AUGUST 21, 1891
I.OCAI. AJiD PKllSONAL.
Mr. T. H. Johnston, of Dufnr, woa in
the city Saturday.
Mr. B. C. McAfee of Tygli Valley was
. in the city Friday.
A. A. Frazier gave this office a wel
come call Saturday.
. Mr. S. J. LaFrance of Hood River was
in the city Saturday.
V. C. Brock, county clerk of Sherman
county was in the city Saturday.
-Dr. L, anderpool of Dufur, the or-
iginal proprietor of the S. B., medicines
was in the city Saturday.
A car load of fat hogs from North
Powder, were shipped from the stock
yards Thursday, for the Sound.
Seven cars of beef cattle passed through
the city Thursday evening for the Amer
ican Dressed Meat company, Troutdale.
Hampton Kelly, C. Confer and James
Grey of Wapmitia were in town Thurs
. day of last week attending to land office
.- matters.
Ten thousand bushels of wheat were
sold in Helix last Tuesday at 65Jg' cents
for blue stem and 645g for club, clear of
the sack.
The Dalles City, companion' steamer
to the Regulator, has been towed over
to this side to receive her finishing
touches. Oregon Express.
The wheat crop of Walla Walla county
for the current year is estimated by the
secretary of the Walla Walla board of
trade at 3,306,937 bushels.
Miller, Johnston and Cadle of Prine
ville came into town Wednesday for a
Buffalo Pitts thresher which they
purchased from Filloon Bros.
Messrs. -LeDac. F. M. Thompson and
James Johnson of Dufnr were in the city.
They report harvesting in full swing but
fear that much of the grain will be
shriveled.
President Orborn is reported to have
said that he likes the position of the
new portage company better than that
of the Columbia Railway and Naviga
tion company.
Captain H. Anlaaf and wife, who have
been visiting friends in this city for the
past few days, left last Friday for Cali
forma where thev intend to make their
future home.
From Mr. W. B. Rodman of Wamic
we learn that crops in his neighborhood
promise to be good, fully up to an aver
- age. This remark will apply to spring
grain, and fall grain will even do better,
An attempt was made Thnrday night
to enter the cigar store of W. H. Jones on
First street. The panels of the back
door were forced in at the bottom but
the would-be thief evidently got scared
as no further damage was done and no
entrance was effected. -
A visitor from the Cascade Locks in
forms us that the water is nearly all
pumped out of the canal and that a force
of laborers have been put to work on the
sand pit, preparatory to commencing
the laying of the concrete in the bottom
of the canal.
A dispatch that arrived at this office
this afternoon and appears in another
column, intimates that the members of
the Portland chamber of commerce are
in favor of having The Dalles portaee
built by that body and controlled by it,
This is good. We believe the directors
of the portage incorporation wont stand
in the way a moment. What they want
as well as we, if we mistake not, is a
poi tage on this side and it is a secondary
matter who shall build it if some big
railroad company does not get a hold of
it. Bv all means let the chamber of
commerce build the road.
D. L. Vanderpool of Dufnr, came into
the store of Filloon Bros. Saturday morn
ing and asked for a box for one of the
wheels of his buggy. He was not quite
sure of the style he wanted but selecting
one that he thought would suit he re
marked "I'll take this over to the stable,
where my buggy is and see if it will do.'
In about half an hour he came back and
remarked qnietly to John Filloon,
say John if yon say nothing about it I'll
set up the cigars. The fact is I left my
- buggy at home and forgot a.1 about it.
The doctor had come into town in a
neighbor's hack and never thought of
that till be got to the stable.
- In 1853 when Ben McAtee first visited
Tygh Valley, where be has had his home
.since 1865, there was not a white settler
in the valley. It was the grand rendez
vous for Indians for hundreds of miles
- on every side. There they met for horse
racing and gambling and their own pe-
- culiar sports. The tall rye grass, that
covered nearly the whole -valley was
"eight to ten feet high. It was a lovely
: spot, an Indian paradise, Nathan Olney
. then ran a little ferry boat across tha
- Deschutes at the month of Bnck Hollow
.-' and Dan Butler was constable of Wasco
precinct which then included all East
ern Oregon and was a precinct of Clack
. amas county.
