Moody and Sankey Revival's Enduring Boston Impact
Four years after Moody and Sankey's Boston tabernacle era, clergy and lay leaders attest to wide spread conversions and lasting church renewal. They cite thousands converted, strengthened temperance work, broader church cooperation, and ongoing momentum across New England as the revival seeded new worship habits and practical Christian service.
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Messrs. Moody and
Sankey
New England
Tabernacle
Whitefield
Moody
Mr. Moody
Mr. Sankey
Messrs. Moody and Sankey
Moody and Sankey
Deming
Young Men's Christian Association
Messrs
M. R. Deming
Boston
E. E. Webb
D. D
Shawmut Congregational Church
Russell Sturgis, Jr
Tourjee
Frances Willard
Chicago
Park Street Church
C. W. Sawyer
New York
Berkeley Street
H. M. Moore
Clarendon Street Church
Paul
Apollus
Gordon
Gifford
Hliss
Mr. King
Great Tabernacle
A. B. Kendig
Bromfield Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Europe
Gentleman
Revival Sparks Growth Across Churches and Regions
The piece notes many new disciples joining churches after revival meetings with thousands converted. It asserts widespread influence as converts spread across the country, strengthening churches, energizing members, and materially advancing the cause of Christ through tangible today’s results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crades
Twain Tactics Mock West Point Toast Amid Hartford Reunion
The speech at Hartford mocks military practice with Samuel Clemens posing as a two week expert trained by West Point cadets. He mocks generals Grant Sheridan and Sherman and offers mock battlefield advice with humorous, pointed critique of Napoleon and Burnside.
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Army of the Potomac
Hartford
Samue L. Clevens
Mark Twain
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Cnainman
Republic
United States Military Academy
West Point
West Pont
Sheridan
General Sherman
Napoleon
Waterloo
So-und-So
Burnside
Weat Point
Gravelotte
General Burnside
The Navy Yard Experiments and a Shabby Plymouth
A critical profile of navy yard operations detailing costly failed experiments such as the bending mill and futtock mill, rope work curtailments, and the questionable Plymouth repair. It argues misuses of funds, weak practices, and influential interference at Washington, with anecdotes of rot, whitewash, and unsafe vessel conditions.
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Navy Yards
Boston
Navy Yard
Gord
Charlestown
Navy
Thompson
Law
The Amateur Lawyer and His Maiden Court Battle
A humorous portrait of a young lawyer’s first criminal case. The amateur's timid objections clash with a seasoned prosecutor, the judge, and the jury. He stumbles through questions and memory, while the prosecutor delivers a polished closing. The verdict goes not guilty, and the young attorney basks in a fragile triumph.
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Quincey
Argo
Blackstone
Banquo
Western Railroad
Four Horses Run Away With Forepaughs Sea Cow
In Aurora Illinois last Monday forenoon a four horse team pulling Fore pauess circus car with the sea cow ran away. They dashed across bridges near the railroad crossing and into a wagon on an island, breaking a fore wheel. One line broke and the driver, amid a large crowd on River street, steered the horses into a high stone sidewalk. The pole broke, the driver was thrown, and horses and car fell. Crowd righted the car and untangled the horses. An elephant aided by pushing the car back into place.
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Aurora
Ill
River Street
Judson’s
Amusing Madras Turf Race Features Mixed Animals
The Madras fair showcased a novelty handicap race with buffaloes elephants a goat ram emu elk ponies and horses. Elephants moved placidly as if in a parade, the ram and goat were ridden by children, buffaloes galloped well while the emu and elk balked until the finish with a ram finishing second and a buffalo in third.
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Madras
Censorship Changes Words in Ninilist Trial Report
London World notes milder censorship of St Petersburg foreign correspondents than usual yet reports removal of opening lines from Jeliaboff speech and suppression of Perovskaya’s closing remark. It records a censorship correction from English to Russian wording about a dynamite box.
