Feared Burial in Trance

1905

Unhappy Existence Led by Victim of Peculiar Disease

"In one of my voyages from Cape Town to England," writes a traveler, "I shared my cabin with a peculiar man, whose name was Lazarus. He made me promise that if he should die during the voyage I would prevent his burial at sea. He said that on a previous voyage he had fallen sick and was taken for dead and put into a sack for burial.

"A quartermaster had been put on to watch the body until it was time for the funeral. When the burial party arrived, the quartermaster informed the captain that he thought the body had moved in the sack. The sack was opened and Lazarus eventually came to life again.

"Such was the story Lazarus told me. Lazarus was a thin man, with a sallow face. He had an enormous appetite and appeared at every meal, to which he devoted his whole energies. The good feeling only seemed to add to his corpse-like appearance.

"One evening, sure enough, when we were about half way to our voyage's end, he apparently died again. The doctors took him in charge this time, however, and he came out of his trance without any shotted-sack episode. He was met at the London docks by a number of relatives and friends, all of whom looked as if they might be suffering from the same complaint."



One of Life's Perplexities

Why People Admire Something Producer Thinks Little Of

He had two lectures. One was dignified, noble, grand, well-pleasing to himself. The other was common, simple, earnest, popular, but thought little of by himself. One of the perplexities of his life was this: Why should the people admire something that he thought little of, and think little of something which he thought so much of? Some thoughts and sermons are for those who create them, and should be kept in a sealed case in the owner's private laboratory. — Earl M. Pratt in "Short Talks."

Twenty Rules for Health

1874

1. Remember the author of the laws which govern the human body is the author of the Ten Commandments.

2. Infidelity to the laws — established that mankind should be healthy and happy — is the greatest sin of the present generation.

3. Be cheerful, trustful of others, and faithful to your own best conception of duty. Never brood over troubles that you have, and be sure you never borrow any.

4. Be much in the sunlight, and prefer light-colored clothing.

5. Drones must die. Exercise liberally and live. Be out-doors all you can while the sun shines.

6. Breathe pure air. Live with open windows, and the windows of heaven will be more likely to open for you.

7. Pray with a pure heart and a clean skin. Bathe often.

8. Avoid stimulation by spirits of all kinds, strong coffee and tea, opium and tobacco.

9. Keep the head cool, feet and heart warm, hopes heavenward, and fingernails clean.

10. Eat only three times daily, and never between meals — not a nut nor an apple. Drink nothing while eating.

11. One hearty meal of meat per day is sufficient. The other two should be spare.

12. Avoid late, hearty suppers, pork, spices and pepper, rich pastry, and imperfectly cooked beans.

13. Wheat, oat and barley meal, with beans, peas, lean meats, fish and wild game, are the best articles of food.

14. Fruits are cooling to the blood, and especially adapted to warm weather.

15. Eat slowly, masticate your food well, and eat nothing for three hours before retiring.

16. Let the time spent at table be happy. Encourage pleasant, cheerful conversation; joke, but do not argue. Rest a half hour after every hearty meal.

17. Sleep eight hours of each day.

18. Brain, bone and muscle are built of different material, and the brainworker should have food different from the muscle-worker. He is not thoroughly educated who cannot select food adapted to his needs.

19. Avoid corsets, and suspend no article of clothing from the waist. Protect every part of the body from chill and exposure.

20 Study hygiene, attend health lectures and read health literature. As you are ignorant or intelligent in physiology will your habits be wise or otherwise.


Note: Consult with your physician before taking questionable health advice. There has been progress in health information, I've heard, since 1874. The information here is for entertainment purposes only. And I'm not so sure it's good enough for even that.



You may glean knowledge by reading, but you must separate the chaff from the wheat by thinking.


Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health. Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt.


A clergyman in Dundee, Scotland, announced to his congregation that, in consequence of his inability to afford coals for keeping up his study fire, he had discontinued studying, and would preach old sermons until a fall in the price.

The Jollier (humor column)

1922

A big wheat crop is predicted. Say it with flour.

These June nights are even better than the famous Arabian nights.

Nineteen seniors at an Ohio girls' college are engaged. And yet people ask: "Does education help?"

A success is a self-starter. A failure is a self-stopper.

