Nineteenth Century Jubilee of Christ Proposed at Nativity Celebration
A sermon outlines a world wide jubilee to celebrate Christ’s birth marking nineteen hundredth anniversary of the nativity. It envisions international participation and a vast arts festival featuring architecture sculpture painting and floral displays to spread the message “To us a child is born.” The plan includes grand amphitheaters sacred music and mass banquets for the hungry as part of a universal religious commemoration.
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St. Paul's
St. Peter's
St. Mark’s
St. Isaac's
Sesson
Oehavior
Christ
Earth
Zion
India
America
China
Antioch
Hallelyah
Phidias
Parthenon
Carrara
Resurrection
Neptune
Ceres
Apollo
Jesus
Angelos
Reuben
Raphaels
The
Jordan
Morans
Bierstadts
Yosemite
Emmanuel
Colosseum
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Washington
World Wide Celebration for Christ’s Return in 1901
A rhapsodic sermon envisions a centennial Christmas spectacle uniting heaven and earth. It imagines the heavens joining Bethlehem’s birth celebration as the century closes and Christ’s coming sped by a global observance. The speaker foresees prophets, apostles, martyrs, and missionaries rejoicing, with the 1900s into 1901 marked by the name of Jesus guiding a world-wide festival.
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Bethlehem
Christ
Africa
Lucknow
Watt
Chris
Earth
Jesus
Building in the Clouds: Chicago Observatory Elevators and Scale
A giant Chicago building features 14 passenger elevators, two 500 HP Corliss engines, and a glass dome canopy over a light shaft feeding interiors. The observatory welcomes up to 2,000 capacity and 100,000 daily elevator capacity, with 115,? visitors in twenty-two months.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Rotunda
Corliss
Storn Bollera
M. Sonic Societies
Death of Sarah Bowman Shrouds Early Pennsylvanian Sisterhood
Sarah Bowman of Ephrata Pennsylvania dies as the religious order she belonged to nears its 150 year history. The sisterhood began as a communistic group and has seen its numbers dwindle in recent decades, signaling an end to a notable local tradition.
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Gibraltar
India
Magazine Rifles
Brooklyn
Garfield
Guiteau
Cranks
Don Jose Galindo
Valencia
Spain
Sarah Bowman
Ephrata
Pennsylvania
Ste