Ex-governor Moody has published a
couple of letters in our evening con
temptible which, if they mean anything
at this particular time, seem designed to
present his ex-Excellency as a devoted
friend of the Cascade portage railway
and therefore of the new opposition line
of boats and the opening of the Colum
bia river. As we have not the slightest
disposition to do the ex-governor or any
member of his family the least inten
tional wrong we offer the columns of this
' journal to any one who will show,
wherein by word or deed, he or any of
- bis family has contributed so much as a
ten cent piece to further the object of an
open river. This is the question and not
whether an obscure individual has told
truth or falsehood. Even if the ex -governor
could succeed in proving home a
lie on the editor of this journal (which
he could not if he cared to present the
proof) that would not relieve iiim of the
etigma of never having, notwithstanding
all his wealth, contributed a uickle to
wards obtaining cheaper freight rates
' for the people out of whom he ha made
every dollar lie owns. '
At the horse race held at Wamic last
Thursday the W. D, Hunger mare,
Queen of Hearts was matched against
the Tom Strickland mare Mamie, for
4158 a side, quarter mile dash, and was
von by Queen of Heart?. A match had
FRIDAY,
Hood River Armory association, capital
stock $1200. The incorporators are A.
S. Blowers, A. Winans, J. H. Dukes. E.
F. Winans and L. N. Blowers.
Union- Pacific officials object to the
redaction of freight ratca pioposcd by
the Oregon railroad commission. They
will appear before the commission next
Tnesdav and endeavour to convince the
commission that the proposed reduction
should not be made.
A very enjoyable picnic was held at
Mosier, last Saturday, in honor of the
anniversary of Mrs. J. II. Mosier's 53
birthday..
Diphtheria still rages around Prine
ville and John Savage has lost three
more children, making a total of seven
lost to this family by the dread disease.
A telegram received by Mr. Geo. A.
Liebe this morning, conveys the sad
news that the wife of Henry Allehoff of
Albina, died a little after midnight last
night.
Last Friday and Saturday 135,000
bushels of wheat were sold in Walla
Walla at 74 cents for club and 75 cents
for blue stem. On Friday 100,000 bushels
were sold at Adams, fifteen miles north
of Pendleton for 75J cents a bushel,
sacked. Saturday last 10,000 bushels
were contracted for at Salem at 80 cents
a bushel.
The total number of persons in the
state between the ages of four and
twenty years is 105,622 and the total
amount ot state school funds subject to
distribution is $153,151.00, giving to
each county the sum of $1.45 per capita,
the same ratio that it was in 1800,
although the number of children is 6006
more, snowing a neaitny increase in ine
fund.
From the Condon Globe we learn that
Rev. E. D. Howels and family have
moved from that country to their old
home in Hood Iiiver. Mr. Howells ex
pects to return to Condon for a short
time. The Globe says Mrs. Howella has,
by her kind and amiable disposition,
endeared herself to all the good people
of that country and that they deeply re
gret her departure.
Some of the finest peaches that have
been brought to The Dalles this season
will be sent today by Maj. Ingalls to the
Oregon Immigration Board, for "Oregon
on Wheels." These peaches were raised
in The Dalles by Mr. H. Horn, the lot,
about one half a box, averaged eight
ounces and are known as the Rogers'
variety. Quite a number of our fruit
men on Mill Creek and Three Mile, have
promised Maj. Ingalls some choice lots
of fruit and vegetables in a few days for
"Oregon on Wheels." A letter received
today from the State Board of Immigra
tion by Maj. Ingalls states that all
specimens from The Dalles will have
prominent place in the exhibit cars. It
is hoped that the farmers and fruit men
of this vicinity will improve this oppor
tunity to show Eastern people the pos
sibilities of this section in fruits, grains
and vegetables, in comparison with other
parts of Oregon and California. Any
thing left at this office will be delivered
over to Maj. Ingalls.
Warning- to Owners of Live Stock.
The following state law was approved
by Governor Pennoye, February 20th,
1891:
"An act to prevent and punish the
driving or herding Jive-stock along or
near public highways (not toll roads)
and causing the same to be obstructed,"
and is as follows :
Be it enacted by the legislative assem
bly of the State of Oregon.
Sec. 1. That any person or persons
driving or herding or causing to be driven
or herded, cattle, horses, sheep or any
kind of live stock along or near a public
highway and causing such highway to
be obstructed thereby with stones, earth
or other debris, and leaving the same to
so remain for more than twenty-four
hours, shall be deemed guilty of a mis
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined in any sum not exceeding
two hundred dollars, such fine to be en
forced as other fines in criminal cases,
and justices of the peace of the county
where the offense is committed shall
have original jurisdiction of all violations
thereof.
A Successful School.
The Dufur public school will open the
first Monday in September and continue
ten months. The board of directors
have furnished the house for the accom
modation of over 100 pupils. Mr.' A.
Frazier is retained as principal. -The
classes in this school for the coming year
in addition to the common branches will
include algebra, geometry, natural phil
osophy, general history and rhetoric.
This is Mr. Frazier's third consecutive
year in this school. Under his princi
palship it has kept steadily growing in
favor with the public and in the number
ot pupils, mere is, in tact, no more
successful public school in the country.
Dufur is a delightful little village where
pupils can find board at very reasonable
rates and where they will be surrounded
with more than ordinary good moral and
religious influences.
