Unoccupied Fields Sermon by Rev. Dr. Talmage at Brooklyn Tabernacle
Rev. Dr. Talmage urges churches to stop building on others foundations and reach the world with evangelism. He warns against evangelistic passivity, advocates addressing skeptics with love, and notes large Brooklyn Tabernacle crowds and rising outside benevolence while condemning sectarianism and overtechnical theology.
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America
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Confession of Faith In Christ
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Germany
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Thomas Chalmers
Robert Hall
Robert Newton
Christmas Evans
North America
Scotland
Church as life-saving stations in a call to revival
A sermon likens the church to life-saving stations along coastlines, urging revival to rescue shipwrecked souls from sin. The speaker prizes experiential faith over ritual, urges mass conversion, condemns alcohol and poverty, and recalls a personal vision of a soul-saving church. The message ends with a nautical call to launch the gospel voyage.
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Arabia
Spain
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Heaven
Brooklyn
Church of God
Blackwell's Island
New York Tombs
Raymond Street
Sing Sing
God
Sharon Springs
Park
Hell
Jesus
Boy, Man, and a Cow on the Ohio Night
William Dean Howells and his father, newcomers to a Little Miami River saw mill, faced a water crossing with a cow after a long trek from Dayton. The episode from St Nicholas recalls early life simplicity shaping Howells, later famed American novelist, as noted by William Rideing.
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Ohio
Cervantes
Shakespeare
Miami
William Dean Howell
Dayton
William H. Rideing
St. Nicholas
Mark Twain Provides References to Suit a Suitor
In a Indianapolis Journal retelling, Mark Twain, on being asked by a potential father in law for references, confidently offers a list of trusted friends in California. He names Lieutenant General John McComb, Alexander Badlam, General Lander, and Colonel W. H. L. Barnes as men who would vouch for him. The scene ends with the father dropping the inquiry.
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California
Mark Twain
John McComb
Alexander Badlam
Lander
W. H. L. Barnes
Indianpolis
Fossil fish found preserved in Nevada rock salt beds
In White Plains near the Central Pacific line, pike and pickerel measuring twelve to sixteen inches were found perfectly preserved in rock salt layers once at the bottom of a large ancient lake. The fish, thousands of years old, could be eaten after soaking. photos show salt works amid basin edges with ancient waterlines on hills.
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White Plains
Central Pacific
Wadsworth
Nevada
Jason Baldwin
Osbiston
White Plains Works
Virginia
Enterprise
Terrible Ravages of Kidney Disease Warned By Bitters
Diseases of the kidneys and bladder wreck the constitution more rapidly than consumption. The text urges using Hoster’s Stomach Bitters to stimulate renal function, prevent Brights disease, diabetes, and bladder issues, and conquer liver, constipation, nervous ailments, and rheumatism, highlighting protection against damp weather and fatigue.
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Hostetter
Bright
Experiments on Scorpions Challenge Death by Stinging
Prof A G Bourne tests three Madras scorpion species to verify the myth that stings can kill the stinger. Results show scorpions cannot die from their own sting or from others, though stings can injure and sometimes tear apart rivals. Poison drawn from the sting appears milky and pungent, resembling formic acid.
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A. G. Bourne
Madras
Placeholder Headline Reflecting Restored Health Claims
A condensed notice from a 19th century newspaper segment touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a reliable remedy for consumption and blood impurities, alongside endorsements for Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil. It includes promotional lines, a brief anecdote, and a humorous aside about an Irish origin claim from Siftings.
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Barnum
Dr. Pierce
Scott
W. A. Hutpert
M.D
Salisbury
Prof Loisette Memory System Endorsed by Noted Figures
Heavily endorsed memory system by Twain Proctor Hans W A stor Judah P eae Buckley and others. Prospectus offered at 237 Fifth Ave New York, with instruction by correspondence or in person. Lectures taught at colleges near New York. lists enrollments at Columbia Yale Meriden Norwich Wellesley Penn.
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Tke Twain
Mr. Proctor
Hans
W. W. Astor
Judah Peae
Buckley
Prof. L
Fifth Ave
New York
Columbia Law
Yale
Meriden
Norwich
Wellesley College
University of Penn
Mark Twain
Richard Proctor
Hans W. W. Astor
Judah P. Benjamin
Dr. Minor
Columbia Law Studenta
Prospectus
Debnaiay Pitts
Favorite Line to California and Great Rock Island Routes
The Great Rock Island routes offer choices beyond the Missouri River on single and round-trip tickets. First-class excursions weekly with rates as low as the lowest. Trains include day coaches, superb sang cars, magnificent chair cars, and Pullman Palace sleeping cars. For full information contact KE. A. Holbrook in Chicago.
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California
Great Rock Island
Missouri River
KE. A. Holbrook
Chicago
Hunters Round Trip Tickets To Wisconsin And Michigan
Round trip tickets priced at 12 50 to Ellis Junction Wausaukee Pike and Pem bines Rivers Wisconsin and 13 10 to Iron Mountain Michigan available for return until December 31 from W W Tabberner General Agent Milwaukee and Northern Railway 55 Clark Street Chicago Illinois.
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Wausaukee
Pike and Pembine Rivers
Wisconsin
Iron Mountain
Mich
W. W. Tabberner
Milwaukee and Northern Railway
Clark St
Chicago, Ill
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