Mother's Room and Lutheran Piety in Focus
A reflective piece contrasts a child's sentimental reverence for a mother's room with a broader call to deepen genuine piety within the Lutheran church. It critiques overemphasis on doctrine without inner life, urging revival of evangelical zeal, personal faith, and steady practice over mere membership or outward shows.
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Spener
Francke
Paul
Christian Friedrich Schwartz
America
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg
Ziegenbalg
Muhlenberg
Phasis
Kingdom of Heaven
Anchorage
Do Good and the Zeal to Do Good Works
Richard Baxter urges daily deliberate charity and persistent good works. Zeal turns intention into action, prompts seeking advice, and speeds service. It makes one glad to give, heavy costs feel light, and neighborly conduct align with divine pleasure.
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Richard Baxter
Aims and character formation advice on elevating standards
The text urges setting high goals to shape character. It compares aiming at the sun with striving for superior ideals, noting that even if the ultimate aim isn't reached, the effort will lift one higher than pursuing lesser aims.
God rewards diligent faith and prayer across lives
A sermon extols the Hebrew idea that God rewards obedience and diligent seeking. It cites Noah, Hannah, a praying wife and mother, a captain’s hidden prayer, and converts through persistent faith, urging readers to follow Christ and test the divine promise. It also critiques cigarette smoking as harmful to education and character.
Roots of Prayer and Faith Give Christian Power
The article likens Christian power to a tree whose real strength lies in hidden rootlets of prayer and faith. It argues apostles Luther and others thrived through communion with God, urging more activity in the inner life than mere surface activity. The Lutheran.
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Luther
God
Assembly and Faith Power in Church Fellowship
A sermon emphasizing that believers must gather as a church to receive the Holy Spirit’s power. It notes personal devotion is valuable, but true strength comes through communal worship and waiting on God with like minded believers.
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A. C. Dixon
Wisdom for Women from Woman's Home Companion
A reflection on womanly restraint in distress. It praises smiling outwardly despite a ruined tablecloth and warns that dwelling on the loss alone at night makes one less wise and comfortable.
Creation and companionship from Adam to Eve in a dawn of grace
The text extols providential strength and divine molding through trials. It narrates Edenic harmony with animals and God, then explains Adam’s loneliness and the creation of Eve as a "help meet." It closes with a moral on sympathy, merit, and humble service as voiced by Dean Farrar.
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Adam
God
Anon
Earth
Paradise
Eve
Dean Farrar
Be Reese de thee and He will teach thee to pray
A compact religious reflection cites divine guidance from Pusey on prayer and spiritual reform. It emphasizes Jesus retracing the believer’s image and erasing sin through grace and disciplined grace.
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Reese de
Dward D. Pusey
Prospects of Reaching the North Pole in Two Years
The American Monthly Review of Reviews argues that a North Pole milestone is near. It credits leadership, dogs, and provisions as key, noting Nan sen as a distant near to the pole and predicting a decisive breakthrough within the next two years.
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North Pole
Nansen
Pole
New York
Boston
Symmes
Hole
Howygate
New England
American Monthly Review of Reviews
What the Church Should Do
A Congregationalist piece urges churches to aid the poor and uplift society. It calls for church led programs like schools and dorcas societies to improve wages, education, homes, laws, and government administration through cooperative action.
If God give me work to do I will thank Him for strength
The quote by Mean Angelow speaks of faith and resolve to face duties and dangers. It emphasizes gratitude for ability, courage for risk, and humility in waiting for divine direction.
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Gible
Uncle Sam
Navy
Michigan
Reformatory
J. J. Sloane
John Worthy School
Reformatory For Boys
Frank W. Gunsaulus
Pres. Banner
Boys Boldly Stand for Christ Sowing Seeds of Faith
A short exhortation urges young men to align with Christian values, promising spiritual return in this life and the afterlife as they influence others toward righteousness. The message emphasizes bold action and seed sowing as a path to future harvest.
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Uncle Sam
United States Army
Mt. Gretna
Chicago
Christ
Life Reflections On Will, Way, And Wisdom
A short meditation on seeking God’s approval of our path rather than mere desire. It urges considering deeper fabric of life beyond pattern and notes the value of spiritual balance between praise and prayer.
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Jack Roe
Mother
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Theodore L, Cuyler
D.D
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Hannah
Jesus
Cigarette Boy
Ida B. Cola
Robert Burdette
David Starr Jordan
United States
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Annapolis
A. Clinton
San Francisco
E. S. Stover
Medical Society of Wyoming
Rothschilds
Railroad
Panhandle
Michigan City
Lake Erie & Western
Kansas City
Fort Scott
Memphis
South Carolina
Washington
Moore
Bureau
Parsons
Colorado College
Wisdom For
Saral
Kai
BFUL
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