01 Feb 1894
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Newspaper
Roanoke Baptist Union
Location
Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1894
Page
1
Danville Virginia post office announces mailing eligibility for Cascade Danville North Danville under second class rates for church union communications and local notices.
A long list of aphorisms on virtue, religion, and personal conduct. The sayings promote prayer, charity, hard work, humility, hope, and devotion, linking daily actions to spiritual rewards and righteous living. Many lines emphasize God, Christ, and moral duties for believers.
A tract urges pastors to lead churches in foreign missions, arguing wholehearted giving and faith are essential. It lauds lay helpers, recounts Virginia State Mission Board results, and notes missionary work across China Brazil and Italy with calls for renewed generosity.
A reported deepest bore yet made into the earth’s surface lies at Paroschowitz in Western Silicia. The hole reaches 6,568 feet in depth with a diameter of 2.75 inches, and plans aim to extend to 8,200 feet.
A sermon contrast ties Paul’s "love fulfills the law" to daily life. Dr George B. Kager at First Church Montgomery preaches church discipline, leading to exclusions and a revival by voluntary repentance. Attendance rises and community focus sharpens as members confront sins.
A minister notes movement aiding his work and mocks lax church methods of receiving members and discipline. He argues economy should target personal expenditures first, then religious giving, warning against cutting Lord's work while trimming luxuries. The piece urges doubling gifts to religious causes despite hard times.
A short quotation by Sydney Smith urging courage over hesitation. It laments how timidity causes talented people to stay obscure and miss fame, arguing that one must act despite risk rather than overanalyze opportunities. It contrasts past patience with modern delays that waste precious time.
Captain Ward argues conscience appears in all ages and peoples but is not a reliable moral guide. He urges education of the mind to discern right from wrong and condemns blaming God for sin. He notes that false education, chronic rebuke resistance, and hypocrisy create abnormal consciences.
A fragmentary quotation echoes advice on punishment, mood, and social conduct. It compares punishments by ap petites to being punished by them and warns against chronic grumbling. It notes human nature to hate the harmed and suggests thoughts shape actions, linking childhood to adult character and equal marriage as a strategic advantage.
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