Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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Gospel

a word used as the English equivalent of the Greek evangelion, or rather euaggelion, a good or joyful message. In the New Testament it denotes primarily the glad tidings respecting the Messiah and His kingdom-this was emphatically the Gospel (Anglo-Saxon, gôdspell, good tidings). It was quite naturally employed as a common title for the historical accounts which record the facts that constitute the basis of Christianity.

GOSPORT (God's port), a markettown and seaport of England, county of of Hants, on the W. shore of Portsmouth harbor, and directly opposite Portsmouth, with which it is connected by a floating bridge. There are an extensive iron foundry for the manufacture of anchors and chain cables, naval powder magazines, barracks, the Royal Clarence victualing yard, which contains a brewery, a biscuit-baking establishment, and numerous storehouses and Haslar Hospital. Pop. (1917) 34,000.

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