Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Country Life in Ancient Greece...
...Ancient Roman Villas and the Life in them...
...informal talk before the Y. M. C. A. last evening, Rev. Brooke Herford discussed "The Place that Ordered Tradition Occupied in the Bible." One is apt to make the mistake, he said, that tradition in the ancient world was like tradition in our days. Oral tradition in its carrying power, is in the present day very untrustworthy, but with ancient tradition it was different, while with us the faculty of memorizing is considered as merely an amusement, with them, oral tradition was law book, title-deed of property and method of religious instruction. Memorizing was a fine...
...game, it is said, may have been played in America long before it appeared in Europe, since the Washoe Indians of Nevada have a species of it, but the ancient Greek "Episkuros," much like the modern game, would seem to have the priority. The Romans also had a game much resembling ours. In England foot ball has been played for hundreds of years and it is said that the first foot ball there was a Danish warrior's head. There is a tradition that the game was played in Derby to celebrate a third century victory over the Romans...
...choir sang the following: Hymnal, "O Come Emmanuel" - ancient melody; the anthems, "Ye Shall Dwell in the Land" - Stainer, and "O Blessed" - Stainer...