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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1906
Page
6
A fragment from the Highway and Byway pamphlet outlines a journey narrative about the Nebrew people in the wilderness. It cites Scripture authority, listing Numbers 11, Psalm 106:14-15, and 1 Corinthians 10:6 as references amid a religious reflective line.
The piece draws a parallel between Israel leaving Egypt and the Christian’s journey. It warns that longed for worldly indulgences tempt the soul away from God, citing Scripture to urge remaining at God’s table and tasting His goodness. It laments the danger of appetite and urges spiritual nourishment over fleshly cravings.
The narrative portrays weary men among heaps of quail, worn from two days of hunting and a night spent dressing birds. Moses recoils in disgust and sorrow at the scene, torn between duty and distress.
The narrative recalls Moses and Joshua confronting Israel’s lust for flesh as manna falters. Quail feasts lead to sickness and death, while the faithful who cling to manna seek divine healing. The piece closes with a meditation on reliance, repentance, and the age of machinery transforming labor and society.
Dr Welwitsch reports a tableland forest six miles wide on the west coast of Africa containing trees with trunks up to four feet thick yet only a foot tall. Each tree bears at most two leaves measuring six feet long and two feet wide. The extraordinary flora draws curiosity for its extreme height limitation and leaf size.
The piece cites vast fortunes built from earth’s products and industrial might. It highlights Gould, Sage, Batt, and Rockefeller, with Carnegie, Astor, Vanderbilt, and Rothschilds as emblematic. It notes bases in oil, iron, sugar, coal, and railroads, and recalls Rothschilds profiting from Napoleon’s defeat via stock moves.
A Patterson Georgia grocer dreamed a burglar entered his window and struggled with him. He leaped from bed to kick the intruder out, slashing his foot and leg on the glass. He woke to find himself bleeding from numerous wounds, baffled by the dream.
In Irwin Pennsylvania a ten month old baby girl is taken daily into the Penn mine by her Jeannette father as a treatment for a severe whooping cough. The child alternates half hour exposures with surface intervals for two weeks under a physician’s recommendation as the sole profitable relief amid an apparent epidemic.
Clyde Fitch read from his scrapbooks a dated 1873 western critique of Hamlet. The reviewer calls for more action and detectives, laments chinning, and says the mother scene and crazy girl number should be cut or replaced with song and dance.
The document outlines a nine month period from A.D. 29 to 30 detailing Jesus Galilean Perean and Jerusalem ministries. It traces journeys from Capernaum through Jericho to Bethany and Perea, listing key events, discourses, healings, parables, and lessons on forgiveness prayer and salvation. It notes major locations Galilee Perea Jerusalem and Bethlehem and references Bible verses and lesson numbers for study.
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