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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
7
New York World prints a devotional blessing for various groups and situations. The blessing invokes the Holy Child and Stable, seeking peace rest and homeward guidance for the weary and vulnerable.
A fragmented article discusses the true spirit of Christmas, urging reverence and piety over excess. It condemns secular displays and urges charity, worship, and kindness to mark the holy season, referencing George Cashul in Philadelphia.
A brief note on cherished Christmas hymns and their continued use in modest church services. The piece reflects on devotional readings and the enduring role of seasonal music in religious observance.
Fragmentary OCR depicts a reverent Christmas pastoral with references to Mary and the Child in a manger. The text hints at a rustic lullaby or hymn featuring maternal imagery and a compassionate, humble scene.
Fragmentary Christmas hymn text notes the Child Jesus coming from heaven to save humanity. Imagery includes manger, angels, ox, and blessing scenes. Whispers of courage and healing accompany calls to seek the Child and reflect on divine birth.
A Christmas morning plea thanks the Saviour for blessings and asks grace for greater unity and virtue. The prayer seeks faithfulness, industry, temperance and sincerity, and a renewal of earth through divine spirit and peace on earth.
Rev Dr Robert S Bac Arthur reflects on Christmas as a time for peace joy and kindness urging homes to welcome Christ into each heart. He notes Christ came as a babe to redeem humanity and calls for reunions in human love avoiding old enmities as the heavenly song of peace resounds.
A fragmentary religious verse invokes Christmas Day’s eternal ties and peace amid war. The piece pleads for salvation to senate, shop, and study, urging all to come to Christ as the kneeling shepherds and the Babe divine are recalled.
A devotional poem fragment asks readers to take Christ the Child as guide and to follow a pure gospel. It speaks of light divine, heavenly lullabies, and trembling hopes, urging faith and innocence amid storms and doubt.
A devotional verse praising Jesus as savior and joy bringing heavenly blessings. The speaker asks for Christ to make a bed in their heart and to keep a chamber for Him, signing with praise and hopeful, humble devotion.
The passage surveys historical attempts to date Jesus Christ’s birth. It cites Dionysius Exiguus who set the year 754 AUC, then notes earlier Christian conventions and later recalculations. It references various epochs including Olympiads and Rome’s founding dates, ending with a note that modern computation places Christ’s birth around 1 BCE to 0 CE.
The text presents a Victorian style dialogue about the night turning to day, asking the Watchman to reveal signs of dawn, with the Traveler invoking Israel and a coming Prince of Peace. The piece ends with a spiritual affirmation and the name John Bowring.
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