Christian herald and signs of our times (1896) (14582401338)

Identifier: christianheralds19unse (find matches)

Title: Christian herald and signs of our times

Year: 1896 (1890s)

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Publisher: (New York, The Christian Herald)

Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association

Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University

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The Mother of the Bowery Mission. Mrs. Binl and her Labors for the Lost Menof New York—A Mission Laundry. 4>^OUR years have nearly^ passed since the re-SXlCT^fP^^T markable missionaryry^v^yt work conducted by1 Mrs. Sarah J. Bird be- came an essential partof the spiritual life ofthe Bowery Mission.Greatly beloved byall, her labors among the Lost Boys ofthe Bowery—as the outcast men andyouths are affectionately called—have beenthe means, under Divine blessing, of re-claiming large numbers of them from livesof sin, and drawing them to the Saviour.In the colored illustration on the first pageof this issue, a faithful representation isgiven of one of Mrs. Birds Thursday nightmeetings of recent date. These gatherings,like those she holds on Sundays, are invari-ably crowded, and the men listen with raptattention as the story of the Gospel fallsfrom her lips—the old story, ever new,that gives hope to the hopeless, and in-vites the outcast and the wanderer to come

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TREATING A PLEURISY PATIENT IN THE BOWERY MISSION FREE DISPENSARY. the Southern army marching North: shoul-der to shoulder ! Tramp ! Tramp ! Tramp !until they meet mid-continent, havingtaken America for God! The thunder of the bombardment is al-ready in the air, and when the last bridgeof opposition is taken, and the last port-cullis of Satan is lifted, and the last gunspiked, and the last tower dismantled, andthe last charger of iniquity shall havebeen hurled back upon its haunches, whata time of rejoicing! We will see it, notwith these eyes, which before that will beclosed in blessed sleep, but with strongand better vision, when the Lord once inawhile gives us a vacation among thedoxologies to come down and see the dearold land which I pray may always be thelamb of the text, mild and peaceful, inof-fensive, but in case foreign nations assailit, having two horns of army and navystrong enough to hook them back andhook them down, and a voice louderthan a dragon, yea louder than ten tho

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