Reading Virginia Hymn Fragments on Faith and Peace
Fragmentary verses praise seeking God and dwelling in divine refuge. Rushed lines evoke trust in Christ’s sheltering hand and the quiet peace found beyond worldly understanding.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1889
Page
4
Fragmentary verses praise seeking God and dwelling in divine refuge. Rushed lines evoke trust in Christ’s sheltering hand and the quiet peace found beyond worldly understanding.
A Kentucky planter turned preacher built a church and preached for twenty years without asking for money or conversions. He invited neighbors weekly to service and hired an organist but saw no conversions. The tale argues people value what they invest in and urges members to work and give to build piety.
A reflective piece argues Christ frees believers from burdensome traditions and unneeded rules. It emphasizes following God's Word, exercising individual conscience, and weighing historical church judgments with careful study, humility, and teachableness.
Sunday in America has shaped character beyond rest turning into a guiding authority. The Puritan strictness once resented by youth is later seen as disciplined influence fostering mind formation.
The piece extols Christmas as a yearly friend who brings healing, generosity, and unity. It urges shedding jealousy and strife, embracing Christ's love, and sharing blessings, songs, and prayers with family and neighbors. It includes a brief note about Marianne Farningham and a soldier’s struggle with surrender to Jesus.
The article lists snow line elevations across mountain ranges worldwide. It details northern and southern slopes of the Alps, Pyrenees, Caucasus, Himalayas, Andes, Cordilleras, Mexico, Chile, Norway, Kamchatka, and Alaska with heights from about 2,300 to 18,520 feet above sea level.
A compact meditation on reading as digestion for the mind. It argues that excessive reading limits thinking and that individuals who think for themselves are society’s principal drivers.
Farmers should fence stacks to reclaim the finer chaff from the top and feed it to cattle and horses in mangers. The coarser stalks can be used for bedding, while using more grain increases feed efficiency and improves manure. This practice saves hay and boosts stock health.
Michigan Farmer reports Joseph E Case found salt and wood ashes used as a half and half mix, with plaster, to stop cutworms in corn fields. He notes two fields avoided worm damage when corn was planted with the mixture before plowing and covered by green sod, while others failed or abandoned corn growing due to worm pressure.
This excerpt offers farming tips on keeping poultry and livestock healthy and productive. It covers feeding, water, housing, harness care, dairy profits, sheep wool quality, barn cleanliness, and hog breed characteristics, with specific practices for cattle, sheep, chickens, and fruit bushes.
A collection of old kitchen notes detailing cream capped parsnips and apple fritters. Directions describe fine crumbled cream sauce for tender greens, airy batter for apples, parsnip fritters with egg and flour, and fried bread slices infused with vanilla milk essence.
The text describes frying sliced bread until bright golden brown and serving with jam-sauce or powdered sugar. It suggests arranging slices neatly on a dish and using cut light bread for uniform shape to enhance appearance.
A humorous tale from Teras Siftings about a newspaper editor beset by a self-styled news hawker. The man offers scoops from Lincoln to Ward No. 13 and even a cat story about a local grocer Smith, aiming to pull the paper into sensational coverage and influence local politics.
Amos J. Cummings, elected from the Sixth New York District, urged representation by a journalist. He cited the district’s dense press presence with 27 daily papers and 418 periodicals, plus high land value and Wall Street wealth, arguing journalism fits the district.
The 1000 foot tower will surpass all monuments and serve as a central Exposition of 1889 feature. It costs 970000 dollars with 300000 provided by the government. Built of iron trellis work it rests on granite pillars with arches and supports several glass sections for restaurants, observations, and a summit balcony with vast views of Paris and the Seine valley.
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A collage of musings on beauty and aging with quotes from Goldsmith and Spenser notes. The column mentions St Jacobs Oil curing rheumatism and Red Star Cough Cure praised as safe, plus a superstition about an open sea near the pole and a medical tonic claimed to aid lungs and coughs. The piece ends with a quip about sharpening water’s edge.
A historic newspaper fragment touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery as cures for female ailments with claims of dramatic recovery. It promotes eye water by Dr Isaac Johnson and includes a reference to Bluebeard with a Belle Hanger theme.
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