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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1896
Page
2
The text surveys public affairs and moral reflections, mentioning Gladstone, Belva Lockwood, and railway issues. It juxtaposes warnings about virtue, empire, and peace with apocryphal anecdotes about monarchs, investors, and nature, interwoven with fables on discernment and parental influence.
A fiery sermon draws moral from Abimelech’s siege of Shechem and the Berith temple. The preacher highlights how Abimelech’s act of arming men with tree branches and his own axe led to the temple’s fall, illustrating the power of example over tactics and urging unwavering faith and public virtue to defend God’s cause. He warns against reliance on ritual or rhetoric and calls for collective action rooted in holy zeal. The speech urges families and churches to imitate courageous, principled living to influence others toward heaven.
A collage of clipped anecdotes and notices touches on fashionable travel, court gossip, and quirky Elizabethan style dialogue. It references a banking house in Haltimaere Virginia, travels to Texas passes, and a banquet with jokes about chess and hunting. It also includes stray quotes from Harper’s, New York papers, and a Chicago discovery about a 120 year old claimant.
A man touring Kansas cities observed children leaving schools and judged the Atelison children best dressed and most prosperous looking, concluding they will locate there.
The passage notes that as individuals grow older they realize their singing and piano playing bore society and are no longer invited to showcase their efforts, implying a social retreat from public display of talent.
An observer argues the devil's role is not exaggerated by seventeen and a half columns in the first installment of Dr Murray's New English Dictionary. He notes the devil underpins much scandal and history while most “emeralds” girls resemble glass from a beer bottle rather than jewels.
The article presents a sermon on Luke 6 41 49 and Matthew 7 1 5, discussing the hypocrite and the mote in one’s own eye. It emphasizes sincere faith, self examination, and living by Christ like a house built on rock amid life’s tempests. It cites theologians and links to Edenic ideals and moral conduct.
Ellen Terry loved telling fairy tales to children while Elise Stanley Hall, an Australian girl, earned an award at the Leipzig conservatory. Friends of Mrs. Agassiz endowed a $6,000 Radcliffe scholarship named Elizabeth Carey.
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