Increase of Faith Sermon by Rev Quincy Ewing
The Rev. Quincy Ewing of St James Episcopal Church preaches on Increase of Faith from Luke 17 1 9appa. He interprets the apostles request as a plea for deeper spiritual sight and trust in GodsPurpose. He argues that growth in faith comes through daily life effort and obedience.
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Quincy Ewing
York Crey
Quincy
St. James’ Episcopal Church
Ewing
Jesus
God
Man
Mienbie Wether
Cole
Do What We Can Reflects Simple Duty to Help
Sunday-School Times urges readers to act within their power, praising the unnamed woman who did what she could. The piece argues that wealth or influence are not required to honor God and aid others, emphasizing humble, ready service.
Christian Faith and the Christian's Daily Hope
The piece urges believers to maintain regular prayer and grace amid despondent temperaments. It notes worries from business, home care, sleep loss, and bodily health can cloud faith. It emphasizes guarding faith from every breeze and storm as a spiritual duty.
Home Thoughts on Kindness and Facial Beauty
The essay links noble thoughts to outward beauty, stating that kind generous and forgiving minds reflect on the face. It argues that inner virtue causes God’s light to shine within a kind heart, making the countenance fair and pleasing to observe.
Christian Joy Reflected in Love and Life
The quote speaks of joy as deep and solemn, never shallow or unreflecting, and seen in the face of those we love. It emphasizes restraint, tenderness, empathy, and confidence in human experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. J. Campbell
Figures That Stagger The Nearest Star Distances
The nearest star Alpha Centaur lies about four light years away, meaning its light takes four years to reach us. At 186,000 miles per second, this places Alpha Centaur approximately 252,000 times farther from the sun.
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Alpha Centaur
Sympathy Out of Place The Pie That Answers Help
A roaming man recalls sympathy failing in the West where a friend offers kind words to a struggling pie merchant. The vendor instantly turns the moment into a sale, saying Buy a pie. The tale argues action, not mere words, is the aid needed.
Chicago Doctor Links Divorce to Sloppy Cooking
Dr W S Christopher told the Children's Hospital Society that poor cooking and dirty kitchens fuel unhappy marriages and divorces. He urged better kitchen practices, daily baths, and orderly homes to improve child welfare and reduce the divorce docket. The Chicago Inter Ocean report notes his evolution theory and calls for better meals to save families.
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Chicago
W. S. Christopher
Children’s Hospital Society
Fullerton Hall
Art Institute
Inter-Ocean
The bachelor and the married man courage contrast
The bachelor generally has the courage of his convictions, but the married man is expected to have the courage of his wife's.
Old-Time Favorite
Poem in which a speaker recalls childhood summers, birds, flowers, and woodland wonders. He laments aging and memory loss while noting a younger generation knows the tales he once did. The piece frames nostalgia and longing for youth.
Abigail Silover's Visitors Save Family From Indians
In Michigan frontier wilderness, Abigail Silover defends her family when six Chippewas raid the cabin. She uses boiling mush and a hot dipper to blind and drive off the attackers, aided by her sister and neighbors. The incident ends with the family safe, though one attacker dies from burns.
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Farmer Silover
Abigail
Nakomis
Mr. Grey
Daddy
Jonathan Silover
Michigan
Abigail Silover
Jonathan Snover
Detroit
Silover
Detroit Free Press
Old Ironsides at Boston Coat In 1797 Vessel Built Locally
The Constitution was a home made frigate completed in 1797 built with copper bolts and spikes from Paul, gun carriages by Ephraim Thayer, and carls in the Granary building at Park and Tremont. Boston provided rope from fourteen roytls and sail cloth from a Tremont Boylston factory aided by a General Court bounty. Anchors arrived from Hanover and timber came from Allenstown near the Merrimack.
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Boston
Hill
Paul
Ephraim Thayer
Granery
Park and
Tremont Streets
Deston
Tremont and
Boylston
General Court
Hanover
Plymouth County
Allenstown
Merri
Mac
Atlantic Monthly
Cabinet seating order noted as long standing practice
A Washington correspondent describes the arrangement of President Roosevelt's Cabinet around the table. The sequence begins with the president and the Secretary of the Interior, a practice established so long that few question it.
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Roosevelt
Washington
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W. E. Hay
Burlington, N. C
Abraham
Presbyterian Journal
Mpathy
SOCD
Eugene Field
Elue
Hattie E. Briggs
Sec. of Interior
Sec. of Treasury
Sec. of
Navy
Sec. of Agriculture
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