Thy Will Be Done Poem Reflections on Faith and Nature
A reflective verse explores piety and gratitude to the Trinity, praising divine guidance in daily life. It contrasts worldly wealth with inner warmth and tenderness, noting beauty in earth and seasonal imagery while emphasizing submission to God’s will and joyful, gentle human kindness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Sesus
Immousus
Timmanuel
Jesus
Lis
Hell
Selann
Cong. Merald
Marriage at Sunset Ends in Silent Strife
A beautiful bride at the altar becomes pale with emotion as love and devotion echo in the wedding scene. Years later the couple reunite in a crimson sunset hall where time has altered them. The husband’s pride and ambition grow, his brow marked with anxiety as shadows of sorrow and secrets strain their bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taguiit
Lemling
Raward
Fiex
Sonce
Edward
Faward
Jose
Margaret
Sind
The Moment After Death and a Lancaster Labor Debate
A serialized narrative shows a perilous escape of a husband and wife from a dungeon mix with a sermon on the moment of death and the fate of souls. A Lancaster Pennsylvania gathering argues that labor and capital share interests and strikes should be avoided. A Lady’s kindness on a city rail car contrasts with other acts of politeness and charity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lanor Asp Caritat
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
Pola
National Intelligencer
Reading and river dreams and debts drive a child to hope
A fragmented tale blends a family exchange about rising rivers and money with a Devonshire monster story. The daughter imagines boats and cash to pay relatives, while reports from Devon towns describe mysterious eight inch footprints attributed to a ubiquitary demon and sparking fear and pulpit talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nanna
Sarah
Sister Jane
Jane
John
Carrie
Mobile Tribu
The End of Tomorrow Told to a Child
A childlike lecture explains that tomorrow never arrives and today slips away. The text urges filling today with kindness, prayer, study, and love, so yesterday remains pleasant to recall and tomorrow still lies ahead. The message emphasizes seizing today’s opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lues
Soitile
Seurauvesa Uscumstras moral reflections on selfish lives
A compact essay by Rev. J. A. James argues that living selfishly leads to being forgotten, compares such people to pebbles on a shore, warns that no good deeds yield returns, and laments wasted existence while urging purposeful living for the benefit of others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. James
Tears and sacredness in human emotion and French funeral manners
The passage muses on tears as powerful messengers of emotion and calls for gentleness to the stricken, then contrasts heavenly longing with earthly loss. It ends with a Parisian custom of hat removal for funerals and a poignant scene of foreign sailors honoring a child's coffin in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Broadway
Paul
United States
Prince de Joinville
Businessman on Street Meets Merchant After Stock Check
A well known businessman on the street greets a fellow merchant. They joke about being busy taking account of stock. The sheriff recently conducted an official stock tally, implying the manpower and scrutiny involved.
Small officer drills a recruit in Tudinna scene and more
A diminutive military officer drills a new recruit in Trishinan with precise cues while Paddy comments on the scene. Tudinna locals push to enforce a liquor law amid reports of damages from drunken acts. The Wabash and other papers note drowning deaths from liquor and a fatal brandy purchase. Washington orders four thousand troops for the Western Plains led by Gen Turnay with forts Laramie Fort Kearny Fort Riley and troops on the Upper Missouri. Postage rules refine charges for amphiet printed publications and pamphlets under the 1852 act with exceptions for certain ephemeral materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tudinna
Wabash Gazette
Julia Walker
James Ditton
Wabash Courier
D. Johnson
St. Louis
Washigton
Turnay
Western Plains
Leon
Fort Laramie
Port Kearny
Fort Riley
Upper
Missouri
Post Office Department
Curious Fragments From Past Times and Puns
A ragged miscellany of items and quips: portraits and pedigrees of old families, a Dutch-like ark label, child shop-keeper banter, reflections on the past, a clever loaf tale, a Duke of Wine niche, wry maxims on ambition and thrift, jokes about fashion and courtship, and moral observations on work and charity.
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J.carts
Eraba
Lot
Amiles
Sam
Anil
Tung Aga
Bressed
Raphael
Angel
Haims
Pavers Y Barre
London
Alma
G. Browne
Payson
John Newton
Satan
Apostle
David Leach
South Adame
Mass
Leach
Davivenny
Bristol
Sebastopol
Lilipot
Tupsham
Lympstone
Exmouth
Teignmouth
Dawlish
Devon
Exeter
Hboglish Popo
Trishinan
Vere
Ere
Orin
Gime
Courra
Chad
Apeley Haute
Cartain
X Man
Casar
Aoman
Egat
Isl
Greas
Wott
Istine Ook
The
Ave
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