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4401 The Present Truth, vol. 12 February 13, 1896, page 98 paragraph 9
… . 22, the evening when there would likely be the largest attendance of the year. Deducting the aged, sick, etc., estimated at 45,000, there were left 80,000 able …
4402 The Present Truth, vol. 12 March 5, 1896, page 155 paragraph 2
… the business to which I had been apprenticed. He allowed me to come and work in the evening in his office with no salary. I worked hard. By the end of the year I had …
4403 The Present Truth, vol. 12 April 30, 1896, page 288 paragraph 18
… in the United States writes that he has had the privilege of holding Bible studies with a lady of one hundred and twenty-two years of age. She appreciates the …
4404 The Present Truth, vol. 12 May 14, 1896, page 318 paragraph 9
… equal, the average longevity of both sexes being only 38 years, about one-third of the population dying before the age of 17. Moreover, according to the most …
4405 The Present Truth, vol. 12 May 21, 1896, page 334 paragraph 6
-In the Transvaal all citizens from eighteen to sixty years of age are liable to be called to military service. Each soldier provides his own horse and outfit.
4406 The Present Truth, vol. 12 June 11, 1896, page 371 paragraph 6
… was the fruit of faith. “For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after …
4407 The Present Truth, vol. 12 June 18, 1896, page 404 paragraph 5
… not the selection which made them “elders.” They were selected from those who were already the elders,-made so by the course of years, not by election.
4408 The Present Truth, vol. 12 June 28, 1896, page 356 paragraph 2
… old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.” Genesis 15:12-16 .
4409 The Present Truth, vol. 12 June 28, 1896, page 356 paragraph 4
For one thing, we learn that Abraham was to die before the possession was bestowed. He was to die in a good old age, and his seed was to be a stranger in a foreign land for four hundred years.
4410 The Present Truth, vol. 12 July 2, 1896, page 420 paragraph 12
… the last two years, were had against youths under twenty-one years of age. There can be no doubt of the increased intelligence of the youth of the country …
4411 The Present Truth, vol. 12 July 2, 1896, page 421 paragraph 1
… carry the wood for the sacrifice up the mountain. Josephus says that he was twenty-five years old, and that age is indicated by the chronology in the margin …
4412 The Present Truth, vol. 12 July 23, 1896, page 469 paragraph 3
… in the morning. In Spain the Sunday work of young persons under eighteen years of age in factories is prohibited. In Japan, of the 600 newspapers and periodicals …
4413 The Present Truth, vol. 12 August 13, 1896, page 517 paragraph 5
In the account of the making of the covenant with Abraham we read the words of the Lord to him, “I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give …
4414 The Present Truth, vol. 12 August 27, 1896, page 548 paragraph 1
… the hermit, with his followers, started out eight hundred years ago, on a program made to Jerusalem. They go on foot, as did the rank and file of the age crusaders …
4415 The Present Truth, vol. 12 September 17, 1896, page 608 paragraph 14
… Destroyer .-The name given to the Mohammedan power in the Scriptures is that of Apollyon, or Destroyer. Revelation 9:11. The first king, who in this verse has this …
4416 The Present Truth, vol. 12 September 24, 1896, page 622 paragraph 10
-The Trades Union Congress voted to demand of Parliament that the age of child labour should be raised to fifteen years, and of night labour to eighteen years.
4417 The Present Truth, vol. 12 October 15, 1896, page 660 paragraph 7
… by the help of God I would do what I could for him. I usually send such cases to the hospital. The patient was a young man aged sixteen years. I did what I could for …
4418 The Present Truth, vol. 12 November 19, 1896, page 750 paragraph 8
-Marguerite Boyenval, of the little French village of Origny-Sainte-Benoite, has slept continuously for thirteen years. She fell into this condition at nineteen years of age, and no efforts of medical experts have been sufficient to awaken her.
4419 The Present Truth, vol. 12 December 31, 1896, page 834 paragraph 12
… years of absolute unconsciousness is as no time at all. So to the saint who closed his eyes in death ages before the coming of the Lord, it will be the same …
4420 The Present Truth, vol. 13 January 7, 1897, page 14 paragraph 4
—The Post Office department has issued a notification, it is said, to all officials over sixty years of age, that they will be required to retire from the service within twelve months’ time.