This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...be able to get it for them) would suit their tastes, and you add stirring words out of books, sermons, mission extracts, texts, &c.--anything to remind them that they are members of the working Church at home, doing our work for us, and even with us. And fill up your letter weight with leaflet hymns, text and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...be able to get it for them) would suit their tastes, and you add stirring words out of books, sermons, mission extracts, texts, &c.--anything to remind them that they are members of the working Church at home, doing our work for us, and even with us. And fill up your letter weight with leaflet hymns, text and picture cards, photographs, or the like, which after a bit you will be always on the watch to collect for this purpose; even Bradshaw's maps (for book post) are curiosities of civilisation for them. You want to know who they are, and they want to know who you are, so tell them, and after the first it will grow very easy to write to them. You have only to put yourself into their desolate place, and think what you would care to hear about. "As cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country." Then later on, when some nice book or pamphlet falls in your way, or good newspaper, some Christian annual or even political pamphlet--not only serious books by any means--you seize upon it, and gradually different interests spring up between you and them, your parish and theirs.' If you took in the Church Missionary Gleaner it would quickly suggest a sphere of labour; the extracts which it gives show a good deal of character to guide you in your choice of a correspondent who would be in some sort of natural accord with yourself. I remember dear Bishop Mackenzie's telling me that we could form no idea of what a sense of our sympathy at home is to a missionary, in all the isolation of his work in a far country. He was not a man given to much expression of feeling, yet he spoke of it with a sort of thrill of emotion which I have never forgotten. One has only to realise how completely missionaries are cut off, not only from all...
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Add this copy of Occupation for the Sick; Or, Practical Suggestions to to cart. $53.62, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
