Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bible records that when St. Paul got his call to "come over into Macedonia and help us," he set out "immediately." Nowadays, preachers are apt to be more wary. Here are some of the points St. Paul would have raised, says the Rural Church Department of Drew Theological Seminary (Methodist), if he had been like a lot of his 20th Century successors...
...First of all I should like to know whether Macedonia is a circuit or a station . . . If Macedonia embraces more than one preaching place, I may as well tell you frankly that I cannot consider the call...
...foreign correspondents; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. At 20, he was in the Balkans covering the war between Bulgaria and Serbia for the New York Herald, from then on made the world his beat. Between 1889 and 1911, he chronicled wars and skirmishes in Morocco, Macedonia, Manchuria, Cuba, the Philippines, Venezuela, Russia (the 1907 revolution), Mexico. As a lieutenant colonel, Bonsal served as President Wilson's interpreter at Versailles, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Unfinished Business, his incisive footnotes to the 1919 Peace Conference...
...transfer last year, has been chief adviser to the Greek army. He added: "If anyone thinks he can take these people on and not get his nose thoroughly bloodied, he is sure as hell mistaken." Lieut. General Stylianos Maniadakis, whose Greek corps lies in wait for any movement into Macedonia or Thrace, was confident. Said he: "We are ready for them. We will fight them. We will beat them...
...Alexander he writes: "Alexander III of Macedonia...is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time...