New Year Opportunities for Christian Work in 1900
A sermon by Rev. Frank DeWitt Talmage urges aggressive gospel outreach at the start of a new year. He calls Christians to active service among children, youths, the aged, and the poor, emphasizing personal invitation, Sunday school growth, and foreign and local missionary efforts.
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Frank DeWitt Talmage
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Christian Herald
Christ
John H. Vincent
Sunday Schools of
America
Lord Lawrence
India
Calcutta
Bertie
Roosevelt
Jesus
Dwight I. Moody
Visiting the Sick and After Meeting Outreach in Christian Work
A sermon urges regular hospital and sick room visits as key Christian service to the poor, sick children, and aged, stressing the verse I was sick and ye visited me. It also promotes after meetings Sunday nights as the pivotal point for inviting sinners to join the church and completing church outreach.
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Christ
Independence Hall
Chestnut Street
Chicago
Circus Chaplain Returns to Pulpit After Circus Tour
Rev. William Sheak of Penu Indiana, after touring the country with a circus as lecturer and chaplain, leaves the ring for his pulpit. He pursued a new field for religious work, found circus folk supportive and loyal, and recalls factory work as less favorable. The first services drew the circus crew to welcome him.
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William Sheak
Penu
Ind
Mr. Sheak
Choose Your Spiritual Occupations Now
The sermon urges immediate testimony after conversion and bold missionary work. It compares Ananias and James Tissot to illustrate swift commitment, warns church members against dormancy, and calls believers to select their specific gospel duties without delay.
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United States Senate
Jesus
Paul
Ananias
Damascus
Christ
James Tissot
Tissot
Far East
Faith
Electric Bitters Claims Cure for Rheumatism Pain
Colusa California man Joe Golobick says fifteen years of rheumatism pain were ended by Electric Bitters. He calls it the greatest medicine for that trouble and notes it also helps liver and kidney issues and general debility. Sold for 50 cents with satisfaction guaranteed by Dreier and Bro.
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Joe Golobick
Colusa
Cal
Dreier & Bro
Beaupre Meets Hay in Washington on Colombia Question
United States minister to Colombia Arthur Beaupre, on leave, lunching with Secretary Hay to discuss Colombia and the isthmian canal issue. He plans to visit General Rafael Reyes, the Colombian envoy, and also conferred with Secretary Root on the Colombian situation.
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Washington
Arthur Beaupre
United States
Colombia
Hay
Isthmian Canal
Beaupre
Rafael Reyes
Root
Night Was Her Terror Cured By Dr King's Discovery
Mia of Alexandria Indiana recalls severe coughing lasting all night with blood when walking a block. After failed medicines, three bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery cured her coughs and she gained 58 pounds. Guaranteed to cure coughs colds la grippe bronchitis and throat chest troubles. Price 50 cents and 1.00. Trial bottles free at Drier Be0.a drug store.
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Mia
Chas
Applegate
Alexandria
Ind
Dr. King
Backward, Time, Return My Lost Youth and Home
A poem from the Texas Advocate laments wasted years and ruined life. The speaker longs to reverse time to undo sins, recover family warmth, and escape mortality as the hell hound of wine seals fate.
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Hell Hound
Texas Advocate
Swiss Alcohol Death Rate Revealed by Anonymous Reports
The Chicago Record-Herald notes Switzerland uses numbered medical reports to hide identities while counting deaths from delirium tremens. Among men over 20, DT deaths average about 0.5 percent, with higher figures in older ages. overall alcoholism-linked deaths run about 3 percent. Authorities urge stronger temperance efforts.
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Switzerland
French
Berne
France
Chicago Record-Herald
Railroads wage war on the drinker and tobacco
The article reports railroads nationwide enforcing sobriety among operators and banning tobacco on duty near stations. It notes liquor violations deemed unsafe for handling patrons and transport, with tobacco rules strict but less rigid than liquor, and mentions enforcement severity for cigars.
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Jo Taebriety
Morning liquor habit leads to a better resolve
A young man who started drinking each morning is warned by a friend. He vows to quit but experiences withdrawal symptoms and loss of appetite. After a week he realises the danger and commits to abstinence, declaring strong drink will not conquer him again. The anecdote appears in Church Life.
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Themistocles
Greece
Christ
Chicago
Christian Endeavor
Beer Rotting Fingers Allegedly Affects Bartenders
The Mail and Express reports surgeons in New York have seen many bartenders lose fingers from handling beer. A Bowery concert hall employee first reported rotted right hand fingers and left hand fingers, blamed on beer acid and resin. Other cases followed as doctors warned an army of saloon workers suffer similar deterioration.
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Mail and Express
New York Hospital
Bowery
Bellevue
Temperance notes and social cost of alcohol
The piece cites 1 038 Catholic Total Abstinence unions with 85 729 members in the United States and questions about canteen beer as a cure for vice. It notes France losing hundreds of thousands to drink and estimates over 10 000 murders yearly in the United States linked to alcohol.
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United States
New York Evening Post
Normandy
France
Orne
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