Word: spurgeon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home with the evangelistic troupe of Robert Semple.* That was 18 years ago. She became ordained in the Apostolic Church and evangelized on her own account so inspiredly that the June issue of the Bridal Call Foursquare Gospel, her personal magazine, ranks her with those other great evangelists, Moody, Spurgeon, Evan Roberts, William Booth, Gypsy Smith and Billy Sunday. Indeed it considers her greater than these because at only 35 she had created the largest stable congregation in the world...
...School and College Records; 3) Psychological Laboratory. In Part I are recorded the habits of prominent men of the past, tending to the conclusion that great achievements have been made perhaps as frequently by smokers as nonsmokers. For instance, among the former: Washington, Gambetta, Bismarck, Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier, etc. Obviously, tobacco can have...
...fair amount of knowledge in one field and a shrewd suspicion that other fields exist. We are prone to look to England for the solution of our own problems. It is rather interesting, then, to read in the "Atlantic Monthly" (The Refashioning of English Education, by Caroline Spurgeon) that the nation which possesses Oxford and Cambridge has its problems too--"the refreshing of our education in closest relation to life; in order to meet the needs of our great industrial population"--and that "America of all countries in the world, is the one that can teach us most...