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The gospel is peopling the world with men.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)

In the Rhine lands Luther taught, and Robinson of Leyden lived and prayed; and from those lands to-day comes the great emigration that is peopling the golden empire of America in the West.

From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Butterworth, Hezekiah

As a pendant to this, we may mention something connected with the originals of that other continent which our race is peopling at the antipodes.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various