The Disobedience Sermon On Jonah And Temptations
Rev. T DeWitt Talmage for publication presents a Jonah text sermon on disobedience and divine punishment. He compares Mediterranean sailors to souls, urges persistent prayer for family, and asserts salvation through Jesus Christ with vivid maritime imagery and calls to repentance.
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T. DeWitt Talmage
Mediterranean Sea
Jonah
Rosa
Nineveh
Joma
Atlantic
Pacific
Caspian Sea
Greece
Newfoundland
Pat
Avery
Christ
Jesus
Wature
Heaven
Restful faith sustains inward calm amid life’s trials
A Zion's Herald meditation on trustful believers who keep serenity under affliction. Resting quietly behind doors, they convey divine grace without effort. True religion rests in inward peace, yet remains efficient and active, proving serene strength in hardship.
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Church
Zion’s Herald
Obscured Light and Moral Reflections From a Sabbath Advocate
A lighthouse lantern failed when millions of insects clogged the glass, leading to a shipwreck near the rocks. The tale prompts thoughts on positive character and living under a righteous calling, as urged by the Sabbath Advocate and Selected excerpts on salvation and duty.
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Sabbath Advocate
All I Have Is Thine in Divine Indwelling
An early 20th century devotional fragment quotes Helen M. Fletcher urging readers to find peace in God's promise. The poem declares that Christ’s presence grants exhaustless energy and health, transforming everyday life with a divine light and hope. It emphasizes that all possessions are derived from the divine indwelling and that faith sustains courage.
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Helen M. Fletcher
Chicago
Mercy and Forgiveness Reflect the Divine Pattern
A reflection on forgiving others as we receive mercy from God. The piece cites Jesus teaching on endless forgiveness, contrasts harsh fathers with divine mercy, and urges believers to show compassion in daily life, concluding that merciful people imitate God and gain mercy. An appended letter from a penitent daughter illustrates the call to forgiveness.
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God
Christ
PaPa
Cabrik
N. Y
Work for Applause Not a Noble Task in Church Service
A sermon urges church members to embrace humble toil over seeking praise. It argues society needs hod carriers and wood drawers, not just masters, and warns against the pride that seeks grand, conspicuous deeds.
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Church
Saul
Elis
Call to Humble Service in the Church Militant
A church bulletin urges ministers to accept humble duties over grand posts. It cites ministers who crave prominent pastorates and laments those who fail to serve in village roles. The piece recalls Prof Phelps noting a preacher lamenting a move to a shoe town, missing the path of humble service.
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Prof
Phelps
N. Y
Tombs of Old Egyptian Nobility Reveal Private Soul Apartments
The article describes M. de Morgan's discoveries in the Dashur pyramids near Cairo, including a crypt with eighteen sarcophagi, exquisite jewel treasure, and a statement by Maspero that tombs were private soul apartments. It links ancient beliefs to modern reflections on personal worth and divine judgment, urging humility and faith.
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M. de Morgan
Service of Egyptian Antiquities
Dashur
Cairo
Herodotus
M. Maspero
Truth Boiled Down from Ram's Horn
A compact collection of pithy religious maxims urging godly living. The verses urge loving others, doing good, resisting hate, trusting God, and following Christ to gain spiritual strength and spread faith.
An Inherited Curse Roils a Calm Bride’s Home
In a jubilant wedding scene Madge and Ed Cummings host friends Aunt Rachel retires to the kitchen while Bob Chambers’s gift stirs tense memories of a cursed lineage. Ed reveals his father and brother died alcoholics. Madge vows to defend their home, smashing the wine set while affirming their pact to resist.
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Mrs. Cummings
Neill
Madam Madge
Nell
Dom Pedro
Madge
Rachel
Mamma
al- Jers
Bob Chalmers
Ruth
Mr. Cummings
Walter
Colorado
Rob Chambers
Tad
Drinkers' Children Show Appalling Temperance Evidence
A medical specialist notes twelve families of drinkers and twelve of temperate parents over twelve years. Among drinkers fifty seven children compared with sixty one in temperate families. High infant mortality and many disorders appeared in drinkers while temperate children mostly remained healthy. The study argues abstinence benefits parenting responsibility.
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National Temperance Advocate
Charity and Saloons Highlighted in Old New York and Washington
A New Yorker recounts aiding a woman in distress and learning her family’s hardship. An Irish husband seeks steady work but is dismissed after arriving drunk, prompting a shift to organized charity. In Washington, saloon drunks are ferried home by a pedal-powered wagon run by a Black man, paid by bartenders.
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West Side
N. Y. Sun
Washington
Enterprise
Scranton
Murray Hill
Sophia Greengoggs
Miss Passe
Fenele
Miss Higheee
Tle
Council
New York World
Temperance Tidings and Global Liquor Trends
The report surveys 1893 liquor statistics in England France and the United States noting reduced New South Wales drink costs by £702,100 from 1892, increased French insanity rates, 25 temperance bills in Britain since 1892, per capita liquor spend over $16 in the US, and Philadelphia lager brewing growth with 25,422,000 barrels last year.
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New South Wales
France
England
Dawson Burns
Jerusalem
Holy City
Constantinople
United States
Caience
J. W. Richardson
London
Philadelphia
Proverb Puzzle Set From Classic Clues And Puzzles
A list of geographic and linguistic riddles yields a Whittier poem as the final verse. It includes seaport towns, African and Australian references, British counties, Irish provinces, Asian rivers, and a Berkshire town with a royal residence, all forming a themed wordplay sequence.
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England
Africa
van Dieman’s Land
Yorkshire
North America
Europe
Ireland
Asia
Atlantic Ocean
Portugal
Scotland
Berkshire
Floral Charades and Decapitations Puzzle Set
A postcard style puzzle page presents two wordplay sections Across and Down clues. It includes floral charades with riddle lines about nature and a poem flavor plus a separate Decapitations puzzle with playful wordplay and riddling lines about beheading and changes.
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Jonsh
Mle
Hous- Tex
South Australia
Latimer
John Howard
Carey
Adoniram Judson
Luther
John Knox
Lazaretto
College
Missionary Society
Niagara
Lake Erie
Jesus Christ
Archangel
Bermudas
Stephen
Gisela A. Dittrick
Union
Whittier
Berth Titcti
Bascinet
Ocean Grave
Stea
Riddren
Sammy Shoesmith
Son Assas
Roracs
Detroit
Aden
Norton Sound
Delawarh
Mount Hope Bay
Shark Bay
Victoria Strait
Chignecto Bay
Opal Bay
St. George Bay
Jack
Fort Wayne
China
Jay
Young Hyon
Yo Hyson
Brazil
Rio
King Bee
Jersey
Armand
Java
Il California Halein
California
Angeles
Gully Island
Durham
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