Hint to Ireland: An alley-apple a day won't keep the doctor away.

At the time of going to press another movie star was married.

In Indiana, a janitor stole $80,000 from the bank. This was the best he ever cleaned up.

An optimist is a man who plants an orchard near a school house.

Thanks to radio broadcasting sermons, a man can stay at home and claim he has been at church.

One way to keep a daughter at home is to feed her on onions.

A school of politics for women has opened. First lesson should be smoking bum cigars.

It's an unlucky angler who doesn't even catch one to lie about.

Americans in Germany say they are charged too much. Germans want them to feel at home.

This business revival could stand a little more shouting.

The only objection to living in the country is you have to go to town for your vacation.

No girl buying clothes wants the most she can get for her money.

In Detroit, a madman whipped his landlord and escaped. But all mad men can't do that.

We will investigate Turkish atrocities. The Turks will be glad to give a demonstration.

—The Coshocton Tribune, Coshocton, Ohio, June 19, 1922, page 4.

Drunks Sentenced to Church Attendance

1911

DRUNKS DISLIKE NEW RULE

Cordele (Ga.) Mayor Has Novel Method of Cleaning Up Town.

Cordele, Ga., June 6 — Disgusted by the action of Mayor Dorris in announcing that all white persons convicted of drunkenness must either accompany him to church for ten consecutive Sundays or serve thirty days on the streets, chronic drinkers are taking the pledge or getting out of town.

The first man to receive the mayor's novel sentence was Scott Thomson, a well-to-do business man. Thomson accepted the church end of the sentence but he did not seem to enjoy the sermon.


BOLT GOES THROUGH GRAVE

Steel Casket Attracts Lightning—Fear Body Is Mangled

York, Pa., June 7.—Lightning played a queer prank in Prospect Hill cemetery, passing through a grave containing a metal casket and then tearing to pieces a large tree nearby. An investigation will be made to see if the casket is shattered.

The caretaker says that it seemed, as if a ball of fire had passed along the ground, entered the grave and came out of the other end. It is feared by relatives of the dead man that the body may have been thrown from the casket and mangled by the bolt.

—Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1911, page 4.

What Easter Ought to Mean

1920--

What Easter Ought to Mean

Its significance is both sacred and sentimental. From the devotional standpoint it lifts our souls in communion with our better impulses and gives us new incentives for better living with Nature's changing season.

From a sentimental standpoint it enlivens and awakens our pride, our self regard and the esteem with which we seek to impress ourselves in the minds of our fellow men. We manifest that in our new raiment, new spirits, new aspects on life from which we receive our suggestion with Spring's balmy breezes, green trees, the happiness of the birds and the fragrance of the flowers, and rendering to us a fuller appreciation of the joy of living.

"What Easter Ought to Mean" was the subject recently of Rev. Waldorf, D. D., pastor of Cleveland Methodist church, who said in part:

"There is danger that the multitude of Easter eggs and the social customs shall hide the real meanings of the day. Let us have Easter ecstasy -- not something cheaper and lower.

Easter means a new reverence for human life and a new sense of the worth, the dignity and the divinity of the race. We are not creatures of a day. Our origin is not creatures of a day. Our origin is not obscured in myth. Our destiny is not shrouded in mist. All this and more the Resurrection proves. The thinking world has understood this. Most beneficent have been the results. No person would be permitted today to treat a dumb animal today as any Roman slave owner might have treated his slave with impunity before the Resurrection.

"Easter ought to mean to us as individuals a call to a high earthly life. We are immortals. We must live as immortals. To live as immortals we must discard the carnalizing and the low and deal with the spiritualizing and the pure. A soul that is destined to be crowned and throned, and to live perpetually amid the glory and beauty of heaven, must enter upon its high career here and now, and must deal constantly in those things which are morally and spiritually ennobling.

Easter ought to mean an assurance of faith. The Resurrection of Christ is so important that we are not content with a guess. We desire to be sure. Fortunately it is the one historical fact, the one supreme miracle which has been attested with such an array of evidence as to satisfy any honest judicial court of inquiry. The Crucifixion was not done in a corner. It was at Jerusalem and a multitude saw it. They were mostly Christ's enemies. The Roman spear proved that the sufferer was dead, the sealed tomb proved that he was buried. The empty grave proved that he had broken his bonds of death. The six weeks' fellowship after the Resurrection and before his ascension, during which he was seen by dozens, scores and even hundreds, makes assurance doubly sure."

