Monument Commemorates Early American Presbyterian Founder
A memorial recalls the life of a governor noted as Chief Founder of Organized Presbytery in America in 1706 and first Moderator of the General Presbytery. He died at his Virginia home in Accomack County in 1708 and is buried on the family site, now marked with a monument dedicated in 1908 by the American Presbyterian Historical Society of Philadelphia.
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Ernor
New York
America
Ife
Accomack County
Virginia
American ‘‘Presbyterian Historical Society
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Jersey City
N. J
Rose and Lily poem by Mrs. R. H. Gray
A devotional verse from Ashland Virginia invoking the Rose of Sharon and Lily of the valley. The speaker asks for divine grace to bloom in hardship, attain purity, and endure life's trials like the rose and lily, ending with location Ashland Va.
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R. H. Gray
Rose of
Sharon
Lily of the Valley
Sharon’s Sea
Judea
Ashland
Fire Ends Paterson Union Rally Across from Billy Sunday
In Paterson a large meeting opposed by IWW and anarchists ended in flames at Turn Hall after Emma Goldman Benjamin Jieftman and Carlo Tresca mocked religion. A mock prayer and blasphemous tirade preceded the blaze with no source of the fire yet found. The crowd included anarchists atheists and many workers as the city reels.
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Billy Sunday
Paterson
Industrial Workers of the World
Emma Goldman
Benjamin J‘eitman
Carlo Tresca
Reitman
God
Jesus
Turn Hall
America
Temple of Anarchy
Sunday School Times notes street discussions on Billy Sunday
The column records conversations among men on the street about Billy Sunday and his campaign, reflecting public interest and local reaction during the revival era.
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Billy Sunday
Sunday School Times
Mandarin cites Bible extracts to praise Christian precepts
An English official in Peking recalls asking a high mandarin if he read the Bible. The mandarin presented a New Testament extract, noting he copied what he admired and said that if believers lived by its precepts the religion would spread globally.
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Peking
Bible Leaves Scattered Through Turkish Village
A Bible given to a patient in an American hospital in Turkey is torn by a priest and used as wrapping paper by a grocer. The leaves spread through the Armenian village, attracting 100 people to a missionary colporteur who arrives to find no teacher yet the Word has preached itself.
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Turkey
COURTESY AS A PRICE OF COMPANIONSHIP
The piece argues that courtesy is the social coin for living with others. It uses Robinson Crusoe and Friday to show how sharing, restraint, and respect constrain selfish behavior. The author notes a built in code of courteous conduct guiding how people must act.
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Robinson Crusoe
Desert Island
Robbie
Crusoe
Golden Rule as life’s reciprocal debt for livable communities
A reflection stating the Golden Rule binds people in large communities. It calls it man made sunshine and the only debt no one is too poor to pay, framing kindness as essential for social livability.
Beecher's stance on total abstinence stated
Henry Ward Beecher told hotel guests in the White Mountains his position on liquor use by Christians. He likened drinking to a dangerous precipice near a schoolhouse and argued for a strong fence to prevent others from following, declaring his support for total abstinence.
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White Mountains
Henry Ward Beecher
Christ
Sunday School Times
Billy Sunday Rules on How to Break Up a Church
Evangelist William A. Sunday mocks church etiquette with satirical commandments on disrupting worship. He advises against punctuality, offering, prayer meetings, singing, smiling, bringing guests, supporting the pastor, or contributing, and suggests sowing discord by pushing for conflicting musical groups.
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Billy
William A. Sunday
Patrick's Hymn Compact Comfort and Assurance
A compact hymn of peace and strength, expressing divine guidance and protection. The speaker trusts God's hand, strength, eye, ear, word, and arm to bear burdens and watch over prayers, affirming unshakable safety in faith. Jesus holds the believer dear, leaving no room for doubt or fear.
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Jesus
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