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John Matthias Weylland. The Man with the Book; or, The Bible Among the People
The Man with the Book; or, The Bible Among the People
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
PREFACE
PREFACE TO THE TENTH EDITION
CHAPTER I
The Book in the Court: ITS INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II
The Book in the Court: ITS INFLUENCE
CHAPTER III
The Book in the Court: ITS POWER
CHAPTER IV
The Book in the Court: ITS AUTHORITY
CHAPTER V
The Book in the Court: ITS TRUTH
CHAPTER VI
The Book in the Court: ITS CERTAIN GOOD
CHAPTER VII
The Book in the Bars: ITS LIGHT
CHAPTER VIII
The Book in the Bars: ITS SPIRITUAL POWER
CHAPTER IX
The Book in the Bars: ITS RECEPTION
CHAPTER X
The Book in the Den: ITS MAJESTY
CHAPTER XI
The Book in the Streets and Night-Houses: ITS SILENT FORCE
CHAPTER XII
The Book in the Highways: ITS FETTER-BREAKING
CHAPTER XIII
The Book for All: ITS UNIVERSAL GOOD
APPENDIX
CAN YOU INFLUENCE THE WORLD FOR CHRIST?
Secretaries
Auditors
Examiners of Missionaries
CONSTITUTION
MISSION TRACTS
FOOTNOTES:
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John Matthias Weylland
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Two more houses were passed through with varied success, and the visitor left for rest and refreshment. Upon his return it was evident that his fame had spread, as there were groups of persons ready to look at him, and in that look there was a hostile expression. True to his instructions, he merely gave tracts to several women who asked for them, and then made his way to the fourth house. Though all the front doors were open, and had the appearance of never being closed night or day, that door was shut and fastened, and peals of laughter could be heard inside, while the Missionary in vain knocked for admission. He went to the next house, but was brought to a pause while ascending the upper stairs by the barking of dogs. The door of the front attic was opened by a woman: at the sight of the stranger she screamed her command for silence, and the brutes became dumb. As she opened the door half way a curious sight presented itself: upon the bed were five or six puppies of various breeds, and chained to the floor was a white bull terrier of savage mien, while an ugly cur raised his nose to the edge of the basket in which he was reposing, and sustained a growl of low note. Bobbing a curtsey, she said in a plaintive tone, "I can't ask you in, sir, as the dogs are werry savage; but though I does try to get a honest living, a ticket is as acceptable to me as to them wretches what has got into the first floor." In answer to the inquiry, "How do you live?" she replied, "I brings up little dogs for fancy men, and takes in sick uns to nurse, and I earns my money I can tell you: why that ere bull-dog has the mange, and I have to rub him in with doctor's stuff, and if I didn't muzzle him, and pull his chain tight to the floor, he'd tear me to pieces; and then I have to get up in the night to feed the puppies with milk." When the matter of religion was referred to, she in an angry tone said, that she "knowed what was right, and didn't want to be preached at." The sagacious friends of man understood that altered tone of voice, and recommenced growling and barking. As it was hopeless trying to make himself heard at the next room, the visitor descended to make acquaintance with the abused in the first floor.
"I brings up little dogs for fancy men, and takes in sick uns to nurse."
