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Newspaper
Mexia Evening Ledger
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1899
Page
4
A devotional fragment from Christian Endeavor on learning to live for God. The piece urges daily self-denial, cheerful service, and devotion, asking for strength to bear crosses, to avoid idleness, and to press forward toward divine purpose. It emphasizes transforming will toward God and shining as a light for His glory.
The text argues humanity cannot grasp full heavenly truth now and that knowledge unfolds as needed. It compares spiritual progress to lightning and instrumentally states immortality remains partly mystery to fit our development. Pain and hardship serve as chisels shaping souls toward higher understanding.
In this reflective meditation the speaker envisions a future where mortal life yields to a more certain immortality. Faith matures into knowledge as humanity bears trials, finding light beyond fog and preparing for a time when heaven and earth finally meet.
Topics outline a week of Christian Endeavor lessons from Saul David Christ Joshua and Zechariah not by power but by faith. The talk emphasizes Gideon’s army as a model for a small but earnest band that makes a big impact and urges each member to be eager and brave as a bright torch. Every weak member weakens the cause.
Margaret E. Sangster discusses the difficulty of apologizing and granting full pardon. She warns against cold insincerity and self-righteousness, urging genuine acknowledgment of fault. The piece notes a German government move to supervise Spanish Catholic missions in the Caroline Island.
The article surveys a range of topics from a physiologic plethysmograph showing emotions alter pulse to mechanical aids like ball bearing braces simplifying grip and turning power. It notes wood as a dangerous ship material due to splinters and fire risk, urging a light non combustible substitute for shipboard use.
A Yokohama house claimed by Chambers Journal to be microbe proof uses glass bricks and airtight doors. Ventilation relies on cotton-wool filters and glycerine-coated plates to destroy airborne bacteria, with sunlight finishing the job once doors open to visitors.
An inventor from Chicago has developed a shoe fastening that replaces laces and buttons with a series of wire engaging shoulders on the shoe edges. A sliding clasp runs along them to secure the shoe and can be held in place or arrested to remove the shoe.
The passage discusses the quest for a wood substitute in warships noting iron is unsuitable due to extreme heat and cold and resulting dampness in metal lockers and drawers. It highlights the challenge of creating durable, safe alternatives for naval hulls and interiors amid ongoing inventive efforts.
At a Richmond show inventor Mr Frederick Simms unveiled a motor-scout carriage powered by a 1.5 hp engine capable of 18 mph. It carries a Maxim gun on a rotating mount and can fire in any direction at speed. A second design with two Maxims on revolving turrets and an electric searchlight was also described. the prototype performed admirably on varied terrain.
The Cosmopolitan notes electricity warms cooking in the parlor and dining room. Kettles coffee pots and chafing dishes can be set to a lamp via the electric system though current limits require a dining table leg attachment. Electric kitchens appeal to modern tastes but remain uncommon outside experimenters.
Dr. L O Howard of the U S Department of Agriculture recommends adding one ounce of kerosene per fifteen square feet of pond or marsh surface to curb mosquito breeding. The kerosene forms a thin film on the water that prevents larvae from reaching air and acts as an insecticide.
A window cupboard refrigerator with vertical sliding door and ribbed shelves is described. A two part trunk lid opens in a plane with tilting sections to rest on the trunk back. A Californian weed puller uses paired levers on a wheeled cart to pluck weeds. A cigar holder with a central needle and gripping fingers tightens on the cigar as mouthpiece is turned. An improved neck yoke for heavy trucks features tubular ends springs and sliding rings to dampen torque.
A Gabriel Setoun poem appears in verse about boys and girls and nature. It imagines flowers and grass growing from clay and mud and asks how they remain clean and bright. The piece reflects on summer showers and the belief that God cleans the earth and its flowers.
Bertram a Kansas boy grows up with plains winds deserts and dust and learns through a grandmother visit in New England. In a toy village Frank and Bertram compete shaping a town until Bertram conjures a pretend cyclone and both boys revive the town with bellows aiding the wind.
In a dining car scene Mary Hall Leonard recalls children Frank and Bertram building a toy village and staging a cyclone strike. The collapse of trees houses and figures becomes the dramatic centerpiece of their play.
Old Dapple toils in the mowing field while The Twins call a halt to his rake. Grandpa gives him a holiday and oats for supper as the faithful horse completes his rounds with steady, weary steps. Constance Hamilton.
The narrative recalls William Ewart Gladstone at twelve as the finest looker and brightest pupil at Eton. It links his fame to a merchant lineage and notes his lifelong refusal of royal honors, preferring to be seen as one of the people. His mother’s strict upbringing shaped his youth and discipline.
A narrative recalls a divinity student who tested speaking by a Zacchaeus themed exercise and a playful bean counting game. It describes the pupil’s witty pulpit moment and a social classroom activity ending with odd and even lines and a burnt cork mark system.
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