Ascension Sermon on Mount Olivet and Benediction
A Sunday sermon discusses the Ascension of Christ from Mount Olivet. It cites biblical imagery, the breaking of natural law, and the open palm benediction, urging faith, mercy, and calm reliance on the ascended Christ amid life’s trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Olivet
Christ
Strauss
Woolston
Spinoza
Hume
Schleiermacher
Satan
Olivet
Palestine
Bethlehem
Calvary
Oliver
Earth
England
Life on a Ranch by Theodore Roosevelt at Washington
Roosevelt recalls eight years on Western ranches, notes frontier decline, vanishing buffalo, and the rise of cow outfits. He describes ranch life from huts to roundups, horse breaking, branding, and the dangers of weather, Indians, and rough work, warning eastern youths that cow work is a hard trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Roosevelt
Washington
West
Star
Hale
Great West
Erim
How Our Grandfathers Were Apprenticed
Moses Adams of Marathon New York died at eighty eight. A cherished relic is a 1809 indenture binding him as apprentice to Robert Pierce for thirteen years to learn tanning and currying with schooling in reading writing and arithmetic. Pierce provided victuals clothing and doctors and promised a final suit of clothes and discharge at term end. The apprentice served faithfully, married, and later cared for Pierce who died in 1844 leaving farm property to him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heaven
Garden of Olives
Olivet
Joseph
Mount Olivet
Christ
Earth
Ascension
Palestine
Bethlehem
Nazareth
Pilate
Calvary
Oliver
Charles the
Charles
Moses Adams
Marathon
N. Y
Lord
Lisle
County of Broome
State of
New York
Moses Adams, Jr
Robert Pierce
Moses, Jr
Moses
Pierce
New York Herald
The Bill Broke His Jaw
A New York physician recalls a first professional call where a rich patient with a dislocated jaw asks his fee. The young surgeon initially quotes fifty dollars, the patient gasps, and the doctor doubles the bill to one hundred dollars after the jaw is reset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fips
Argonaut
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rev. DR. Talmage
Sterling Discourses
Agates
Xv . i
Jerusalem
Jericho
Dead Sea
Mary
Martha
Lazarus
David
Pompey
Gethsemane
Jesus
Bethany
Galilee
Cesar
God
Tresusco
Lake Galilee
Ris
Mount
Jordan
Golgotha
Tiberias
Gadara
Raphael
Mendelssohn
Phidias
James
Pennsylvania
St. Anne’s Bay
Island of
Curacoa
Camden
James M. Rice
Indiana
Kankakee
Far West
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