Nearer Home Hymn and a Rescue in a Gambling Den
A Boston paper recites Phebe Cary’s Nearer Home hymn and a tale of its impact. A young man in a Chinese gambling house hums the hymn, awakens a repentant elder, and they part changed, with Cary learning her lines stirred two men to seek better lives. The piece then shares sentimental sketches of family scenes, storms, and a doctor’s reminiscence of Thornton Gray, Celestine, and a hidden identity mystery from an inland village and New York.
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China
United States
Phebe Cary
Harry
America
Boston Daily News
Miss Cary
Minnie
Uncle Mordaunt
Dr. Mordaunt
Thornton Gray
Mordaunt
Mr. Mordaunt
New York
Bradforth
Paris
Jay
Halio
Beecher Thinks on Cain and Eve in Genesis Debate
The article discusses early church views on Adam and Eve as sole progenitors, Cain’s fear of others, and whether Cain married a sister. It notes that many modern Christians reject these points, while exploring implied world population and Cain’s mark. A humorous aside follows about a Dumblane minister and a whiskey-tasting servant.
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Cain
Adam
Eve
Abel
Church
Nod
Odom
Enoch
Caind
Adams
Corres
Sam
Dumblane
Samuel
Romance of a Silent Night Ended in Mystery
An aged uncle recounts a tale of love and loss, where final mercy heals the broken heart. The story centers on Celestine and a devoted longtime lover whose fates entwine beyond death, offering a quiet resolution to a winter tragedy witnessed by the narrator.
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Celestine
Ain
Beecheresque Quip on Patience and Gold Dust
A fragmented antique line mentions a Beecher quotation about patience and soul, followed by a cryptic reference to twenty thousand dollars in gold dust. The text suggests a moral or rhetorical device rather than a coherent narrative.
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Beecher
Temperance Cause and Its Plain Truths of Reform
A long temperance tract argues the topic is simple and misunderstood. It claims alcoholic liquor poisons minds, harms health, and wrecks families, urging action to quit drinking with a peacemaker message and a call to join the cause in Georgia. It cites physicians and the United States Dispensatory, notes many supporters, and ends with a plea for unity.
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Goun B McGehee
F.C. Cuthbert
United States
Georgia
Reader
W. E. H. Staney
A Touch of Nature And Odd Notes From The Times
A reminiscence from the Civil War era recounts a hotel parlor meeting between a Southern mother who lost an only child and a Northern woman who also mourned a son. They share mutual sympathy and declare both sides did their duty. The column adds a home remedy for cramps and notes on pruning pear trees, plus a Colorado whisky jab and a Columbus bank subscription rolling toward 150000 dollars.
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St. Louis
Loti
Army of the Union
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