John Ploughman’s Pictures Moralizing Fable On a Donkey
C H Spurgeon adapts a fable about an old man and his son driving an ass to market to illustrate the folly of pleasing everyone. He parries social mockery and offers maxims on independence, conscience, and steadfastness, ending with the warning that one cannot please all and still stay true to self and God.
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Sirrah
Tom
Jack
Harry
Mary Ann
Betsy
John Ploughman
John
Mother's Day Tribute Spurs Embrace of Mothers Worldwide
The article celebrates mothers as source of power behind reforms and serves as a tribute to maternal influence. It highlights a Chinese opium reform effort led by Rev. Edward W. Thwing, praising mothers as the origin of courage and selfless work across nations and faiths.
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Lincoln
China
Edward W. Thwing
International Reform Bureau
Japan
Chinese Republic
North
Be Not Discouraged Grace M. Pegg Urges Comfort in Christ
Grace M. Pegg writes that God invites humanity to come close to Jesus, sharing sympathy with every suffering soul. People should lay their burdens at Christ’s feet, seek light in Him, and rest in His love as temptation and darkness surround them.
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China
Jesus
Christ
Saving Mother Steps
A moral appeal by Eliza K. Von Bergen urges children to ease their mother's daily burden. Offer to fetch items, run errands, and help in the kitchen to save her fatigue and voice, noting obedience to parents as a model from Jesus.
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Eliza K. von Bergen
Mother
John
Mary
Jesus
The Secret of Home and Presence of Loved Ones
The essay speaks on the home as a space of shared happiness and presence. It contrasts the felt close presence of loved ones with longing when apart, and asserts the fullness of life lies in awareness of God’s near and sustaining love.
A Boy's Mother Poem by James Whitcomb Riley Style
A mother is praised for unconditional love in good and bad times. The speaker recalls her care, punishment that hurts to see, and shared family warmth. The poem highlights maternal devotion and affection within family life.
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James Whitcomb Riley
Billy Sunday Campaign in Wheeling Draws Huge Crowd
Evangelist Billy Sunday held a major Wheeling West Virginia crusade with the largest tabernacle crowds yet. More than 8000 professions were reported and the free will offering reached 17000 dollars. On the closing Sunday 1400 sought salvation and 838 claimed conversion. The discourse urged conquering low desires and climbing toward a nobler life as part of progress toward heaven.
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Billy
Wheeling
W. Va
Tabernacle
Christ
Heaven Rewards for Trials and Triumphs in Enduring Life
The narrator envisions rewards in heaven for those who suffered on earth. Cherished images include palaces, amaranthine blooms, rainbows, harps, and grand chariots as payback for fatigue, motherhood, and hardship. The scene ends with the belief that trouble serves beneficent purposes and auroras shine brightest in northern heavens.
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Heaven
Sea of
Glass
Earth
Walla
Queruloua
T. DeWitt Talmage
Repentance Defined by Gipsy Smith Quote
A quotation from Gipsy Smith contrasts repentance with mere conviction. It emphasizes waking, arising, facing duty, and turning from sin to God, describing repentance as a deliberate, lifelong turning away from wrong with a personal pledge to change.
A Lesson In Giving Told By A Methodist Minister
A minister recounts a church story of a wealthy man who gives five dollars weekly while a poor widow, supporting six children, contributes five cents. The rich man offers to cover her gift, but the widow declines, saying giving brings her comfort and gratitude for blessings from the Lord.
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Jesus
Religion Pays and the Sabbath’s Social Good
The piece argues Sunday observance boosts industry and personal well being. It claims religion’s precepts enhance temporal happiness, with employers promoting Sabbath rest for selfish gain and noting Sunday recreation enriches all humanity. It frames life as more than endless labor.
The Rainbow and the Light of Christ
A poet describes the rainbow as a glorified shadow created by sunlight on a water drop. The text compares this natural phenomenon to the light of Christ transforming a Christian heart with tenderness, sympathy, and helpfulness.