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London World
St. Petersburg
Jeliaboff
Perovskaya
George Eliot's Grave Memorial in Highgate
A tall blue Aberdeen granite obelisk twelve feet high marks George Eliot's grave at Highgate cemetery. The pedestal inscription honors the immortal dead and notes Mary Cross born November 22 1819 died December 22 1880.
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George Eliot
Highgate
Ini
Mary Cross
Multilingual Reporter and Courthand Expert Arrives Here
The newcomer, about 35, arrives after years in the country. He speaks French German Italian Portuguese and Latin and Creek. An expert in shorthand, he writes 200 words a minute with flowing uniform handwriting. He once served as official reporter to the House of Commons and recently married a woman described as intelligent and refined.
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Ity College
Duilin
Ito
Knnias
House of Commons
Dolbears New Telephone Promises Telephonic Revolution
Professor Dolbear of Tufts College describes an improved telephone that differs from the Bell design. The device uses a novel receiver with two disks and a carbon transmitter, claiming higher efficiency, less magnetic dependence, simple adjustment, and better performance on long lines, even against high line resistance.
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A. E. Dolbear
Tufts College
Dolhear
Bell
Bell Telephone
Reiss
Dolbear
Mount Meiggs Ascended In Andes Expedition Tale
Dr Evelyn N Bissell recounts an 1875 ascent of Mount Meiggs in Peru, leading a small team to 17 574 feet high, hoisting US and Peruvian flags after declaring the peak. They left a tin box with documents, faced extreme altitude hardship, and suffered one death months later from exposure.
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Evelyn N. Bissel
Mont Blanc
Dr. Bissell
Henry Meiggs
Andes
Peru
South America
Galera
Lima
Oroya
Meiguy
United States
Amazon
Pacific
Mount
Alonzo F. Goldsmith
Dover
N. H
Among the Dervishes Weird Feats At the Sheik’s Court
A traveler details a staged display by a sheik and his dervishes, including skewered mouths, live scorpions eaten by performers, and snakes charmed and fed to participants. The crowds, especially women on the rooftops, react with fear and fascination as the acts progress to burning coals and knife stunts before the party departs in retreat.
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Allah
Lega
Worse Than The Levite No Bradlaugh Applicants Rejected
A Northampton man, Varley, applied for admission to the London and Dover Convalescent Home run by public subscription. The honorary superintendent Mrs. Rusher demanded a medical certificate and proof that Varley has no sympathy with Bradlaugh or his adherents before admission. The piece condemns this as lacking Christian charity and compares it to biblical figures, calling the woman worse than the Levite.
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London
Varley
Northampton
London and Dover Convalescent
Rusher
Bradlaugh
Ste
London Truth on Sunday work and self advertisement
A Exeter Hall railway servants meeting cites a bus drivers complaint that Sunday rest is impossible due to self-advertising parishioners. Rev. Arthur Hall notes he avoids Sunday travel after a driver’s blunt remark about bearing Mr Spurgeon and others, yet questions if skeptics should preach that day.
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London
Exeter Hall
Arthur Hall
Spurgeon
Hall
Eagle snatches rooster. returns unharmed to Rome farm
A bald eagle swooped from Lavender's Mountain and carried off a gamecock from Joan Coleman’s Rome area farm. After three days the rooster oddly returned home in fairly good condition, its back feathers undisturbed, strutting again in the Flatwoods.
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Rome
Lavender’s
Joan Coleman
Garfield Good for 1500? Mentor Patent Dispute
Lake county Ohio jurors weigh if private citizen Mentor and President Garfield must pay a $1500 note for a tombstone cleanser patent. The purchaser signed after prostrating before Garfield, but the patent proved worth less and he refuses to pay. Leading county counsel tackles the case with strong interest.
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Garfield
Cincinnati
Petit Jurors
Lake County
Mentor
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Christian Convention For
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D. W. Waldron
Samuel E. Herrick
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Messrs. Moore, Smith & Co
Twain
Wellington
West Pointers
the Navy Yard
Plymouth
Washington
Oldireon
Straten
Portsmouth
Spardeck
Secretary of the Navy
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Texchange
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Dervil
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