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Spurge Laurel

the Daphne Laureola, a shrub possessing acrid properties, flowering in March and April.

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Spurgeon

CHARLES HADDON, an English preacher; born in Kelvedon, England, June 19, 1834. In 1850 his sympathies drew him toward the Baptists, and, removing to Cambridge in 1851, he began to deliver cottage sermons in the neighborhood. At the age of 18 he had cha charge of a small Baptist congregation in the village of Waterbeach. In 1854 he entered on the pastorate of the New Park Street Chapel, London, where his preaching proved so attractive that in two years' time the building had to be greatly enlarged. His hearers continuing to increase, the Surrey Music Hall was for some time engaged for his use; and finally his followers built for him his well-known "Tabernacle" in Newington Butts, opened in 1861. The evangelistic and philanthropic agencies in connection with this immense chapel comprise the Stockwell Orphanage, a pastor's college, where hundreds of young men are trained for the ministry; the Golden Lane Mission, etc. Spurgeon preached in the Tabernacle every Sunday to thousands of hearers. His sermons were published weekly from 1854, and yearly volumes were issued from 1856. They had an enormous cir-

CHARLES HADDON 41 culation, many of them being translated into various languages. He wrote: " John Plowman's Talk, " " Morning by Morning," "Evening by Evening," "The Treasury of David," "Lectures to My Students," "The Saint and his Saviour," etc.; and from 1865 edited a monthly magazine, "The Sword and the Trowel." He died in Mentone, France, Jan. 31, 1892.

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Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

spur'jun, Charles Haddon (1834-1892), a noted Baptist preacher of London. In 1861 the famous "Tabernacle," seating 6,000 people, was built for him in the thickly settled district south of the Thames. Spurgeon was a power among the working people of London. As he uttered homely truths, heads nodded approval and hearty voices cried "Amen," "Right, brother." It was pretty difficult to maintain so large an establishment without a financial scheme. People who came, not to scoff, but to see, were very properly required to contribute before entering. Spurgeon's sermons--he spoke offhand--were taken down in shorthand, revised carefully by himself, published in weekly numbers, and translated into many languages. They reached a weekly circulation of 30,000. His printed volumes ran well up to 100 in number. Spurgeon was a man of tireless energy. He left a training school for ministers, an almshouse, an orphanage, and thirty-six chapels as memorials of his work for laboring people. See Wesley

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Spurinna Vestritius

The haruspex who warned Caesar to beware of the Ides of March. Stabiae (Castell a Mare di Stabia). An ancient town in Campania between Pompeii and Surrentum, which was destroyed by Sulla in the Social war, but which continued to exist down to the great eruption of Vesuvius in A. D. 79, when it was overwhelmed with Pompeii and Herculaneum. It was at Stabiae that the elder Pliny perished.

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Spy Wednesday

an old name given to the Wednesday immediately preceding Easter, in_allusion to the betrayal of Christ by Judas Iscariot.

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Squad

a small body of troops assembled fo for drill, inspection, or other purposes. The awkward squad is composed of those recruits who have not received sufficient training to take part in regimental drill.

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Squadron

in military language, a force of cavalry commanded by a captain, and averaging 100 to 150 men. Each squadron is composed of two troops, each commanded by a captain for purposes of a administration, but united under the senior for service in the field. Three to six form a regiment. The squadron is frequently considered the tactical unit of cavalry. As a naval term, a division of a fleet; a detachment of ships of war employed on a particular service or station, and under the command of a junior flag officer. In the United States Navy 11 ships or less constitute a squadron. The fleet is usually divided into van, center and rear squadrons.

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Square Root

in mathematics, a quantity which, being taken twice as a factor, will produce the given quantity. Thus, the square root of 25 is 5, because 5×5=25; so also 2-3 is the square root of, since; x² is the square root of x, x², since x² Xx²=x²; a+x is the square 4 root of a²+2ax+x², and so on. When the square root of a number can be expressed in exact parts of 1, that number is a perfect square, and the indicated square root is said to be commensurable. All other indicated square roots are incommensurable.

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Squeers

Wackford, in Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby , the schoolmaster of Dothe-boys Hall. Mr. Squeers is thus described: He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two. The eye he had was unquestionably useful, but decidedly not ornamental: being of a greenish gray, and in shape resembling the fanlight of a street door. The blank side of his face was much wrinkled and puckered up, which gave him a very sinister appearance, especially when he smiled, at which times his expression bordered closely on the villainous. His hair was very flat and shiny, save at the ends, where it was brushed stiffly up from a low protruding forehead, which assorted well with his harsh voice and coarse manner. See Nicholas Nickleby ; Dotheboys Hall

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Squinting

An ill omen. In the book of Vairus it is said. "Let no servant ever hire himself to a squinting master." Squire, J. R. M.: (See Spiritualism .)

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Squires

VERNON PURINTON, an American educator, born at Cortland, N. Y., in 1866. He was educated at the State Normal School, Cortland, N. Y., Brown University, and the University of Univ Chicago. After some years of teaching at preparatory schools, he became professor of English at the University of North Dakota in 1897, serving until 1901, and returning in the same capacity to this institution in 1902. In 1914 he was made dean of the College of Liberal Arts of the University of North Dakota. He was a member of several educational societies and lectured frequently at chautauquas and educational gatherings.

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Squirrel

in zoology, a popular name for any of the Sciurida; widely distributed in America, Europe, the Caucasus, Southern Siberia, and probably in Persia. It is a little animal in Per with bright black eyes; from 8 to 10 inches in length, with a bushy tail nearly as long; color gray or reddish-brown, CALIFORNIA GROUND SQUIRREL white beneath, but the hue varies with the seasons, in Lapland and Siberia the upper surface becomes gray, and in Central Europe is sprinkled with gray in spr the winter. Squirrels haunt woods and forests, nesting in trees. They feed on nuts, acorns, beech mast, which they store up, birds' eggs, and the young bark and shoots. They pass the winter in a state of partial hibernation, waking up in fine, warm weather. They are monogamous, and the female produces three or four young, usually in June. In Lapland and Siberia they are killed in great numbers for the sake of their winter coat. This is inferior to the fur of the North American gray squirrel (S. carolinensis).

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