“this eldest son of the schoolmaster and the clerk of the parish had at fourteen received an education from parents, nature, and books which, with his habits of observation, love of reading, and perseverance, made him better instructed than most… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“All his past knowledge of nature and of books, all his favourite reading of voyages and of travels which had led his school-fellows to… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“23rd.—With all the cares of life, and all its sorrows, yet I find that a life of communion with God is sufficient to yield… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“I felt ruined and helpless." Then to his spiritual eyes, purged of self, there appeared the Crucified One; and to his spiritual intelligence there… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“what a treasure, what an harvest must await such characters as Paul, and Eliot, and Brainerd, and others, who have given themselves wholly to… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“Ryland had been always loyal to the journeyman shoemaker he had baptised in the river, and he gives us this record:—"If all the people… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“LEICESTER, Jan. 17th, 1793. "DEAR AND HONOURED FATHER,—The importance of spending our time for God alone, is the principal theme of the gospel. I… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“During his preaching for more than three years at Barton, which involved a walk of sixteen miles, he did not receive from the poor… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“1. Desirous of making an effort for the propagation of the gospel among the heathen, agreeably to what is recommended in brother Carey's late… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“Coleridge, who when at Christ's Hospital was ambitious to be a shoemaker's apprentice, was right when he declared that shoemakers had given to the… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“He was the first of the true Anastatosantes of the modern world, as only an English-speaking man could be—of the most thorough, permanent, and… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“Was very weary, having walked in the sun about fifteen or sixteen miles, yet had the satisfaction of discoursing with some money-changers at Calcutta,… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“this eldest son of the schoolmaster and the clerk of the parish had at fourteen received an education from parents, nature, and books which,… — George Smith Copy Share Image
