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Show H HarxJard' "Bible Museum. LaH 1 JLH&-ejVVij-ii-Tbi' Wwb-i?IiE:-5'':''1- VJiA KVS Queeu Victoria Is Jead r't. - "vfinf H fouryears ) bat yielded theflT'S OUT TO CHICAGO. H aver her peeplt, during which jro. H she Ins paned tbrough 'rial anujltlo H latloni (iucIi make worthy raj-' "' H held and strengthened by, jrettlDC H iobKti, -country a LaiH Th.., iillutrutlnn the life and H -" of tho Hemltlo peoples, ancient H aid raodelrn. Including the llabylo- H ntsn-Auyrlan, the Arabian, the l'tiocn- H clan, the Mobile, the Ethiopian, the H Syrian and other branches, with tho Hebrew-l'alcstlulan, so called, as the nucleus and central features of the whole. It Is, In fact, In a broad and scientific- sense, a blblo museum, Intended In-tended not only to Illustrate th Instruction In-struction glvcu In the Semitic department depart-ment at llanard, but to be a working aid to serious bible students everywhere, every-where, both In the university and out of It. There are oriental museums In which Keraltlo collections form an Important part, and tbero are strictly blbllcabu-seums, blbllcabu-seums, but there Is no other Ssltl museum at once comprehenslviinJ and excluslvo In th world, IttM founded In 1M9 by a gift of 11000 from Mr. Bchlff, who had recently sen appointed one of a new commltteito report to the overseers on the edition edi-tion of the Bemltlc department, thaai now under the charge of Professortoy and Professor Lyon, |