man, of either of these two Counties, from the Plow, and wash the dirt off him, and he by reason of his quality and descent is fit to be a King.
Page 4 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.
Page 8 - There is no island in the world, Great Britain itself not •excepted, that has attracted the attention of authors in so many distant ages and so many different countries as Ceylon. There is no nation in ancient or modern times possessed of a language and a literature, the writers of which have not at some time made it their theme. Its aspect, its religion, its antiquities and productions, have been described as well by...
Page 8 - Coromandel, or the adventurer from Europe recently inured to the sands of Egypt and the scorched headlands of Arabia, is alike entranced by the vision of beauty which expands before him as the island rises from the sea, its lofty mountains covered by luxuriant forests, and its shores, till they meet the ripple of the waves, bright with the foliage of perpetual spring.
Page 68 - King of Candy, which now serves as a Church. Here, twelve years ago, this man, who was a dreadful tyrant, and lost his throne in consequence of a large party of his subjects applying to General Brownrigge for protection, used, as we were told, to sit in state to see those whom he had condemned trodden to death, and tortured by elephants trained for the purpose.
Page 49 - ... wealth entitles them. The small landowner and cultivator who has prospered believes that education will make a clerk of his son or fit him for a learned profession, that the latter will then hold a better position in the world than his father, and that consequently the fortunes and, what appeals to him equally strongly, the status of the family will be assured. The younger generation seek escape from rural life...