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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1892
Page
3
Rev. DeWitt Talmage uses the spider in a palace metaphor to urge faithful work in small tasks, tracing spiritual ascent from humble beginnings to the heavenly King’s palace. He contrasts earthly loathsome intrusions with the hope of eternal glory and portrays Heaven as a grand, communal mansion.
A Brooklyn preacher recalls a tale where a man who rarely attends church returns with his wife and occupies a pew. A pompous guest objects and offers to pay two hundred dollars a year for the seat, and the occupant responds with a retort about value. The tale ends with a remark favoring pew holders over lessees and a sermon warning against petty church disputes.
A child seeks release through a loving word from the Saviour. The reader recalls pardon and forgiveness, the promise of eternal life, and the peace brought by hearing His word. Rev. James McLeod, D.D., in N. Y. Observer.
The article urges constant preparedness for unforeseen emergencies through broad knowledge, disciplined judgment, and reliance on God. It cites naval and military analogy, then stresses training, calm decision making, and faith as lasting safeguards against surprises. It notes greatness lies in meeting emergencies with resourcefulness and faith.
In Nuremberg the writer recalls ancient churches and historic figures as a city tour reveals the past. A lamp burning before an altar for six centuries symbolizes enduring memory of a holy man and the lessons of courage and virtue across centuries and colonies.
A Christian Inquirer reflection contrasts emptiness with spiritual usefulness. It suggests believers may lack earthly wealth yet possess unseen treasures above. The muck rake imagery warns that those focused only on ground riches miss the crown waiting above if they look up for divine good.
A compilation of brief excerpts on sin, providence, love, and duty from preachers and periodicals. Includes reflections by Samuel Henry, N Y Observer, United Presbyterian, H Mansell, and others, plus notes on Martha Rix and Maine barbers going door to door.
Edward Bok argues in Ladies' Home Journal that top business leaders abstain from alcohol, citing 22 of 28 surveyed men who never drink. He urges young men to choose total abstinence to secure health, clarity, and social and business success.
The treating habit is an American compulsion to buy drinks for friends in social settings. It fosters drinking, weakens moral resolve, and can lead to a permanent craving for alcohol. The piece calls for stopping manufacture and sale of intoxicants to save drinkers and society.
A Montreal Witness summary of a 1871 British Medical Association paper by Robert Martin M J of Manchester arguing temperance as a major cholera preventive. He cites hospital nurse outbreaks, Glasgow jubilee drunkenness, Gateshead post holiday waves, and London teetotalers as less affected, urging liquor sale halts akin to election day restrictions to curb the epidemic.
A Washington Temperance Magazine excerpt warns that cheap counterfeit whisky crafted from coloring matter alcohol glycerine and additives is sold to Alaska Indians. The barkeeper claims wholesale houses distill such liquor for natives, turning a profit as he cites costs and prices.
The report cites 632 Free Church ministers all abstainers and about 64,000 teetotal members. It notes rising inquests into alcohol-related deaths in London and a Pennsylvania students’ push to ban wine at class events. DC beer sales rose by 17,048 barrels to 129,877 in 1893. Presbyterian use of unfermented wine is claimed as fact by Portland assembly. North Dakota’s “blind-pigger” flaunts prohibition. Western Russia sees a strong abstinence push with 600 members in St Petersburg and several tea houses and an inebriate asylum planned. NYC and Brooklyn liquor revenue tallies exceed revolutionary-war costs and political party expenditures. Ice making by Carre is dated 1960.
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