Churches in Macedonia

 joy and poured out the riches of their liberality, straining their means to the utmost in order to relieve the sufferers.

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Dion flourished at the close of the first

'They exceeded our expectations,' says the Apostle; 'they gave themselves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God1.' We may imagine that the people still retained something of those simpler habits and that sturdier character, which triumphed over Greeks and Orientals in the days of Philip and Alexander, and thus in the early warfare of the Christian Church the Macedonian phalanx offered a successful resistance to the assaults of an enemy, before which the lax and enervated ranks of Asia and Achaia had yielded ignominiously.

1 2 Cor. viii. 1-5.

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