Chapter 1Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where

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AS IT IS 2016-08-15 Lifelong Refugee Finds a Place to Call Home 终身难民找到了一个叫做家的地方 The United Nations estimates that more than 45 million people worldwide are refugees. For most of his life, Awadh Alsrya was a refugee. He w

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AS IT IS 2016-02-07 Why Does Saudi Arabia Consider Iran a Threat? 为什么沙特阿拉伯认为伊朗是一个威胁? Tensions continue to grow between Saudi Arabia and Iran. As Iran rejoins the world community after reaching an agreement to limit i

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OF TRUTH Sir Francis Bacon What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage, to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now, for more on whether the U.S. has struck the right balance between its interests and concerns over Saudi Arabia's human rights record, I'm joined by Gary Sick. He's a veteran of the White House National Security Council staff durin

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After a while they began to meet the men and women who preached the words of Jesus. 又过了不久,他们开始与宣传基督福音的男男女女们有了私下的接触, They found them very different from the average Roman priests. 发现他们

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