Word: squalid
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...vespers yesterday evening and Rev. Mr. Lawrence of Cambridge delivered a sermon. Taking a text from Luke 2-45 where Jesus is found in the temple by his mother hearing the doctors and asking them questions, he said that the young Lord for the first time leaving the narrow, squalid provincialism of Nazareth, with its limited horizon and cramped ideas of life, coming into the larger activity of Jerusalem and beholding the wonders of its temple, might be compared to the student at the university who, coming from the narrowness of his provincial home, discovers in his new sphere...