Beechers Weeknight Talks on Prayer and Vital Union
The piece surveys Beecher's lecture room talk on prayer and spiritual growth. It cites a letter about striving for guidance and the ideal Christian character in which reason, affection, senses, and imagination are harmonized under divine inspiration. It argues that true religion requires effort and communal worship beyond individual talent.
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N.Y
New York Christian Union
Beecher
Mr. Beecher
Charles
Jesus Christ
Christ
God
Christ Jesus
Allah
Mahomet
Arms found in Cork lodgings amid Fenian visits
Police uncovered forty breech loading rifles and bayonets with 1,300 cartridges in Adams’s room. The lodger escaped. the house owner was arrested. Other Fenian houses were searched with no further arms found. In politics, Lee Steere Steere won West Surrey as Conservative MP replacing the late Briscoe. George Brodrick declined a Liberal bid in Mid Surrey. Baggallay canvassed. Brecon petition against Gwynne Holford to be withdrawn. An African expedition amid Livingstone reports failed with three deaths. two survivors lack an engineer for their steamer.
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Szrzurz
Anws
Cork
Adams
West Surrey
John Ivatt Briscoe
Steere
George Charles Brodrick
Woodstock
Mid-Surrey
Richard Baggallay
Gwynne
Holford
Brecon
Ltymastone
Dublin
Livingstone
Johanna
Henry Faulkner
Murchison
Norman
Education Question and Liverpool School Board Move
The letter argues that many towns with 5 000 inhabitants face little impact from new education laws. It notes existing schools including a grammar, a Church Sunday school, and a broad unsectarian British School. Wealth favors Establishment supporters who back church schools, leaving free or undenominational options underfunded. Finsbury may send five Metropolitan School Board members with nominees like Sir Francis Lycett Hugh Owen Rivington and others.
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East Africa
Liverpool
Birmingham
Manchester
Sheffield
Education Department
Privy Council
Observer
The
Daily News
Finsbury
Metropolitan School Board
Francis Lycett
Hugh Owen
Islington
Alexander Rivington
Clerkenwell
McCullagh Torrens
M.P
Birkett
Bloomsbury
Gleanings from a London paper on sport, theatre and councils
The Liverpool Town Council bans betting on public streets. Gladiateur sold for 5800 guineas. An Irish theatre singer is mockingly taunted in the gallery. Lord Mayor election planned for 1870 at Guildhall. Foot and mouth disease spreads in Dorset and Somerset affecting fairs. King of Burmah debate over Bhuddiam. Sintooism favored. Buddhist idols to be broken. Civil Service Gazette new postcard from Oct 1 halved postage. Various quips on public dinners and language. A destroyed archive in Sisxassoure holds 150000 volumes including important medieval manuscripts and art history material.
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Liverpool
Count Lagrange
Gladiateur
Dublin
London
Besley
Guildhall
Dakin
Dorset
Somerset
Japan
Civil Service Gazette
Josh Billings
Tnd
Ned Rawson
Herrada de Landsperg
Odile
Louis XII
Strasbourg
Conrad de Warzburg
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