Narrow Escapes and Faith in a Cruel World Sermon
A Sunday sermon on Job's narrow escape and being saved “as by fire” explores temptation, repentance, and renewed faith. The speaker urges readers to abandon worldly concerns, trust in Christ, and strive for heaven despite business and personal trials.
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Paul
Job
Arkwright
Old Arkwright
Cape May
Long Branch
Simon
Andrew
Heaven
Emma
Gottenburg
Harwich
Christ
Earth
Satan
Hugh Latimer
Joan Knox
Huss
Ridlevy
Wall Street
Water Street
Pearl Street
Broad Street
State Street
Third Street
W Haavan
Chris Han Merces
Atlantic
Eddystoneighthouse
Apicius Crelius
Robespierre
France
God
Melita
Gospe
Iran
Escape by Petrovski Ends in Paris After Bold Thumbsword Capture
An account recounts the Siberian exile Petrovski and a fellow prisoner plotting escape from Kara mines. Petrovski amputates his thumb to slip his handcuff, then overpowers the guard, flees the escort, and reaches Paris with his wife and family.
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Mind
Episonde
Petrovski
Properson
Kara
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Paris
Blood Drinking in Paris The Blood Cure Practice
Blood drinking is described as an unsavory medical practice in Paris where anemia patients visit La Villette to drink bullock blood at 30 centimes per glass. Observers note perceived health benefits among butchers and their staff, with mentions of Raspeau and Mile Rosita Mauri as historical context. The article credits an English doctor with inventing the blood cure.
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Paris
France
la Villette
Aix
Vichy
Raspail
Pasteur
Mile
Rosita Mauri
Wet Weather Wears Shoes and Rocks Reach Vast Oceans
The piece discusses how wet weather accelerates shoe wear and describes fossil finds from long-ago oceans. It notes rubber protection, soaking damage, and the heavy wear from storms. It then shifts to geology and paleontology explaining fossil impressions, ancient mollusks, and a water world era with extensive ocean layers and fossil impressions like leaves and fish.
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Chica Herald
Wales
Silures
Oeios
St. Nicholas
Language Oddities From a Buffalo Child
A Buffalo three year old misnamed objects using compound words. He tried to describe a clothes line as the res ro and called court cards the boys with heads at both ends. His playful misstatements reveal early language quirks.
Red Glass и New Red Class in Glassmaking
A fragment describes a red glass produced by melting red oxide of lead carbonate of potash lime copper and oxide of tin to create a transparent red glass of fine quality. The text notes its use for bottles and other objects and mentions intensive work in glassmaking.
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Talmage
St. Jerome
Schultens
Drs. Good
Poole
Barnes
Egypt
Ovel
Horace
Solomon
Moses
Coney Island
Leome
United States Army
Cavalry
Europe
England
Germany
London Crystal Palace
Rome
Grex
Lew Wattracr
Indiana
Uria
Agassiz
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