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The health and longevity of the missionaries have always been fair, though mission-work is not very conducive to either elsewhere.
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As age increased, the importance of finishing the work became more and more apparent, till even a minute spent in anything but purely mission-work, or his translation duties, seemed as wasted time.
Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane
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Rev. Baldwin Brown, in whose mission-work in Lambeth he was much interested.
Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane
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I'm called off now to mission-work, to let a leetle law in
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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But whilst I desire to evoke the sympathy of English-speaking Christians everywhere on behalf of the Italian mission-work of the Waldensian Church, my chief object in sending out this little volume has been to call attention to some wants of the Vaudois in their own home-field.
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The encroachments of the Boers upon the natives led to much bloodshed, and to the dispersion of several native tribes, with the consequent abandonment of mission-work among them.
Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane
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This is a brief account of the mission-work of the Waldensian Church in Italy, apart altogether from the pastoral and educational work carried on in the fifteen parishes of the valleys, and in the college of La Tour, which I have not time to enlarge on at present.
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These were to serve as places of religious recollection and spiritual refreshment for priests engaged in mission-work among the people.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The districts covered by the Pondicherry Archdiocese were originally comprised within the padroado jurisdiction of San Thomé, but mission-work did not extend beyond the north-west corner near San
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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His co-operation with Paul in mission-work now ceases (Acts also makes them separate owing to a misunderstanding; but, on this view, xv. 36 f., they disagreed upon the question of Mark as a coadjutor).
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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