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Christ
Conviction of Bible's Divinity Ties Ethics and Crime
A quotation from Firm Foundation argues that Bible believers are good, law-abiding citizens, while criminals disregard the Bible. It asserts that all criminals are unbelievers, though not all unbelievers are criminals.
Fragmentary Reflection on Gratitude and Loss
A terse meditation questions whether wealth loss deserves sorrow or praise deserves joy, noting half-formed compliments and self interest. The speaker imagines the sea calming after the rifle disturbance and hints at memory fading with time.
Why Susie Waited for God's Answer at Bedtime
In a Junior Herald piece two sisters, Susie and Mabel, discuss prayer and listening for God. Susie shares that after asking God to bless friends, she heard a prompting to apologize to Sadie Burwell, and plans to confess about breaking mamma’s flower vase, while Mabel resolves to wait for God’s guidance too.
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Susie
Mabel
Papa
Mamma
Sister
Josephine
Sadie Burwell
Junior Herald
Billy Sunday Tracks Saloons as Social Cancers
The preacher blasts saloons as a rat hole for workers to lose wages, calling for their removal to spark a prosperity revival. He denounces personal liberty cries from drinkers and jokes about regulating a powder mill in hell.
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Hell
Seek Christ Where You Dropped Him
A religious exhortation urges finding Christ by searching the heart, prayer, and scripture. It counsels mortifying sin, abandoning neglect of scripture, and seeking with a devoted, whole heart to discover Him in joy. The message attributes guidance to spiritual leader C H Spur.
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Christ
C. H. Spurgeom
Christian business partnership with Christ and honest profits
The article asserts Christians must partner with Christ in business. It argues they cannot lie or act shady, since Jesus shares responsibility for actions. Profits should belong to Christ, and work should serve the kingdom, per Ohwatfan Endeavor World.
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Christ
Jesus
Ohwatfan Endeavor World
Program for a Joyful Life by Rev. Charles M. Sheldon
A nine point personal program urges daily obedience to God and a positive outlook. It emphasizes doing God's will, seeking good in others, avoiding unnecessary worry, and aligning mind with higher truths. It includes valuing nature, friendships, helping others, and rejoicing in faith through Christ.
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Charles M. Sheldon
Christ
God
Why Some Folk Don’t Go to Church Poem
Poem by James Denver Driskill explores why people avoid church and why others attend for different reasons. It contrasts avoidance due to prayer or payment with attendance to read the Sunday edition, hinting at concerns about perdition.
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James Denver Driskill
Perdition
Promises of Gui Inspire Confidence in Moody’s Tone
The quote urges believers to spend a month feeding on Gui’s promises and avoid gloom. It suggests lifting heads in confidence and proclaiming grace, as the truth naturally inspires praise according to D. L. Moody.
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Gui
D. L. Moody
Stead Honored by Miners Tale at New York Dinner
At a Church Federation dinner in New York City evangelist Gipsy Smith praised W T Stead the London journalist and philanthropist for his soul saving influence. A miner who thanked Stead for his editorial described how it helped five skeptical men find faith, and Stead wept with gratitude saying that tribute mattered more than royal praise. The Christian Herald notes Stead’s global respect and his life of saving souls.
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Church Federation of
New York City
Gipsy Smith
W. T. Stead
London
Stead
Men and
Great Britain
Evangelist
Dan
Christian Tlerald
Liberty Man Returns To Prison After Release
Paul Tillman walked from prison to the Missouri Pacific depot in Jefferson City planning a new life home in Kansas City. He soon drank again and robbed a rooming house, stealing a 50 cent mirror and 25 cent necktie. Guilty plea led to a two year sentence as society’s safeguard.
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Jefferson City
Kansas City
Paul Tillman
Latshaw
Paul
Tillman
East Eleventh Street
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