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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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• Confession
  ...between the convention of estates there, and both houses of parliament in England. This confession is contained in thirty-three chapters, and in every point ...ory.’ This is much less like the earliest forms of developed creed both in East and West than Harnack’s more famous reconstruction of ‘our oldest creed
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• The Renewed Moravian Brethren
  ...ciety Of Zeist,'' in Holland, founded in 1793; and The Missionary Union of North Sleswick, founded in 1843. </p> <p> In addition to these foreign missions,
  34 KB (5,302 words) - 17:22, 15 October 2021
• Europe
  ...the Atlantic ocean and Asia, and between the [[Mediterranean]] sea and the North sea. </p> ...onaco), and Belgium, while Protestantism is the prevailing religion in the North German Confederation, Switzerland, Holland, Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden,
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• Synods
  ...neral, no mention was made of inviting any other churches, except those of England, France, the Palatinate, Hesse, and Switzerland, and it was a matter postpo ...Aries, in 314, was attended by bishops from Gaul, Britain, Germany, Spain, North Africa, and Italy. </p> <p> [['''Ii.''' AD]] 325 to 869. '''''—''''' The
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• Assyria And Babylonia
  ...as b.c. 5000 the condition of things may be aptly compared with that of [[England]] under the Heptarchy. Eridu, modern [[Abu]] Shahrein, lay on the [[Gulf]]
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• Special Sundays
  ...pirit. Sundays after Pentecost, Sundays from Whit-Sunday to Advent; but in England, anciently as now, Sundays after Trinity. </p>
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• Leprosy
  ...bution, though apparently dying out of most European lands, where, as in [[England]] and France, it was once rampant. India, China, South Africa, and the [[Sa ...could he speak to any one, or receive or return a salutation, since in the East this involves an embrace." </p> <p> That the disease was not contagious is
  102 KB (17,065 words) - 13:53, 14 October 2021
• Tithes
  ...insinuate that it was looked upon as a common right among the kings of the east. At this day, the Jews no longer pay any tithe; at least they do not think <p> <strong> TITHES </strong> . According to both North Israelite (&nbsp; [[Genesis]] 28:22 ) and Judæan (&nbsp; Genesis 14:20 )
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• Australian Wesleyan Conference
  ...Messrs. Turner and White, and commenced a mission at Wagarea, on the north-east coast. They were surrounded by ferocious and savage men. One day Mr. Turner
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• In Popular Estimation Witchcraft
  ...rs of Long Compton are firm believers in witchcraft; and in April 1879, at East Dereham, Norfolk, a man was fined for assaulting the daughter of an old wom
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