The Help of Headwinds
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Poems and reflections present trials as God-ordained discipline that builds faith and character. An essay advocates international arbitration and peaceful settlement of disputes.
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The Help of Headwinds
Preaching Outside of the Pulpit
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Urges ministers to preach beyond the pulpit—through personal visitation, pastoral care, and one-on-one evangelism; illustrates with "Not by bread alone."
Christian Growth — Like the Lilies
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Reflections on the comfort and meaning of sharing Christ's sufferings, and on Christian growth like lilies—rooted in union with Christ and the Spirit.
The Faith That Saves
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Urges genuine saving faith and evangelical repentance—faith is trusting Christ, not mere intellectual assent. Includes prayers, poems and a Gettysburg recollection.
The Effectual Prayer
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Poems and essays stress effectual, faith-filled prayer as the catalyst for revival and urge purposeful, sacrificial giving and cooperative church festivals to serve ministry.
Would You Be a Christian?
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Essays urging individuals to choose Christ—explaining repentance, faith, and abiding in Jesus—and examining the warrant, privilege, power, and need of prayer.
Clear Shining After Rain
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Pieces urging spiritual renewal: a meditation likening conversion to 'clear shining after rain' and an essay diagnosing why revival is delayed—worldliness, Sabbath neglect, weak church witness.
Light at Evening Time
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Mar 26, 1903 Presbyterian Banner: announces the General Assembly excursion to Los Angeles. Also reports Anthracite Commission labor rulings, English church discipline, bribery and confession revision.
Preaching to Win Souls
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A 1903 Presbyterian paper reporting on religious liberty in Russia, labor injunctions and international church-state issues, with devotions urging bold faith (luke 5) and soul-winning.
Fuel and Fire for Prayer Meetings
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News and commentary: Venezuela diplomacy, a labor 'independent workmen' movement, missionary Schereschewski, football safety, and Cuyler's plea to revive fervent prayer meetings.
Lovable Christians
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Editorial urging gratitude and generous Christian giving amid abundant harvests; warns against forgetting God and over-commercializing church events. Stresses sympathy and timely kindness.
Anchored
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Political and labor news (Salisbury, Balfour, strikes, trusts), followed by an essay arguing Christianity's divine origin evidenced by its influence on poetry and literature.
The Lord’s Day and the German’s Beer
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Profile of Rev. T.L. Cuyler and a defense of Sunday-closing laws against Sunday saloons, arguing temperance and Sabbath observance. Ends with the short story "Not Too Late."
Why Are Conversions Fewer?
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Discusses a decline in conversions attributed to lack of pointed, evangelistic preaching and weakened family worship; also reports debate over legalizing Sunday saloons in New York.
Treasures in Heaven
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Devotional urging Christians to 'store up treasures in heaven' through sacrifice, giving, and faithful service. Also reports statistical growth of Catholic and Evangelical churches in Germany.
A Prescription for Sick Christians
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Devotional urging spiritual revival: diagnoses 'sick' Christians and prescribes confession, Bible-feeding, work and prayer. Includes reflections on favorite hymns of consolation.
Christ’s Workmanship
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On Christian character as Christ's workmanship—growth under God's shaping—and Luther's formative principle: justification by faith through imputation of Christ's righteousness.
A Timely Text
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A Lutheran Observer piece combining a reflective poem on aging with a pastoral essay urging trust in God, steadfastness, and seeing suffering as service that glorifies God.
Christ’s Prisoners
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Poems and reflections on Christian suffering and spiritual "prisoners of Jesus Christ," emphasizing experiential faith and the Lutheran doctrine of justification by faith.
This One Thing
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Devotional poems and essays urging single-minded devotion to Christ (Paul's 'this one thing'). Historical article on the formation and adoption of the Augsburg Confession (1529–1530).
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