Foreign Landmark Missionary

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, landmark and/or missionary:

    Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
    Uncoffined—just as found:
    His landmark is a kopje-crest
    That breaks the veldt around;
    Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)