Word: missions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...December Century may be called an Early California number. The opening paper. "Lite in California before the Gold Discovery" by Gen. Bidwell, is a plain, unvarnished tale, its romance being all concentrated in its brilliant illustrations. "Ranch and Mission Days in Alta California," is more picturesque in effect though written with equal simplicity. "Trading with the Indians" and "The Date of the Discovery of the Yosemite" complete the California quartette...
...from other history was first, Israel's divine guidance, and second, the strange discrepancies, most noticeable in the absence of great warriors, of commerce, art, and philosophy, and of any intercourse between Israel and the other nations. On the other hand the Hebrews had the consciousness of a high mission and were pre-eminent in religion. They originated the belief of monotheism and all their great men were religious prophets and teachers. Without Hebrew history we should not have Christianity...
...session of the Haverhill convention last Saturday, a college conference was held at which papers were read by C. C. Closson, '92, and W. C. Damon, '92. Students from Harvard also made addresses Sunday morning at the Centre Congregational Church, and conducted the evening services at the Union Congregational Mission...
...FORBES.ST. PAUL'S SOCIETY.- Rev. Henry R. Sargent will address the society this evening on the subject of the mission work among the negroes in the south...
Last evening in the rooms of the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Speer, a graduate of Princeton spoke upon "Foreign Missions." He told how over a hundred young men who had assembled in Northfield last summer pledged themselves to engage in mission work in foreign countries-how these young men went to the various colleges throughout the country and secured promises from many young men to become missionaries to foreign countries if they should live. Mr. Speer urged upon his fellow students the necessity of those who could to engage in missionary work for there is vast room for such...