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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1882)
DEVOTED TO PURE CHRISTIANITY, TEMPERANCE, EDUCATION AND GENERAL NEWS •» ’ I 4 VOL. XII. PORTLAND AND MONMOUTH, OREGON-; FRIDAY, OCT. 20, 1882. C hristian H erald . A German.minister, in speaking of the security of God’s people and D. T. STANLEY, the precious promises, of the Bible, Publisher and Proprietor, Monmouth, Or. ’ said : “ Hnw-often the words ‘ Fear • • - not ’ occur in the sacred volume! Subscription Price i I have counted up into the seven- Cne Copy, one year..................... ....$2 00 One Copy, six mouths-------- - „ ... 1 (X) - ami I tbmtght t- ‘¿A11, ADVERTISEMENTS. I need not look for any more.” to you will turn sometimes coldly blasted ; but, gentlemen, when you lay your dear- ones away, when disappointment comes to you on the right hand and on the left, there is one source for a trftff and Prices will bo given on application. , i | Entered at th>-Post-office at Monmouth, as second class mail matter. | Please Notice. 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If any snbscrilier fails to get the H erald in due time, or fails to get it regularly, we will —trtrtrw i ■Rf«« favor n"Wwiir~Hf>Mfy •'rent once. Wo are very anxious that the paper should reach every Snbacriber regularly. t what frame of mind a sermon is heard. If the heart is not right, A poor, converted woman of the sermon seems dry and uninter India said : “ I have no -money to esting, while if a proper spirit is give to missions, but I am able to possessed, it will be drunk in speuk of-my Savior to my. neigh eagerly. Many a pastor is con bors.” Could a volume tell more sidered a poor preacher, when the of the duty of the people of this fnrrft ”nr~7int—hisy-4Ttrt^hnt---nf--thn- ~ "country who live in so much light ? listener.—AV. -.Said a young .man in a prayer T he NO. 42 B attle .—Life often is to death it is one prolonged struggle for existence. We are in the main conscious of this most fully when disease attacks us and suffering ■ensues.- -Mmt-physical ills of life are due' to our thoughtless- ness. We do not sufficiently ap preciate the strength of the enemy. We somehow think that we shall escape the penalties of wrong doing. So, too, of the business ventures we undertake, We can not ignore the difficulties, but j^e are prone to think them chained, like the lions in the way of Blip* yan’s pilgrim"!It is noTrig^That” we_,should over-iate possible diffi culties in the way of success. To <lo this would, perhaps, paralyze all v-fforts. Nor should we umler-rate - them. - To do this is to insure de- feat, sooner or later. Rather, measure the full strength of the enemy. Measure, too, your own strength, Then in the name and strength of the .Lord, go bravely forward, and win every time in the hattie for life.— G&d Gdfxl Work. «7 meeting n recently v : “ I worked for The man who will not pay his M——, a well known Christian, for pastor after lie has received his ser eigKC years, and he never spoke t«» vices, no matter what his excuse me of religion.” The woman in may lie, would not pay any one if India hail learned what was better he could help it. If there is any than money—the power of personal debt of honor, it is the debt which influence—-and eleven persons have a man owes to his ehurch, and thr been brought to Christ through her same sense of honor that demands •‘speaking to her neighbors.”—A’ j *. its payment, requires you to pay it By mistake our leading editorial promptly, cheerfully.—A/eMoirix/ Hand-shaking is a power. Tin* last week was not credited to the Advance. politician employs it with effect to It is not by constraint or by Junior Editor as it should have Vice President Henry Wilson, w in votes. The Devil’s recruiting painful effort that we make real been. No harm, we hope. when very feeble, just before his officers make free and constant use progress. On the contrary, it is Brethren, make arrangements for death, addressed these words to the of it. The church only is chary in simply a question of yielding our your protracted meetings. Some young people of the “ Brooklyn its employment. In the heartiness will, or going from day to day dis have written already with the view Tabernacle ” congregation f of their greetings, the saloons try to couraged by nothing, satisfied with of securing colal>orers for an on “ I hear men sometimes say, make it appear that’ the churches the present moment, thankful to let ward movement. Let others do so. when a man writes his name ujton are cold, and hav<* no cordial wel him do all who has made all, and to Let every community in this State the records of a visible church, that come for those who drop into their leave our will immovable within know that there are some defenders he had better let other things meetings. The result is that the his will. How happy it is to abide of the faith. On ! right on. alone, especially public affairs. 1 saloons have gained, and thechurch- in this (ondition! How satisfied am not a believer in that Christi es lost, many a promising, warm- is the heart, even though it may There are sixty Methodist anity which hides itself away. I hearted, socially inclined young lack all else. Ex churches in New York city. ltelieve in that robust Christianity man. A warm grasp of tin* hand “ As thy »lays, thy strength shal£ -might—Lev**—ndained—tl+mm—T4+e that goe s right out i n 4 h» dh wor l d ■ ’’be.’**' It is first ¿Tie promise for In the Unite"«! States there is one cordial feeling is in the churches. and works. If there ever was a regularly ordained minister to strength according ’ to our need. There is more real warmth in them There are days of darkness, and it time in our country, that time is every 700 inhabitants, while in than in the saloons, but the mem* is the promise for light in India, China, Japan, and Africa, now, when young men of this them, liers have not been trained to show There are < there is only one missionary to country should reflect and act ac lays of weakness, and it cording to the teachings of God’s it. Let it be manifested. Organize is the promise for strength. every 2,000,000 people. . There holy Word, and attempt to purify, a hand-shaking brigade, if necessa are days of what we call prosperity, More than 30,00!) converts have lift up and carry our country for ry, of every member of the church. been gathered by Moravian mission ward, so that it shall be in practice Stop after the prayer-meeting a and we need a strong hand to hold work in their foreign fields within what it is in theory,—the great little, for practice. Don’t shoot for us calm and steady and true. For oftentimes the most dangerous trial the last fifty years. leading Christian nation of the the door as if you were glad to get is when we seem not to be tried at I rest the happiness of my soul glol>e.—You will lie disappoint«] out of such a place. But don’t all. But in them all the anchor of on no one book, except the Holy in nlany of your hopes and aspira shake hands as a mere formality— the promise still holds—“ As thy tions. The friends near and dear put your heart into it.—& S’. Times. days, thy strength shall be.r’— Ex, Scriptures.— Sedden.