TALMAGE SERMON LAUGHTER OF THE BIBLE AT BROOKLYN
The Brooklyn sermon by Rev T DeWitt Talmage centers on The Laughter of the Bible. He cites events from Genesis to Revelation to argue laughter signals faith, divine judgment, or triumph. He contrasts skeptics laughing at miracles with heaven’s promised joy for believers, urging cheerful faith over morbid religion.
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T. DeWitt Talmage
Brooklyn
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Herbert Boaucer
Jobs Stuart Mill
Aero
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Egypt
Joshua
Jesus Christ
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Goa
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Walt
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Eria
God’s Union
Imllinois Central
Jay Gould
New York
Theodore Parker
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Babylon
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Hell
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Don Jour
Himalaya
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Heaven
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Earth
Yendall
George Whit Meld
John Wesley
Toplady
Charles Wesley
Not a Politician
The piece discusses the President as not a politician by trade and resistant to patronage trades, with criticism of Congress members fearing re election. It cites reactions from Boston Herald and Albany Argus, noting post office subsidy debates and party dynamics shaping future elections and leadership.
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Buffalo
United States
Con
Boston Herald
Vilas
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
New York Tribune
House of Representatives
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Holman
Randall
Oimen
New Jersey
William Walter Phelps
Pacific Mail Company
Phelps
Washington
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Bingham
Pennsylvania
Senate
Albany Argus
Missouri
New England
New York
Congress
Orly
Washington Post
The Facts in the Case and New York Vote Hopes
The Republican calculations to win New York State seem unfounded while Governor Hill’s abuse appears minor. Republican legislature blunders gain notoriety, and the Herald notes that if the governor keeps steady and the majority does not improve, Democrats could surge by ten thousand in 1885 and reach fifty thousand in 1886. Des Moines Leader commentary weighs in on leadership failures and looming electoral shifts.
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Ten
New York
Des Moines
Miscellaneous Notes Across Cities and Ages
A collection of curiosities from early 20th century papers notes women’s hair in Mexico, streetcar strikes in Philadelphia, a cat’s nine lives, a Chicago girl’s lawsuit over shoes, and coal reserves in Pittsburgh. It covers a New England rainfall record, a Chicago hotel development, and long-lived couples in Minneapolis, along with witch hazel’s claimed mining uses and a Denver reporter’s tale of oil-well testing and recovery of a buried watch.
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Mexico
Jengo Sun
Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald
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Sun
Richardson
Axa
Chicago
Pater
St. Paul Herald
Pittsburgh
Sealey
Pennsylvania Geology Survey
Pittsburgh Chronicle
Bangor News
Bar Harbor
Mt. Desert
Stonewall Jackson
Mr. Copeland
Corintha
Post
Theosophe
New England
Meteoratei
New London
Science
Boston Herald
Rogers, Peet & Company
Metropolitan Hotel
Frank R. Chambers
Neve le & Certain Bret
Minneapolis
Palisades
Republican
Ales
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Colorado
Arizona Territory
Leadville
Denver
Behold the Living God within All Things
Excerpt from John G Whittier’s verse in Mainly International Sunday School Lessons recounts a visionary religious experience. The speaker describes a veil lifting, a cloud, and a revelation that God created all things. It urges faith, justice, truth, and reverence for the inner Word and divine purpose guiding nature and life.
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Ben
George Fue
Beaver's Vale
Natust
Ind
Ana
John G. Whittier
An Old Truth Restated and Moral Reform
A long Victorian essay argues trust, honesty, and self control to avert moral decline. It links sudden falls of trusted individuals to hidden flaws built by gradual indulgence, urging steadfast character, reliance on grace, and habitual honesty as safeguards against temptation. It also discusses conduct toward others and the meaning of Easter's origins.
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Nenad
Tan
Ives
Seague
Choice Selections In A Seventeenth Century Devotional
Readable remarks from various authors on prayer, piety, and divine search. Quoted lines reflect views on prayer, guilt, revelation, and charitable action, urging sincere giving and love of neighbor beyond mere outward acts. Distinct voices attributed to Li Pa Macleod Gokiqn Addison and Anom appear in compact aphorisms.
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Zicary
Macleod
Addison
Mexican Pyramids at Papantla Describe Porphyry Construction
The Papantla pyramid stands sixty feet high with a square base of eighty two feet and one hundred sixty six niches. Humboldt links its brickless stonework to a broader ancient pattern found across Mexico and Egypt, noting symmetry and regualrity of coted blocks and parallels to other monumental structures in Mexico.
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New Spain
Baron Humboldt
Bolus
Babylon
Sakhara
Egypt
Cholula
Tetihuacan
Alps
Onean
Boston
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