Protestant Christian Missionaries

Famous quotes containing the words protestant, christian and/or missionaries:

    “blow as he would, though it made a great noise,
    The flute would play only ‘The Protestant Boys’.”
    —Unknown. The Old Orange Flute (l. 23–24)

    “Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age,
    Gods breath in man returning to his birth,
    The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
    The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth;”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “It was very agreeable, as well as independent, thus lying in the open air, and the fire kept our uncovered extremities warm enough. The Jesuit missionaries used to say, that, in their journeys with the Indians in Canada, they lay on a bed which had never been shaken up since creation, unless by earthquakes.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)