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Newfoundland and Its Missionaries; In Two Parts. to Which Is Added a Chronological Table of All the Important Events That Have Occurred on the Island

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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. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...Grand Bank. The traveller, after leaving Grand Bank, first had to ford a stream, sometimes only to the knees; at other times it would be breast high; about one mile of land he next passed, but the remainder of the journey was over loose stones by the sea-side. Through the whole of this extensive region, there was no Protestant church, or anyreligious service whatever, except by a man who lived some thirty miles up the bay, and who sometimes read the church service on Sabbath day. This man was in the employment of the " Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts." He was grossly ignorant, and, like most other persons in the employment of that society, he was most determinately opposed to Methodism. It is difficult to determine which was the most glaring, the impudence or the ignorance of this man, --this then only Protestant teacher in all Fortune Bay. One day, this " Reader," who was sometimes dignified with the cognomen of "Parson," met one of our missionaries in the house of our aged friend, Mr. Blake, in the harbor of Fortune, when he thought it a good opportunity to offer an insult to the Methodist preacher, as well as to exhibit his own wisdom, before the preacher's friends. He therefore most unceremoniously commenced: --Teacher. "Aint you a Methodist preacher?" Missionary. "I am." Teacher. "And you call yourself a missionary, don't you?" Miss. "I do." Teacher. "But you aint 'a missionary;' our ministers are missionaries; but Methodist preachers aint missionaries." Miss. "What should Methodist preachers be called, if they are not missionaries? Pray what is a missionary V" Teacher. "Why, you are only mis-shine-aries; that is what you...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154008579
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 122
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154008576
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 286 gr


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