Lessons on Global Mission From Acts and Sermon Notes
This lesson outlines the Christian duty to spread the Gospel to all people, citing Acts 1 3 and 13 2 4. It stresses the Holy Spirit’s power in mission, beginning at home and expanding outward to the uttermost parts of the earth, with examples of early foreign missionaries and their trials for faith.
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Jerusalem
Christ
Barnabas
Saul
Holy Spirit
Church
Antioch
Elymas
Sergius Paulus
Paul
Jupiter
Mercury
Iconium
Stephen
God
Inward Beauty and Nan King College Growth
A fragment from the Christian Herald notes Ife’s inward beauty grounded in divine truth. It describes Nan king’s Giniing college as the most picturesque new institution run by five boards with eight teachers and 18 girls, housed in Li Hung Chang’s former official residence. Two years of study now, with a third added next autumn, escalating class demands.
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Chinese College
Nanking
Giniing College
Li Hung Chang
Christian Herald
Claims Honor For Georgian Sewing Machine Birth
centenary of Elias Howe birth marked on June 2 with little observance, notes Sturt ford Courant. Savannah News claims Francis R Goulding built and operated an earlier sewing machine, a claim challenged by Georgia papers. The debate hinges on patent history and motives, with Goulding portrayed as altruistic.
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Savannah
Elias Howe
Sturtford Courant
Howe
Savannah News
Pot Alowe
Francis R. Goulding
Liberty County
Goulding
Georgia
Monkey Bridge Myth Revisited by Gudger Insight
Professor EW Gudger revisits the long held belief that South American monkeys cross rivers by linking tails and limbs as a bridge. The tale dates to 1580 via Padre Acosta, with later critics like Humboldt skeptical. Miller and Cherrie of the American Museum offer a plausible origin tied to observed monkey processions crossing rain or streams on a pendent branch.
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EW. Gudger
Natural History
Gudger
Jose Acosta
Baron Humboldt
South America
Messrs
Leo E. Miller
George K. Cherrie
American Museum of Natural History
Why Americans Lost Contract
Lynne W. Meekins writes in Scientific American about how an American locomotive failed to win a Chinese contract. European rivals studied Chinese tastes, and though the American model was technically superior it arrived rusted and unattractively painted, while European engines matched color expectations after shipment.
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Lynne W. Meekins
Scientific American
Pacific
China
Traveled by Devious Ways Through Ancient Lands
John E. Finley recounts a long circuit from Aleppo to Damascus Jerusalem alfa near Caesarea Beirut and Iberina toward Tarsus and Nineveh with references to St Paul Jonah and historic figures while noting awkward travel by freight cars a trawler and a British destroyer and describing a British aeronautical raft invention for sea travel.
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Euphrates
Constantople
Bagdad
St. Paul
Godfrey of
Bywilton
Tancred
Baldwin
Raymond
Bohemond
Frederick the
Tarsus
Jonah
Jaffa
Nineveh
Teader
Rend
France
St. Paul's
Damascus
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Denton Journal
Melvin & Johnson, Publishers
Pf. Be Fitzwater
Moody H.ue Institute of Chicago
Christian Missions
Losson Tonts
Stark
Matthew Bi
Luke Mdiss
Jesus
John Smith
RaPye
Firestone
F. Schilling
Northfield
Minn
W. H. Schuerring
Sac City
Iowa
Gavin McKerrow
Waukesha County
Wis
E. S. Adkins & Company
Salisbury, MD
The
Goldsboro Bank
Smith & Walls
Denton,md
M. Kk
Newnam
Denton
Aving
Syracuse College of Embalming
Syracuse
N. Y
M. K. Newnam
Denton, Md
Holy Land
Benjamin
Goldsboro
Robert Jarrell, JR
Ss. EK. Douglas
Preston, MD
Wilkinson Land Agency
Sun Office
Ridgely
Hen-E
Griffith & Turner CO
Baltimore
A. Roe
R.F.D
Nisi
Oscar Clark
Katharine S. Clark
Circuit Court
Caroline County
Equity
Lawrence B. Towers
Awrence B. Towers
White
W. H. Valliant & Bro
Bellevue, MD
Bullock’s Garage
PAIGE
Overland
Bessemer Agency
Bessemer
Second St
Nuttle Milling Company
Denton, Maryland
Sudan
Peninsula Produce Exchange OF
Pocomoke City
Home Insurance CO
American Eagle Fire Insurance Company
the Grangers’ Mutual OF
Middletown
S.G. Nuttlehe
Western Maryland College
Westminster
T. H. Lewis
D. D
Maryland
Northrop & & Lyman Co. Inc
Buffalo, N.Y
Wesley Collegiate Institute
Chistian School
Girs
Henry G. Budd
Dover
Delaware
Newspape
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