Word: kingdom
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Jehovah's Witnesses are not a sect or cult. They are true followers of Christ Jesus, and " are engaged in preaching the gospel of God's Kingdom under Christ (Matthew 24:14). They do not "engage in periodic spats with the law because its members like to peddle anticlerical pamphlets." . . . Jehovah's Witnesses are putting forth their best endeavors to aid the people to gain a knowledge of what is contained in the Bible. This is done in part by the publication and distribution of books which ... do not contain the words of a self-constituted "Prophet...
...literary characters in the past decade have given the American public greater enjoyment (and a more distorted idea of the United Kingdom) than Bertie Wooster, and in Mr. Wodehouse's latest opus, his wealthy, good-natured, irresponsible hero returns, funnier than ever but with a new glint in the Wooster...
Eighty-four thousand copies of the same sutra, he says, were printed by order of Prince Ch'ien Su, of the Kingdom of Wu-yueh, and deposited in the cavities, made in the bricks user to build the pagoda on West Lake, Hangchow, which in later centuries became to be known as the Lai-Fung Pagoda. Tourists call it the Red Pagoda because of its color...
...Egypt expects, as a satellite of Britain, to be immediately attacked from Italian Libya in case Italy and the United Kingdom find themselves at war, so her Minister of War and Marine Hassan Sabry Pasha was in London, busily consulting with the British War Office. Meanwhile, Egypt's defenses along the frontier of Italian Libya were inspected by popular young King Farouk I on a flying visit to pep up Egyptian troops...
...noted colonial lawyer and judge, who later received honorary degrees from Columbia and Oxford. Jumping another century, the Class of 1842 graduated 56 strong. This class lost several men in the Civil War. The best-known member was Stephen H. Phillips, who became foreign Minister of the old Kingdom of Hawaii...