Identifier: godfirstorhester00need (find matches)
Title: "God first" : or, Hester Needham's work in Sumatra : her letters and diaries
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Needham, Hester
Subjects: Needham, Hester Missions
Publisher: (London) : The Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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is was the meaning of conversion.She was much interested in the two large pictures lent usby Mr. Wiebe, Christ blessing the Children and the WidowsSon raised to life, also the Gleaner portraits of the eightmurdered in China. Let no one think I am much of a walker yet. I did goon foot to a woman seven houses off, but was dead beat,and had to send for men and bed to take me back; feltthe effects for about a month, spine all in a quiver, so nowI am more careful. Let not any one imagine we live in a hut! It is a verysuperior whitewashed cottage, with high-pitched cocoa-nutfibre roof, and pretty trellis-work verandah, standing offfrom the road in its own well-ordered grounds, everythingsmall but good of its kind. I was going to say I feel veryfree and happy in my present surroundings, but that wouldnot be true; indeed, there is much in them that might dothe contrary; but most thankfully can I say I feel mostthoroughly free and happy in my Saviour, who dailyproves Himself strong to deliver.
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CHAPTER XI APPROACHING THE GOAL January 27 to April 25, 1896. Ho led them forth by the right way.*—Ps. cvii. 7.Tliough it tarry, wait for it ; because it will surely come.—Hab. ii. 3. Jan, 27, 1896.—The special fascination of this work ists difficulty and success, and also that it is so speciallyGod-given, fresh every day, not fixed and planned before-hand, as in Silindung. In the half-year that we havebeen here, we have been slowly but steadily gaining theconfidence, love, and respect of some of our Mohammedanneighbours. Lately a remarkable meeting of the chiefswas called (not the first of the kind) to consider which ofthe three religions—Christianity, Mohammedanism, andHeathenism—it would be most advisable to adopt! butthey came to no definite decision. It will not be our faultif all Sipongi does not know by heart at least one textand one prayer: Eepent ye (change your heart): for thekingdom of heaven is at hand, and Create in me a cleanheart, O God, as we teach it on ever

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