. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. issionarieswere trained to carry forward the great work that had been begun. The Irish monks, however, had done proselyting in the north of Engla
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. issionarieswere trained to carry forward the great work that had been begun. The Irish monks, however, had done proselyting in the north of England atan earlier date than that of Augustine. From the Irish monasteries in Irelandand Scotland tramped the zealous though impoverished laborers in theirMasters vineyard, to reap the harvest that was awaiting them. One of theircolonies was planted in Lindisfarne in Durham, and from it Cuthbert traversedNorthumbria in the seventh century, and brought the kingdom into the fold ofChristianity, while his co-laborers were successful in other sections. Themonasteries grew in number and were educational as well as industrial in theirscope. The Church, as might have been expected, arrayed itself on the side ofthe feeble and downtrodden, who to their grateful relief were given one dayout of every seven on which they could rest from their grinding labor. Natur-ally, perhaps, the Church gairied not only great social influence, but was 3 W5Xa!(aaS=-fi«JK. England—Egbert Establishes his Dominion 969 force in politics. A synod held at Whitby in 664 was attended by delegatesfrom all parts of the country, with the Archbishop of Canterbury at their council decided that the Roman custom should be followed in the observance of Easter and thus all the churches were brought into unity. It is acurious fact that the delegates came from tribes, who at that very time werefiercely fighting one another. The concord of the council was a sign to theworld of the real spiritual unity that underla
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