Missioners

So when the "missioners" came with new light on the matter -- no longer insisting upon silence where a few of the brethren and sisters were met to edify one another -- it was not, as the minister said, those who were best fitted for it who were the readiest to claim the right or the privilege, whichever it might be called; and as for him, he was not urgent about the matter, either to encourage or restrain. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Some 80 theologians, missioners and lay activists from 11 Asian countries attended the forum, titled "Eucharist and Community - Beyond All Barriers." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some of course may in one sense 'go away' to another Christian communion; but even then they will still be there as fellow-Christians, fellow-missioners and disciples, and the debate will not be over just because one local jurisdiction has made a decision. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Father Isaac Puthenangady, chancellor of Balasore diocese that has operated the hostel for 30 years, says that the girls filing the complaints were sent by fanatic anti-Christian Hindu elements "to corner the missioners". ❋ Howard M. Friedman (2007)

They were later joined by European and American missioners, intent on proselytizing in Africa's interior. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Some believe European missioners were the first to bring Christianity to Africa. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Did the market missioners Hayden Wombwell, when given the raspberry, fine more than sandsteen per cent of chalk in the purity, promptitude and perfection flour of this raw materialist and less than a seventh pro mile in his meal? ❋ Unknown (2006)

While Ford and his surviving missioners discussed and discoursed on their liner, the newspaper men they had brought with them concocted lies and absurd stories about their host — as though they were under instructions. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

For example, in EVE changes to the jump system by CCP attempted to spread out the markets, and while this was accomplished to an extent, it only created 3-4 central hub points that the players traders/missioners gravitated to, basically negating the attempt at diffusing the markets through regions to a greater extent. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Because we are here to thank God for all who have made the good news both good and new for us - Justus and the first missioners, stammering in an unfamiliar barbarian language, Fisher and Ridley, shaping their teaching into the terrible language of suffering and death; all those who have stepped over the boundary to meet us in love and show us the vision. ❋ Unknown (2004)

According to Fathers Carli and Merolla, Pope Alexander VII. sent twelve to fifteen Capuchins and apostolic missioners, who baptized the King and Queen of Congo and the Count of Sonho. ❋ Unknown (2003)

As the old missioners testify, they have happy memories, their tempers are mild, and quarrels rarely lead to blows; they are covetous, but not miserly; they share what they have, and they apply the term ❋ Unknown (2003)

Portuguese colonies founded about the same time, and under very similar circumstances; both were catechized and Christianized in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; both had governors and palaces, bishops and cathedrals, educational establishments and a large staff of missioners. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The missioners were careful not to let their Congo converts have anything from their bodies, like hair or nail parings, for fear lest it be turned to superstitious use; and ❋ Unknown (2003)

When King Affonso III. gave audience to the missioners (A.D. 1646), the negro grandee ❋ Unknown (2003)

Christianity fell before the old heathenism, and in 1814 we find the King of Congo, D. Garcia V., complaining to His Most Faithful Majesty that missioners were sadly wanted. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The Catholic missioners laboured amongst them for nearly two hundred years; some of these ecclesiastics were ignorant and bigoted as those whom we still meet on the West ❋ Unknown (2003)

The missioners insist upon their privilege of travelling free of expense, and make a barefaced use of the corvée. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Father Cavazzi da Monte Cuccoli, Denis de Carli, and Merolla, themselves missioners, have left us ample accounts of the ecclesiastical rule which, during its short tenure of office, bore ❋ Unknown (2003)

It is said that two of a trade never agree, and accordingly we find the hottest wrath of the missioners vented upon their rival brethren, the Ngangas or medicine-men in Africa, and the Pages or ❋ Unknown (2003)