Advertised Letters.
The following is the list of letters re
maining in The Dalles postoffice uncalled
for Friday, Aug. 14, 1891. Persons call
ing for these letters will please give the
date on which they were advertised :
Allen, Miss Sylba Albert, Miss Minnie
AuBtin, Martin Brown. Mr W H
Butler, Henson Bruen, John Henry
Burton, Miss Jetty Butler, Mrs E
Campbell, Mr J W Campbell, Wm
Clark, Mrs M J
Cross, Perry F
Hart man, Dr
(Jarniicbael, D K
Gleaver, Sadie
Henderson, Bessie
Jackman, A F
Johnson, John
Marquis, A J
Hudson, Henry
Jackson, N M
Kelly, John A
Meek, John
Kosentbai, k, t
Steinkeimer, Chris Stilson, Fred
Welsh, Mrs Ella Weidner, Wm
York, Miss Mollie.
M. T. Nolax, P.
M.
How It Was Decided.
Marshall B. Wilder, the little comic
dwarf, who amuses the British aristo
crats at dinners by his funny stories,
astonished and amused a dinner party
in London recently by telling this etory :
"When Timothy Healy was a boy his
father was in doubt whether to make
him a lawyer, a parson or a merchant.
So he placed on a table a bible, a six
pence and an apple and called the boy
in, determining to name the profession
according to the boy's choice. Young
Tim came in and saw the articles on the
table. Without hesitation he put the
sixpence ;etwecn the leaves of the bible
tucked the bible nnder his arm and be
gan to eat the apple. 'That settles it,'
exclaimed the Healy the elder. 'If lie
is such a hog as that" I will make a poli
tician out of him.' "
j jts readers that a proposition had been
j KUbmitted to the Portland chamber of
; commerce relating to the building of a
; portage railway around the dalles of the
j Columbia. The telegram' had reference
j to the proposition of Lieutenant Norton,
j acting for The Dalles it DcsChutes Port-
j age Railway & Navigation company
i This company, in consideration of Port-
j land taking up $250,000 first mortgage,
six per cent., fifty year bonds, bind
themselves to complete within si3
months of the date on which they re
ceive notice that the proposition is ac
cepted and are satisfied as to the finau
cial standing of the subscribers to the
bonds, a thoroughly equipped narrow
gauge railroad on the south side of the
Columbia river, between The Dalles and
the cast end ot the island opposite the
mouth of the DasChutes river. At least
one first class steamer and sufficient
barges are to be put on the middle river,
all the steamers and barges needed be
low the Cascades and two steamera with
accompanying barges on the upper Col
umbia and Snake river. Freight charges
on grain are guaranteed to be thirty per
cent, lower than the Union Pacific may
make for the same class of freight be
tween the same points, provided that
the company Ehall not be required to
carry gri.in at less than one cent per ton
j per mile. Freight is to be carried from
the city of Portland to all interior points
on the basis of a rate not exceeding
$2.40 per ton for fourth class freight
from Portland to The Dalles. Portland
is to be the western terminus. One
half of the paid up capital stock is to be
assigned to the Portland chamber of
commerce on the following condition;
viz : The stock shall be placed in es
crow and represented in the board of
directors by a board of trustees chosen
by the chamber of commerce, who shall
also be directors on its behalf. The sub
scription to the bonds is to be paid as
follows : Twenty per cent, on the com
pletion of the subscription, 20 per cent,
on the completion of ten miles of track ;
20 per cent, on completion of portage
railway ; 5:0 per cent, when the wharves
etc. are completed and the road in oper
ation ; and 20 per cent, when all is com
plete and in operation. The signers to
the proposition are Geo. A. Liebe, E. B.
Dufur, T. H. Johnston and R. II. Nor
ton. It is expected that the proposition
will be considered by the chamber of
commerce next week and should it, or
some other of like import be accepted
we shall soon see the dawn of a brighter
day for the Inland Empire.
A Valuable Work.
