Protestant Christian Missionary

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

    So the old flute was doomed and its fate was pathetic,
    ‘Twas fastened and burned at the stake as heretic,
    While the flames roared around it they heard a strange
    noise—
    ‘Twas the old flute still whistling ‘The Protestant Boys’.
    —Unknown. The Old Orange Flute (l. 37–40)

    The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    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)