The Coming World's Fair Sermon by Dr. Talmage
The Rev. T DeWitt Talmage preaches on The Coming World's Fair and plans a two month Holy Land trip starting Oct 30 to study sites. He argues for a 1902 American world exposition to uplift religion, patriotism, and international evangelization. He cites Tyre's ancient trade fairs and urges harmony among cities and denominations, urging a Pentecost like spiritual revival during the fair.
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T. DeWitt Talmage
Wu. D
Tabernacle
Dr. Talmage
Paris
Holy Land
Palestine
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Nazareth
Jerusalem
Calvary
Christ
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Alexander the Conqueror
Brooklyn
New York
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Baalbec
Palmyra
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Babylon
Luxor
Jericho
Lyre
Ezekiel
Thay
House of
Togarmah
Farra
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Michigan
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Helbon
Gilesd
Louis VI
Dagovert
Henry I
St. Bartholomew's Day
Perth
Leipsic
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Vienna
America
Columbus
Martin Pinton
Pen of God
Chicago
St. Louis
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Tacoma
Seattle
Europe
Martin van Buren
John Quincy Adams
Adan
Iuself
Serpent Tales and Snake Encounters Recited by Addlendee
In a series of frontier anecdotes Mr. Seahorn Jones and listeners recount encounters with snakes including moccasins, rattlers, and a white thunder snake. The narrators describe dramatic close calls, a snake swallowing its young, and a hunter killing several serpents with gun and club.
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Wen Tleaman
Addlendee
Odd Genius Hayden Remembered As Fearless Scientist
Professor F W Hayden founder of the system that became the U S Geological Survey was a brilliant scholar yet erratic. He once wandered with Sioux captors while collecting minerals and, despite danger, remained absorbed in his work. His death last year drew wide mourning among the survey’s young men.
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F. W. Wayden
Geological Survey of the
United States
Pittsburg Dispatch
Professor Hayden
Wonders in a Ton of Coal Reveals Hidden Byproducts
A ton of coal yields 1,500 pounds of coke and 20 gallons of ammonia water along with 140 pounds of coal tar. Destructive distillation yields pitch, creosote, heavy oils, naphtha variants, phenol, aniline, toluidine, anthracine, toluene, and the newly discovered sweetener saccharine said to be 223 times sweeter than sugar.
Justice in China in a Local Family Debt Case
A Chinese debt dispute ends with court decrees, family tragedy, and punishment. Ch'eng Ch'ung-hsin borrowed 250 tina secured by his brother in law Hy Heng-jung for 9 months at 8 6 percent interest. Unable to pay, he lost land, debt reduced, and a fresh suit followed. Hu Heng-jung fled to Shansi, a police raid caused his mother’s death, and he received eighty blows for a baseless action. Police also receive eighty blows and two months of the capgue for entering the home.
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Ch'eng Ch'ung-hsin
Chech’uan
Homon
Sune Shih-lung
North China Herald
Hy Heng-jung
Ch’en
Cl’eng
Sung
Chen
Hu Heng-jung
Shansi
Hu Hengjung
Peking
Henan
Man Rescues Candle From Powder Keg in Old Mine
In 1889 Nesquehoning coal mines near Mauch Chunk used candles in danger with blasting powder. A candle toppled into a keg of powder during noon meal but did not explode. The grandfather heroically lifted the candle from the keg, saving the group, then urged them back to dinner.
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Mauch Chunk
Siys
Philadelphia
Howver
What She Said in a London Bar Scene
A San Francisco man, visiting London, enters a gilded bar and orders. A bay beauty bar maid, witty and poised, questions what to suggest for a man who ate a Walsh rabbit and feels unwell next morning. The exchange blends satire with class and wit.
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London
San Francisco Chronicle
West
Europe
Hother
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Rome
Cretes
Asia
South America
Jesus Christ
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Earl of Kintore
Lord Cairns
Lord Shaftesbury
Unger
Hentning
Mount Sinai
Christian Amelia
David
Lord
Justice IN
China
Celential Police
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