Music in Sunday schools guides faith and service
In a Dallas article from June 24 1901 Lutheran Sunday schools should use church hymns and chants to build faith not mere sentiment. Leaders must select proper hymns teach memory through music and align school songs with church services for lifelong devotion.
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America
Great Britain
Prussia
Germany
Gladstone
Luther
Augsburg
Christ Jesus
L. A. Wourerf
Dallas
N. C
How to Order a Child in a Christian Household
The article outlines eight directives for guiding a newborn: dedicate him to God as Hannah did Samuel, cultivate prayer, fill his mind with Scripture, model Christian behavior, foster obedience and virtues, curb early evils, and seek Christ in his heart with clear evidence of faith.
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Hannah
Samuel
Christ
Echoes of Faith and Charity in Old Quotation Card
A compact quotation panel notes Chrysostom on human sight and soul, and George MacDonald on adding rosy touches to life, followed by a newspaper offer of a one dollar per year subscription.
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Geo. MacDonald
Roanoke College Fifty Years of Lutheran Service
J. D. D. highlights Roanoke College's 48 completed years and about 500 total male graduates since before the Civil War. He cites 140 ministers including 116 graduates and course men, notes Roanoke’s strong ministry output for the South and abroad, and urges stronger endowment and facilities to sustain the church's educational mission.
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Roanoke College
Roanoke
CIEE
Tof Wottietoo Yaa Ae
Virginia
Southwest Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Iren
Pennsylvania
Muhlenberg
New York
Wagner
General Synod
Gettysburg
Susquehanna
Wittenberg
Carthage
Midland
Virginia Synod
Southwest Virginia Synod
United Synod
United States
South
Lutheran Church
Friends of Roanoke
Church of the Reformation
Germany
Church
America
Forbearance and the Call to Do Good in Life
A meditation on forbearance in daily life and misfortune, with quotes from John Bunyan and anecdotes about Dr. Leonard Bacon and a pastor. The essay urges patient speech, gentle judgment, and seizing timely opportunities to help others, as opportunities rarely repeat.
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Leonard Bacon
George S. Butters
Unbalanced Memory and the Power of Remembering Kindness
A Times excerpt discusses memory control and the balance between recall of kindness and insult. It cites George Washington’s handling of inciting injuries to favor the remembered long service, urging Christians to cultivate balanced, self disciplined memory.
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George Washington
Continental Congress
A Puzzle About Family Deaths and Members
A riddle explains a method to compute three digits: left equals living brothers, middle equals living sisters, right equals deaths. Start with living brothers doubled then add three, multiply by five, add living sisters, multiply by ten, add total deaths of siblings, then subtract 150.
Quotations on virtue and self-improvement
A compact pairing of maxims about character. Charles Buxton urges pleasant conduct, while Thomas a Kempis advocates yearly fault cleansing to approach perfection.
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Charles Buxton
Spare Moments and the Orphan Scholar
A thin, awkward boy visits a famed school principal asking to be examined. The servant directs him to the library where the professor tests him in Greek, finding every answer correct. The boy explains he studied in his spare time, proving he could excel despite poverty. Spare moments are the gold dust of time.
Exercise Why Not Walk The Best Exercise Is Walking
The article extols walking as superior exercise noting it engages many muscles and supports a healthy posture. It warns against careless technique and advises pacing to fit strength while emphasizing enjoyment over stress and a rest period after walking before mental work.
Norfolk & Western Excursion Tickets to Buffalo
Norfolk and Western Railway offers excursion tickets to Buffalo from May 1 to September 39. G. P A. Roanoke Virginia reports W. B Revill public announcement.
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Norfolk & Western Railway
Gist
Igor
Buffalo
W. B Revill
G. P A
Roanoke
Can and Could Hoeed and Tended the Hill
Can and Could tended the hillside and garden with different zeal. Can’s cows cropped grass early while Could hesitated to hoe until weeds overtook crops. Dan’s garden grew well, but Could lamented his poor harvest. Moral: act promptly before it is too late.
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Can
Could
Dan
The Value of a Trade For a Boy
Foster Coates recounts quotes from shipbuilder John Roach and philanthropist Peter Cooper praising trades. Roach stresses a trade as lifelong security and resilience, while Cooper advocates giving every boy a trade to cultivate skill and loyalty.
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John Roach
Chester
New York
Ireland
Peter Cooper
Foster Coates
Ladies’ Home Journal
Hogs and Children Moral Tale From a Western Settler
A veteran missionary cites a settler who miscounts his thirteen children while tracking eighty three hogs. The story contrasts focus on property with care for family, ending with the suggestion that true devotion to children shows in planning and daily attention. World
Shenandoah Valley Newspaper Ad Promotes Local Printing
Henkel & Co of New Market Virginia publish the Shenandoah Valley a weekly family newspaper for a dollar a year. They offer job printing including church minutes and school catalogs with office established in 140. Ontlets respectfully solicited.
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Henkel & Co
New Market
Shenandoah Valley
Public notice discouraging advertisements and solicitation
A newspaper urges readers to report any sales schemes advertised in error. It states advertisements will be stopped and notices made. The notice explains that no one should expect free favors, and warns against gullible schemes while inviting reader vigilance.
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John Bunyan
Man He
Geonger
the Inquirer
Thomas A Kempis
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