Word: nazareth
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Spring was beginning to brighten over the hills of Nazareth, in Galilee. Mary watched the dandelions, listened to the birds, dreamed of the bridalhood soon to crown her betrothal to the boy Joseph. But one night a voice clove through her dreams like a sword edged with moonlight : "Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women...
...Angel vanished into the breath of a little spring wind, that dawn at Nazareth.-(St. Luke I, 26:38; and the famed painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti...
...Christian Century concluded sardonically: "As one reads this list of inducements, one cannot help wondering what sort of ministerial candidate it will attract. Another Polycarp? Or Athanasius? Or Francis? Or Luther? Or Latimer? Or Wesley? Or Brooks? Would it have caused the closing up of a carpenter shop in Nazareth...
...bunking education; his method is almost non-existant. Perhaps the fact that he makes no attempt to stay near his subject is better for the world at large, because not only does Mr. Schmalhausen de-bunk education, but also War, Romanticism, Literary Criticism, Jesus of Nazareth, and conventional morality. The result of these fliers may be a more thoroughly entertaining work, but scarcely one from which any definite conclusions can be drawn as to what to do with modern education...
...Holy Land trembled and was shaken last week from Jerusalem to Jericho (13 miles) and very largely along the banks of Jordan. Outside the quake area were Bethlehem and the Dead Sea on the South; and Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee in the North. Between these two seas (65 miles apart), an area roughly 55 miles in diameter trembled. Killed were some 670 persons?not one of these reputedly a U. S. citizen or Jew. Injured were more than 3,000 natives and a few scattered Occidentals. Property damage, hasty appraisers said, exceeded...