The editor of the Chronicle is in
debted to the courtesy of Col. Lang for a
copy of the report of the bureau of stutis
tics for 1890 which contains no less than
137 pages of statistical and other matter
relating to the state of Oregon, gathered
from every source and compiled, at great
cost of time and labor by the Colonel
himself. It furnishes the most com
plete statistical account of the resources
of this truly ' great state we have ever
met. But it is more than a mere list of
statistics. Each county is treated to
separate article and the topography,
climate, soil, natural products, manu
factures, means of transportation and
many other matters of useful informa
tion are given in a concise and conven
ient form, i For example, the chapter on
Wasco county tells us that in territorial
times "the county of Wasco embraced
all that part of the state extending from
toe cascade mountains to snake river
and from the Columbia to the northern
boundary line of California and
amounted to 66,564 square miles. Cap
tain Nathan Olney acted as justice of
the peace in Wasco precinct and Deacon
Daniel W. Butler as constable in the
year 1853 when this immense territory
was a precinct of Clackamas county,
bmce its organization as a separate
county in 1854 Wasco has been subdi
vided into thirteen counties, leaving the
area of the present about 3200 square
miles." The catch of salmon in Wasco
county for the year 1889 is placed at a
total of 8,900,000 pounds. The imports
and exports of Dalles City for the same
year are as follows : Total imports, 31,
000 tons. Exports: wool 5,864,400
pounds; wheat, 2,000,000 bushels; other
grains, 445,625 bushels ; live 6tock, 500
car loads; lumber and wood, 300 car
loads ; fruit and mill products, 1000 tons.
These particulars are merely pointed out
as samples to indicate the value of the
Colonel's work and the whole justifies
the statement of the chief of bureau, in
his letter of transmittal to Secretary
W'ndom : "Much of this information
has not heretofore been com plied or pub
lished and will be of interest and benefit
not only to the people of the states men
tioned, but of the whole country."
A Sad Accident.
Yesterday morning about 8 o'clock as
the east bound freight train, nnmber
twenty-eight, was at the gravel quarry,
eight miles this side of Portland, brake
man Frank Tracey fell from a freight car
and the trucks passed over his right leg
midway below the knee almost com
pletely severing it from the body. It
appears the engine with four cars at
tached was going down the incline to
the quarry when one of the cars came
against another that was standing at the
end of a switch. Whether Tracey was
attempting to jump on the other car and
missed his footing or accidentally fell off
the car he was on is not known, but he
fell between the cars with the above re
sult. The leg had to be amputated be
low the knee. Mr. Tracey is favorably
known in The Dalles where he used to
be employed in the company's yard. He
is well spoken of by all his fellow em
ployes. He has a wife and family. A
singular thing connected with the ac
cident is that when he was picked up his
left shoe was off his foot, though how it
was taken off our informant was unable
to guess. The foot itself was only
slightly scratched.
Why Not?
Portland Telegram.
Why is it that the chamber ot com
merce, cannot undertake (he work of
building the portage road? If the road
can bo built and equipped for $200,000.
what ia the necessity of giving $250,000 to
another corporation to build it? The
citizens of Portland ought to build the
road and own it. And if the narrow
gauge is adopted, it will be a small mat
ter to buiid branches, and extensions
inf oil tl-tA fir .. .-. .1 11 I
the wheat trade forever tributary to
Portland ;
Every Place May Now Bo a Pulpit, Every
Workshop, Gravel Pit, Farm or Railroad
Train Every Christian May Now Do
: Something for Christ.
Madison, July 26. Rev. Dr. Talmage
preached thia morning at a Chautauqua
assembly on the banks of Monona lake.
near this city. It is a great gathering of
people from all parts of the northwest.
His text was Esther iv, 14, "Who knowetb
whether thou art come to the kingdom for
such a time as this?"
Esther the Beautiful was the wife of
Ahasuerus the Abominable. The time had
come for her to present a petition to her in
famous husband in behalf of the Israelitish
nation, to which she had once belonged.
She was afraid to undertake the work
lest she should lose her own life; bat her
uncle, Mordecai, who had brought her up,
encouraged her with the suggestion that
probably she had been raised up of God for
that peculiar mission. "Who knoweth
whether thou art come to the kingdom for
such a time as this?" Esther had her God
appointed work; you and I have ours. It
is my business to tell you what style of
people we ought to be in order that we
may meet the demand of the age in which
God has cat our lot. If you have come
expecting to hear abstractions discussed
or dry technicalities of religion glorified,
you have come to the wrong place; bnt if
you really would like to know what thia
age has a right to expect of you as Chris
tian men and women, then I am ready in
the Lord's name to look you in the face.
When two armies have rushed into bat
tle the officers of either army do not wan.
philosophical discussion about the chemi
cal properties of human blood or the na
ture of gunpowder. They want some ona
to man the batteries and swab ont tha
guns. And now, when all the forces of
light and darkness, of heaven and helL
have plunged into tho fight, it is no tima
to give ourselves to the definitions and
formulas and technicalities and conven
tionalities of religion. What we want
practical, earnest, concentrated, enthusias
tic and triumphant help. What we need
in the east you in Wisconsin need.
