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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1871
Page
6
A collage of verse and prose fragments reflecting on memory love and loss. The piece blends poems about endurance faith and virtue with musings on old family letters and the tenderness of sentiment across generations.
The Stephenson County Bible Society held its annual Anniversary meeting at the First Methodist Episcopal Church on the Ist with J R Lemon presiding and R Eichenbach as secretary. Dr Orews and Rev H Q McArthur spoke on Bible testing questions and power. receipts exceeded $2000. Life members were named including Oneco Mia Sarah Y Sheckler and Jefferson Mis Mary Chester among others.
The Presbytery of Freeport comprises 36 ministers and 40 churches with officers and committees listed. Notable roles include Moderator George Elliott, Stated Clerk, and treasurer M B Patterson, plus chairmen for Foreign and Home Missions, Education, Benevolence and Finance, and Sustentation.
The article argues for funding religious education to train future ministers. It notes Lincoln and Sherman to illustrate mounting wartime mobilization, urges Freeport Presbytery to raise 120000 for the coming year, and laments that over 89 churches with nearly 8000 members have no recorded candidates. It appeals to congregations to dedicate money and sponsor their sons toward the ministry.
A man seated on an open paper on carpet upholstery recalled the income tax in a poorly phrased, humorous comment. The incident appears as a brief, standalone quip in the page context.
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