Word: hunger
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...York, preached last night at Appleton Chapel, from the text "Jesus had compassion for the multitude." He said: Pity is love that wants to do something for others, love anxious to sacrifice itself. Jesus had a great pity for the poor. He pitied first their hunger, second their ignorance, and third their lack of leaders...
...Donald said: The vesper services were not established for the purpose of instructing but for worship of God. There are constantly two streams flowing from the human heart. It is not enough that a man should have a clean conscience, and a clean head; there is a hunger for Almighty God that must be satisfied. We die alone and for the most part live alone; a man's friends and even his love, no matter how strong, are both insufficient. We are incapable of expressing what is in our hearts, so, feeling that God must know everything, we simply fall...
...choir sang the following anthems: "They Shall Hunger no More." - Dykes...
...Johnson's Island," describes the hardships, from the point of view of a Confederate prisoner, of a sojourn in the war prison in Lake Erie, near Sandusky. Only officers were confined on Johnson's Island; and according to Lieutenant Carpenter they were for months at the mercy of hunger and freezing weather...
...then, did it happen that this last outbreak occurred? Briefly, it was the last uprising of heathenism, a manifestation of savage impatience. The old chiefs, discontented with the present, looked back on the past and remembered only the times when they shot the buffalo, forgetting the intermediate periods of hunger; they forget the days in their youth when they were ill-clad, and remember only the festal days when their bodies were gaudily decorated...