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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
7
The Rev. Talmage presents reflections on the Christmas season focusing on the sacred meaning and lessons it brings to worshipers. He emphasizes humility, charity, and reverence as core virtues highlighted by the holiday.
A 1908 sermon urges healing family rifts as the true Christmas celebration. It cites Luke 1 14 and argues Christmas belongs to home gatherings, calling for reconciliations between parents and children and among siblings to honor the Christ child.
A commentary on 1 Kings x and Matthew 2 1 2 on the visit of the queen of Sheba and the wise men. It emphasizes reverent worship, gifts to the Lord, and the future fulfillment of prophecies about Israel through Jesus Christ. The piece urges believers to seek and witness the light of God, letting Christ reign in daily life.
The author links Christmas peace to family reconciliation, warning of repeated slaughter since 1069 when William the Conqueror devastated York to Durham and famine followed. He hopes Christmas 190 becomes a time of reunions, not domestic tragedy, urging kin to mend ties so angels may sing again.
An express near PBellevue-sur-Vic, France, traveling over forty miles per hour, saw the engine driver fall from the cab. The stoker stopped the train and found him running after the train unharmed, then the driver climbed back aboard and continued driving.
A Philadelphia restaurant owner describes stewed snapper as distinctly local like scrapple and pepper pot. The dish mirrors terrapin’s formula with sherry and soap, and only young turtle meat differs. Jersey creeks supply abundant four to forty pound snappers, handled by experienced Jerseymen and shipped mainly to Philadelphia with some to Trenton and New York.
The scientist demonstrated the eye's blind spot using two coins moved apart until they vanish from view. He quips that some people have no blind spot for money and urges readers to try the experiment at home with another object.
Advice urges consulting a lawyer to draft a will and warns against informal attempts. Cites Lord St Leonards, once lord chancellor, whose hastily written coat pocket will led to years of court dispute and a cautionary moral.
A Lancashire man, who had buried three wives, married again and walked with his new spouse to the cemetery. They read the inscriptions in the grave, and her feelings were stirred by the Bible verse engraved there: Be ye also ready.
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