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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1892
Page
5
A sermon exhorting Christians to abandon shallow faith and launch into deep study and action. It urges global outreach, personal repentance, and unwavering trust in the Bible, describing the mission as a lifetime voyage and urging bold preaching beyond church walls.
The Chautauqua Circle is hailed for circulating about 30,000 book sets yearly, totaling 180,000 volumes over fourteen years. An eminent divine argues the broader impact of expanding access to literature. Other items note gambling's moral cost, church statistics, urban crowding, Hebrew revival in Palestine, and a German author praising ministers for national greatness.
The New Orleans prize fight between Sullivan and Corbett is used to teach temperance and right living. Sullivan’s decline is linked to heavy drinking, while Corbett’s abstinence during victory is praised as a model for youth. The piece argues sobriety sustains health and strength, urges schools to reinforce anti drink sentiment, and links drinking to decline in both body and mind.
A reminiscence of 19th century Senators Clay and Calhoun sharing a discreet tippling routine behind the vice president's chair in the old Senate chamber. The narrator recalls courteous drinking etiquette, a solitary servant, and the gentile ritual before debates and speeches, noting shifts in customs since.
General Gleanings surveys ten years of murders in Litchfield County Connecticut, liquor shop density in Berlin and discipline for on duty drinking by Pennsylvania Railroad workers. It cites temperance politics, hotel enforcement tricks in Vermont, and a Pennsylvania Hospital insane report linking 1592 alcohol use to 956 insanity cases, then extols meditation as a path to God with examples from Jesus, Paul, John, Luther, Bunyan and Puritan writers.
A New York Ledger excerpt notes French thinkers warn tobacco may depress population growth. M. Deccroix links higher tobacco use to increased deaths, stillbirths, divorces, and smaller family size across departments, though regional data clouds a direct cause. readers acknowledge tobacco as a force opposing healthy life.
A New York Witness survey of German imperial statistics claims alcohol production occupies about one fifteenth of land and one fourteenth of productive forces. It says rye could feed 8.2 billion pounds of bread yearly for Germany’s 50 million people, while alcohol costs total about 120 million dollars annually. Professor Schmoller notes alcohol income affects workers’ lives, education, and national future, arguing half paupers may be caused by drink and urging attention to this vice.
The text pleads for spiritual rest for the weary, confessing sin and seeking deliverance through Jesus. It declares that wealth, fame, and pleasures cannot bring peace, and professes faith in Christ as Savior and friend. Written in a devotional, period voice.
Rev D Sutherland in the New York Observer urges daily meditation to quiet worldly noise. He describes solitary morning communion as transforming and allied with divine fellowship, giving restfulness and a heavenly glow to earthly tasks.
In a center church scene Clara Hall seeks spiritual guidance from Auntie Winthrop. She wrestles with feeling used and argues that obedience to divine will outweigh cost, learning from Mrs. L and others that blessings come through faithfulness and sacrifice to God.
R Mead editor of the Town Plain Dealer Creace ia reports a case from August 2889 of intense eczema starting at the ankles and spreading to the legs hips and arms with constant itching and pain. After five doctors and lingering recurrences four weeks of Coricuna remedies relieved itching and restored skin color and comfort.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Resolvent as an internal blood purifier and Cuticura externally as a skin and hair purifying series. It promises to cure skin, scalp, and blood issues including itching burning scaly pimply and blotchy conditions whether simple or contagious. Prices listed 50c to $1 and a booklet offered for curing skin diseases.
An advertisement extols a Stackhouse Medical Institute catarrh treatment as a combined systemic and local approach. It features testimonials from patients such as Peter Pooley and Thomas Gormley, plus Dr. A Stagenouse and Dr. Field, highlighting institute credentials and a mail diagnosis program.
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