Life, 1890-03-20 · page 7 of 18
Life — March 20, 1890 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of This Life Magazine Page (March 20, 1890) The page is primarily **editorial content and advertisements** rather than political satire. The main visual element is a portrait of **Jeremiah Bowler, D.D., A.S.S., LL.D., Bishop of North Easter Ridge Island**, identified in the caption below the sketch. The editorial notes discuss theological and institutional matters (Methodist University, hospitals, museum policies) typical of a Christian-focused publication. The advertisements are characteristic of 1890s commercial pitches: lottery schemes, medical remedies, matrimonial services, and dubious investment opportunities. This appears to be from *The Gospel Advance*, a Christian endeavor journal, not Life's main satirical section. The content reflects late-19th-century American religious publishing rather than political commentary.
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SAMPLE PAGES FROM LIFE’'S ESTEEMED CONTEMPORARIES.—II. The Gospel Hdvance. A JOURNAL OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. Vot. XDLI. ANYWHERE, MARCH 20, 1890. PREDESTINATION. Tuner is a never-dying hell, And never-dying pains, Where children with wild demons dwell To darkness, fire and chains. Have faith the same in endless shame For all the human race, For hell is crammed with infants damned Without a day of grace. —From our favorite collection of hymns, EDITORIAL NOTES. Tue Sunday newspaper is the most corrupt- ing agency of modern times. Ir is rumored that Oshkosh Methodist Uni- versity is about to confer the degree of D.D. on that profound thinker, Col. Elliot F. Shepard. OUR readers will be interested in the adver- tisement of Messrs. Greengoods & Co. in another column, This is an old established house and what they sell is first-class in every particular. Tue Non-Sectarian Hospital is again beg- ging for money. Why subscribe to this god- less institution when so many worthy clergy: men are deprived of spending the summer in Europe ? THE nefarious scheme to open the Metro- politan Museum on the Sabbath is revived again. on the Sabbath is in church, and the money he would spend for car fare in going to see pictures would better be spent in supporting | the Home for Decayed Missionaries. A YOUNG theological student of our ac- quaintance last week drew one-tenth of the capital prize in the Nochance Lottery.: For a long time he had been in love with the daugh- ter of a retired clergyman, but did not feel that | he could afford to marry. His judicious in- vestment in the lottery gave him the where- withal. A suit for damages has been instituted by the heirs of Mrs, Henrietta Smith against the Steenth Avenue Methodist Church. It is claimed that Mrs, Smith's death, which was really due to typhoid fever, was hastened by the ringing of the bell in the church across the street from her residence. People who have typhoid fever and don't like the ringing of church bells should move into some other neighborhood. MATRIMONIAL.—Kind-hearted and benev- olent gentieman of mature years would like to cor- respond with one or more young ladies of 16 with a view to matrimony. Address Rey. X. Y., care of Methodist Book Sellers, New York City, The proper place for the workingman | SERMON. DELIVERED BY THE REV. JEREMIAH BOWLER AT THE THIRD BAP TIST TABERNACLE ON LORD'S DAY LAS’ Tuxt.—By hearing ye shall bear, and | shall not understand ; and seeing ye shall | see, and shall aot perceive. Matt. xiii. 14. | My Dear BRETHREN, the question | which now confronts us is the raising | of ten thousand dollars to send our dear brother, Dr. Balaam Jawbone, to Ca- jaxti, tO rescue from their benighted | condition the inhabitants of that un- happy isle. Surrounded by all that is lovely in nature, needing nothing that their bounteous island does not pro- vide, these wretched people ‘pass their entire lives in fishing, eating, dancin, singing, and in unheeding merrime: ‘They are not aware that for countless generations their ancestors have died and gone to endless torment because they have never received the comfort and the joy that our religion gives. It is to convey to them this great truth that our dear brother proposes to equip and provision a yacht, and, tak- ing with him his family and a few Christian friends, encounter the perils of the deep. I appeal to you as Chris- tians who have at heart the welfare of humanity—[We regret that the press- ure on our advertising columns pre- vents our printing this week the re- | mainder oft Dr. Bowler’s soul-elevatin, JEREMIAH BOWL nISHOP OF NORTHWESTERN RHODE ISLAND, sermon.—PUBS, Gospel ADVANCE. Send stamp tor ATTENTION SUFPERERS ! see inn? io tle of Dr. Keene's KURINE. One dose cures Dyspepsia, Deafness, Spring Halt and Rheumatism. ‘wo doses give imiediate relief in. all cases of Consumption, Broken Limbs, Fits, Intemperance and Pneumonia, A bottle ‘renovates the moral | nature, clears the conscience, restores the hair and Keeps the most obstinate creditors in check. 186TH MONTHLY DRAWING NOCHANCE LOTTERY COMPANY. | Capital Prize, $40,000,000 TICKETS, 10 CENTS EACH. Only 200 tickets will be sold. 3,000 prizes, making a grand total of $200,000,000. All Prizes will be Paid in Full. Send money by express only (for we are excluded from the U. S, mails) to JOHN Q. BUNKO, New Orleans, la. \GRT RICH PAST Messrs. Greengoods & Co. supply goods that cannot be | distinguished from the genuine even by experts No risk. Prominent clergymen in all parts of the country handle our goods and are getting rich at it. | Write lor particalars to Ganencoops & Co., Box 46, Sawdust City, N. J. POKER CHIPS AND FARO LAYOUTS of the best make. 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