Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of conversions is a disproportionate result of the money and efforts expended on foreign missions.- (a) Many millions are contributed every year, all over the civilized world, whereas the number of converts is small.- (b) The number of converts yearly is counterbalanced one hundred and eighty-three times by the annual excess among non-christians of births over deaths: Canon Taylor, The Great Missionary Failure, Fortnightly Review, Vol. L (October, 1888).- (c) Most conversions are but temporary-(x) Either they lapse upon departure of the missionary to some other station-(y) Or they help to swell the reports...
...silver to gold by weight fall below 40 to 1. The reason why so great an increase of silver did not diminish its value in terms of gold was because silver was a metal which the world greatly needed. It was in an overwhelming degree the world's money. The expansion of the Oriental trade which resulted would have been impossible, or would have been long delayed but for the great monetary revolution through which the world was then passing...
...Newton. In 1666 and act of Charles II opened the mint to coinage of both metals gratuitously. This law continued in force till 1798. It was the policy of the government to treat gold as subsidiary to silver, and leave the guinea to find its own value in silver money...
...business meeting of the Harvard Memorial Society was held in 10 Holworthy last evening, Dr. Justin Winsor presiding. Designs were submitted from different companies for the various tablets which the society expects to erect, and a sum of money was appropriated for the erection of the first tablet. These tablets are to be erected on Massachusetts Hall, two bearing the names of twenty-two distinguished graduates who roomed in the building and the third giving the important dates in its history. The first to be erected will be one of those bearing the names of graduates. The inscriptions...
...expected that the first tablet will be completed in about six weeks and the others will be put up as soon as sufficient money is raised...