Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...described by native Japanese now studying in the University. The speakers were Messrs. Kishkimoto, S. Miyoski, and Kozaki, who described very intelligently the government, social customs, and general improvement of the country since the revolution of 1868 when the descendents of the original dynasty were restored to the kingdom. They also dwelt at length upon the gratifying results of missionary work in Japan, urging Harvard men to enter in the work as there is no representative at present. Yale and Cornell are represented and why should not Harvard...
...Westem Asia. Their life is clear to us from their records from 1000 B. C. down. About 800 B. C. the Assyrians also started out on a western campaign. Abeut 770 B. C. there came to their throne one of their greatest kings. A hundred years later the kingdom was in pieces...
...gtory under David and Solomon, who came shortly after. Soon they fell spart, into a Northern and Southern division, and for two centuries were engaged in wars. Invasion after invasion followed, until the great Assyrian king alluded to captured their leading city, Damascus, and put an and to the kingdom of Israel. He not only ended it, but over-ran all Judah, and even threatened Jerusalem, This we know not only from the Old Testament, but also from the records of the Assyrian kings...
...Philip S. Moxom, of Boston, delivered a sermon last night on a text from Matthew vi: 10-"Thy kingdom come: Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." This is the most universal prayer of mankind; it includes everything that can be asked for from God. It confesses the imperfection of the human being, of human institutions. It acknowledges the prevalence of weakness, sin and despair in the human heart. At the same time it expresses an unfaltering trust in the goodness and justice of God. It even expresses a belief that in the end the kingdom...
Professor W. G. Farlow is the lecturer in the present Lowell Institute course. The course will consist of eight lectures upon the principal points of the flowery kingdom. The first lecture was given Monday evening on "Flowerless plants;" the second one was given last evening...