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• Palestine
  ...e west, the [[Jordan]] River in the east, the [[Lebanon]] [[Range]] in the north and the [[Sinai]] Desert in the south. </p> <p> <img src="data:image/png;ba ...decoration; while the plateau on the heights round Jerusalem and on to the north lies bare in whitish grey. Galilee has more woodland, and some thin remains
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• East
  ...n the heavenly city itself, &nbsp;Revelation 21:13 , the reference to the "east" gate points to the outgoing of the influence of the city "eastward." See D ...ted in, that part of a church which contains the choir or chancel; as, the east front of a cathedral. </p>
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• Church Of England
  ...tempts have repeatedly been made by the High-Church party of the Church of England to show that there is no irreconcilable difference between the Thirty-nine ...cal-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/england,+church+of Church Of England from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</re
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• English Versions
  ...turally put a stop to the printing and circulation of vernacular Bibles in England; and, during the attempt to put the clock back by force, Rogers and Cranmer ...tison, 1874, and Professor Milligan of Glasgow, 1895. General histories of England and of English literature may also be profitably consulted on the history o
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• Galatia
  ...in the south-west, [[Pisidia]] in the south and [[Lycaonia]] in the south-east </p> <p> <img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAaoAAAIuCA ...fes </i> (1906), <i> and Der Leserkreis des Galaterbriefes </i> (1908)-are North Galatian. </p> <p> James Strahan. </p>
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• United States Of America
  ...United States Roman Catholic Church In). The Quakers (q.v.) originated in England, and found their way among the American colonists. They founded large and f
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• Dominion Of. Canada
  ...nd's Almanach Ecclesiastique du Canada, 1884; Dawson, Geological Report of North- west, in Toronto Globe, Oct. 30, 1883.. (J. R.) See additional article on
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• Monastery
  ...religious satisfaction."Gilpin's [[Observations]] on the Western Parts of England, p. 138, 139; Bigland's [[Letters]] on Hist. p. 313. </p> ...best materials for a history of the series of confiscations that ensued in England are' in Three [[Chapters]] of Letters relating to the Suppression of Monast
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• Euphrates
  ...]] accompanying the king of Israel in "glory returning from the way of the East" (&nbsp;Ezekiel 43:2; &nbsp;Matthew 24:27). The obstacles which stood in th ...is a river of consequence in Scripture geography, being the utmost limit, east, of the territory of the Israelites. It was indeed only occasionally that t
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• Mormons
  ...itself. Since then they have extended their strange evangelization to the East Indies, Australia, the islands of the Pacific, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, an
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• West
  ...ted in, that part of a church which is opposite to, and farthest from, the east, or the part containing the chancel and choir. </p> ...atesmanship of that Kingdom, it is unwise and wasteful to transport to the East the controversies and cleavages of Western Christianity. Only the universal
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• Christian. Psalmody
  ...'''' '' Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship for the Presbyterian Church in England (1867). </p> <p> '''6.''' ''Miscellaneous. '''''—''''' '' Hymns for Chris
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• Tyre
  ...ed unto me" (&nbsp;Ezekiel 26:2); the caravans from Petra, Palmyra and the East instead of passing through Jerusalem, will be transferred to me. Tyre is th ...the nineteenth to the twenty-fourth verse every particular relates to the east, while that referred to in the twelfth implies the west—Spain, or beyond.
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• Solomon
  ..., and its sudden collapse under Rehoboam, is a feature not uncommon in the East. Before [[Darius]] Hystaspes' time, when the satrapial system was introduce ...ded much; the solving of ‘riddles’ held a large place in the wisdom of the East, and we hear of the ‘hard questions’ of the queen of Sheba (&nbsp; Psal
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• Baptists
  ...the principal towns of Scotland:" also at London, and in various parts of England. They think that the order of public worship, which uniformly obtained in t ...language, which some of the Baptist brethren are now accomplishing in the East. </p> <p> See Rippon's Baptist Register, vol. 1: p. 172-175; Adams's View o
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• Unitarianism
  ...rgely represented inl the walks of history and literature in America as in England. It may be added that Unitarian sentiments are held substantially by "Unive
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• Arianism
  ...er the [[Catholic]] Church, especially when favored by the emperors of the East. It was the root source of many heresies. Its antagonist [[Athanasius]] (29 ...68 sq.; Reid, ''Hist. Of Presbyter. Ch. In Ireland,'' 3, 14, 489). Both in England and [[America]] there are doubtless many Arians among those who are called
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• Carmel
  ...h the origin of that order of monks are purely mythical. [[Edward]] I of [[England]] was a brother of the order; Simon Stokes of [[Kent]] was one of its famou ...hon flowing through it; mounts [[Tabor]] and Little Hermon were in front, (east); and on the right, (south,) the prospect was bounded by the hills of Samar
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• Roman Empire
  ...s, who massacred 70,000 Romans and their allies, recalled Suetonius to the East. He took a terrible vengeance. The after history of the province is full of ...mmerce uniting the various lands; Latin spread in the West as Greek in the East: these causes all combined in God's providential arrangements to prepare fo
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• Scotland
  ...uritans, by the [[Solemn]] [[League]] and Covenant. The Act of Union (with England) was formally ratified by the [[Parliament]] of Scotland Jan. 16,1707; it c ...glish immigrants, became distinctively Anglo-Saxon; since the Union with [[England]] ( <i> q. v </i> .) the prosperity of Scotland has been of steady and rapi
