Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Russia and the Christian world encourages Armenians to revolt and-(4) Turkey is glad of a pretext for massacre.- (B) No efforts of the powers have been successful in terminating these disorders.- (1) The treaty of 1856 was followed by the Bosnian massacres of 1857, by the Lebanon and Syrian massacres of 1860 (Duke of Argyll, 38-42).- (2) The Berlin Decree of 1878, was followed by greater excesses, and the Kurd Massacre of 1882 (Laveleye, 323; Encyl. Britt. I, 312).- (C) No efforts of the Powers give hope of remedy.- (1) The Sultan has not and will not keep...
...into a new creation. In a subsequent chapter the abolition of death is suggested and in another prayer is made for the resurrection of the dead. A similarity of ethical conceptions suggests the possibility of Persian influence at this period of Hebrew thought. The Persian supremacy was followed by Syrian overlordship which produced a demand for moral readjustment hereafter through resurrection...
...College Conference, which was held last Tuesday in Association Hall, Brooklyn, was a most interesting and largely attended meeting. There were representatives from a score of colleges and a few preparatory schools, the president of the Syrian Protestant College at Beyroot, Syria, even being present. President Seth Low of Columbia presided, but made no address, and the Rev. Dr. R. R. Meredith opened the conference with prayer. The president of Princeton made a brief address and was followed by Professor Fisher of Yale, who spoke of "College Education and the Opportunities and Obligations Resulting from it." President Gates of Amherst...
...William Lawrence preached in the chapel last evening taking as his text verse 17 of the 6th chapter of Second Kings. The scene is the war between Syria and Israel, and the Syrian host having surrounded Elisha, he quiets the terror of his servant with a prayer, by which the young man sees the heavenly army...
...dull life that looks forward to mere resistance, thinking that if it is not wholly conquered by temptation it has done well; the true Christian puts all his forces at work to trust God for support, and then the temptations lose the battle as completely as did the Syrian host...