Kindle Your Own Fire
Editorial urges prayerful, wise U.S. stewardship of Cuba and other islands. Theodore L. Cuyler warns against periodic revivals and urges pastors to pursue continual evangelism.
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Kindle Your Own Fire
Straight to Jesus Christ!
Reports Spanish-American War developments and features Theodore L. Cuyler's sermon urging decisive personal conversion—an exhortation to 'go straight to Jesus Christ.'
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Brave Onesiphorus — A Talk for the Times
Religious weekly covers the Dreyfus trial and Zola's defiance, praises Onesiphorus' loyalty to Paul, and includes church news, missions, and Bible-study notes.
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Mountain Tops With Jesus: Calls to a Higher Life
A call to seek 'mountain-top' communion with Jesus—quiet prayer, increased faith, and holy devotion—to renew strength and return to humble service.
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God’s Veterans
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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The Rainbow About the Throne
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.
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The Great Mischief of Some Little Things
A Golden Rule (1897) issue with devotional essays on Bible-reading, Christian character, temperance, and practical counsel for youth, with anecdotes and moral maxims.
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The Wise Saving of Money
Late-19th-century Golden Rule pieces urging tender Christian sympathy, personal evangelism, open-air preaching, and charity for prisoners, famine relief, and missions.
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The Temperance Reform: What Next?
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.
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Striving for the Strait Gate
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.
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How to Choose Your Calling
Newspaper essays urging Christians to choose the right vocation, practice generous charity, and promote civic reforms—education, conservation, and laws against prize-fights.
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God’s Gold Tried in the Fire
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.
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Exalt the Cross of Jesus Christ!
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.
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A New Year’s Greeting to Christian Endeavorers
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.
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The Jubilee of Dr. Richard S. Storrs
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.
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Your Own Company
1896 issue of The Golden Rule (Christian Endeavor) with sermons, devotionals, and essays on evangelism, patriotism, prison reform, and practical Christian living.
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Some Memories of Henry C. Bowen
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.
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Words of Greeting to the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor
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.
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Jesus the Joy-Bringer
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.
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