In the first place, in order to meet the
special demand of this age, you need to be
an unmistakably aggressive Christian. Of
half and ball Christians we do not want
any more. The church of Jesus Christ
will be better without ten thousand 'of
them. They are the chief obstacle to the
church's advancement. I am speaking of
another kind of Christian. All the appli
ances for your becoming an earnest Chris
tian are at your hand, and there is a straight
path for you into the broad daylight of
God's forgiveness. Yon may have come
here today the bondsmen of the world, and
yet before you go out of these doors yon
may become the princes of the Lord God
Almighty. Von know what excitement
there is in this country when a foreign
prince comes to our shores. Why? Because
it is expected that some day he will sit
upon a throne. But what is all that honor
compared with the honor to which God
calls you to be sons and daughters of tha
Iord Almighty; yea, to be queens and
kings unto God! ".They shall reign with
him forever and forever."
A HEALTHY OPEN A IB FAITH.
But, my friends, you need not be aggres
sive Christians, and not like those persons
who spend their lives in hugging their
Christian graces and wondering why they
do not make any progress. How much ro
bustness of health would a man have if he
hid himself in a dark closet? A great deal
of piety of the day is too exclusive. It
hides itself. It needs more fresh air, more
outdoor exercise. There are many Chris
tians who are giving their entire life to
self examination. They ' are feeling their
pulses to see what is the condition of their
spiritual health. How long would a man
have robust physical health if he kept all
the days and weeks and months and years
of his life feeling his pulse instead of going
out into active, earnest, everyday work?
I was once amid the wonderful, bewitch
ing cactus growths of North Carolina.
never was more bewildered with the beauty
of dowers, and yet when I would take up
one of these cactuses and pull the leaves
apart, the beauty was all gone. You could
hardly tell that it had ever been a flower.
And there are a great many Christian peo
ple in this day just palling apart their
Christian experiences to see what there is
in them, and there is nothing attractive
left. This style of self examination is a
damage instead of an advantage to their
Christian character. I remember when I
was a boy I used to have a small piece in
the garden that I called my own, and
planted corn there, and every few days I
would pull it np to see how fast it was
growing. . Now, there are a great many
Christian people in this day whose self ex
amination merely amounts to the pulling
up of that which they only yesterday or
the day before planted.
Ob, my friendsl if you want to have a stal
wart Christian character, plant it right oat
of doors in the great field of Christian use
fulness, and though storms may come
upon it, and though the hot snn of trial
may try to consume it, it will thrive until
it becomes a great tree, in which the fowls
of heaven may have their habitation. I
have no patience with these flowerpot
Christians. They keep themselves under
shelter, and all their Christian experience
in a small, exclusive circle, when they
ought to plant it in the great garden of the
Lord, so that the whole atmosphere could
be aromatic with their Christian useful
ness. What we want in the church of God
is more brawn of piety.
The century plant is wonderfully sug
gestive and wonderfully beautiful, but I
never look at it without thinking of its
parsimony. It lets whole generations go
by before it puts forth one blossom; so I
have really more heartfelt admiration
when I see the dewy tears in tbe blue eyes
of the violets, for they come every spring.
My Christian mends, time is going by so
raipdly that we cannot afford to be idle.
A recent statistician says that human life
now has an average of only thirty-two
years. From these thirty-two years yon
must subtract all the time yon take for
sleep and the taking of food and recrea
tion; that will leave you about sixteen
years. From those sixteen years yon must
subtract all the time yon are necessarily
engaged in tbe earning of a livelihood;
that will leave you about eight years.
From those eight years yon must take all
the days and weeks and months all the
length of time that is passed in childhood
and sickness, leaving yon about one year
in which to work for God. On, my soul,
wake upl How darest thou sleep in har
vest time and with so few hours in which
to reap? So that I state it as a simple fact
that airthe time that the vast majority of
yon will have for tbe exclusive service ot
God will be less than one year I
GO OUT AND COMPEL THEM. "
But." says some man, "I liberally snp
port the Gospel, and the church is open
and the Gospel is preached; all tbe spirit
ual advantages are spread before men, and
if they want to be saved let them come to
be saved; I have discharged all my respon
sibility." Ah! is that tbe Master's spirit?
Is there not an old Book somewhere that
commands us to go out into the highways
and the hedges and compel tbe people to
come in? What would have become of yon
and me if Christ had not come down off
the hills of heaven, and if lie bud not come
through the door of the Bethlehem cara
vansary, and if he had not with the crushed
hand of the crucifixion knocked at the iron
gate of the sepnlcber of our spiritual
death, crying, "Lazarus, come forth?"
Oh, my Christian friends, this is no time
for inertia, when all the forces of darkness
seem to be in full Most; w'ncn steam print
ing presses are publishiog iuliuel tracts,
when express railroad trains are carrying
messengers Oi pin; wheu fast clippers are
laden with opium and rum; whentuenigbt
nir of our cites is polluted with tbe laugh
ter that breaks up from the ten thousand
saloons of dissipation and abandonment;
when the fires of the second death already
are kindled in tha cheeks of some who
obly a little while ngo were incorrupt.
