God’s Veterans
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Issue of Christian Work (1897) with editorials and features, notably "God's Veterans," a devotional urging Christians to remain active, fruitful, and trusting in God in old age.
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God’s Veterans
The Rainbow About the Throne
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Selections from Christian Work: editorials, lessons and essays. Main pieces stress the harmony of God's justice and mercy, affliction as discipline, and warnings against distorted theology.
The Great Mischief of Some Little Things
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A Golden Rule (1897) issue with devotional essays on Bible-reading, Christian character, temperance, and practical counsel for youth, with anecdotes and moral maxims.
The Wise Saving of Money
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Late-19th-century Golden Rule pieces urging tender Christian sympathy, personal evangelism, open-air preaching, and charity for prisoners, famine relief, and missions.
The Temperance Reform: What Next?
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A poem and essays affirm Christ’s resurrection as proof of bodily immortality and the believer’s hope. They argue from historical evidence, rational necessity, and Old Testament context.
Striving for the Strait Gate
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Selections from The Friend: Deborah B. Webb’s diary on illness, Yearly Meeting, and prayer. Theodore L. Cuyler urges entering the 'narrow gate'—self-denial, revival, and faithful living.
How to Choose Your Calling
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Newspaper essays urging Christians to choose the right vocation, practice generous charity, and promote civic reforms—education, conservation, and laws against prize-fights.
God’s Gold Tried in the Fire
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1897 Christian Endeavor periodical: devotional reflections on trials and sanctification, reports of Moody's evangelistic meetings, a Song of Songs poem, and temperance/civic notes.
Exalt the Cross of Jesus Christ!
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Moody defends Jonah's historicity and warns against biblical criticism; Cuyler and others stress Christ's Cross and atonement as central to preaching and salvation.
A New Year’s Greeting to Christian Endeavorers
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New Year's Christian Endeavor issue urging missions, Week of Prayer, Sunday-school engagement, revival, and relief for Armenian orphans. Calls for evangelism and renewed devotion.
The Jubilee of Dr. Richard S. Storrs
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Collection of devotional poems celebrating song and spirituality, with tributes: a biographical jubilee of Dr. Richard S. Storrs and a note on Sir Walter Scott's letter.
Your Own Company
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1896 issue of The Golden Rule (Christian Endeavor) with sermons, devotionals, and essays on evangelism, patriotism, prison reform, and practical Christian living.
Some Memories of Henry C. Bowen
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Issue features poetry and essays: Julia Ward Howe's supplication poem, a memorial sketch of Henry C. Bowen, and an essay on Korea's hermit policy and American missionary influence.
Words of Greeting to the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor
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History of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor: its founding, worldwide spread, and mission to convert and train youth for Christ. Calls for unity and active evangelism.
Jesus the Joy-Bringer
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Collection of homiletic essays: the meaning of natural and human 'voices'; Christ as the joy-bringer and comforter (john 20, isaiah 61); and commerce as a moral public good.
The Secret of a Strong Life
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1894 Independent: poems, a report on the Japan–China conflict, and Theodore L. Cuyler's essay on the believer's hidden life in Christ as the source of spiritual strength.
Looking for the Handfuls
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Three homiletic pieces: Mott on Christian bonds and humility, Cuyler on gleaning God's blessings (Ruth), and Moody on faith's role in revival and overcoming doubt.
The Song at the Well
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Two sermons: a reflection on conscience's response to Christ's teaching, and a meditation on the well at Beer illustrating God's provision through faith, prayer, praise, and the Spirit.
The Lesson of Bethesda
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Two sermons: Abraham's test of faith and altar-building (Genesis 22), and the Bethesda lesson urging immediate repentance and obedience—"Arise, take up thy bed and walk" (John 5).
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