18 Feb 1886
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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1886
Page
1
The Moulton Advertiser lists publication terms and rates: weekly issue on Thursdays by D. C. White at $2.00 per year in advance. Ads priced at $1 per eight lines, 50 cents for each further insertion, with discounts for yearly ads. Announcing candidates for District offices $10, county offices $5. Job work and special notices priced per line.
A nostalgic verse recalls a cottage on a hill where beloved family gatherings once occurred. The speaker cherishes a mother's prayer kept in the heart, laments departed kin, and looks forward to a final reunion around a heavenly throne with no parting.
The essay argues that nature is a divine book revealing God’s presence daily. It urges reader attention to natural phenomena as sources of spiritual visions, equating sunsets and heavenly skies with biblical revelations, and calls purified hearts and contemplative solitude to awaken these insights. It invites standing before nature to hear the divine voice in light, wind, and stars.
Rev T. D. Landers teaches that the spiritual world surrounds us and, once eyes are purified, one will see God in all things. Through nature’s flowers, birds, woods, weather, mountains, rivers, and sunshine, the soul will hear the still small voice and glimpse divine visions.
A Victorian era reader’s note recounts Samuel Sewall’s courtship of Betsey Hall, daughter of Captain John Hall the Boston mint master. The story, set in early Massachusetts, details wealth, dress, and a grand wedding with a heavy bridal weight scene involving a chest of pine-tree shillings and a minted fortune.
In a comic household scene the mint-master, joking that his son in law has seized Massachusetts treasury funds, distributes coinage to balance a scales weighing his daughter who is carried with shillings, while servants heap more coins as she weighs down the floor. The mint-master praises his wife for being valuable beyond measure.
An Alabama Baptist note cites an Alabama Christian Advocate editorial urging temperance without party politics, advocating church alignment and pulpit discussion while avoiding worshiphouse political speeches, and praising Georgia’s example for nonpartisan temperance progress.
Henry Ward Beecher warns that honesty fails under pressure as passions and complex business strain integrity. He compares integrity to a thoroughbred, capable of withstanding hardship, yet notes many men crack under conflict and credit pressures.
An 1880s country scene follows Jim White and Skinner as they clash over hogs and legal fines. A lawyer names costs and warrants, while two farmers incur years of trials, adjournments, and losses. Reports note Indiana liquor licenses and prohibition talk, plus rising meat exports and pork barrels.
A collection of 1940s clippings notes the Southern Baptist Convention scheduled to meet in Montgomery on May seventh. The piece recalls Augusta Georgia origins in 1845, growth to about two million Baptists, and quotes John W. Mackey on money versus brains.
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