Paul in a Basket and the Ripple of Small Deeds
A sermon on Acts where Paul hides from a mob in Damascus, lowered in a basket from a wall balcony. The tale underscores how tiny acts of care and fragile instruments can sustain vast outcomes, urging diligence in small choices and highlighting unrecognized helpers who held the rope that saved a mission.
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Nile
Sinai
Pitcairn Island
Bethlehem
Christendom
Pitcairn
Damascus
Paul
Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
Thessalonians
Felix
Lwe
Charles’ Q. Finney
St. Paul
Damascene
Bethel Pillar and Dream in Genesis Narrative
The lesson text recounts Jacob leaving Beersheba, sleeping with stones for a pillow, and dreaming of a ladder to heaven where the Lord promises blessing to his seed. Jacob awakes, reveres the sacred place, and vows faithfulness, marking Bethel as the house of God and a turning point in his life.
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Jacob
Beersheba
Haran
God
Abraham
Isaac
Heaven
Beth-el
Luz
Kat
Esau
Rebekah
Bethel
Bethe
Plain Enough Uncle James Leghorn Quip
A Cincinnati Enquirer quip about a country visitor and Uncle James debating a chicken by the gate. The young woman mistakes the Brahmin for a Leghorn and jokes about horns on the chicken’s ankles, highlighting a humorous misunderstanding.
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James
Uncle James
Cincinnati Enquirer
Empty Title Question Probed in Comic Exchange
A boy asks what an empty title is and an old man, who just married his daughter to an English ford at usual rates, explains it must be filled from an American strong box, in a quip from the Chicago Post.
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Chicago Post
Scientific Curiosities of Nature and Discovery
Jupiter is 1,387 times larger than Earth yet only 300 times heavier. Meat fly larvae gain about 200 percent weight the day after hatching. Sugar cane is a cultivated grass. Fifty of 57 European glaciers are retreating. A Swiss marble quarry buried by a glacier in 1779 was exposed in 1871. There are 43 submarine valleys with depths over three miles and eight over four miles. Siberian mammoth remains, en route to St Petersburg, are about three times the size of a large elephant. D G Elliott's new work notes American mammals north of Mexico rose from 300 species to over 1,000 in 44 years.
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Switzerland
Siberia
St. Petersburg
D. G. Elliott
America
Mexico
Speaking of Crops and Early Agricultural Innovations
The piece notes potatoes as the world’s largest single crop, mentions a Calaveras County man hatching pheasants in incubators, recalls John Rolfe’s 1603 tobacco introduction for commerce, and states the first U.S. sugar was produced in New Orleans in 1796.
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Cal
John Rolfe
Virginia
New Orleans
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Louis Klopsch
Washington
Talmage
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Mediterranean
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Tern
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Circle of Heavenly Thrones
Mighty One of
Christ
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Boston
Jamaica
F. W. Robertson
Detroit Journal
Linda-Biarke
Cayenne
Marie Moderata
C. A. Snow & CO
U.S. Patent Office
Pasor
Charles
Elizabeth
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Hatare
Generic Remedy Co
Morristown
Scientific American
All New York Co
Broadway
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