Not as I Will A Poem of Silent Surrender
A reflective poem in reverent tones expresses surrender to a higher plan beyond personal will. The speaker confronts blindness and loneliness while recognizing a steadfast, unseen order guiding life. The lines invoke faith in a benevolent force who loved first and bears burdens beyond individual striving.
Do You Really Think So About Missions and Debt
In a Lutheran Plain Talker column a mission member questions giving while in debt. The piece argues missions must invest beyond local needs, training young givers and maintaining gratitude to the church, urging every mission to give to wider outreach.
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Porto Rico
United States
Statistical Facts for Lutherans to Remember
A compilation arguing Lutheranism’s global reach and Southward mission, citing numbers of adherents by region and denomination, plus reflections on Lent meditation, disappointment, and sorrow as spiritual teachers in a periodical tone. It contrasts Lutheran strength with other churches while urging contemplative faith and practical ministry.
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Tutherane
United States
Lutheran Church
Africa
America
Augustana Journal
Mary
God
Lord
Jesus
Emmaus
St. Paul
Equality of Heaven and its Degrees of Glory
The piece argues heaven features varied glory and happiness levels among the saved, noting differences in knowledge, fidelity, and life on earth determine place in heaven. It contrasts equal reward with unequal heavenly capacity and emphasizes personal choices here shape the afterlife. It cites The Lutheran Observer and discusses moral accountability. The second note warns of potential market panics and urges caution in investments. It ends with a marvel about Londons enormous Madagascar egg, valued around three hundred dollars.
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St. Paul
Heaven
Christ
London
Madagascar
Wealth and worth a boy's true measure in youth
A tale contrasts Ned Evans and Charley Willard from childhood to adulthood. Ned learns to earn his place through labor and restraint while Charley seeks ease and fast living. Charley dies young from apoplexy after a life of wealth and excess. Ned becomes Judge Evans through diligence and temperance.
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John Evans
Ned
Charley Willard
Edgar Perry
Mrs. Evans
Charley
Mary
John
Temperance Banner
Careless Words and Two Classes of People
A meditation on the harms of gossip and careless talk urging noble speech and self restraint. It contrasts two human types the lifters who bear burdens and the leaners who rely on others and questions the reader about personal conduct.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Balzac on memory and oblivion in creative life
A quotation contrasts feeble souls clinging to sorrows with strong, creative minds that forget. It likens forgetting to nature, which resets hourly and continually generates anew the mysteries of existence.
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Balzac
The Sorrow for Sin and True Amendment
The quote notes that even the smallest sorrow for sin suffices if it leads to real amendment, while the greatest sorrow is empty if it fails to bring change. It emphasizes repentance coupled with actionable reform over mere remorse.
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Colton
Goethe Quote on Doing for Others
Not a news item but a resonant maxim attributed to Goethe urging action for others. It emphasizes that genuine self-improvement arises from aiding others and reflects a philosophy of altruism.
Dictionary sale notice from Henken & Co at New Market
Two copies WensTrerR's INTER NATIONAL UNABRIDGED DICTION ARY with Dennison patent bound in sheep for sale by Henken & Co New Market Virginia. Current ad notes product edition and seller location as a private sale item.
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Wenstrerr
Dennison
Henken & Co
New Market
Admonition and Example Noted by Bacon
Quotation highlights the contrast between giving wise guidance and setting a poor example. It cautions that good counsel and bad conduct can simultaneously build up and undermine efforts.
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William T, Bacon
Tort Paper Package Bundle At This Office
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a large wired package of papers related to roots and stored at this office. The text is incomplete but indicates a parcel of file-like material and a location reference.
Napoleon on the Bible as Living Power and Christ
A passage from Northrop's A Cloud of Witnesses presents Napoleon Bonaparte praising the Bible and Christianity. It extols the Bible as a living force surpassing all, and lauds Christ as the divine Son whose doctrines aim at universal spiritual improvement.
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Christ
God
Northrop
Shoes That Worked: A Scots Boy's Rise to Foreman
A Glasgow manufacturer recalls a barefoot errand boy who saved to buy shoes learned to read and write at night school. After years of perseverance he gains employment and admiration, becoming chief foreman as he rises within the firm.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Mr. Blank
Blank
Hestern
Telephone Nurse and Machinist Give Odd Boiler Advice
A frantic caller asks Dr Stewart about his wife's illness. The doctor speculates malaria with colic. Meanwhile a Santa Fe machine shop boss jokes about cooling, hammering, and washing a boiler as if it were a person. The exchange reveals a comic, mistaken mix of medical and mechanical talk.
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Stewart
Santa Fe
Printing by Henkel & Co in New Market Va
An item advertises printing services by Henkel & Co located in New Market Virginia inviting customers to place orders for printing work. The brief notes the firm offers various printing tasks and urges prospective clients to contact for details.
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Henkel & Co
New Market
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