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Professor W.G.T. Shedd has clearly pointed out the fact that the modern missionary has a harder task in dealing with the perversions of the heathen mind than that to which the Apostles of the Early Church were called, owing to the prevalence in India and elsewhere of that pantheism which destroys the sense of moral responsibility.
The animals donkeys, horses, buffaloes, oxen, cows with their calves, mules and herds of thousands of sheep and goats." All through the day they moved on, at the end of the procession Dr. Shedd, planning out how he could best get his people safely away from the Turks who he knew would soon come pursuing them down the plain to the mountains.
A deserted baby wailed all night not far away. When the doctor came he gave two hypodermic injections and returned to the camp saying we should wait there for him to catch up to us in the morning. After the injections Mr. Shedd rested better but he did not again regain consciousness.
"Take care of this little girl till we come back," said Dr. Shedd, "and here is some money for looking after her. We will give you more when we come back if she is well looked after." Suddenly cannon were fired from the mountains and the people in panic threw away their goods and hurried in a frenzy of fear down the mountain passes.
N.W. Shedd, M.I.T. OTTO, BARON V.D. PFORDTEN. The author makes use of a solution of chromous chloride, which he prepares as follows: He first heats chromic acid with concentrated hydrochloric acid, so as to obtain a strong green solution of chromic chloride free from chlorine. This is then reduced with zinc and hydrochloric acid.
"I will go and tell all in the compound. You get things ready." Mrs. By 7.30 the baggage wagon and two Red Cross carts were ready. Dr. Shedd and Mrs. Shedd got up into the wagon; the driver cried to his horses and they started. As they went out of the city on the south the Turks and Kurds came raging in on the north.
Shedd was sitting at meat in his house when his servant, Meshadi, ran into the room crying, 'The Kurds have been among our people. They have taken three girls, three Christian girls, and are carrying them off. They have just passed the gate. The Kurds were all bristling with daggers and pistols. Dr. Shedd simply picked up the cane that he holds in his hand when he walks.
They made the grave just above the road beside a rock; and on it they sprinkled dead grass so that it might not be seen and polluted by the enemy. The people Dr. Shedd loved were safe. The enemy, whose bullets he had braved for day after day, was defeated by the British soldiers.
See also Knight's Through the Wordsworth Country, and Rawnsley's Literary Associations of the English Lakes. Coleridge. Texts: Complete Works, edited by Shedd, 7 vols. Criticism: Brandl's Coleridge and the English Romantic Movement. See also Beers's English Romanticism; Carlyle's chapter on Coleridge, in Life of John Sterling. Southey. Scott. Texts: Numerous good editions of novels and poems.
He got more and more feverish. So Mrs. Shedd got the Assyrian boys to take out the baggage and she made up a bed for him on the floor of the cart. The English doctor was out with the cavalry who were holding back and dispersing the Turkish force. Then a British officer came and said: "We are moving the camp forward under the protection of the mountains." It was late afternoon.
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