Never since tbe curse fell upon the earth
has there been a time when it was such an
unwise, such A ccuel, such an awful thing
for tbe church to sleep! The great audi
ences are uot gathered in the Christian
f1,nrcl,tf th,e ?" audiences are gathered
temples of sin tears of unutterable woe
yon, you must on the one hand avoid reck
less iconoclosm, and on tbe other hand not
stick too much to things because they are
old. The air is fall of new plans, new
projects, new theories of government, new
t heologies, and I am amazed to see how so
.many Christians want only novelty in
order to recommend a thing to their confi
dence; and so they vacillate and swing to
and fro, and they are useless and they are
unhappy. New plans secular, ethical,
philosophical, religious, cisatlantic, trans
atlantic. Ah, my brother, do not adopt a
thing merely because it is new. Try it by
the realities of a judgment day.
But, on the other hand, do not adhere to
anything merely because it is old. There
is not a single enterprise of the church or
tbe world but has sometimes been scoffed
at. There was a time when men derided
even Bible societies; and when a few young
men met near a haystack in Massachusetts
and organized the first missionary society
ever organized in this country, there went
laughter and ridicule all around the Chris
tian church. They said the undertaking
was preposterous.
And so also the work of Jesus Christ
was assailed. People cried out, "Whoever
heard of such theories of ethics and gov
ernment? Whoever noticed such a style
of preaching as Jesus has?" Ezekiel had
talked of mysterious wings and wheels.
Here came a man from Capernaum and
Gennesaret, and he drew his illustrations
from the lakes, from the sand, from the
ravine, from the lilies, from the constalks.
How the Pharisees scoffed I How Herod
derided! How Caiphas hissed I And this
Jesus they plucked by the beard, and they
spat in his face, and they called him "this
fellow!" All the great enterprises in and
out of the church have at times been
scoffed at, and there have been a great
multitude who have thought that the
chariot of God's truth would fall to pieces
if it once got out of the old rut.
MILLIONS NEVER HEAR THE GOSPEL.
And so there are those who have no pa
tience with anything like Improvement in
church architecture or with anything like
good, hearty, earnest church singing, and
they deride any form of religious discussion
which goes down walking among everyday
men ratber than that which makes an ex
cursion on rhetorical stilts. Oh, that the
Church of God would wake up to an adapt
ability of work! We must admit the sim
ple fact that the churches of Jesus Christ
in this day do not reach the great masses.
There are fifty thousand people in Edin
burgh who never hear the Gospel. There
are one million people in London who
never hear the Gospel. There are at least
three hundred thousand souls in the city
of Brooklyn who come not nnder the im
mediate ministrations of Christ's trnth,
and the Church of God in this day, instead
of being a place fall of living epistles, read
and known of all men, is more like a "dead
letter" postoffice.
"But," say the people, "the world is go
ing to be converted. Yon mast be patient.
The kingdoms of this world are to become
the kingdoms of Christ." Never, nnless
the church of Jesus Christ puts on more
speed and energy. Instead of the church
converting the world, the world is convert
ing the church. Here is a great fortress.
How shall it be taken? An army comes
and sits around about it, cats off the sup
plies and says, "Now we will just wait un
til from exhaustion and starvation they
will have to give up." Weeks and months,
and perhaps a year, pass along, and finally
the fortress surrenders through that star
vation and exhaustion. But, my friends,
the fortresses of sin are never to be taken
in that way. If they are taken for God it
will be by storm. You will have to bring
up the great siege guns of the Gospel to the
very wall, and wheel the flying artillery
into line, and when the armed infantry of
heaven shall confront the battlements yon
will have to give the quick command:
"Forward! Charge!"
Ah, my friends, there is work for yon to
do and for me to do in order to achieve this
grand accomplishment! Here is a pulpit,
and a clergyman preaches in it. Your pnlpit
is tbe bank. Your pulpit is the store. Your
pulpit is the editorial chair. Your pnlpit
is the anviL Your pulpit is the house
scaffolding. Your pulpit is the mechanic's
shop. I may stand in this place and,
through cowardice or through self seeking,
may keep back the word I ought to utter;
while you, with sleeve rolled np and brow
besweated with toil, may utter the word
that will jar the foundation of heaven with
the shout of a great victory. Oh, that to
day this whole audience might feel that
the Lord Almighty is putting upon them
the hands of ordination. Every one, go
forth and preach this gospel. You have
as much right to preach as I have, or as
any man has. Only find oat the pnlpit
where God will have yon preach, and there
preach.
