Father Gavin Attacks Liquor Trade In Sunday Address
The Temperance Department reports Father E. W. Gavin of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Chicago delivered a stern Sunday address denouncing saloonkeepers and patrons for blocking a petition to Taft urging a five mile dry zone around government reservations. He denounced the liquor traffic and warned congregants, including those married to or connected with drink, that association with drinkers should be avoided.
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Father Gavin
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Chicago
E. W. Gavin
Taft
Illinois
Cosens
Temperance Notes Across Nations Urge Abstinence
The piece cites 16,890,000 public school scholars and a yearly drink bill near 2 billion dollars. It contrasts with Austria where total abstinence is urged in colleges and among youth, and Finland where influential newspapers refuse alcohol advertisements.
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United States
Austria
Birth of John the Baptist Foretold in Jesus Story
The piece reflects on the nativity narrative, Bethlehem, and Mary and Joseph's journey to enroll in Nazareth and Bethlehem. It notes Bethlehem’s cave lodging, the Church of the Nativity, and the Manger Chapel with the silver star marking Jesus birth. It cites mercy, light imagery, and shepherds, plus a parable about a man who seeks salvation through faith in Jesus.
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Christian Herald
Nazareth
Mary
Bethlehem
Caesar Augustus
Jesus
Christ
Joseph
Manger
Jesus Christus
Jesus Christ
Savior
Christ the Lord
Correggio
Virgin Mary
St. John of Damascus
God
The Minimum Christian Examined In This Sermon
A pastor denounces the so called minimum Christian who seeks salvation at the cheapest rate and little religion. The piece mocks lazy churchgoers who attend services ignore acts of charity and avoid teaching roles while claiming to defend moral living. It warns that by limiting faith to a few rituals one risks losing salvation.
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Samuel
Eli
Christ
Jesus
Ile
Heaven
Confidence in the Church Faith and Fearless Basis
The Evangelist argues that public trust in the church depends on its brave, fact facing stance. It warns that if the church hides from questions about its basis or from scholars, honest men will withdraw support. Emotional talk cannot sustain faith.
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the Evangelist
Bible in the Home Proves Powerful Educator
A mother tells how she raised her children in the fear of the Lord by placing the Bible on the table as the sole religious instruction. She avoided opposing a father’s authority, let Scripture speak for itself, and used it to respond to questions faults and deeds, producing a prodigy in faith.
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Jesus
Jesus Christ
Christ Jesus
City of
David
Christ the Lord
William Muir
Heaven and the Daydreamed Next Room
Reverend Charles H Parkhurst argues that heaven must be made real to the mind by humanizing God through Christ and by connecting the future world to present experience. He likens death to stepping into the next room, stressing continuity, companionship, and a vivid, thinkable hope rather than an abstract, distant afterlife.
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London
Paris
Berlin
Vienna
God
Heaven
Revereyce
Christ Jesus
Christ
Mars Hill
Tennyson
Heliotropism as faith habit and sunward turning
A Christian World essay compares heliotropism to spiritual life, describing the plant’s sunward twist as a metaphor. It argues genuine progress in religion comes from a constant turning of the soul toward Christ, the sun, yielding beauty, trust, and solace through personal relation and fellowship.
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Christ
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