Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...believe that there may be still other pieces of earlier literature incorporated in the writings of modern days. We know certainly that the Gospel of St Peter was written about 120 A. D., and it contains many quotations from the other four Gospels with which we are familiar; thus proving them to belong to a period nearer the time of Christ than has been previously supposed, and making them more reliable as a record of His life...
...closely connected with us For many years he served upon our Board of Preachers until the exacting duties of Bishop forced him to break his connection with us. It was much against his wish that he did so, and he hoped at the time, when he grew more familiar with his work as Bishop, that he could return to us, if not to conduct prayers at least to preach on occasional Sunday evenings; but as time passed he found that his work demanded so much from him that it was impossible to consider this...
...bill is said to be practical, and to have features that will commend it to the support every congressman. The framer is Ex-Governor John W Hayt, of Wyoming, an experienced educator, who represented the American universities at the university celebrations in the Old World, and who is familiar with institutions of learning on the continent. He thinks that no place in the world has so many promising possibilities and advantages as Washington, and that a university established there has the chance of parity, if not primacy, among American educational institutions. The bill is unique in that it provides...
...exhibition of photographs by the Camera Club in Sever 9 is well worth attending. The photographs, many of which are excellently mounted, are exceptionally good reproductions of country and sea scenes as well as familiar pictured of college athletics and buildings. They have been hung with care and judgment and the total effect is very good. The club has shown commendable enterprise in arranging such an artistic exhibition and it will well repay one to attend...
...open to all and were intended to bring some of the benefits of church attendance to the large class of persons who are habitually nonchurch-goers, who cannot be induced to enter a church, though they will attend religious services if held in a place with which they are familiar. The services have been very successful. The test of their success has been necessarily one of numbers, for, as the limits of the work preclude parish relations, the chief indication that persons have been reached must be the fact that they attend. Each year the class has been materially...