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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1903
Page
14
Analysis argues Bible readership remains high in printing and scholarship yet many homes neglect regular reading. It contrasts Thessalonian and Berean attitudes and calls for daily scripture study to counter moral decline, urging families to open and read the Bible together.
The article urges Bible reading as essential for personal virtue and national character. It recounts Josiah’s time when Scripture was found and rulers trembled, warns of societal decline without the Word, and calls for widespread Bible reading to preserve home and nation. It notes the Bible’s moral and social teachings and its role in guiding politics and justice. A second item describes a Canadian Pacific exhibit moosehead with 62½ inch antlers displayed in Toronto.
A Civil War recruit James Thurston causes riot of laughter at the front in 1863. His relentless guffawing leads to guardhouse punishment and a discharge for general disability. Thurston leaves the service shouting about milking cows in Connecticut as he returns home.
A Civil War tale from winter 1861 62 describes soldiers on Minor's Hill Virginia exchanging buck and ball muskets for Enfields. A mix up led to wrong boxes, a funeral like march, and a riotous protest with improvised gun theatrics and bootleg whisky lost and never recovered.
Senator Benjamin Starr of Richmond Indiana sent a solid silver loving cup and other pieces to a Charleston Missouri baby. The tale recalls Starr’s Civil War service with the Second Indiana cavalry and his wartime nurse Wardlaw family friendship.
A fragment recalling a father’s fondness for Venice and gondolas. The speaker notes a curious detail about him sitting in a hotel window fishing, contrasting epic scenes with simple pleasures. The excerpt evokes travel memory and reflective learning quoted with literary voice.
A sermon on Psalm 23 compares Jehovah to a Syrian shepherd who leads, protects, and provides. It emphasizes trust in God through deserts, rest by still waters, and the path of righteousness, noting the shepherd’s care for the weary and wounded and the believer’s hope of dwelling in God’s house forever. The piece cites Knight and pairs the psalm with John 10 7 18 and Luke 15 1 7 for Christ’s use of the shepherd metaphor.
Reports from Berlin note July activities including 839 horses slaughtered for food. Police pursued a thief who sought sanctuary in a Cologne church. a bishop ordered religious knowledge exams for couples seeking marriage. Berlin hansoms now fitted with bells after rubber tires concerns. Naval ships will not use the word baptism in naming.
Two physicians in the Royal College of Surgeons, funded by the cancer research fund, have pursued six months of undisturbed investigations into cancer. Maxim Gorki's novel inspires a grand opera text book and Kapelnikoff composes a score based on it. Rev James J McKeever Newark clergyman offers a gold medal to any fireman who saves a life after a firefighter died saving a child.
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