Faithful God Beyond All Fear in Suffering
A devotional urging calm assurance in God’s fidelity. It declares God’s vast resources and love outstrip human doubt, urges rising in spirit to trust His doors and timing, and affirms His salvation will come. The prayer closes attributing the reflection to F. H. Marr.
The Value of Oriental Culture and Faith in Life
The essay argues Oriental culture, especially Hebrew, enriches Christian education and spirituality. It contrasts biblical study with classical learning, praises Hebraic insight, and links faith to personal character, civic order, and progress. It cites Reuchlin, Melanchthon, Joan of Arc, and historical pioneers.
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Orient
Greece
Rome
John Reuchlin
Winchester
Honest Talk Prevents Lingering Strife
Brief note urges addressing minor misunderstandings promptly to avert lasting alienation. Emphasizes that a few clarifying words can explain concerns and prevent serious trouble between people.
Malibie Babcock Excerpt Reflects Verse and Faith
A short, reflective excerpt by Malibie B. Babcock exploring creation through imagery of flour, mill, wheat, snow, and sun. The lines connect nature and divine will in a devotional cadence.
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Malibie B. Babcock
D. D
Nature’s grandeur and God’s omnipotence described
The article expounds on God’s infinite creation from stars and planets to the universe, noting divine wisdom in celestial order and perpetual motion. It contrasts human limits with divine omniscience and the majesty of creation, then shifts to say denominations shift toward liturgical forms and worship improvements.
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Milky Way
Neptune
Heaven
Earth
King
Augustana Journal
Summer Heat and Divine Order in Nature
The piece argues summer heat results from the sun’s changing position and Earth’s heating, urging gratitude for Providence. It contrasts Western Africa adaptation with temperate climates, notes cool nights and refreshing air, storms as purification, and fruits aiding health, concluding on divine plan and consolation.
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Leo
Torepine
Africa
Cape Verd
Goree
Sturm
Inner life versus outward virtue in Fenelon teaching
A Fenelon passage urges balancing inner self-denial with outward reform. It warns that overemphasis on external propriety breeds internal rebellion and calls for surrendering pride and worldly wisdom to God. The advice favors self-denial, love, and the cross over bargaining for comfort.
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Fenelon
A Good Conscience Compared to Health of the Body
A reflective maxim equates a clear conscience with bodily health, suggesting inner virtue sustains the spirit as physical well being sustains the frame. The saying links moral integrity to overall wellness, implying ethical living preserves vitality and peace.
Civilizing Efforts Mix in Philippine Policy
The article portrays a clash of forces as American influence expands in the Philippines. It notes the American Bible Society distributing ten Bible versions, shipments of textbooks and teachers, and the establishment of schools and instructors, framing the effort as a division between moral uplift and cultural dominance.
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Philippine Islands
American Bible Society
Manila
Negros
Hope in Darkness as Guidance for Troubled Times
A quoted vow from Bishop Vincent urges endurance and faith. It counsels turning despair into morning, sending hopeful thoughts across storms, and facing fierce struggles with courage toward victory and peace.
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Vincent
Iron in blood and fingernails function
The exchange contrasts iron's role in blood with its link to fingernail health. It suggests iron in blood supports oxygen transport while fingernails reflect iron status, though it offers no detailed medical explanation.
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Tommy Tucker
Love and loyalty in the sick room and church debates
A passage from the Lutheran Standard contrasts a mother’s defiant kiss to comfort a dying child with warnings against a so called Church of Man. It champions Christ’s Church as a definite, Spirit guided institution and warns against unionist vagaries. The author cites Gladstone’s Parliament remarks and cautions Lutherans to follow Scripture.
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Mr. Gladstone
Alice
Christ
J. R. Miller
Church of Man
Church of Christ
Reverent duty and steadfast love as guiding ideals
A compact editorial tone urges restraint and deeper trust during hardship. The piece cites James Martineau on living slowly and thoughtfully, warning that haste shortens life. A filler notice promises a dollar spot cash rate for the paper.
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James Martineau
Letter of John Sherman Helps a Man Rise from Despair
A letter printed in Success recounts John Sherman advising a former schoolmate’s son who wrote about life near ruin. The counsel urged work, frugality, sobriety, study, faith, and steady effort to transform at thirty into a future as a productive, hopeful adult with discipline and ambition.
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John Sherman
Sherman
New York City
Success
Joan Sherman
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A reflective aphorism on the value of time and the soul by Joseph Hall. It compares daily life to a repeating life cycle where love, adversity, and sin shape character and warns against wasting days. It emphasizes divine light, goodness, and restraint.
Quip on religion as life preserver and pretense
A Cincinnati Post reader quote contrasts religion as a quick life preserver with the idea that some pretense is used only in danger. The joke reflects on sincerity and timing in public piety.
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Josh Billings
Limits of sight and hearing in life beyond
The piece asserts human senses are bound to a narrow spectrum of color and sound, suggesting a future spiritual body may perceive full spectra. It notes higher joys and deeper sympathies may await, quoting a biblical line to claim there are capacities unseen and unheard now but not forever.
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Apostle
S. S. Zimes
Recognizing and Accepting People’s Natural Limitations
An essay argues that parents and spouses often overestimate others abilities and that wisdom lies in acknowledging limits. It warns against trying to reshape a person through religion education or training and suggests finding comfort and companionship in a person’s own developed strengths within natural limits.
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Tate
Watchman
Button Dilemma in Scottish Village Child Gate
Mrs McLean fears for her two year old's safety as he escapes into the street. She tries higher buttons and hiding props, but the boy still finds ways to open the gate. Donald McTavish advises a drastic step to put the button on the boy.
The Shah and the Courtier’s Clever Reply
The shah asks courtiers who is greater, him or his father. A wily courtier replies that the father is greater because he produced the greatest son. Iwuick never travels the same road with lazy people.
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Persia
Iwuick
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