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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1898
Page
7
The passage urges patient, practical personal work in Christian outreach. It stresses that skill comes from practice and painful failures, not natural gift, and that preparation through experience enables effective service. Immediate obedience signals sincere devotion when the Spirit calls to go.
The old room in the Horse Fair Bristol opened by John Wesley on June 8 1704 marked the world’s first Methodist preaching place. Its debt drive led to the class system and weekly visa pence payments. Sacraments were administered by von Werleys and other clergy, shaping early Methodism.
In the Old Room, Bristol Francis Asbury offered to work in America in response to Wesley. In the room above, Dr. Coke was set apart by Wesley and sent to America in 1784 to establish the Methodist Episcopal church. The building now houses the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists. Ebenezer chapel, belonging to the Wesleyans, sits opposite on King Street, built after Wesley's death when trustees refused Henry Moore to administer the Lord's Supper there.
League topics for the current year emphasize practical and devotional aims. A joint Epworth League and Christian Endeavor committee will set uniform devotional topics to foster unity among young peoples societies. Sunday schools already study the same lessons, suggesting broader cooperation.
A Housewife writer urges focusing on general habits rather than heart defects for circulation issues. Poorly aerated blood, constipation, overeating, spicy foods, excessive meats, sugar, alcohol, and stimulants injure capillaries, while outdoor life and good diet support capillary flow.
Mr Perry Patettic listened in a languid fashion as a temperance lecturer spoke with vehemence. He admired the speaker, noting that if a man can talk so fluently on nothing but water, imagine what he could do with booze. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Maple sugar on snow is described as a delicious old fashioned treat. Use maple sugar or sirup, adding water to sugar if needed to melt. Boil until it coats snow with a waxy surface, then spread on scarface of snow or ice for a tasty dessert loved by sugar makers.
General local market report from Shreveport lists cotton prices per grade, daily and weekly quotes, and assorted commodities. Includes provisions, bread stuffs, coffee and tea, sugar and molasses, tobacco, esculents, seed potatoes, bagging and ties, grain and fodstuff, live poultry, eggs, butter, hides and wool, iron and hardware. Names of items shown with nominal ranges and per unit terms.
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