THE EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK: THE GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS 1902. THE EXCERPT IS PRESENTED AS IT IS, FOUND IN GOOGLE'S BOOKS. THE GERMAN BIBLE BY  LAURA M. LATIMER   MARTIN LUTHER had just received degree of doctor of philosophy. University of Erfurth was at that time most celebrated in all Germany, and the ceremony had been conducted with great pomp. A torchlight procession came to his to pay honor to him. He was only twenty one, and the splendor and magnificence of the festival was enough to turn the head any young man. It was the summer of year 1505.   He went to Mansfield to spend the vacation with his parents, and on his return, when crossing the mountain a short distance from Erfurth, a fearful thunderstorm, which had been gathering over the Thuringian forest, suddenly burst over his head. He was alone and far from shelter, Peal after peal of thunder shook the mountain until it trembled under his feet. The forked lightning tore up the ground in front of him an...

 THE EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK: THE GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS 1902. THE EXCERPT IS PRESENTED AS IT IS, FOUND IN GOOGLE'S BOOKS.  Story of the Christian Church, by George R. Crooks L.L.D. AFTER Mohammed's death his successors entered upon a career of conquest.The condition of the Eastern empire was favorable to the success of their ambition. In every direction the Mohammedans were conquerors; Syria, Persia, North Africa, and Spain were subdued and an advance was made into India. In 750 the caliphate was divided. The caliphs of Damascus were overthrown, a new house, that of Abbas, became supreme.The caliphs of this line chose Bagdad , a new city on the Tigris, for their capital; their rivals of D amascus established themselves in Cordova , Spain. The Turks now appear in history first as the officers of the caliphs, then as their virtual masters,and finally as their conquerors. They are a Tartar race, widely spread over northern and eastern Asia. In the middle of the eleventh century ...