Hedley Vicars was a wicked man in the
English army. The grace of God came to
him. He became an earnest and eminent
Christian. They scoffed at him' and said,
"You are a hypocrite; you are as bad as
ever yon were." Still he kept his faith in
Christ, and after awhile, finding that they
could not turn him aside by calling him
hypocrite, they said to him, "Oh, yon are
nothing but a fanatic." That did not dis
turb him. He went on performing his
Christian duty until he had formed all his
troop into a Bible class, and the whole en
campment was shaken with the presence of
God. So Havelock went into the heathen
temple in India while the English army
was there, and put a candle into the hand
of each of the heathen gods that stood
around in the heathen temple, and by the
light of those candles, held up by the Idols,
General Havelock preached righteousness,
temperance and judgment to come. Ana
who will say, on earth or in heaven, that
Havelock had not the right to preach?
THE MOVING PRATER OF FAITH.
In the minister's house where I prepared
for college there was a man who worked
by the name of Peter Croy. He could
neither read nor write,' but he was a
man of God. Often theologians would
stop in tbe house grave theologians and
at family prayers Peter Croy would be
called upon to lead, and all those wise men
sat around, wonderstruck at bis religious
efficiency. When he prayed he reached np
and seemed to take hold of the very throne
of the Almighty, and he talked with God
until the very heavens were bowed down
into the sitting room. Oh, if I were dying
I would rather have plain Peter Croy kneel
by my bedside and commend my immortal
spirit to God than some heartless ecclesi
astic arrayed in costly canonicals. Go
preach this gospel. You say yon are not
licensed. In the name of the Lord Al
mighty, this morning, I license yon. Go
preach this gospel preach it in the Sab
bath schools, in the prayer meetings, in tha
highways, in tha hedges. Woe be unto
you if yon preach it not.
I remark, again, that in order to M
qualified to meet your duty in this partic
ular age you want unbounded faith in the
triumph of the truth and the overthrow
of wickedness. How dare the Christian
church ever get discouraged? Have we not
the Lord Almighty on our side r How long
did it take God to slay the hosts of Senna
cherib or burn Sodom or shake down
Jericho? How long will it take God, when
be once arises in his strength, to overthrow
all the forces of iniquity? Between this
time and that there may be long seasons of
darkness the chariot wheels of God's Gos
pel may seem to drag heavily, but here is
the promise, and yonder is the throne; and
when Ominiscience has lost Its eyesigns
and Omnipotence falls back impotent and
Jehovah is driven from his throne, then
the church of Jesus Christ can afford to be
despondent, but never until then. Despots
may plan and armies may march, and the
congresses of the nation may seem to think
they are adjusting all the affairs oi the
world, but the mighty men of the earth are
only tbe dust of tbe chariot wheels of God's
providence".
I think that before the son ot this cen
tury shall set. the last tyranny may fall,
and with a splendor of demonstration that
shall be tbe astonishment of the universe
God will set forth the brightness and pomp
and glory and perpetuity of his eternal
government. Oat of the starry flags and
tbe emblazoned insignia of this world God
will make a path for his own triumph, and
returning from universal conquest he will
sit down, tbe grandest, strongest, highest
throne of earth his footstool.
Then shall" all nations' song ascend
To Thee, our Ruler, Father, Friend,
Till heaven's high arch resounds again
With "Peace on earth, good will to men,"
';' "ii -- "3 on; "'ii'iaau.ciu " ia '"t.taga 'OU'
! His sword will strike for you. March onl
march on! Tbe last despotism will fall,
and paganism will burn its idols, and Mo
hammedanism will give up its false proph
et and the great walls of superstition will
come down in thunder and wreck at the
long, loud blast of tho Gospel trumpet.
March on! March on! The besiegement
will soon be ended. Only a few more steps
on the long way; only a few more sturdy
blows; only a few more battle cries, then
God will put the laurel upon your brow,
and from the living fountains of heaven
will bathe off the sweat and Che heat and
the dust of the conflict.
March on! March on! For you the time
for work will soon be past, and amid the
outflashings of the judgment throne and
the trumpeting of resurrection angels and
the upheaving of a world of graves and
the hosanna of tbe saved and the groaning
of tbe lost, we shall be rewarded for our
faithfulness or punished for oar stupidity.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from
everlasting to everlasting, and let the
whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen
and amen.
BRIEF STATE XE1VS.
Bay City is to have
Springfield will so
another sawmill,
on have a ?3000
depot. j
An ice factory is to be established in j
Eugene.
Georgie, the two-year-old boy of Fred j
Benson, was drowned in a spring on his
father's place, near Kerby, Josephine I
county, last ounaay aiternoon.
Hull & Beck recently made a clean up
at their placer diggings on Louise creek
and netted the snug sum of $1700 after a
months' run. This claim is situated
five or six miles from Grant's Pass.
