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There is something inexpressibly melancholy in the long lists of Zions, and Bethels, and Mount Sions, where the pastor and the people scarcely live. 

From The Religious Life of London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

Some jealousy p. 59may be aroused in rival Bethels by this announcement, which is, we believe, the first of its kind. 

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

The neighboring Bethels were announcing their evening performance, and the sound penetrated into my cell.

From Prisoner for Blasphemy by Foote, G. W. (George William)

On any other matter he could have heard her quietly, but the Bethels she must leave alone.

From The Wooden Horse by Walpole, Hugh, Sir

The numberless meeting-houses and Bethels throughout Cornwall bear at least one form of testimony to the enduring fruits of that "forty years' labour."

From The Cornwall Coast by Salmon, Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie)