26 Feb 1853
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1853
Page
1
Pap submission notes subscription pricing and advertising terms. It lists annual, semiannual, and single-copy rates, with advance payments required for subscriptions and ads. Printed in a mid-19th century style, the notice includes line counts and column charges for display ads, emphasizing limited lines per notice.
Poem depicts a storm at sea with dialogue between pilot and stranger. The navigator invokes faith as waves threaten the bark while thunder and lightning fill the scene. A single star offers hope and the speaker urges trust in Heaven despite peril.
In Owenville Doctor Jeffries Fay arrives seeking practice and faces his first patient Widow Marston. The tale follows his hopeful start, growing anxiety, and the tension of a feverish case testing his resolve and calling.
The passage compares society to an army and a ship, arguing that diverse groups including hopefuls, impulsive, deliberate, and hasty individuals are needed, united by love. It warns progress requires both conservatives and progressives, and justice arises from balancing the strong and weak points of individuals.
Rev H Ward Beecher discusses balance between progress and caution. He says true progress avoids clinging to props, accepts imperfections, and requires both young and old, warm hearts and cool heads, to reach the promised land, while noting conservatives include varied temperaments and risks of stagnation.
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