God Honored the Brute Creation in Bethlehem Night
Rev. Talmage delivers a Christmas sermon in Brooklyn praising kindness to animals and the nativity scene. He argues Christ's birth amid camels and oxen honors animals, children, fields, and motherhood, urging mercy toward creatures, the value of childhood, and the enduring role of mothers in guiding faith.
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Jesus
T. DeWitt Talmare
Brooklyn Tabernacle
Manger
Mary
Christ
Maury
Raphael
Bethlehem
Earth
Robin
Lark
Bethlehem Tattle-Pen
Elijah
Adem
Naaman
Jordan
Blucher
Europe
Gettysburg
Harrisburg
Heaven
Caspar
Balthasar
Melchoir
Isaac Newtons
Herschels
Faradays
Brooklyn
New York
Jerusalem
United States
Washington
Jefferson
Garfield
Lincoln
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
Martin Luther
Bethlehem Khan
John Wesley
St. Bernard
Doddridge
Walter Scott
Benjamin West
Titian
Rubens
Joshua Reynolds
Murillo
The oldest libraries unearthed from ancient ruins
Excavations reveal early libraries among eastern ruins with Babylonian clay tablets dated around 650 B.C. Aristotle notes Strabo as the first known book collector. The text also quotes religious fervor, praising pitying believers as springs of revival and deliverance for Israel.
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East
Aristotle
Strabo
Ice Cart Courage Lights a Drunkard Father
A weekday temperance tale follows Carl Hartwell as he prays for his alcoholic father Abram. An ice cart scene tempts Abram near a saloon, but Carl saves him from a deadly wheel. Abram’s near-death experience leads to a renewed faith and a pledge to change, with Carl’s hope renewed for their impoverished home.
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Carl Hartwell
Carl
Abram Hartwell
Stokell
Father
Abram [Hartwell
Sol Stevens
Sol
Abram
Carlin
Abram Haurtwell
Rev. & A. Randy
N. Y
Money for Drink Provokes Father’s Change of Heart
A Philadelphia Methodist story recalls a father who refused fifty cents for his daughter’s spring hat, then spent a half-dollar on drinks at a saloon where the bartender’s daughter bought a hat. The man, moved by the incident, vow to quit drinking from that day.
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Philadelphia
Academy
May
Union
Tommy
Salem
Tom
Elizabeth Preston
Detroit Free Press
Gin shops and the ruin of London’s poor
Lady Somerset laments the gin houses as a corrupting force in London's slums, noting women and families entangled by drink. She contrasts London with New York, warns of moral decay, and argues poverty excuses disgrace while addiction destroys homes.
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London
New York
Lady Somerset
North American Review
Temperance Reflections on Alcohol and Society
A broad temperance piece contrasts arsenic fears with alcohol as the true poison. It cites license closures leaving many saloonkeepers and notes Malay governance reshaping drink availability. It advocates banning drunkard creating laws and urges abstinence, ending with a London child rescue vignette querying a mother’s gin source.
Tell Your Mother The Wise Guide For Youth
A Luella W. Stutaman poem in Western Rural urges children to heed mothers advice. It extols maternal care and trust, warning that ignoring a mother’s guidance brings regret. The verse urges girls and boys to share plans and fears with mothers to ensure safe, virtuous choices wherever they go.
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Cena
Luella W. Stutaman
A Dog's Conscience and a Boy's Lesson
In this Harper's Young People excerpt a Small Boy and a Big Woman debate canine conscience. They discuss how a dog seems ashamed when disobeying and how training shapes a dog's sense of right and wrong through a master’s commands and expectations. The tale contrasts a clever theft with a later honest act to illustrate conscience in animals.
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Dash
Harper
The Coat That Grew and Other Reader Tales
A children’s page blends a fanciful tale about a coat that speaks with a tale of fairies and a dreaming riverbank boy. It features Mrs. Hart’s charity plan for poor children, a toy exchange, and short moral notes on study and self-improvement.
Doll with no nose brings charity lesson
A girl helps repair a noseless doll and dresses it with pinks, sharing toys with Tiny and her siblings. The story ends with a moral: giving brings pleasure, as echoed by the line It is more blessed to give than to receive, from the New York Sunday Advertiser.
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Notts
Netta
Dolly
Willie
Weymouth
Esther
Rod
Tiny
N. Y
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Man In Blue
Policeraun
N. Y. Press
Bobbie
Little Netta
Bob
Foster Coates
Ladies’ Home Journal
Lommy
Boston Courier
Erie & Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Railroad
McDowell
Fitzmaurice
Peterses
Tve Dennins
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway
Falor
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