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• Africa
  ...l missionary societies for Africa in [[France]] and Austria. The Church of England had, in 1885, the following dioceses: Capetown, Grahamstown, Sierra Leone,
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• Botany
  ...es of the Jordan; rice and Indian maize are cultivated in irrigated fields North of Lake Huleh, and cotton at several spots. With scientific irrigation this
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• Prussia
  ...ussia '''''—''''' Heidenreich of Culm, Ernest of Pomesania, and Henry of [[England]] '''''—''''' together with the margrave [[Otto]] von Brandenburg, interp
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• Missions
  ...he faith of the centurion of Capernaum, He said, ‘Many shall come from the east and from the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the ...ries went from it to the northern and southern Picts of Scotland, and into England, along the eastern coast to the Thames, and to the European continent. Colu
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• Nova Scotia
  ...al department of the Presbyterian Church of the lower provinces of British North America. The Halifax School of [[Medicine]] was incorporated in 1873. The p
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• Persecution
  ...ings of the Church of Scotland; Neal's History of the Puritans, and of New England; History of the [[Bohemian]] Persecutions. </p> ...shed the first law in favour of them. The death of Maximin, emperor of the east, soon after put a period to all their troubles; and this was the great epoc
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• Book Of Daniel
  ...ntest between a king of the North and a king of the South. The king of the North (elsewhere spoken of as 'the Assyrian,' antitype of Epiphanes) succeeds and ...D. A heaven-sent vision shows that [[Scripture]] points to battles between north and south until the northern king proudly triumphs and persecutes the peopl
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• Hellenistic And Biblical Greek
  ...ed in the East (Cappadocia and Pontus), and the double letter in the south-east (Cyprus, Rhodes, etc.), of the Modern Greek area. Finally, the retention an
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• Inn
  ...hat ‘inns in our sense of the term were, as they still are, unknown in the East’ (M‘Clintock and Strong, <i> Cyc. s.v </i> .). A truer view is given in <p> The inns or caravanserais of the east, in which travellers are accommodated, are not all alike, some being simply
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• Cyprus
  ...the island were determined by successive empires which dominated the Near East. [[Egyptian]] and [[Persian]] kings controlled Cyprus prior to the coming o ...two prominent cities, Salamis and Paphos, and 17 towns. Salamis was at the east and Paphos at the west end of the island. &nbsp;Acts 13:4-5. Barnabas was a
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• German Reformed Church In America
  ...There are, besides, seven classical institutions: Catawba College, Newton, North Carolina; Mercersburg College, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania; Palatinate Colleg
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• Mss
  ...as wholly misleading, since that type of text was widely prevalent in the East also, and probably took its rise thence; ‘Neutral’ as begging the quest
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• Reformed (Dutch) Church
  ...shed by Pollanus, Calvin's successor, who founded a Church at Glastonbury, England. It was written in Latin, and then, in 1551. translated into Dutch by John
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• Plain
  ...se with the "valley of Lebanon" when approached by the ordinary roads from north or south. It is of great extent, more than sixty miles long by about five i ...9:5; &nbsp;Jeremiah 52:8 ) are the low plain or <i> ''''' ghaur ''''' </i> North of the Dead Sea. <i> ''''' ‛Ărābhāh ''''' </i> is here equivalent to <
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• Temperance Reform
  ...se of distilled spirits only; but in 1833 a society was formed at Preston, England, on the principle of total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks. The Bri
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• Job
  ...m> . The Austrian scholar Bickell, who has been followed by Duhm, and in [[England]] by Dillon, has tried to show that the poem was written throughout in quat ...in Arabia at that time. Though Job was one of the greatest men of all the east, we do not find any such adoration paid to him by his contemporaries, in th
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• New Zealand
  ...'''°''''' . The air is very humid, and the fall of rain is greater than in England, but there are more dry days. All the native trees and plants are evergreen ...g the chief export; Auckland, the largest, and Wellington, the capital, in North Island, and [[Dunedin]] and [[Christchurch]] in South Island, are the chief
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• Rain
  ...eferred to the hurricanes which sometimes take place on the deserts of the East, where whole caravans have been known to be covered over and destroyed. But ...connection with irrigation in Egypt (Deissmann, Light from the [[Ancient]] East). </p> <div> '''B — 1: '''''Βρέχω''''' ''' (Strong'S #1026 — Verb
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• Serpent
  ...hs of Tartarus, hateful and mutually hating each other. From Syria and the east the legend passed into Greece, mingled, however, with allusions to the delu ..., when he was at Melita, &nbsp;Acts 28:5, was probably the common viper of England, '''Pelias berus''' . ''See Also '' '''Adder; Asp''' ''.'' </p> <p> When Go
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• Moors
  ...kened by her war in the Netherlands, and threatened both by [[France]] and England. </p> <p> They opened negotiations with France, and in 1605 a vast conspira ...e]] in 1248, Murcia in 1260, and Granada in 1492; Turkish successes in the East came too late to save the Moors, and the last were banished from the countr
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