Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled Poem Reflection
The piece offers a devotional meditation on Jesus comforting the troubled heart. It reflects on patience through daily duties and trust in Christ’s promises, ending with a reaffirmation of faith in the Savior. The author H. M. Geenleaf speaks in a traditional, devotional voice.
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H. M. Geenleaf
Would Our Way Provide Greater Divine Guidance?
Long reflection on choosing God’s plan vs human control. Suffering and sickness can deepen character, teach service, and reveal divine purpose. trust in God’s wisdom, accept His will day by day, and find meaning beyond present comfort.
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Earth
J. R. Miller
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Living in the Eternal Purpose of God
Hannah Whitall Smith reflects on living within God’s eternal purpose through prayer and faith, urging believers to seek Christlike conformity via the cross, trusting divine Providence, and embracing spiritual renewal for true happiness. The text emphasizes inner strength by the Spirit and steadfastness in God’s plan.
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This is the way to cultivate courage quote
A Canadian Epworth Era quote by Rev. J. C. Walker urges cultivating courage through firm conscience
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J. C.walker
The Music Hidden In Work And Noise Of St Nicholas Bells
A visitor climbs St Nicholas tower in Amsterdam to hear the famed chimes but finds harsh clatter from wooden gloves striking a keyboard. Yet distant from the city, the world hears entrancing music and the humblest laborers unknowingly create beauty through their effort. In heaven, angels listen to earth's melody.
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Not in hoarding but in scattering seed of service
A devotional quote emphasizes using our strength for God’s will rather than earthly gain. It argues that true culture pushes sincerity and urges active administration of talents, not burial in the barn or restrictive human policy.
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F. B. Meyer
The Gift of Time
A reflective line drawing on time as a serene, silent presence. The quote contrasts days as veiled figures from a distant party, gifting opportunities that pass if not seized.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Southern Illinois towns report end of negro inhabitant presence
Evansville dispatch notes several southern Illinois towns are free of black residents for the first time in years. The report reflects a regional stance that punishment should not be applied to a race for the crime of an individual.
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Scarred Face Reflects Inner Beauty and Moral Strength
A meditation on how inner virtue outshines physical scars, arguing sin mars the soul more than any wound. It calls readers to embrace transformative suffering as a path to nobler life, ending with reflections on grace and beauty through character.
Goodering a Good Thing A Folklore Fable
An old fable from The Keystone tells of a farmer who overdrives a hen that lays a golden egg daily. He overfeeds and coaxes for faster wealth, but the hen grows fat and dies while the dream collapses. The moral warns against overreaching or forcing luck.
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United States Steel Company
Used to Such Things A Lunatic Asylum Chaplain
A German clergyman traveling stops at a bustling hotel. Guests mock him but he quietly eats. A skeptic asks if he has heard the jests. He replies he is used to it and reveals he is the chaplain of a lunatic asylum, rendering the taunts ineffective.
Working and Fretting
Two village gardeners compare fortunes after a frost kills their early peas. One frets over the loss, while the other shares that he sowed again immediately and now has a healthy crop. The message: prompt effort beats delayed action.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps on Love and Family Duties
The author argues that a suitor's character as a spouse goes beyond romance. She questions a man’s treatment of family, including patience with a lonely father and an ailing mother, and respect for a sister, as true tests of suitability.
A Nose Breath Cure for Gossip and Malice
A fragment argues gossip dies with the breath and that God filled the world with plants to absorb toxins. It urges kind conduct toward others and air, claiming plant life absorbs vile materials while people absorb them, promoting love and brotherliness. It contrasts men who stand on principle with those who lack any.
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Bacilli
Professor Swing on Compassion for Birds and Beasts
The quote argues against unnecessary killing of wildlife and urges reverence for life. It questions the morality of harming birds or deer, suggesting that true wisdom recognizes life’s mystery and a divine dimension beyond human intellect. It calls for restraint and holy respect for all living beings.
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Swing
Temper of the mind shapes hourly happiness
The quote argues that happiness hinges on our mental temperament rather than the exact hourly circumstances. We cannot choose events, but we can choose our mood when facing them.
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Lucy H. M. Sousby
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