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Ebenezer Purdy
Ebenezer may refer to: Bible * Eben-Ezer, a place mentioned in the Books of Samuel People * Ebenezer (given name), a male given name Places Australia * Ebenezer, New South Wales * Ebenezer, Queensland, a locality in the City of Ipswich * Ebenezer, South Australia Canada * Ebenezer, Prince Edward Island, a historic place in Queens County, Prince Edward Island * Ebenezer, Saskatchewan United States * Ebenezer, Georgia * Ebenezer, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky * Ebenezer, Mississippi * Ebenezer, Missouri * Ebenezer, New York * Ebenezer, Ohio * Ebenezer, Pennsylvania * Ebenezer, Camp County, Texas * Ebenezer, Jasper County, Texas * Ebenezer, Virginia * Ebenezer, Wisconsin Other uses * ''Ebenezer'' (film), a 1997 Canadian television film * ''Ebenezer'' (hymn), a Welsh tune to which many hymns are set See also * Ebenezer Church (other) * Ebenezer Colonies, New York * Ebenhaeser, South Africa * New Ebenezer, New York * Ebenezer Floppen Slopper's Wonderful Water slides, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eben-Ezer
Eben-Ezer (, ''’éḇen hā-‘ézer'', "the stone of help") is a location that is mentioned by the Books of Samuel as the scene of battles between the Israelites and Philistines. It is specified as having been less than a day's journey by foot from Shiloh, near Aphek, in the neighbourhood of Mizpah, near the western entrance of the pass of Bethoron. Its location has not been identified in modern times with much certainty, with some identifying it with Beit Iksa, and others with Dayr Aban. Biblical mentions The placename appears in the Books of Samuel in two narratives: * In the first narrative (), the Philistines defeat the Israelites, even though the Israelites bring the Ark of the Covenant onto the battlefield in hope of bringing about a divinely assured victory. The victorious Philistines capture the Ark, and do not return it until many months late(1 Samuel 6:1–2) * In the second narrative (), the Israelites defeat the Philistines after Samuel has offered a sacr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebenezer, Camp County, Texas
Ebenezer is an unincorporated community in Camp County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 55 in 2000. History The community was founded in the 1850s by Israel Braden Rape, Robert Devenport, and Thomas DeLaney, three settlers from Georgia. Rape founded a church and cemetery here. Ebenezer was primarily a farming community and has never had any businesses besides mills and cotton gins. The population was 60 in 1968. Ebenezer's population was 55 from 1983 through 2000. It had two churches and a cemetery in 1983. The community relied on the city of Pittsburg to provide it with groceries and other necessities. Geography Ebenezer is located on Farm to Market Road 557, southeast of Pittsburg. Education Israel Braden Rape founded a school called Rape's Academy and became the town's first school district. There were 49 students enrolled in 1897. It was a one-room school building with one teacher. In 1935, the community developed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Book Of Ebenezer Le Page
''The Book of Ebenezer Le Page'' is a novel by English writer Gerald Basil Edwards first published in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton in 1981, and in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in the same year. It has since been published by Penguin books and New York Review Books in their classics series, as well as in French and Italian. It is the False document, fictionalised autobiography of an archetypal Guernseyman, Ebenezer Le Page, who lives through the dramatic changes in the island of the Guernsey, Channel Islands from the late nineteenth century, through to the 1960s. Plot summary Ebenezer was born in the late nineteenth century and dies in the early 1960s. He lived his whole life in Vale, Guernsey, the Vale. He is never married, despite a few flings with local girls, and a tempestuous relationship with Liza Queripel of Pleinmont. He only left the island once, to travel to Jersey to watch the Muratti. For most of his life he was a grower and fisherman, although he als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Ebenezer, New York
New Ebenezer is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet in the town of West Seneca, New York, West Seneca in Erie County, New York, Erie County, New York (state), New York, United States. See also *Ebenezer, New York References Hamlets in New York (state) Hamlets in Erie County, New York {{ErieCountyNY-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebenhaeser
Ebenhaeser is a settlement in West Coast District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. A mission station of the Rhenish Missionary Society at the mouth of the Olifants River in the former Vanrhynsdorp Van Rhynsdorp (Afrikaans: Vanrhynsdorp) is a settlement in West Coast District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Van Rhynsdorp was founded as Trutro ("TroeTroe") after the area was first explored by Europeans in 1661 by P ... district was established here by a German named Wurmb in 1831. The name, a version of Ebenezer, is of biblical origin ( 1 Sam. 7:12) and means 'stone of help'. References Populated places in the Matzikama Local Municipality {{WesternCape-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebenezer Colonies
