Word: china
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Koran, nevertheless, has a firm hold on millions of souls. Islam. although politically dead, is religiously alive. From Gibraltar to China, the religion of Mohammed is that of the masses. It spreads rapidly in Africa, not through the preaching of isolated missionaries, but by the influence of the Arab colonies scattered throughout the continent...
...collection of about 250 volumes in fine condition, containing works of Shakespeare, Montaigne, Plutarch, (Plato), (Jowett), Longfellow, Emerson, Browning, "George Eliot," Darwin, etc. Also English, French and German dictionaries; and many other works of interest, among them Emerson's "Woody Plants of Massachusetts," Johnson's "Oriental Religions" (Persia and China). William's "Indian Wisdom," Julius Sachs' Text-book of Botany, etc. All must be sold. Terms cash. Books may be seen on Monday and Tuesday, June 4th and 5th, between 9 and 1 o'clock...
...nine members of the graduating class received the degree of bachelor of divinity from the hands of President Dwight. The young theologians will enter immediately upon their life work, as their fields of usefulness have already been selected. Two of the members will become foreign missionaries, one going to China and the other to India. About a third of the class will go West and enter the home mission field. About thirty-five graduates and seniors will start next week for the West, to engage in home missionary work during their summer vacation of four months...
...college Y. M. C. A. is represented in nearly 300 institutions in the United States, Canada, Japan, China, India, Ceylon and Syria, and has a membership of over 11,000 students...
...said that $300,000 have been subscribed by an American for the purpose of founding a university of learning in China...