--The Chronicle Telegram, Elyria, Ohio, April 3, 1920, page 5.

Big Crowds Out for the Harp Evangelist

La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1913--

BIG CROWDS HEAR HARP EVANGELIST

The evangelistic services being conducted at the Tabernacle Baptist church by Rev. George H. Thompson, known as the Harp Evangelist, are drawing good sized crowds each evening. Last night's meeting was impressive. While the choir sang "Nearer My God to Thee," the evangelist accompanied them on his harp. His sermon on "Playing Second Fiddle" last night was impressive. The subject of the sermon tonight will be the "Underground Road to Heaven."

--The La Crosse Tribune, La Crosse, Wisconsin, October 8, 1913, page 4.

Brother Oliver Preaches Great Sermon on Noah's Flood

Ada, Oklahoma, 1906
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OLIVER PREACHED GRAND SERMON TUESDAY NIGHT

Bro. Oliver was at his best at the Tuesday night service, and his sermon was one of the best that we have ever heard in Ada. His text, "And the Lord said unto Noah, 'Come thou and all thy family into the ark'" is found in Gen., vii, 1.

Mr. Oliver began by reviewing the results of scientific investigation as to the age of the earth and the date of the creation. He concluded this by saying that no two scientists agree upon the age of the earth. The estimates vary from a few thousands to many hundreds of millions of years. We must, therefore, reach the inevitable conclusion that we only know that man was created and not when. Mr. Oliver gave a brief review of man's history from the day of his creation to his destruction by the flood. The basic thought of the sermon was that as God called Noah into the ark before the great flood, He is now calling all into the ark of salvation.

"People made fun of Noah when he responded to the command of his God to build an ark. Perhaps his family was snubbed by the social leaders of his neighborhood. People called him an old stogy, and mocked and scoffed at him. But Noah said, 'God will send plenty of water.' He will always flood the soul when his children obey his commands. You will not get a blessing while you are playing the hypocrite." Mr. Oliver quit his line of thought just here long enough to condemn hypocrisy in the local church. He said that those who drive to Byrd's mill or any other mill on Sunday ought to be turned out of the churches. "There are hypocrites right here in Ada who are dragging men and women to hell." Mr. Oliver asked, "Are you fulfilling the command God has made of you?"

"Just as the people were indifferent and reveling in sin while Noah was building the ark, people are today turning an indifferent ear to the warning that God will again destroy this old world and all with it who do not take heed now and make their eternity secure in the ark of the blood of Jesus Christ."

Mr. Oliver attacked the theory of the Universalists, who say that God is too good to punish his people. "The same devil who told Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit, that no harm would come to her, tells the Universalists that God is too good to punish those who disobey Him."

Mr. Oliver's description of the filling of the ark with birds, beast and man; the dastardly work of the uncompromising waters and the awful end that befell all living creatures was eloquent, graphic and picturesque. He painted a lifelike picture, which will always be remembered by those who heard him.

Mr. Oliver pleaded that the families of Ada let God shut them in the ark of salvation just as He shut Noah and his family in the literal ark. "It means eternity security. I pray God that He save you from the storm of judgment."


Announcements.
Mr. Oliver will preach a farewell sermon to the Christian people Sunday morning at 11 o'clock on the "Baptism of the Holy Spirit."

On Sunday afternoon he will preach to men only. Subject, "Manhood."

--The Evening News, Ada, Oklahoma, August 8, 1906, page 1.

Comment: This is a great article. I like how Mr. Oliver dispenses with the whole issue of the age of the earth. Then the mocking that Noah must have received is a nice part. As for Byrd's mill, I don't know what that is, but apparently some worldly behavior went on there, dancing, maybe drinking, I'd guess. Finally, the article writer's review of the sermon, one of the best ever heard and to be remembered always, is classic. I love it.

Short Sermons for a Sunday

1909
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Short Sermons for a Sunday

Stand Like a Tower.
Be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points. Every day do something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, if an hour of need should come, it may find you trained to stand the test. The man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic will, and self-denial in unnecessary things will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him. — William James.

