Look Up to the Fountain in the Wilderness
A Sunday sermon on Hagar and Ishmael, urging finding one’s proper place in God’s plan. It frames Hagar’s desert trek as a lesson in humility, duty, and the power of divine provision, urging listeners to seek the well of life in Christ amid life’s deserts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagar
Sarah
Abraham
God
Old Aeaham
Ishmael
Smilar
Hacar
Aml
Beer-sheba
Ailethee
Ishmenel
Sextus V
Ferguson
Ialiia
Heaven
Hogarth
Bloomfield
Sap
London
Hawley
England
Cunard
Tanner
Mary
Bertha
Agnes
Egypt
Assyria
Gaulus
Alexander
Ishael
Sutton Pool
Plymouth
John Kitto
New York
Canton
Madras
Tabernacle
Lamphier
Faon Street
Jesus Christ
Beersheba
Ev ceJar
Alon
Hagar Ishmael
Jesus
Paracelsus
Uderness
Christ
Girls in signal towers of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Dispatch reporter recalls loneliness and dangers faced by female telegraph operators in tower posts. They work nights, endure isolation, and rely on revolvers for protection as trains rely on their steady vigilance to prevent signaling errors.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Road
Pittsburg
Bugler Disobedience and Dismissal Under Zagonyi Guard
Hungarian refugee Zagonyi commanded General Fremont's guard at Springfield Missouri. A bugler defied an order, fled with a lieutenant, and Zagonyi dismissed him, only to learn the man could not bugle due to a shot mouthpiece and later have the sentence withdrawn.
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Zagonin
Fremont
Springfield
Zagoni
Maythenyi
Zagonyi
Death by Ants in Zulu Witch Trial Scene
In Zululand a chief's son dies and witch doctors accuse a woman deemed a culprit. The gathering accuses the girl chosen by ritual, who falls into terror. A nighttime expedition reveals her body, eaten by ants, under moonlit trees, as described in Travels in Zululant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patabeli
Abataki
Pambel
Pambeli
Eswa
Londiy Tien
Tom Oupe
Wood
Waakiee
Oupe
Africa
Cyril
Japanese Become Carnivorous in Cities and Markets
The San Francisco Chronicle notes rising beef consumption in Japan with cattle killings increasing from 30,000 in 1879 to 116,6ns in 1885 and 190,476 in 1886. It cites government limits of three cattle markets in Tokyo and reports the Toxic Cattle Market Company expanding with branches in Kobe and Yokkaichi, shares now about 23 to 24 dollars.
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Japan
Choya Shimbun
Count Gore
Toxic Cattle Market Company
Kobeami Yokkaichi
San Francisco
Value of Dead Chinaman Deplored In Quip
A Pall Mall Gazette remark mocks the Chinese habit of swallowing money. A Cantonese servant died with thirty two ten cent pieces in his interior, two lodged causing death, sparking speculation about the fate of a dead man’s money and his kin.
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Canton
Pall Mall Gazette
Jointed Snake Exhibition Promised by Mr Hardy
Local news from Brunswick Georgia reports Mr W W Hardy recently brought a live jointed or glass snake to the office. The creature jumps when struck and portions regrow, allowing the snake to resume normal form. He plans a public exhibition of the specimen and promises another if this one fails.
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W. W. Hardy
Hardy
Brunswick
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Rev. DR. Talmage
Jacob
Hindoo
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