An Only Son Sermon From Dr. Talmage
The Rev. Dr. Talmage is touring Australia and delivered a press sermon titled An Only Son. He used Luke 7 12 15 to reflect on a city funeral in Nain and the miracle of Jesus lifting the dead youth proving his divinity and compassion. He urged readers to see Christ as both man and God and to trust in his power over sorrow and death.
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Talmage
Australia
Nain
Christ
John ii
Crist
Angel
Quaker City
Philadelphia
Knox Street
Lehman
Rittenhouse
Germantown
Corean Art and History Through Old Illustrations
The piece surveys Corean art influenced by China and Japan, noting a history of conquest and tribute. It describes Corea as a peninsular nation of Eastern Asia with 400 by 140 miles, a Buddhist majority, Tungusic language with Chinese influence, a population near nine million, and a history of Chinese and Japanese rule including treaties with the United States in 1882.
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China
Japan
Pan
United States
Corea
The Whole Art of Dress and an Unhappy Prophecy
A note on an English Cavalry Officer’s book on men’s dress titled The Whole Art of Dress or the Road to Elegance and Fashion at the Enormous Vining of Thirty Per Cent. It is illustrated and once owned by Dan Beard. The article also recounts a Washington Post about Mr Pence of Colorado in the House tariff debate with a clock quip from Mercer of Nebraska.
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Elea
Dan Beard
Washington Post
Pence
Colorado
Lafe
Mercer
Nebraska
Mr. Pence
Notable Women and Royal Figures Stir in Global News
Miss Alice Moore of Cleveland runs a century on a bicycle setting a milestone for women. Princesses Victoria Maud of Wales cycle by request of their mother, while Alexandra of Wales visits hospitals with compassion. Queen Victoria's statue topics in Madras and Ouida’s library exclusion provoke debate across empires.
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Alice Moore
Cleveland
Victoria and
Maud
Wales
Incess
Queen Victoria
Madras
India
Doctor Takes Temperature as Patient Faces Bills
A Washington Star item notes a physician famous for high fees insists on taking a temperature, while a resigned patient notes the bill is nearly all he owns. A Germantown baker mailed fifty large ginger cakes to the local almshouse as a charitable donation.
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Dr. Talmage
Harper’s Weekly
Korea
New York Sun
Asia
Sea of Japan
Yellow Sea
Malcolm C. Fenwick
Toronto
Fenwick
Corean Itinerant Mission
Confucius
Shee Ea
Hyman
Anna Shager
Duluth
Amos Carr
Pinelands
Eleoe Lake
Carr
Alexandra
Princess of Wales
Robert Louis Stevenson
Samoa
John A. Logan
Franklin Simmons
Congress
Gen Logan
Washington
Logan
Ouida
Astor Library
Fielding and Smollett
Withielding and Smollett
Washington Star
Joca Almshonse
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