The Requisites of a Gospel Song Explained
The author outlines how a gospel song should be intellectually and spiritually composed with a clear subject, balanced stanzas, and uniform syllables. It discusses melody shaping the words, the sacred secular boundary, and ends with a parable about a town dance halted by a sacred song.
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Wesley
Watts
Keble
Science of Holidaying and the Contrast Theory of Rest
The piece argues there is a science to holidaying linking climate and medical views to choosing ideal rest. It endorses the law of contrast, urging sedentary workers to active leisure and active workers to rest to renew body and mind. It emphasizes individual needs and the doctor’s role in climatic cures.
Unwise Law Making and the Rise of Bureaucracy
The text argues youth suffrage empowers governance but leads to burdens from unwise legislation. It advocates uniform state laws and warns that increasing commissions are expanding both state and national government into a broad bureaucracy, with many laws poorly aligned to core doctrines.
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Department of Public Affairs
Sultan orders decapitation for court astrologer in tale of stars
A fanciful dispatch from Constantinople narrates Abdul Huda the court astrologer losing favor with Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The sultan, swayed by star signs and palace intrigues, imprisons Huda and contemplates harsher punishment as Young Turks stir unrest. Huda’s fate remains uncertain while the court tightens around him.
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Abdul Huda
Turkey
Imperial
Constantinople
Mohammed
Huda
Imperial Guard
the Stars
Abdul Second
Palace Camarilla
Abdul
Mars
Mercury
Jupiter
Venus
Achmed Izzet Pasha
United States
Abdul II
Mehmed Ali Bey
Washington
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Charles H. Gabriel
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J. N. Dickinson
The
American Bar Association
Sultan
Willard W. Garrison
the Sultan
Abdul Hamid, II
Sultan of
Young Turks Party
Izzett Pasha