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Title: Christian herald
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association
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n company withDr. Stanley, an English medicalmissionary of Mosul, I madetheir complete circuit on horse-back. In shape the city was asomewhat irregular quadrangle,with its longer sides runningnorth and south. The northernportion of the city was wide;the southern was very narrow.A river, now called the Khasr,divided it into two parts; itstill waters the gardens alongits shores. Below the Khasr wemounted the western wall androde southward. From the sum-mit the entire south wall is visi-ble. In places along its outerbase the Arabs were busily dig-ging trenches to the center tofind the old foundation stones.It has long been supposedthat the walls of Nineveh wereof mud bricks, but these mod-ern excavators have shown thatthe foundations were of massiveblocks of white limestone. Onlythe outer and inner courseswere of well cut stones, whilethe stones between were inthe rough. The height of theI Gontinucd on next paye THE CHRISTIAN HERALD, March 5, 1913 Page 219 NEW YORKS FAREWELL TO MR. BRYCE
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The Guest Table and Some of Those Present at the Luncheon Given by the New York Federal Council of Churches in Honor of Rt. Hon. James Bryce OF THE many impressive functions held inhonor of Ambassador Bryce on the occa-sion of his leaving the United States, nonewas of greater interest to Christian HiiR-ALD readers than the farewell luncheon given himat the Hotel Astor on February 17 by the ClericalConference of the New York Federation ofChurches. The gathering was most remarkable inthe wide divergence of the religious faiths repre-i-^nted. Yet the men present were bound togetherby an earnest moral purpore, by faith in the onetrue God, and by the desire to honor the nobleChristian man who has won so large a place in theaffections of the American people. Bishop Greer, who presided, called the affair aLove Kea.t. Seated at the speakers table wereAmbassador Bryce, former Ambassador Choate,Ri.shop Greer of the Protestant Episcopal Church,Bishop Wil.son of the Methodist Episcopal Church,Dr.

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