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J N Darby and the origins of the ‘Exclusive Brethren’
Extract from George Muller: Delighted in God by Roger Steer CHAPTER 12 STRONGER THROUGH TURMOIL Way back in October 1832, John Nelson Darby had preached at Bethesda and Gideon Chapels in Bristol and commented on the ‘marked work’ which ‘dear brothers Müller...
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The genius of Tolstoy in Anna Karenina
Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky (Stiva) has had an affair with a French governess. His wife, Dolly, has found a note which reveals that the affair has been going on. She is distraught and devastated. Anna Karenina (Oblonsky’s sister) travels fromPetersburgto...
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How are things down Maggie Burleigh way?
The Tamar Belle nosed out of its moorings at the Barbican, Plymouth, with my wife and me aboard, bound for Cotehele Quay. Our skipper told us about Drake's Island, Plymouth Breakwater, German frigates and atomic submarines berthed in the Hamoaze...
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From the hedgerows of Devon to the Foreign Office
The earliest known photograph of Ernest Bevin shows him as a little boy of three wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and sailor suit at a Sunday-school treat in 1884. He was born in Winsford, Somerset, on 7 March 1881. His...
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