Talmage's Sermon on the Garden of Christ
Rev. T DeWitt Talmage delivers the second sermon in Voices of Gardens and Fields at The Hamptons. He extols the church as Christ's garden full of flowers, fruit, and irrigation, praises martyrs and saints, and urges immediate acceptance of salvation before the Sabbath ends.
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Wordsworth
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Job
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Shenstone
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Walter Scott
Abbotsford
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Christ's Garden
Jersey City
Martin Luthers
Re. Paul's
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Whrikthills
Latimers
Samuel Rutherfords
Attacks by Eagle and Native Dance Highlight Newscap
A held eagle attacked the seven year old son of Washington Wright near Mulerry Grove wounding him before the child escaped. The Cow and the War Dances feature at St Marys Kan describes a wild cow being eaten in two hours at the Indian Wet-Gance on the Wottayatomb reservation. An energetic Spartanburg lad cultivated twenty two acres last year with a horse bought for eighty cents.
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Washington Wright
Mulerry Grove
Spartanburg
8. C
False Pretensions Over Civil Service Report and Baltimore Case
The Chicago Inter Ocean denounces the Civil Service Commission report on Baltimore as a political sham. It argues officials decapitate subordinates for party gain yet shield vacancies from partisan action, showing bias in enforcement and questioning the commission’s neutrality under President Cleveland.
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New York Sun
Charles Lyman
Civil Service Commission
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Custom House
Lyman
Washington
Congress
White House
Cleveland
Chicago
Commission
Judd
Seeberger
Judge Thoman
Edgerton
Dorman B. Eaton
Ilinois
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Bey
Veazey
St Louis Globe-Democrat
A Sheer Fabrication Dakota Revolution Rumor Debunked
A Watertown reader exposes a telegraphed claim of a Dakota revolution led by General Hugh J. Campbell as a fabrication. The report is labeled an attempt to derail Dakota division and admission, with only the formation of state leagues as a minor, nonviolent parallel. Republicans largely discount the notion, viewing the dispatch as a political ploy.
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Hugh J. Campbell
Watertown
C. T
North
South Dakota
House of Representatives
Democratic conference schemes anger Dakota people
The Philadelphia Press notes that the scheme hatched in a Democratic conference carries a coloring of truth. It states that Dakota people smarting under contempt from a Democratic Congress are too law-abiding to seek redress by revolution.
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Dakota
Philadelphia
Bragg’s Flawed Defense Of Rankes Versus Porters Case
A Chicago Tribune summary accuses General Bragg, Wisconsin chairman of the House Military Committee, of biased zeal. Bragg defends Captain Ranke, a minor offender once court martialed for desertion, while supporting Fitz John Porter’s reinstatement. The piece argues Bragg applies double standards, as Porter was a high rank who betrayed the Union at Bull Run.
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Cincinnati Rugquirer
Bragg
Wisconsin
House Military Committee
Ranke
Sigel
Washington Police
Brage
War Department
Fitz John Porter
Bull Run
Lincoln
Chicago Tribune
Draining the Treasury Democrats Defy Surplus Stability
The Detroit Tribune argues Democrats dislike treasury surpluses and push light appropriations to create a deficit. It warns that House bills under a Democratic Executive threaten a $19 to $25 million gap, risking poverty and repeated fiscal mismanagement since 1861.
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White House
Hiscock
Congress
Detroit Tribune
Republican Briefs Reflect Civil Service and Pension Debates
A collection of 19th century editorials and notices discusses President Cleveland’s civil service stance, the Vice President’s wit in pension vetoes, and the Senate Pension Committee’s rebuke of the President. It notes Civil Service rulings against partisan removals and critiques of Democratic demoralization, with reactions from multiple papers.
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Senate
House
Cleveland
Congress
Toledo Blade
World Gossip Highlights From Far and Near
Doctors in China charge five to ten cents per visit while London caterers paid sixty thousand dollars for Colonial Exhibition refreshments. A massive Edinburgh exhibit pearl sold for £680. a eight ton alum crystal was sent to the Edinburgh show. Liverpool bans exterior house flags amid changing tastes. Burn’s room woodwork to becomes book covers. Wurzburg library reveals Priscillian history manuscripts. Roman era coins and Mercury statue found near Perigueux. French stats show two million men miss matrimony. Violins hung to dry in Mittenwald. Cicero notes Homer’s Iliad on parchment tiny as a shell. Aberdeen finds fifteen thousand Edward I coins in a bronze vat.
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Manchester
Goole
Liverpool
Elliot Stock
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Robert Burns
University of Wurzburg
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Perigueux
Nero
Faustina
France
Bavaria
Mittenwald
Aberdeen
Scotland
Ross's Court
Kirkgate
England
Half a Century of Change Across Europe Then and Now
Oliver Wendell Holmes reflects on fifty years of European transformation, contrasting England France and Italy from 19th century sights to modern innovations. He imagines conversing with Dr. Thomas Young about steamers telegraphs electricity and Darwinism, while noting how youth meet progress differently from older generations.
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William the Fourth
Duke of Wellington
Robert Peel
France
Louis Philippe
Marshal Soult
Thiers
Guizot
Manchester
Liverpool
Italy
Vetturno
Apsley House
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Seine
Dr. Sehliemann
Trojan
East
Sir Isaac Newton
Prof
Tyndall
Newton
Thomas Young
Morning News
Dr. Young
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Atlantic
St Louis Ball Attendant Wears Hornet Costume
A young lady at a fancy-dress ball in St Louis attracted attention by wearing a hornet costume. Her dress featured black satin barred with yellow velvet and wings of silver gauze that fluttered with each movement.
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St. Louis
Chicago
The King Reviews Love and Wealth in Repentant Woman
A religious tale recalls a poor repentant woman who longs for a kind glance from the royal guest. The King pauses at her door and declares that love, not gold, is true wealth in His kingdom, praising her faithful penance. The scene echoes a Chicago Advance publication by Mary B. Steight.
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Hilda
Mary B. Steight
Chicago
Walking in Darkness A Message on Trust and Light
A sermon-like meditation on suffering and faith from Isaiah and the New Testament. It urges trusting the Lord to banish darkness, describes light as the mark of true godliness, and warns against backsliding and misrepresentation while urging candor and charity.
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Apostle
God
Christ
Job
Worle
N. W. Christian Advocate
Misstatements and the Christian Duty to Guard Truth
A critique of misrepresentations as common faults among Christians. It cites ignorance leading to false reports and unverified statements, and notes prejudice that blinds understanding. The piece urges careful discernment to avoid spreading untrue claims.
Turning Pain Into Spiritual Growth by Embracing the Rod
A religious reflection urges readers to convert sorrow and self awareness into spiritual discipline. When discipline strikes, welcome the painful insight as a chance to improve rather than escape. The text, attributed to D. A. A. H. Boyd, D. D., emphasizes humility, contrition, and using hardship as grace.
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David
A. H. Boyd, D, D
Free Sunday Debate Across Cities and Faithful Warnings
Extracts discuss religion and social life with quotes from Walton Whately and Canon Westcott on benevolence and truth. It cites Moody on engaging youth in prayer, biblical hope, and warns that secularizing Sunday harms labor. References to Golden Rule and Talmud appear, noting Sunday work patterns in London Rome and general opposition to a secular Sunday.
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God
Walter
London
Rome
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