Selah in the Bible and its lasting call to pause
A preacher discusses the word Selah from Psalms and Habakkuk, arguing it signals poetic emphasis, intermission, and perpetuity. He urges listeners to pause in reading and life, to heighten emphasis on God, and to face eternity with renewed resolve.
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Job
Jurges
Jeremiah
Meribah
Lord of Hosts
Selah
Jacob
Gesenius
Tholuck
Hengstenberg
Jullien
Augustine
Christ
Matthew Henry
Jortia
William Cowper
State of Pennsylvania
St. Louis
Pullman
Selaia
David
France
Mirabeau
Hobbes
Richard Baxter
Christian Mozart
Lambert
Richard Cameron
Ewald
Napoleon
St. Helena
Rowland Hill
Thomas Chalmers
Thomas Guthrie
John Knox
Robert McCheyne
Christmas Evans
George Whitefield
Robert Hall
Robert South
Fenelon
John Mason
Dr. Nott
Schroon Lake
Chaldee
Alhambra
Axminster
Simoom
Heaven
Jesus
London School Board's Growth 1870 to 1891
In 1870 the London school board began work with no schools under control. By 1891 it owned 410 schools and provided places for 428000 children across the system.
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London School Board
Thousands of Tenants Surveyed. Few Children at Work Found
The tenement-house census in New York reports that among roughly 1.25 million tenants only 249 children under fourteen were found working in living rooms by the sanitary police. This fact appears in Mr. Rice’s Scribner's Magazine article "The Poor Children of New York."
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New York
Rice
Scribner's Magazine
Shanghai Debating Society Claims Chit System Hinders Marriages
The Shanghai Debating Society discusses why young men avoid marriage as the chit system drives up prices. Most men favor abolishing it while the women oppose, leading to a decisive dismissal of the proposal.
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Shanghai
China
Ladies Fashion Notes From A Faded Era
A collage of fashion fragments describes lace berths and watteau bows in evening wear, rose heart pink textiles, and a Brussels floral exhibit with voting for preferred bonnets. It covers child attendants in nuptial pageants, sachet crafting from perfumed wool, and trends in belts, cloaks, and shirtwaist fabrics with emphasis on color, lace, and accessories.
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Brussels
Belgium
The
Horticultural Society
Chicago Herald
Whiich
Boston
Infant King of Spain Faces Plot Threat and Ordeal
The piece laments the peril to infant Alfonso, highlighting the infant monarch's fragile life shadowed by assassination plots. It notes Queen Christina's devotion and the global sympathy for the young royal amid political danger surrounding his position.
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Spain
Christina
Alfonso
New York
Mauve Dominates Fashion Notes With Cone Color Trend
Mauve leads the season in fashion notes as designers embrace cone color styling. The item highlights a color trend sweeping wardrobes and runways with a focus on muted purples and coordinated accessories.
Londoners in single rooms and odd facts from a bygone era
A chaotic paste of trivia notes spans housing, elections, architecture, Civil War battles, and world rivers. It cites 165000 London families in single rooms, recalls Sunday French elections, a paper church in Bergen, and river lengths, including the Nile and Amazon, with grand imperial totals and bizarre claims.
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DR. Talmages
Sterling
Philadelphia
IVER
New York Press
New York Post
Page
New Orleans Picayune
Breakfakt
Loos
Mauve
Olla Podrida
London
Bergen
Norway
Gettysburg
Spottsylvania
Wilderness
Antietam
Chancellorsville
Chickamauga
Cold Harbor
Fredericksburg
Manassas
Shiloh
Stone River
Petersburg
Mississippi
Amazon
Kiang
Asia
Yenesei
Nile
Hoang-Ho
Mackenzie and
Rio Brass
North America
Platte
Rio Madeira
South America
Volga
Russia
Amoor
Niger
Africa
Arkansas
Red
Ohio
We Lawrence
Rio Nezre
Grinoeo
Uruguay
Euphrates
Tigris Ik Geeeras
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