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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1894
Page
8
Dr Takpago speaks on the burden of fashion in society. he condemns extravagant dress as idolatry that drains finances, distracts from worship, and harms character. He cites examples of vanity, debt, and moral decline, urging repentance and modest living aligned with Christian charity.
The piece asserts Enoch walked with God as a model of close companionship yielding divine blessings. It urges listening reverently to God and sharing in whispering dialogue. It then argues Christian prosperity requires constant care, labor, and cultivation, with a living church as evidence of faith.
A visiting soul walks into a city church on a sunny Sabbath morn. Inside, a feast of bread and wine, Christ’s blessing, and a welcoming hymn greet the stranger. Sylvia Brown writes of divine welcome and the Father’s love binding all saints who work and pray.
A sermon argues that secular work can deepen spiritual life by instilling discipline, humility, and trust in providence. It urges complete consecration to God, merging work and faith, and recalls the need to do all in the name of the Lord Jesus for harmony between secular and sacred duties.
A sixteen year old conceived a plan to sell coal to New York City poor at cost. His father, a busy businessman, supported the venture by offering twenty five pounds of coal for less than market price. The effort aimed to ease hardship among the needy and was met with initial suspicion before trust grew as many received coal for a pittance.
The article extols a New York merchant who funds coal bread tea and lodging for the poor at cost. He and a young partner provide meals and shelter, offering five cent cots and breakfast while rejecting monetary gain in Christian service, amid a tale of hardship and sacrifice.
An essay urges believers to pair creed with action, insisting trust in the Lord must guide daily conduct. It cites Christ’s example of doing good, warns against hollow morality, and emphasizes translating sublime teachings into selfless deeds.
A rambling collection of moral maxims and religious aphorisms on prayer faith and the devil. The fragments discuss prayer charity creed discord and the mortal consequences of oath and hypocrisy. Likely a devotional aside or column urging piety and self sacrifice.
In a rugged scene from Denorest's Magazine a family faces poverty and despair. Ailsie fears loss while a partner reconciles with a new vow to care for children. A tale contrasts hardship with small acts of mercy as a life shifts toward renewal.
The article argues heredity plays a major role in criminal behavior, citing Me K R L Dugiale and Morel, Morvl, Rossi, and Haveloel. It notes high percentages of criminals with alcoholic parentage at Elmira, Marro, and Rossi studies, plus patterns of degeneration and social impact on families and women.
A controversial statement warns that alcohol fueled depravity affects families and increases crime, urging firm duty against drinking. M C Lockwood, D D, cites religious and social duty and the need to confront the alcohol vice as humanity's stake.
A dramatic calculation compares national spending on liquor and tobacco to stacked silver dollars. It estimates a yearly bill of 1,900,000,000 for liquor and 860,000,000 for tobacco, equating to billions of inches and miles of coins and suggesting the total would encircle the Earth edge to edge. The piece urges readers to seek facts from the Anti Tobacco Germ and nails it to a post for reflection.
E L Godkin argues that widespread machine use in modern industry promotes sobriety. Drunkards struggle to manage road machines and risk losing skilled jobs as sober workers dominate employment through an artificial selection process.
A compilation notes high abstinence in Zurich crimes and British juvenile temperance societies with millions of young members. It cites military sanitation studies favoring no alcohol, changing university habits in Britain, and historic Hague fisheries prohibitions. Stories include youths in Glasgow behaving riotously when drunk and a Silesian village temperance rite that bans alcohol except during the yearly pledge renewal.
A Country Gentleman sketch proposes simple, speedy berry supports. Two stout posts at each end of a row hold three strands of smooth wire to keep raspberry and blackberry canes erect, reducing wind damage and untidy growth.
The article advises creating neat, fenced rows in fruit gardens with labeled varieties to improve harvest efficiency. It highlights buffalo berry as a hardy, ornamental shrub producing prolific, late fruit and compares its flavor to guava when frozen. It also notes sowing pansy seed late July to early August and transplanting by September for spring planting, mentioning several pansy varieties.
A description lists flowered types including a great excellence and Bugnot's large three-brinked pansy, with Odier's five blotched beauty noted among the specimens.
The article describes vines for the vase exterior to shield the bowl from sun heat. Plants listed include Lobb's nasturtium Barclay's manrandia German ivy and periwinkle. Inside the vase a selection of geraniums colons abutilons dwarf petunias grevillea and other ornamental species are proposed along with livistona palms.
The Seckel pear yields best when small and well colored but tends to overbear. Remove excess fruit from clusters and limit to one pear per fruit spur to protect vigor and prevent blight. The California scale is noted as destructive. growers should monitor, report, and send specimens to the agriculture department.
A humorous sketch contrasts a pro tem bachelor living alone with a neglected house. The wife is away and items pile up from unfinished chores to dusty cigars and scattered newspapers. A social vignette follows about Mrs Peters and a street scene in Youth's Companion style.
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