 | Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming - Islands of the Pacific - 1882 - 444 pages
...must long for a new Pentecostal gift, to enable them to address these men, each in his own language ! It would be difficult to imagine a healthier, happier...family meets for evening prayer; then the men study Ity themselves till half-past nine, when the curfew bell (true coucre-feu) warns them to put ont their... | |
 | Arminianism - 1882 - 1008 pages
...College bell rings to mark the hour for household prayer (there is probably not a house throughout Samoa where the family do not assemble daily for morning...study by themselves till half-past nine, when the curfew-bell (true couvre-feu) warns them to put out all their lights. The institution rules are few... | |
 | 1882 - 902 pages
...assemble daily tor morning and evening prayer.) Then all the students go out, either to work in thu gardens or to fish in the calm lagoon. At eight the...again free to go fishing, gardening, carpentering, or j whatever they prefer. At sunset each family meets for evening prayer ; then the men study by themselves... | |
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It would be difficult to imagine a healthier, happier life, than that of these students. At the first glimmer of the lovely tropical dawn, the college bell rings to mark the hour for household prayer. (There is probably not a house in Samoa where the... 