As gold and silver are not the natural products of Pennsylvania, we have no other hard money than what the produce of the country...

An army in a city can never be a conquering army. Paine, Thomas. Thomas Paine: Collected Writings. Eric Foner, ed. Library of America....

After wintering in the vicinity of Miletus, the Persian fleet sailed off the next year and with little effort took control of the islands...

The President had exerted his most fervent efforts to persuade Litvinov, the Soviet Ambassador, newly restored to favour by the turn of...

but what were the secondary causes of the rapid growth of the Christian church? It will, perhaps appear that it was most effectually...

It may perhaps be argued that believers baptism smacked too much of Anabaptism, a name which could still inspire horror and disgust. However, the actions of the Helwys congregation clearly demonstrate that they were unswayed by considerations of safety or popularity. They had chosen to be a tiny remnant of ten people rather than compromise their theological position. They had chosen to return to England and face persecution, a decision that cost Helwys his life. Two or three

Carey had been baptized and brought up in the Church of England, as had Clarke Nichols; but his other apprentice, a lad named John Warr, came from a Dissenting family. During long hours in the workshop, conversation among the three of them often turned to matters religious. As parish clerk, Edmund Carey had required his children to attend church where they listened to the Psalms and lessons from the Book of Common Prayer. Although Carey never disparaged this religious trainin

We get a graphic picture of this informal evangelism in Origen's reply to Celsus. 'We see in private houses workers in wool and leather, laundry workers and the most illiterate and bucolic yokels, who would not dare to say anything at all in from of their elders and more intelligent masters. But they get hold of the children privately, and any women who are as ignorant as themselves. Then they pour out wonderful statements: "You ought not to heed your father or your teachers.

"For the church is the society which only lives when it dies, only grows when it gives its heart away. It is, as Archbishop William Temple succinctly put it, the only society in the world which exists for the benefit of those who are not its members."

He liked to tell the story, for example, of a father who took a young child into a field on a Sunday afternoon, While the youngster was gamboling about, the father fell asleep. When he awoke, he searched with rising panic for the child, only eventually to find that the child had tumbled over a "a precipice" to its death. Moody's moral was characteristic; "I thought as I read that, what a picture of the church of God! How many fathers and mothers, how many Christian men and wo

Brébeuf and his fellows carried on their work among the Hurons for more than a decade. But then warfare forced the Hurons to move, and many of the leading missionaries, including Brébeuf, were killed by the Hurons' enemies, the Five Nations Iroquois. Brébeuf's martyrdom came in 1649 when he was captured by a band of Iroquois. It says something of the stature he had gained among the Native Americans that when he was finally killed, after excruciating torture, the Iroquois cut

Also from the start, however, European believers took a religious interest in America. As the career of Christopher Columbus illustrates, it was an interest with both the fidelity and the tragedy that would characterize the whole history of Christianity in North America. Columbus's very first entry in the diary that recorded his journey to America in 1492 expressed the hope that he could make contact with the native peoples in order to find out "the manner in which may be und

He like a noble commander of God, clad in divine armor, carried the costly merchandise of the light of the understanding from the East to those who dwelt in the West, proclaiming the light itself, and the word which brings salvation souls, and preaching the kingdom of heaven.

During the war a young soldier decided to find a church:

Thales was an ancient philosopher that was known to be absent minded and had a tendency to always be looking up into the sky:

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