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Amy Carmichael Statue

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A bronze sculpture of Amy Carmichael, the famous missionary who established the Dohnavur Fellowship in India, was unveiled on Saturday (16th December) at a private ceremony at Hamilton Road Presbyterian Church in Bangor. Amy was born on 16th December 1867 in Millisle County Down and later moved to Japan and then India to serve as a missionary. In 1901 she Read more...
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Amy Carmichael Grave

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From Wikipedia: Initially Carmichael traveled to Japan for fifteen months, but fell ill and returned home.[3] After a brief period of service in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), she went to Bangalore, India for her health and found her lifelong vocation. She was commissioned by the Church of England Zenana Mission. Carmichael’s most notable work was with girls and young women, some of whom were Read more...
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Grave of John and Betty Stam

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From the Wheaton Vault From Wikipedia: Tsingtao (today called Qingdao), a city on the east coast of China, was Betty Stam’s childhood home; she (the oldest of five children) grew up there, where Betty’s father, Charles Scott, was a missionary.[3] In 1926, Betty returned to the United States to attend college. While a student at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago she met John Stam, who was Read more...
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Carry Nation Grave

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From Wikipedia Carrie Amelia Nation (forename sometimes spelled Carry;[1] November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911) was an American activist who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition. She is noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments (most often taverns) with a hatchet. Nation was also concerned about tight clothing for women; she refused to wear a corset and urged women not Read more...
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Carry Nation House

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Carry Nation (1846-1911) was born in Kentucky and later married to Charles Gloyd. A doctor and an alcoholic, they had one daughter, a dissolving marriage, and a dead husband in less than two years. The first hand experience with liquor would change her life dramatically. In 1894, she led her branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union into a local Read more...
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Carry Nation Birthplace

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Inscription Birthplace of Carry A. Nation With hatchet in hand, this famous Kentuckian harassed saloon owners across U.S. Four miles from here on Carry Nation Rd. is house where she was born, 1846; lived there five years and in other Ky. towns before moving west. After Kansas banned liquor, Carry began crusade there in 1899, smashing furniture, mirrors, bottles. Home Read more...
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White House – Ronald Reagan’s letter to his atheist father-in-law

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The tallest structure in DC is the Washington Monument. This is a fitting monument to General Washington whose willingness to challenge the great British Empire and whose humility to relinquish that power is properly honored. But the top of the monument does not honor Washington, rather it reads, Laus Deo – Glory to God. Straight north of the Washington Monument Read more...
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Walter Reed Hospital: Eisenhower and Billy Graham

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Years down the road, Graham met with Eisenhower at Walter Reed hospital a few months before the president passed away. Graham recalls the conversation in his autobiography, “Just As I Am”: “As my scheduled twenty minutes with him extended to thirty, he asked the doctor and nurses to leave us. Propped up on pillows amidst intravenous tubes, he took my Read more...
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General Sickles & Abraham Lincoln

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General Sickles: Well, Mr. President, I beg pardon, but what did you think about Gettysburg? What was your opinion of things while we were campaigning and fighting up there?” “O,” replied Mr. Lincoln. “I didn’t think much about it. I was not much concerned about you!” “You were not?” rejoined Sickles, as if amazed. “Why, we heard that you Washington Read more...
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Providence Spring

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Numbers 20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. In late 1863, the Confederate States of America needed a place to hold Union prisoners of war. Though the Confederates would not win the war, they had captured over Read more...
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Charles Tindley Grave

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Charles Albert Tindley (July 7, 1851 – July 26, 1933) was an American Methodist minister and gospel music composer. His composition “I’ll Overcome Someday”[1] is credited as the basis for the U.S. Civil Rights anthem “We Shall Overcome“.[2] Another of his hymns is “Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There” (1916), as well as “What Are They Doing in Heaven?” (1901). Often referred to as “The Prince Read more...
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Miles Coverdale Grave

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Romans Chap. XVI. Verse XVII. The Holy Bible To the memory of Miles Coverdale who convinced that the pure Word of God ought to be the sole rule of our faith and guide of our practice laboured earnestly for its diffusion and with a view of affording the meaning of reading and hearing in their own tongue the wonderful works Read more...
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York Minister Library

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Miles Coverdale c.1488 – 1569Bishop of Exeter and believed to be a native of York. He translated and published the first complete printed English Bible (1535) and revised the Great Bible of 1539, sponsored by Thomas Cromwell. He was a major figure of the English Reformation and the Authorised Version of the Bible (1611) and the Psalms in the Book Read more...
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Grave of Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

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Photograph Dr. Bernd Gross   Wikipedia: Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf and Pottendorf (* 26. May 1700 in Dresden; † 9. May 1760 in Lord’s hat) was a German Lutheran–pietistic self-taught[ 1 ] theologian, Imperial Count, Founder and bishop the Herrnhut brothers ( „ Brothers’ Union “ ) as well as poets of numerous hymns. Read more...
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Clarence W Jones Grave

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From Reach Beyond (HCJB):   One Sunday morning at Lake Harbor, Paul Rader gave a missionary challenge, and at the invitation, Clarence, who had been leading the singing, went forward to give his life for missionary service.  Rader was greatly moved. “God bless him.  We need Clarence Jones here in this work.  But if God wants him in missionary work, Read more...
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