word of life

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word of life

  1. Synonym of the Bible
    • 1833 July 20 [1832 September 24], Charles Gutzlaff, “CHINA.”, in Episcopal Recorder[1], volume XI, number 16, Philadelphia, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63, column 4; republished as The Journal of Two Voyages Along the Coast of China in 1831, & 1832[2], 1833, →OCLC, page v-vi:
      During the greater part of the last year, I visited, in a junk, the maritime provinces of the Chinese Empire, viz : Canton, Fo-chan, Chanttong in Pih che le, and Manchow Tartary ; and made a beginning with the distribution of the word of life. I entered afterwards into the service of the honourable East-India Company, and revisited Canton, Fo-chan, and Changtong ; saw Che Keang and Keang Nan ; went over to Corea ; and imparted the word of eternal life also to some Japanese, whom we met at Loo Choo, in the harbour of Napa Keang.