Benaiah’s Snowy Day Triumph Over a Lion
Dr Tal mage preaches on 1 Chronicles ii 22 with a tale of Benaiah who, armed with a walking stick, slew a lion in a snowbound pit. He parallels historical feats, urges perseverance through three troubles, and urges reliance on the Sword of the Spirit to overcome temptation and despair.
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Bensiah
York
Talmage
Benalah
Benaiah
Horatius
Dioxippus
Athens
Aler
Alexander
Bellatah
Jared
Schwartz
Mnalke
Hon
du Chailly
Gordon
Cumming
Sir Samuel Baker
David Livingston
Benajah
Palestine
Mary
American Congress
Paul
Sanhedrin
God
Jesus Christ
David
John Wesley
Charles Wesley
John
Charles
George Whitefield
England
Valley Forge
Napoleon
Moscow
Taanya
Pilgrim Fathers
New England
Christ
King of Beasts
Earth
Hell
Perdition
Heintzelman
From Lions to the Lamb How Faith Guides Through Trial
A preacher urges believers to confront spiritual lions of temptation, recalls biblical lion imagery, and contrasts earthly storms with divine guidance. He imagines a journey from danger in the pit and snow to heavenly harbors, led by the Lamb to living waters and eternal fruitage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Africa
Zoological Gardens
Calcutta
Pompey
Xerxes
Joel
Isaiah
Heaven
Amos
Solomon
Daniel
David
Jeremiah
St. John
Galilee
Atlantic
New Russian Czar Walks Unrecognized Streets and Letters
The young czar tours St. Petersburg streets unseen by most, buying a mocking portrait for Princess Alix and rescuing a petition from punishment, while lingering on the idea of a general’s rank. A Cape Cod widow, isolated at sixty, finds solace with a life like a doll baby in her arms, calming her mind.
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Czar
Russia
Peter the Great
St. Petersburg
Alix
Antischkow Palace
Nevski
Michael Nikolajewidsch
Cape Cod
Missionaries and Rum in Nineteenth Century Sermon
A Cohoes church sermon on Africa missions veers into the rum traffic among natives, joking that forty barrels of rum reach every missionary. The piece then lists Congregational and Methodist statistics across Britain and Ireland, noting church counts, ministers, and membership in various regions and colonies.
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Cohoes
Africa
England
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
London
Wesleyan Methodists
Great Britain
Primitive Methodists
George's Secret Fishes Ride Euphrates Like Thunder
The narrator recounts two June days at Euphrates in Devonshire where George, a novice, mysteriously masters fishing with blue bottle, hornet, and tortoise shell butterfly flies. George lands dozens of trout as the secret drives the river’s wary stock to strike, then loses the secret and cannot repeat the feat.
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George
Gare de Lyon
Paris
Tom
Cambridge
Euphrates
Fison
Ross-shire
Vison
Gilon
Norway
Clara Vere de
Widdekel
Hampshire
Hiddekel
Gihon
Devonshire
EU- Phrates
Paradise
Exmoor
Zeus
Thunderbolt
Taskel
E. I. Benson
Chinese diplomat seeks early peace with Japan
The emperor grants plenipotentiary Chang-Yen-Huan powers to negotiate with Japan. As vice president of the Tsung-li Yamen and former minister to Washington, he is well known there. Tokyo expresses readiness to receive him as peace ambassador, signaling a near end to the war.
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China
Japan
Chang-Yen-Huan
Tsung-li-Yamen
Washingdon
Washington
Chang-Yen-Fhinin
Maryland Scientist Cultivates Curious Pet Menagerie
Yarry C Hopkins, a young Maryland Academy member, kept a sequence of pets from tadpole frogs to screech owls and even a tame roach that drank ink. The roach followed his pen across the page until a new servant, eager to clean, killed the unusual pet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yarry C. Hopkins
Maryland Academy of Service
Baltimore Sun
Bob
Mr. Hopkins
Precocious Boy Takes Motto From Inheritance
A talkative boy in Toga received a motto from his father that said little children should be seen and not heard. The motto disappeared from his room and, after careful questioning, he confessed he gave it to deaf and dumb children in the Mount Airy asylum.
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Toga
Mount Airy
Philadelphia Record
Won With a Song
A parted lovers tale ends when a woman uses a telephone call to sing Annie Laurie to rekindle love with Max Walker. Tears, emotion, and the old bond resurface as he proclaims her his Annie Laurie, and the romance is restored.
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Annie Laurie
Ting-a-ling
Ling
Mr. Walker
Maxwelton
Bonnie Annie Laurie
Dee
Small Beginnings End in Great Endings and Remedies
A cautionary note on minor health issues growing into serious maladies and the value of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as preventive care. It advises after exposure to cold and damp to take a wineglassful, promotes appetite before meals, and lists ailments addressed by the product, including malaria dyspepsia and nervous debility. The piece closes with a humorous exchange between Mr Crimsonbeak and Mrs Crimsonbeak about secrecy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hostetter
Hood
Wonderful seed catalog bits linger in a jumble
A miscellany of old advertisements and product claims appears, urging readers to order seed books from John A. Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin and referencing various patent medicines and household items. The fragmentary text mentions Giant Spurry seeds, hothouse lettuce, and old remedies, with dates and markers scattered throughout.
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John A. Salzer Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Wnll
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Minn
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Rock ¥ Gap
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