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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1873
Page
3
Poem fragment reflecting a divine being blending with humanity to teach love and care guiding souls toward celestial heights. The speaker contemplates love as a guiding force and the divine in human guise inspiring devotion and understanding.
The piece argues against rigid views of Christian life focusing only on divinity. It recalls Jesus as a boy, human frailty, and empathy, citing David and Peter as examples, and urges sympathy for human nature within faith. It concludes tenderness both inside and outside the kingdom.
A reflective piece contrasts mercy and activism with quiet duty and prayer, arguing that mercy blesses both giver and receiver. It explores the conflict between atheistic philosophy and belief in God, urging the inner path from outer to higher understanding, and ends with a meditation on rest as heaven for balanced faculties.
A narrator laments lack of knowledge about Japanese children, detailing poverty, disease, and shaved heads, while highlighting their gentle behavior and hunger for Christian education. The piece recalls singing Sabbath school hymns at a temple to hope for future gospel outreach and relief efforts.
The emperor in Germany abrogates decapitation and orders death by strangling or shooting after surgeons argued the head remains conscious for hours. The piece contrasts the guillotine and axe as barbarous, notes Spain’s method using a brass neck collar and a lever to drive a strew into the spinal marrow, ending swiftly with the condemned’s head drooping.
A gentleman reports successful lawn weed control by cutting below the crowns with a spade and pouring kerosene on the exposed roots. The sod is replaced and the horseradish and other weeds fail to regrow, while the grass remains unharmed.
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