{"product_id":"9781357139117","title":"Journal of Three Years' Residence in Abyssinia: In Furtherance of the Objects of the Church Missionary Society","description":"Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.\u003cbr\u003eThis is an OCR edition with typos.\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from book:\u003cbr\u003eof tbe mission to separate, and pitch upon different portions of their extensive field. Kugler and his colleague, Aichin- ger, had become, by previous study and their short residence in the province, considerably acquainted with the Tigrean language; and it was therefore decided that they should remain in that section of the empire, and endeavor, under the favorable interposition of the God of missions, to lay the foundation of a permanent station. As the missionary Gobat had acquired a thorough knowledge of the Am- harie dialect, it was determined that he should proceed alone to the city of Gondar, the capital of the province of Amhara, to obtain more accurate information as to the best means of diffusing the word of God. and of rendering1 himself useful to this miserable people, plunged in the depths of superstition and error. We shall close this geographical and historical introduction to the journal of the missionary, Gobat, by observing that the editor has taken the liberty of making some material abridgment in several of the ensuing religious conversations, being given, as they were forwarded by the author, with too much detail to interest the general reader. He would have entirely suppressed them, as he has done in a few instances, had he not folt himself swayed by an array of motives, which he could not feel himself justified in disregarding. lIe thinks he has found in these discussions, which arc mostly drawn from some intricate points in theology, a happy exemplification of the peculiar mode of conveying doctrinal instruction, pursued at the missionary institution at Basle. The convictions, also, which seem to have been produced almost uniformly on the minds of the hearers bythe following conversations, are, in his opinion, undeniable proofs. that, in most cases, we m...","brand":"Ktown Waters","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039035048176,"sku":"9781357139117","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781357139117_p0.jpg?v=1763711855","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781357139117","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}