Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are many methods of teaching religious truth to the mass of ignorant people all over the world. That employed by the western world during the last century has been wrong in several respects. Its most grevious blunder is that it offers dogmatic terms of salvation to unbelievers, and proceeds upon the basis that all men are conceived in sin. The religion of India, on the other hand, is built upon the foundation of of good and truth in every man. This kind of missionary work, if it were universal, could not fail of success...
...only twelve hours. He was born November 26, 1822, entered Phillips Exeter Academy in 1837 and Harvard College in 1839. He graduated in 1843, returned to Buffalo and began the study of law in the office of Millard Fillmore. In 1852 he was appointed attorney for the Great Western Railway Company of Canada and since then his time has been devoted largely to the service of this and other corporations...
...leisure moments were devoted to literary pursuits and many of his writings have been published. At the time of his death he was president of the Liberal Club and of the Harvard Club of Western New York and Chancellor of the University of Buffalo, and he had held many other offices. He stood at the head of the legal profession in Buffalo and the flags on the City Hall were displayed at half mast and all the courts were adjourned when the news of his death became known...
Professor J. Rendel Harris lectured in Divinity Chapel last night on "The New Syriac Gospels from Mt. Sinai." He spoke of the results of his explorations in Syria and demonstrated some of the advantages possessed by the Syriac text over the Western version...
...February number of the Outing, Mr. Harry Kendall, Outing's correspondent for the Middle West, gives his opinion as to what should constitute the "All Western Eleven." He takes into consideration the football teams of the Universities of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Purdue, Chicago, Illinois, Northwestern, and Lake Forest, and chooses five men from Wisconsin, three from Minnesota, two from Michigan, and one from Purdue...