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• William Laud
  ...kw. Mag. 25:619 sq.; 27:179; 29:523; 1, 806; Lond. Quart. Rev. 10:101 sq.; North. Amer. Review, 1864, 606 sq. </p>
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• Epistle To The Galatians
  ...is so much influenced by [[Pauline]] ideas as to designate all Asia Minor north of the [[Taurus]] by enumerating the Roman provinces. St. Paul, then, calls ...urned northward at a point not far distant from Pisidian Antioch, to reach North Galatia through Phrygia from the southwest. See the Map of Asia Minor. </p>
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• Vulgate
  ...ion of printing. These small Bibles were produced almost as plentifully in England as in France, and in an identical style, which continued well into the 14th ...closer concentration of power. After long and self-denying studies in the East and West, Jerome went to Rome (A.D. 382), probably at the request of Damasu
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• Moabite
  ...uteronomy 2:8; &nbsp;Judges 11:18 ), at length reaching the country to the north of the Arnon. Here they remained for some time till they had conquered [[Ba ...etation has a certain resemblance to the downs of the southern counties of England. </p> <p> Of the language of the Moabites we know nothing. or next to nothi
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• Culdees
  ...eir great disinterestedness and diligence in propagating the [[Gospel]] in England, these good men, it has been remarked, within thirty years after the commen ...sbyter and that of bishop. After the success of Augustine and his monks in England, the Culdees had shut themselves up within the limits of Scotland, and had
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• Tracts And Tract Societies
  ...ch, which was a direct outgrowth of Mr. Wesley's publication enterprise in England, mentioned above. It was begun in [[Philadelphia]] by official action of th
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• Eden
  ..., therefore, according to others, was some where in Media, Armenia, or the north of Mesopotamia; all mountainous tracts, and affording, instead of the sicke ...is from a junction after their long wanderings, a hundred and twenty miles north of the Persian gulf, and where the river [[Ulai]] flows in from the northea
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• The New See Of St. James In. Jerusalem
  ...as they might ordain, may have the right to fulfill the same functions in England and Ireland. </p> <p> In consequence, Dr. M'Caul, of Ireland, having declin
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• Alexandria
  ...[Augustus]] contirmed to them. Occupying their own quarter of the city-the north-eastern-and forming, under their ethnarch or ‘alabarch,’ a community wi ...airo]] was another blow, and the discovery in 1497 of the new route to the East <em> via </em> the Cape of Good Hope almost destroyed its trade. At the beg
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• Jew
  ...and [[Sadducees]] of old. The former prevail in Russia, [[Poland]] and the East; the latter in [[Germany]] and America. Many of the Jews today are deists, ...of the liberal spirit, and there also the Jews were heartily welcomed. In England, also, they soon after (1655), by the success of t </p>
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• Norse Mythology.
  ...r from the sun, a large and terrible cave, and the doors of it open to the north. This cave is built of serpents wattled together, and the heads of all the
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• Roman Catholic Church
  ...p> </td> <td> <p> Rom. Cath. </p> </td> <td> <p> Prot. </p> </td> <td> <p> East Chur </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> N.Amer. </p> </td> <td> <p> 59000000 </
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• Moravians
  ...nland; the Periodical Accounts of their Missions; Loskell's History of the North american Indian Missions; Oldendorp's History of the Brethren's [[Missions] ...ons are assistants to presbyters, much in the same way as in the church of England. Deaconesses are retained for the purpose of privately admonishing their ow
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• Moses
  ...bed the circuitous route by which the nation approached Palestine from the east, and to his generalship, the two successful campaigns in which Sihon and [[ ...almost succeeded in uniting the people of the south with the people of the north. Perhaps the most important Old testament figure that must be interpreted a
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• Book Of Joshua
  ...hearing the explanation given, they were satisfied that the tribes on the east were faithful in heart. </p> <p> &nbsp;Joshua 23 , &nbsp;Joshua 24 . In con ...uben, [[Gad]] and half of Manasseh) received their inheritance in the land east of Jordan that Israel had conquered in the time of Moses (13:1-14:5). Of th
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• Roads And Travel
  ...world (vitiated, in the eyes of the present writer, by its support of the North-Galatian view), in A. Deissmann, St. Paul: a Study in Social and [[Religiou
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• Joppa
  ...non. ‘More boats are upset, and more lives are lost in the breakers at the north end of the ledge of rocks that defend the inner harbour, than anywhere else ...t off-shore made entrance from the south impossible. [[Entrance]] from the north was shallow and treacherous, but small vessels could navigate it. </p> <p>
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• Patagonia
  ...his time he took with him four seamen and two catechists. They sailed from England in the month of September, 1850. On reaching their destination, it is said
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• Bishop
  ...siastical territory became known as a “diocese” or “see” (“eparchy” in the East). Bishops of churches that had been founded by apostles were said to be in ...ordaining priests and deacons differs not essentially from the practice in England. </p>
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• Bible Christians
  ...ter the Conference of 1881, when it was proposed to send a deputation from England to Australia to consider the question fully. The Rev. F. W. Bourne was nomi
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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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