The Near East: Crossroads of the WorldEducational Department, the board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church in the U.S.A., 1920 - 230 من الصفحات |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Africa American Anatolia ancient Arabia Arabs Armenian army Asia Minor Baghdad Beirut Bible Black Sea boys British Cairo Caliph camel Caucasus Chapter Chris Christ Christian College Constantinople Damascus desert East Eastern churches Eastern lands Egypt Egyptian England Europe European faith forces foreign gathered girls give industrial influence interest Islam Jerusalem Jews Kurds language leaders League ligious living mandatory massacre Mecca Mesopotamia million mission schools missionaries modern Mohammed Mohammedan Moslem mosque mountain native Nearer Asia never Nile opportunity Ottoman Empire Palestine persecution Persia pilgrims political population Prince Feisal problem Protestant races racial railway religion religious Riddle of Nearer Russian Russian Armenia sacred sects Shedd shrine sion spirit story Syria Tabriz teachers territory thousand throughout tian tion to-day Turkey Turkish Empire Turkish Government Turks Urumia valley village West Western women
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 202 - To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world...
الصفحة 203 - Certain communities formerly belonging to the Turkish Empire have reached a stage of development where their existence as independent nations can be provisionally recognized subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory until such time as they are able to stand alone.
الصفحة 209 - In all the forms of government and administrative provisions which they are authorized to prescribe, the Commission should bear in mind that the government which they are establishing is designed not for our satisfaction, or for the expression of our theoretical views, but for the happiness, peace and prosperity of the people of the Philippine Islands...
الصفحة 203 - The best method of giving practical effect to this principle is that the tutelage of such peoples should be entrusted to advanced nations who by reason of their resources, their experience or their geographical position, can best undertake this responsibility...
الصفحة 138 - Wherefore, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, Let us run with patience the race that is set before us...
الصفحة 4 - God; to comfort all that mourn ; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
الصفحة 49 - In the first place, one alien race, the English, have had to control and guide a second alien race, the Turks, by whom they are disliked, in the government of a third race, the Egyptians.
الصفحة 61 - Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
الصفحة 5 - Judah seven years and six months : and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah. And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land : which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.
الصفحة 192 - For if thou altogether holdest thy peace. at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place ; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed : and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this...