GOSNOLD 



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GOSSAMER 



east of Chicago. It is on the Lincoln Highway, 

 and on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, 

 and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & Saint 

 Louis railroads. Two electric lines connect 

 with the large cities of the state. The area 

 exceeds four square miles. In 1910 the popula- 

 tion was 8,514; in 1916 it was 8,955, by Fed- 

 eral estimate. 



Goshen is an attractive residential town, 

 well located on the Elkhart River. It is the 

 seat of Goshen College, a Mennonite School 

 with academic and collegiate departments, 

 Bible, normal and summer school, and schools 

 of business, music and oratory. The city has 

 a Federal building, a Carnegie Library and a 

 hospital. The industrial interests of the town 

 include lumber mills, foundries and machine 

 shops, and manufactories of veneering, furni- 

 ture, ladders, farm implerrients, rubber goods 

 and cream separators. 



Goshen was settled in 1828, and received its 

 first city charter in 1868. The waterworks and 

 electric light plant are owned and operated 

 by the municipality. J.B. 



GOSNOLD, gos'nuld, BARTHOLOMEW ( ? - 

 1607), an English navigator and explorer who 

 was instrumental in securing the grants of 

 American charters to the London and Plym- 

 outh companies in 1606. In 1602 he explored 

 the coast of New England from Maine to 

 Buzzard's Bay, returning to London with a 

 valuable cargo of furs and woods which he had 

 secured from the Indians in trade. In 1607 he 

 was in command of one of the three vessels 

 which carried the first colonists to Jamestown, 

 Virginia, and was active in the affairs of the 

 colonies. Death by fever ended a very prom- 

 ising career soon after his arrival in America. 



GOSPELS, the first four books of the New 

 Testament, in which the life and teachings of 

 Christ are described by the men whose names 

 the books bear; that is, Matthew, Mark, Luke 

 and John. The word gospel, which formerly 

 meant good tidings, now means God's story, 

 or the story of Christ. The first three books 

 have much in common, as they take Christ's 

 ministry in Galilee for their main theme and 

 say very little concerning His divinity, while 

 John presents Jesus as the Divine Saviour of 

 mankind. None of the gospels aims at giving 

 a complete biography of Christ, but each is a 

 collection of His deeds and words for doctrinal 

 instruction. However, Christ's betrayal, arrest, 

 trial, crucifixion and resurrection are so im- 

 portant that they are described by all. Mat- 

 thew and John were Apostles, so they saw all 



the events which they recorded, while the 

 other two learned their facts from eyewitnesses 

 of the scenes. 



The Gospel of Matthew, written from the 

 Jewish point of view, sets Jesus, forth as the 

 royal Messiah, who came as the fulfilment of 

 the law and prophecy of the Old Testament to 

 establish the true kingdom of God in the 

 world. The author presented Christ's teachings 

 and the miracles which He worked, as well as 

 the useless opposition of the Pharisees, to 

 show that God's kingdom was meant to em- 

 brace not only Jews, but all nations. 



The Gospel of Mark, the shortest of the four, 

 was written by a Gentile to the Romans, and 

 is full of action and power. In it the author 

 represents mainly Christ's ability to save, as 

 shown in His miracles. Its narrative consists 

 of a series of scenes described in the order in 

 which they occurred, with more stress laid on 

 the deeds than on the teachings of Christ. 

 Ancient tradition tells us that Mark's gospel 

 presents much of Peter's preaching concerning 

 Christ. 



The Gospel of Luke was written for Jew and 

 Gentile alike, so it is broader than the first 

 two, and the author was especially fond of 

 exhibiting Christ's favor to the fallen, the 

 outcast and the poor. This gospel presents 

 Christ as establishing a religion to uplift and 

 save suffering humanity. Luke says that he 

 bases his knowledge for the book on evidence 

 from "eyewitnesses-"* * * * of the word," 

 that is, the Apostles. 



The Gospel of John tells more of Christ's 

 labors in Judea and differs greatly from the 

 other three by proclaiming the divinity of 

 Christ and showing that the human Jesus is 

 the eternal Son of God. Christ's teachings and 

 works are described to show how He brings 

 eternal life to those who receive Him. John 

 thus presents the mission of Jesus as the 

 climax of God's self-revelation. See BIBLK; 

 APOSTLES. B.C. 



GOSSAMER, gos'amcr, written in medieval 

 English as gossamer or gosesomer, meaning 

 goose-summer, is so called because of its downy 

 appearance and the time of its arrival. It is 

 a light, filmy substance, consisting of the webs 

 produced from a sticky fluid ejected with 

 great force by small spiders, and only, accord- 

 ing to some authorities, when they are young. 

 On clear days, particularly in the autumn, 

 threads of gossamer may be seen in fields of 

 stubble, on low bushes, and floating through 

 the air. The single strands are so delicate as 



