In 1898, Sultan Abdul Hamid the Second purchased rifles from Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II for use in subduing revolts and annihilating Turkey's Armenian population. In exchange, the Sultan granted Germany rights to build a Berlin-Baghdad Railway to access Iraq's oil fields.
More Moravian missionaries were sent out from Herrnhut in 20 years than all Christendom had in the previous 200 years. They were the first to send unordained lay people onto the mission field rather than trained clergy.Missionaries were also given no financial support but had to earn their own living. Most were young men and women. Imagine today, if all the woke youth, instead of rioting and tearing things down, were using their energy to share the love of Christ and found missions, orphanages, schools and hospitals around the world!
John Paul Jones had commanded the Continental Navy's first ship,Providence, in 1775. With 12 guns, it was the most victorious American vessel in the Revolution, capturing or sinking 40 British ships.
During this time after the Renaissance and Reformation, there was a "Hebrew Revival" among Protestant and Catholic scholars.They studied the ancient Israel, especially the first 400 year period in the Promised Land before Israel got its first king--Saul. Christian Hebraists studied: the self-governing ancient Hebrew republic; the Hebrew language; Jewish historian Josephus (37–100); the Jerusalem Talmud (2nd century AD); the Babylonian Talmud (4th century AD); Jewish philosopher Maimonides (1135–1204); and Rabbinic Leterature.
