Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is today a very considerable activity in the way of newspaper writing in Arabia...
Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire in its western provinces. At the fall of the Assyrian empire it overspread Asia, except Arabia, and supplanted the Semitic languages. The reason it spread is unknown; but the conquest was almost as complete as was that of Arabic later at the time of the Moslem conquest...
...English intervention in Egypt was induced by purely selfish motives.- (a) England was jealous of growing power of Egypt over Constantinople and Turkey.- (1) Egypt under Mehemet Ali had become consolidated: J. E. Bowen in Pol. Sci. Quar. (June, 1886).- (2) Egypt had conquered Syria and Arabia. (3) Had broken loose from Turkey.- (4) Had received a hereditary sovereignty of her own from the Porte: Ibid.- (5) In these gains Egypt was favored by Russia.- (b) England insured to prevent construction of, and gain control over, the Suez Canal: Ibid.- (c) England wanted railroads through Egypt...
Yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel Rev. George A. Gordon of Boston conducted the Vesper Service. He preached his sermon from Galatians, 1, 17: "I went into Arabia and returned again unto Damascus...
...Gordon showed the similarity between Paul's retirement to Arabia, before entering upon his new life of activity, and the seclusion of the college man before entering into the real struggle of life...