Looking Glass Gospel Sermon on Self Knowledge and Cleansing
A preacher explains the laver of looking glasses as the Gospel of Christ that reveals sin and offers fresh daily cleansing. He urges present repentance over past pardon, warns that true faith must permeate all life, and celebrates the universal call to wash in the vast mercy of God.
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David
Tabernacle
Tapace Museum
Martin
Luther
Paul
Payson and
Whitefield
Hampton
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Christ
Solomon
Temple
United States
Stephen
Richard Baxter
Richard Baster
Penitentiaries
Bethesda
Salomon
Alexander the Great
Hell
Heaven
Calvary
Hex
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Ministries of Mercy
Sinai
Kensington Garden
Waterloo
God
Restful Sea Imagery Poem by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sunday reading evokes silent depths beneath tempests where divine love dwells. A tranquil temple within the heart invites timeless peace beyond life’s storm. The verse from Harriet Beecher Stowe in Christian Work frames quiet joy as enduring divine rest.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Making Man Better Through Active Charity and Faith
A sermonic piece argues humanity is neither wholly good nor bad and calls for active mercy to reform lives. It urges compassion, personal outreach, and cleansing struggles through sympathetic action to elevate individuals toward virtue and a higher plane of life.
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Cumberland Presbyterian
Punctuality and Character in Work and Worship
A collection of moral essays notes punctuality marks character in business and religious duties. It argues timely actions reflect discipline, warns against unpunctual habits, and stresses that consistency influences broader duties and maker. It references sermons, theaters, and religious figures to illustrate sincerity, forgiveness, and hopeful effort.
Condensed Wisdom from the Ram's Horn Says Heaven Gains With Death
A collection of aphorisms on faith, virtue, and Christian living urging consistent piety. It emphasizes that true preaching centers on Christ, avoiding materialism, and keeping moral integrity. Many quotes champion surrender to God, fear of sin, and active goodness as marks of a faithful life.
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Lot
Sodom
God
Christ
Heaven
Tears in a Glass Bring Hope to a Broken Home
A dying man, tormented by fever, begs for water as his wife prays. She pours cool water into a glass she has teared from her own eyes. A teardrop falls in, and the man awakens to the memory of happier days. He vows to stop drinking and blesses his wife as prosperity returns to their once-worn home. Capt. Jack Crawford notes this tale from The Scout.
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Helena A. Ilawley
Observer
Brace
Darling
Jack Crawford
Loudon
The Craving for Rum in Postwar Rio Grande Conflict
A vivid snapshot of ten chaotic months after the civil war along the Rio Grande. The piece recalls a carnival of crime, border raids, and sacked towns from Matamoros to Brownsville, centering on Robert Rodgers a popular private famed for his kindness, humor, and reluctance to harshly manage prisoners.
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Rio Grande
Texas
Mexico
Kirby Smith
Matamoras
Brownsville
Tex
Robert Rodgers
Gen. Weitzel
Army Corps
Fort Brown
Mic Grande
Rodgers
Ohio Infantry
The Drunken Murderer of Brownsville 1865 66
A Civil War soldier Robert Rogers turns from jovial campmate to brutal killer after a drunken spree near Brownsville Texas. In spring 1865 he is hanged for murder amid escalating violence. a pay-day revel ends with a deadly brawl and a fight for control in the camp.
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Robert Rogers
Rodgers
Brownsville
Tex
Friegis
Opium and Chloral Inebriety Compared in Medical Context
The article analyzes opium and chloral intoxication from prescriptions, noting opium users tend toward constant use and greater impairment, with rare female opium addicts and regional differences. Chloral, once popular, now wanes though still common, often started for sleep or pain relief, causing disrupted digestion, sleep loss, and vascular issues. It also cites rising abstinence in the British Indian Army, linking drink to crime and illness among soldiers.
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England
China
Britain
America
Dr Manners Keeps Peace Amid Sanguinary Jail Plot
In a Civil War tale surgeon Robert Rodgers, praised for saving a wounded officer, acts to restrain a berserk attacker in a camp tent. The inmate, dubbed Hobo, fatally wounds the physician and escapes multiple times, ultimately facing execution after his elaborate jailbreak efforts fail.
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Rodgers
Ohio
Hobo
Bob
Robert Rodgers
Boardhouse
Brownsville
Desperado
Felix L. Oswald, M
Diagonal Puzzle and a Telegraphic Seaside Enigma
A long archival puzzle page presents multiple brainteasers. No. 236 asks to borrow letters from the center to the sides to reveal a Marcus Aurelius thought. It describes a six-letter blue-light masthead motif, the Fires of St Elmo, and assigns clues to Jason Medea and a modern philosopher. Other items include No. 290 Numerical Enigma with 29-letter Coleridge quotation, No. 791 Anagram, No. 292 Charade on apron and world’s most interesting thing, and No. 293 Double Acrostic hinting at famous artists revealing names by initials and finals.
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St. Elmo
Jason
Medea
Argo
Riddles and puzzles fill a long newspaper page
A jumble of puzzle clues and word games appears alongside notes on inditements and poems. The piece cites puzzles numbered 277 through 285, a transposition and word squares, anagrams, and a geograph ic letter. It also includes a Kentucky indictment about malicious mischief and a satirical excerpt from the Washington Post about ignorance.
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