God’s Unchanging Love Hymn of Trust and Patience
A German hymn exhorting trust in God through trials and changes. It encourages remaining still in hopeful endurance, recognizing God’s plan in joyful hours and hardships, and assures that God never forsakes the soul that trusts in him.
Ninth Commandment and its moral lessons in parish teaching
The article surveys the Ninth Commandment and its interpretation, warning against coveting a neighbor’s house or inheritance, and explains the morality of property rights, humility, and charity with biblical references. It discusses marriage, scripture, and Lutheran doctrine, emphasizing living by faith, law and gospel, and the sanctity of family life.
Lutheran Doctrine Summary Card
The passage lists five core Lutheran beliefs. It states the Holy Scriptures are the infallible Word of God and the ultimate test of doctrine. It affirms salvation through Christ and the eternal offer of life to believers. It notes human sin, the incarnation, crucifixion, and the bearing of world guilt by Christ.
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Keep Your Loins and Lights Ready for Action
A religious exhortation urges physical and mental fitness as duty for believers. It warns against gluttony, indolence, and overindulgence, insisting that faithful living requires disciplined bodies and disciplined minds under fear of God. It cites self-control and prudent study as essential.
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Don Quixote
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary for Sale
Late improved edition with index offered at this office. A lasting useful gift for any reader.
Paper Sells For One Dollar A Year
A newspaper advert promises a yearly subscription for one dollar translating to an affordable rate for readers seeking value. This offer highlights a single price point with no added details about duration or benefits.
Sunrise Never Failed Us Yet Poem
An eulogizing poem recalls the sea's sadness and the fading sunset while promising that the sunrise will bring light again. The speaker urges endurance through tears, asserting that dawn has never failed humanity and will restore hope and joy.
Feet-Washing as a Sacrament Question Raised
Inquiries from a Illinois clergyman explore whether feet-washing is a binding sacrament. The reader argues that in Jesus days it was a common courtesy for travelers and guests, not a sacramental act, and notes modern views among Friends differ on sacraments.
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Friends
Illinois
the Inquirer
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S.S. Zimes
Doing the Impossible and the Power of Ambition
A meditation on historic feats once deemed impossible and the role of ambition in guiding a useful life. It contrasts reckless pursuits with noble aims, urging ambition to influence others for the greater good rather than personal gain.
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Presbyterian Review
For Sale Blue Linen Finish Writing Paper by Box
Classified note offers blue linen finish writing paper sold by the box at the office. Readers are invited to inquire at the office for prices and availability.
Faithfully Portrayed Humanity in the Bible
A Herald and Presbyter excerpt argues that the Bible accurately reveals human sinfulness and the depths of man’s nature. It stresses that the text reflects what is in people, not a polished ideal, as if written by one who fully knows humanity.
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Christ Made Real As Personal Savior And Lord
The experienced Christian finds Christ no longer an intellectual issue but a personal Savior and living Lord. He now sees Jesus as Prophet Priest and King and experiences a practical living relation with him. He gains a personal witness of Christ as the sole Savior and as the noblest of beings per The Presbyterian.
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Never Talk About People How Gossip Harms and Warns
Wise admonition from an old lady on avoiding gossip. Repeats and misquotes cause harm as words drift from truth. The piece urges caution, charity, and prayer to control speech, citing St James and urging truthfulness and kindness.
What She Needed
A mother seeks advice for a listless nineteen year old daughter Lucy. A physician faults lack of home duties and responsibilities, urging the girl to share in chores and family life rather than gym or dance classes to restore health and happiness.
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Lucy
Ruskin on medicine and morals in Protestant critique
The quote contrasts medicine with poison and notes patience, wisdom, folly, and vice shaping life. It argues moral medicine may fail while moral poison never does and warns that the wind sows calamity for vice. It asserts a pure character earns rewards of rectitude, condemning evil deeds.
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Mr. Ruskin
Means or Meanness in a Sabbath Collection
A Parson scolds a church for a meager collection of sixty three cents calling it mean ness. He defends his stance by noting a patron’s untimely hat round and warns against accusing others while urging the choir to sing. The piece is a humorous dialect excerpt from Harper's Bazar.
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Wolliman
Bradder
Harper's Bazar
Curious claim on English pronunciation at Rotterdam dinner
A Royal Academician told guests in Rotterdam that sugar and stomach are the only English words with su pronounced shu. The remark drew interest as Rudyard Kipling challenged the assertion with a skeptical question.
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Rotterdam
Rudyard Kipling
Proverb From Spain Taught To End Quarrels
A short verse by Mary E. Vandyne contrasts a Spanish adage with Northern custom urging restraint. It emphasizes locking a lesson in the heart to avoid feud and notes that resolving disputes requires cooperation from both sides.
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Northland
Southland
Mary E. Vandyne
The Habit Of Five Cents A Day Warns Youth
A cautionary piece urges youths to quit small daily habits seen as harmless such as smoking cigars or drinking beer. It presents a dollars and cents calculation showing how five to fifteen cents daily grows substantially over decades, encouraging self discipline and better choices.
Rules for Treating Books With Respect
A list of cautions on handling books properly including not borrowing from private libraries, avoiding wet fingers, never turning pages with faces down, not forcing openings with heavy objects, not folding corners or marking others’ books, and valuing quality and careful storage to keep books in good condition for appreciative readers.
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Privat
A Childs Play Room For a Happy Child
A guide from Good Housekeeping on creating a bright clean simple play room for children. Emphasizes sunlit spaces, tasteful furnishings, child involvement in color choices, and avoiding clutter with wall decorations. Encourages pictures of landscapes animals and educational bric a brac to educate and inspire.
Henker & Co Advertises Church Minute Printing in Va
Local printer Henker & Co of New Market Virginia seeks orders for church minute printing and other church related printing work. They solicit timely service and reliable quality for minutes and related church documentation.
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Henker & Co
New Market
Southern Homeopathic Medical College Advertises Benefits
The Baltimore based Southern Homeopathic Medical College boasts a large capable faculty and extensive student learning across medicine and surgery. Maryland Homeopathic Hospital wards are under college faculty oversight, offering incalculable value to students with free ward access. Entrance exams are Sept 29 upcoming, term begins Oct 2 1900. Registration blank available from Registrar Charles Leslie Rumsey MD 812 Park Avenue Baltimore MD.
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United States
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