The Ebenezer Colonies was a settlement founded by the Community of True Inspiration in what is now the town of West Seneca, New York. A congregation of Inspirationists emigrated to the site from Germany in 1843. The congregation began to relocate to Iowa in 1855, and the settlement's land was eventually abandoned and sold. History The Community of True Inspiration congregation in Alsace, France was led by Michael Krausert, Barbara Heinemann Landmann, and Christian Metz in the early 1800s. Due to internecine disputes, prosecution by local authorities, and agricultural difficulties, the congregation decided to emigrate to the United States. Metz and a committee of elders traveled to New York State and selected a site near the present West Seneca that had formerly been occupied by Seneca Indians. The tract was purchased from a local company in what may have been a fraudulent transaction. Metz named the tract ''Ebenezer'' after a passage in the Books of Samuel.Perkins, 1891, pp. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebenezer Church (other)
Ebenezer Church may refer to: Australia * Ebenezer Church (Australia) Sierra Leone * Ebenezer Methodist Church United Kingdom * Ebenezer, Llanelli, Wales United States * Ebenezer Lutheran Church, California * Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church and School, Georgia * Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Chapel and Cemetery, Illinois * Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church (Baltimore, Maryland), a Baltimore City Landmark * Ebenezer Academy, Bethany Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, North Carolina * Ebenezer Methodist Church (Bells, North Carolina) * Ebenezer Lutheran Chapel, South Carolina * Old Ebenezer Church, South Carolina * Ebenezer Methodist Church, Earnest Farms Historic District, Tennessee * Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church (Chicago), Illinois See also * Ebenezer (other) * Ebenezer Baptist Church (other) * Ebenezer Chapel (other) * Ebenezer Presbyterian Church (other) * Battle of Ebenezer Church (1865), Plantersville, Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebenezer (hymn)
Ebenezer also known as Ton-y-Botel (Tune in a Bottle) is a famous Welsh hymn tune composed by Thomas John Williams A.T.S.C. (1869–1944) and extracted from the second movement of his anthem "Goleu Yn Y Glyn" (Light in the Valley). The tune was first published in 1897 in the periodical ''Yr Athraw'' ('The Teacher'), vol. 71, in tonic sol-fa notation, and its first appearance in a hymnal was in 1900, in ''The Baptist Book of Praise''. The famed English composer and music historian Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) referred to this as one of the greatest hymn tunes. As the musical editor Vaughan Williams included it in ''The English Hymnal'' in 1906. It is now published in 195 hymnals worldwide, including ''The New English Hymnal''. It alternates phrases of 8 and 7 notes. Ebenezer means "Stone of Help" in the Bible. The tune is named after Ebenezer Chapel in Rhos near Pontardawe, South Wales, which T. J. Willams attended while composing the tune. T. J. Williams was born in L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebenezer (film)
''Ebenezer'' is a 1998 Canadian made-for-television fantasy drama Western film starring Jack Palance and Ricky Schroder. It is a re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic 1843 novella ''A Christmas Carol'' with Jack Palance giving a performance as Ebenezer Scrooge, á la Western genre. A TV film with high production value, it premiered in the United States on November 25, 1998 on TNT. It is an obscure and rarely seen title. Plot Ebenezer Scrooge is the most greedy, corrupt and mean-spirited crook in the old West and he sees no value in "Holiday Humbug." But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come open his eyes, Scrooge discovers that love and friendships are the greatest wealth of all. Featured cast Home media There were at least 2 DVD pressings produced. One was by Platinum Disc Corporation and the most recent by Lionsgate Home Entertainment in 2005, but not believed to be in general release at this time. The original VHS version is long out of print. See als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebenezer, Wisconsin
Ebenezer is an unincorporated community located in the town of Watertown, in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie .... Notable person * Edwin E. Witte, educator and economist Notes Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin Unincorporated communities in Jefferson County, Wisconsin {{JeffersonCountyWI-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebenezer, Virginia
Ebenezer is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, in the U.S. state of Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar .... References * Unincorporated communities in Virginia Unincorporated communities in Pittsylvania County, Virginia {{PittsylvaniaCountyVA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
