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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1889
Page
12
The piece reviews Brazil's republican era, censorship, and global politics, noting European reactions and U S naval ships Yorktown Boston Atlanta and Chicago sailing to Europe. It mentions Kaiser Wilhelm and royal figures, and reflects on education and science advocacy and the Knights of Labor. It also includes oblique portraits of public figures and chrysanthemums in autumn culture.
The article surveys global issues from Brazil's coffee and India rubber crops to a Germany book on Bismarck as a humorist. It notes the Knights of Labor stance on a May Day eight hour strike and traces U S constitutional foundations and Virginia's ratification. It mentions French Canadians and annexation debates and touches on Keely motor theories and electrostatic body energy.
A New York Star writer profiles leading London editors. Edward Arnold of The London Telegraph tops earnings at $20,000 yearly. W. T. Stead of Pall Mall Gazette is renowned for intensity and has plans for a model paper. Henry Labouchere of The London News and Edmund Yates of The London World are wealthy, with Lloyd proprieting The Daily Chronicle and Lloyds Weekly. The piece also surveys Diaz era Mexico’s growth and West Virginia’s postwar pursuit of O Feral, plus Charleston shipbuilding and southern industry prospects.
Poetic passage extols the divine word becoming flesh with references to Jesus's earthly ministry and crucifixion. The text cites prophecy, miracles, and cosmic signs, followed by a critique of ministers and their supposed ignorance of human nature as presented in a New York Observer context.
The Catholic American Congress met in Baltimore with twelve hundred dignitaries, hearing addresses from clergy and public figures. John Gilmory Shea read a paper arguing the government lacks church establishment yet infringes Catholic rights, urging legal organization while noting church distribution in New York wards compares unevenly to Protestants.
The article quotes Longfellow and Colton while noting the Congo Free State’s first church formed in November and over 1,000 converts. It mentions a wealthy donor funding a Christian university in Nanking, and highlights widowhood in India, the Balieh Reformatist Zonana mission’s 1903 start, 12 stations, 42 visitors, 29 assistants, and 41 girl schools serving many girls.
The New York Examiner highlights Congregationalist expansion in Japan with eight new churches and 2,129 new members in a year, plus broad calls for missionaries in provincial capitals. It notes Japan’s openness after a government change and strong Christian progress among elites and in Imperial University circles. In Central Turkey, revival efforts at the Central Turkey college spark mass conversions with at least 800 already enrolled and hundreds more seeking salvation as Jews and Muslims inquire about Christianity.
The twenty ninth English Church Congress favored brotherhoods urging clergy to live together without families for efficiency and economy. It opposed permanent celibacy, suggesting it only during mission times, and endorsed missionary communities of clergymen as a strong instrument for Christian work.
Maurice Thompson is named editor of The New York Independent. A Scotch paper lists six clergymen in a preaching match for a vacant pulpit. North Dakota's bishop builds a traveling chapel on wheels for itinerant visitations and social meetings. A Y M C A Bible study seminar in Kioto, Japan, led by Wishard, spurs vast student engagement. over 500 learners sent a cable from Kioto to Northfield proclaiming Make Jesus King. The sight would move Buddhists to tears.
The Theological School of the Methodist Episcopal church at Florence begins its second year on October 1 with eight students, four new admittees, and no more capacity. One student has already formed a fifty convert church in a town of about 10,000 amid persecution. Courses include church history, practical theology, systematic theology, polemics, exegesis, and Italian literature taught by named instructors. Dr Burt plans a six week district tour to hold extra meetings.
Porter announces including church data in the eleventh census inquiries. Topics cover organizations church buildings seating capacity property value and communicants. Dr Carroll oversees planning and seeks cooperation from denomination leaders to ensure prompt accurate responses.
The New York Examiner recounts William Miller the 1843 prophecy prophet in Vermont. He reportedly set out to climb a hill at night claiming the second advent but returned tired. His wife, a strong minded critic, refused to admit him at the door saying he had gone up. He spent the rest of the night pondering his fate.
The world Jewish population nears seven million with fewer than 100000 converted to Christianity in the last century. Forty seven Protestant societies pursue this work and 877 missionaries target the Jews. They distributed 80000 copies of Delitzschs New Testament and 200000 copies of Salkinsoris.
Mrs Heron wife of a Korean missionary writes to The Times denying death and recounting royal hospitality. The note counters earlier dispatches from San Francisco and clarifies ongoing Christian work in Korea as described in Korea, Christian at Work.
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