The Martyr Church: A Narrative of the Introduction, Progress, and Triumph of Christianity in Madagascar, with Notices of Personal Intercourse and Travel in the Island |
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Page 132 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Page 273 - God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. 16 As free, and not 'using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the King.
Page 334 - Her Majesty the Queen of Madagascar, from her friendship for Her Britannic Majesty, promises to grant full religious liberty to all her subjects, and not to persecute or molest any subjects or natives of Madagascar on account of their embracing or exercising the Christian religion.
Page 108 - So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
Page 92 - I utterly detest it, for that which has been established by my ancestors, I cannot permit to be changed : I am neither ashamed nor afraid to maintain the customs of my ancestors ; but if there be good disposition and knowledge...
Page 93 - At length the chief judge, attended by his companions in office, advanced and delivered the message of the sovereign, which was enforced by Rainiharo, the chief officer of the government. After expressing the queen's confidence in the idols, and her determination to treat as criminals all who refused to do them homage, the message proceeded : ' As to baptism, societies, places of worship, and the observance of the Sabbath, how many rulers are there in the land? Is it not I alone that rule ? These...
Page 149 - Lord, receive our spirits ; for Thy love to us has caused this to come to us. And lay not this sin to their charge.' " Thus they prayed, as long as they had any life. Then they died ; but softly — gently. Indeed, gently was the going forth of their life. And astonished were all the people around that beheld the burning of them there.
Page 95 - ... and they are not to confess ; but those who have opened other houses, these are to accuse themselves. ' And those who have been baptized, whether they have worshipped in other houses or not, these must also accuse themselves, and those also who have entered into society. ' And you, the bourgeois and soldiers, that have been attending the schools for worship, and especially such as have opened other houses for worship, and been baptized, and entered into society, and kept the sabbath — Come,...
Page 94 - As to baptism, societies, places of worship, distinct from the schools, and the observance of the sabbath, — how many rulers are there in this land * Is it not I alone that rule ? These things are not to be done, they are unlawful in my country, saith Ranavalomanjaka ; for they are not the customs of our ancestors, and I do not change their customs, excepting as to things alone which improve my country.
Page 94 - Mark then the time, it is one month from yonder son of this day, that I give you to confess. The scholars at Ambodinandohalo, and those at Ambatonakanga, and not those only, for there are scholars in all these twelve principal towns, and the scholars that have not opened separate houses, but at the appointed schools alone have worshipped and learned, these are not condemned, and they are not to confess ; hut those who have opened other houses, these are to accuse themselves.