It Is More Blessed To Give Than To Receive
At a Hickory church meeting the N C Conference emphasizes Christ like giving. It argues faith must show in works, urges systematic offerings, and cites Old Testament sacrifice as a model. The plea: fund home and foreign missions, orphan care, and minister support to strengthen Lutheran Zion.
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N. C
Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod
Church of the Holy Trinity
Hickory
Acta
Jesus
Christ
God- Qran
Earth
Church
God
David
Moses
Abraham
Noah
Cain and
Abel
Israel
Synod
Sonath
Zion
tIeve
Ministers and officials face duties beyond salary
A minister explains that office duties define service more than pay, comparing elected officials to clergymen and urging focus on constitutional responsibilities. Canon Farrar highlights alcohol issues as root to crime and poverty. The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice reports October arrests, seized items, and fines totaling $1,061, with further cases pending and substantial year totals.
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New York Society For the Suppression of Vice
Grand Jury
Boy Answers With A Baby In Reptile Question
A boy eight in a public school claims a reptile is an animal that creeps and answers with a baby. The piece discusses malaria in hot regions and the mistaken belief of immunity, noting that any malaria presence harms health and promoting Shallenberger's Antidote as a remedy.
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Shallenberger
Hail to the Lord's Anointed and Christmas Reflections
A paired verse excerpt opens with a hymn praising the Lord's anointed and ends with Christmas reflections by Mrs. 8. A. Fair. The essay discusses nativity, angelic praise, and the incarnation's humility, stressing peace on earth and the season’s restorative joy, urging gratitude, devotion, and timely action. It concludes with a medical advertisement for Dr Bull's Baltimore Pills.
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Jesus
Luke
Bethlehem
David
Christ the Lord
Anecdote of Lee at Richmond shoe factory matriarchal boots
During the war a Confederate shoe factory in Richmond employed 300 workers, mostly disabled soldiers and Federal prisoners. Gen Lee visited for inspection, and a worker offered him boots. Lee refused the personal order, saying if making his boots caused fewer shoes for soldiers to be made, the order should be canceled. Officials at all levels were seen making boots for themselves.
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Richmond
Gen. Lee
McCloskey
Mississippi
Love as Expression Strengthens Marriage and Faith
A sermon extols ongoing loving words and acts to keep love alive, declares peace built on compromise fragile, and recalls humorous anecdotes about marital harmony and spiritualism. A Bay City pair fakes a seance to contact non-existent relatives, and Rev. Sam Jones notes a bachelor who never spoke cross words to his wife.
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Sam Jones
Omaha
Neb
Rev
Sam
Grandpa’s age prompts reflection on long loneliness
A brief children’s dialogue with Grandpa aged eighty seven highlights a long life and solitary years before the child’s birth, ending with a gentle acknowledgment of the enduring span of time.
Professor asks if you can multiply concrete numbers
A classroom joke has a professor challenging students on arithmetic with a pun about multiplying concrete numbers. The class hesitates until a pupil answers triumphantly that the product of five apples and six potatoes is hash.
Day's Horse Powder Promotes Fattening For Swine
An old farm item touts Day's Horse Powder as increasing the natural tendency of swine to gain flesh. The ad copy also suggests carrying Drexel's Bell Cologne while traveling.
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Christian Giving
W. P. Cline
Dr. Norton
Farrar
Psalm LXXII
BY Montgomery
Arabia
Isles
Lebanon
8. A. Fair
Heaven
The
Richmond Whig
Lee
Satan
Bay City
Mich
Nelly
John
Drexel’s
Bell Cologne
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