Dr. Blalock's. orchard, near Walla
Walla covers one hundred and ninety
acres. Only sixty acres are in bearing,
but from these sixty acres the doctor
will clear this year ten or twelve thous
and dollars. So savs the Walla Walla
Unton Journal.
The town council of Prineville has or
dered the residents of that town to dis
infect their dwellings, outhouses and
premises generally so as to ward off the
scourge of diphtheria, which has ca'
ried off a number of children in that
neighborhood.
The death of Mrs. Philip Brogan, oc
curring last week at her residence on
Little Trout creek, Crook county, was
an extremely sad one. The unfortunate
woman didd in confinement and leaves
a husband and six children to mourn
their irreparable loss.
The average weight of the salmon
caught for McGowan's cannery, in As
toria, this season was twenty-four
pounds. The cannery paid $1 a piece
for all salmon weighing twelve pounds
and upwards. Anything under twelve
pounds went as half a salmon.
While Edward Garrett and Mrs. Will
iam Hall were coming down the Siski
you mountains, Wednesday, tho brake
gave way, starting the horses. Both
were thrown out, and badly hurt. Two
children in the wagon escaped with a
few scratches.
The expenses for Yamhill county for
July, 1891, as shown by bills allowed by
the county court, amount to $3,668.36.
Those of August amount to $3,152.47.
The principal item of expense at the
present time is the building and repair
ing of bridges.
Somebody broke open the trunk of
Abraham Sotha, of Astoria, the other
day, and stole therefrom $270. John
Rinkie was arrested on suspicion, and a
search of his house brought out eleven
$20 gold pieces tied up in an old rag and
concealed in the rafters.
Sunday, morning ,1. A. Howard, of
Pendleton, felt a burning sensation in
bis cheek, and one side of his face has
since gradually swollen until his nearest
friend would hardly recognize him. A
physician who was called in is at a loss
to account for the trouble as there is no
symptom of erysipelas.
jvir. iucnarcison wtio is making a suc
cess of fruit farming at Grant's Pass,
says he has rid his apple trees of the
aphis by scraping off the loose bark and
washing the trees with concentrated lve
dissolved in water during the winter.
bpraying vita soapsuds in tbe spring
exterminates wnat is lett.
Last Saturday a little four-year-old
child of Mr. Yoder, of Woodburn, was
severely burned by falling in a pan of
grease. Mrs. Yoder, while cooking,
placed the boiling grease on the floor,
expecting soon to put it awav, and the
little tellow leli backward into it, burn
ing himself horribly from the waist
down.
Another one of those immense oil
tanks, belonging to the Standard Oil
company passed through Salem Monday
on tb.6 way to Albany, where it will be
used for the same purpose as the com
pany's tank at the former town. This
scheme of storing oil is growing in favor
and many of the towns are being sup
plied with thein.
Daniel Foister. one of the pioneers of
the state, of 1847, died Monday at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. W. C. Bar
ker, of Salem. He was 80 years old.
His wife survives him. He first settled
in Clackamas county, and has since
made his home in Josephine and Marion
counties. Mrs. R. Bates and D. Feister
are the other surviving children.
Mr. Dan Robbins, son of Superintend
ent J. H. Robbins of the Robbins-Elk-hornmine,
Monday brought to Baker
City a fine sample of ore and placed the
same on exhibition. The specimen
weighs about twenty pounds and is alive
with black sulphureta, denoting the
richness of the rock. It was taken from
the 700-foot tunnel, which taps the ledge
at a depth of 300 feet.
The schooner Robert and Minnie, tbe
vessel that conveyed the arms and
ammunition to the Chilian steamer Itata,
at San Diego, recently, is loading lum
ber at the Bay City mill, Coos bay.
Captain T. O'Farrell ia in charge, but is
rather reticent in regard to the Itata
affair. He is nnder $5000 bonds to ap
pear before the authorities at San Diego
some time this month.
Henry Hall came to the city last even
ing, says the Baker City Blade, from
Westfall, Malheur county, with the body
of his wife, who died of typhoid fever.
He is accompanied by his wife's mother
and brothers and his little child. Here
the body was embalmed, and they went
on to the Willamette valley, the former
home of Mrs. Hall, where the interment
will take place.
Mrs. Mary A. Price died at the home
of her daughter in Salem, on Sunday,
aged 47. She came with her family
acrossthe plains to Oregon in 1852, and
in 1859 was married to H. P. Price in
Douglas county. In the spring of 1863
Mr. and Mrs. Price moved to .Salem,
where they have made their home ever
since. She was the mother of six child
ren, two sons and four daughters, three
of the latter surviving her, Mrs. Sarah j
Crowell and Mrs. Flora A. Rennie of (
Salem, and Mrs. Mary E. Hales, of j
Adams, Or. They were all present at!
her last illness. She leaves a brother, :
J. C. Arnold, of Pendleton.
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