Sweet Enveloping Thought.
He that finds God a sweet enveloping thought to him never counts his company. When I sit in that presence, who shall dare to come in?—Emerson.

Preach the Truth.
If God had wanted men to prop up truth He would have told them; He only commanded them to preach it.

Kingly Living.
The world will come to the Kingdom through kingly living in the world.

--Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, September 8, 1909, page 3.

Philadelphia Pastor: 'Suicide the Disease of Today'

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THE INCREASE OF SUICIDE.

Philadelphia Pastor Terms It the Disease of To-Day.

A prominent Philadelphia clergyman pronounced a scathing denunciation upon the view now taken by society of suicide. He called suicide the disease of to-day, a growing epidemic of self-destruction. He quoted from statistics the manner in which suicides of earlier days were treated and stated that the body of a suicide was impaled upon a stake.

He considered it high time that some one should record a Christian protest against the leniency with which society to-day treats the crime of suicide. In the eyes of Christ the man who takes his own life, the preacher continued, is the veriest coward that walks the earth -- a deserter and a skulker of the battle of life, and deserves to be pilloried in the stocks of public infamy.

The pastor referred to the deaths of three Christian young men from this cause within one year in Newton, and also to the prevalence of the crime elsewhere, and he noted several causes for the growing tendency to self-destruction. The first was the increase of rank materialism. The second he would call the "dying of death." The fear of death was beginning to cease to cast its shadow on life, and was being supplanted by the joy of life. The third reason he would call "life's closing doors." Many, as they looked over their lives, concluded that the "game was not worth the candle."

--The Daily Herald, Delphos, Ohio, September 6, 1900, page 3.

The Glee Club Sings a Number

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Methodist Church Notes

The Revival services at the Methodist church increase in interest each night and much spiritual progress has been made. On Sunday night the pastor talked on "The Influence and Responsibility of Leadership." On Monday night the subject was "The Thirteenth chapter of Corinthians, the Sanctification Chapter of the Bible." This was a unique presentation of an expository sermon on that beautiful chapter.

On Tuesday night the Y.M.C.A. philanthropist, Mr. Arthur Pearson, of Topeka, gave a lay sermon, the subject of which was "Bible Study, Prayer and Personal Touch."

On Wednesday night the pastor held a special service for the Sunday School Board, giving an illustration of the Bible and its usefulness, by drawing a tree representing the Old and New Testaments.

Thursday night was used as "Official Board Night," and the pastor spoke of the Board as the Reflectors of a church or the pastor's eyes through which he sees things, and the church's torch by which they get light on how, what, and how much to give and do for the church.

Friday night is especially for the Young People, and the Epworth League. At the service there will be special music. The Glee Club sings a number, the Choir has charge of that contingent known as the "Epworth League Choir," who will also sing for the first time in public. Each member of the League is to wear a white carnation, and it will be something worth while.

On Sunday morning the pastor will preach on "The Dignity of a Son of God in Ellis," at night from this subject "The Things that Find us Out."

The services will be held every night next week except Saturday night, and every afternoon. There will be special singing every night and the choir will have charge. Every Christian man and woman in Ellis is invited to attend and help in this campaign.

--The Ellis Review-Headlight, Ellis, Kansas, January 1911.

Shall We Know Our Friends in Heaven?

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Congregational Church
The communion service last Sunday was well attended and two valuable accessions were received by covenant and fellowship. Good congregations both morning and evening listened attentively to the able sermons of Dr. J. Sidney Gould. The pastor led the Christian Endeavor meeting, which was unusually interesting.

Next Sunday the pastor will preach the last of his series of sermons on "The Soul." Morning subject, "Shall we Know our Friends in Heaven?" Evening, "What Shall be the end of the Finally Impenitent?" Chas Prentice will lead the Endeavor meeting and a lively time is expected. The usual good music by the choir is promised

The general public is most cordially invited. -- W. L. Martin, pastor.

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Found - Drawn work pillow slip. Owner can have same by calling at this office and paying for this notice.

--The Ellis Review-Headlight, Ellis, Kansas, January 1911.