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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1879)
July, 1879. THE WEST SHORE. cr's cap nt the lips. Christianity is the mighty power before which intemper ance must full. " Christianity assails and withstands this vice, as nothing else ran, by appealing to men's hopes and liars; by speaking to the conscience in the name of the Almighty Judge; by speaking to the heart in the name of the Merciful Father; by proffering strength to human weakness; pardon to human guilt; by revealing to men nn immortal nature within them, and an eternal state before them; by binding fallen man by new ties to God and his race." But Christianity, to do this part of its work to reach those now perishing by intemperance, anil those exposed to deadly danger of falling must not con tent itself with speaking in churches, for the perishing are not here ! Chris tianity these K-rishing ones want, but they want it in you ! It must enter their dwellings, they must feel its heart beats, see the tear of loving sympathy, and feel the pressure of the pierced hand of Christ in yours, befon Christianity will !e a saving power ! If to-morrow, from the one thousand Christian homes in Portland there should go forth one thousand Christ like, self-denying Christians to begin this work, they would prove one of the most powerful barriers against intern pmutCti and the days of its horrible reign in Portland would lc numbered. We stand face to face with a terrible antagonist. The monster is clutching at the very life of our homes ! I grow j sick at heart when I see the indiller ence, the apathy, in regard to the deadly ruin wrought before our very eyci ! Says Rev. Dr. Crane: "Wc are like dwellers in a lofty mansion built on some dangerous coast where frequent wrecks occur ! Darkness and storm may be without, but we arc safe, and full of peace and comfort within. A ship, crowded with passengers, is go ing to pieces among the rocks, and wc know it We sec the red Hush of the alarm-guns, and hear the booming sig nal that death is at work and help is needed, but wc arc safe! Wc look around at the circle of loved ones; we glance at the cheerful fire, the table, the books, the pictured walls. Yes, wc arc safe ! Faintly amid the roar of tle winds and the sea wc hear im ploring voices but we are safe ! We sing our evening song of praise, wc say our evening prayer, wc retire to onr beds and fall asleep to the sound of storm, and surf, and Imploring voices still more faintly heard, while all through the night, one alter another, men, women, and little children arc dropping, dropping from the icy wreck, and the busy waves are piling the dead along the shore under our very windows, but we sleep soundlv, for we arc safe !" No ! You arc not safe ! There is not a home in this city safe from that 'ell destroyer. To-morrow his fatal hand may strike your son with drunken imbecility ! )'our daughter may yet be chained to a drunken husband ' What meanest thou, () sleeper? Arise! Call upon thy God, it so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not !" OUK SHIP BUILDING. our last visit to the place, some eight months ago. This point In the near future is destined to lie a place of con siderable importance. When the Salem and Silvetton railroad gets into success ful operation, this will he the eastern terminus and will bocORM unite a man ufacturing village and the depot ol sup plies for a large and wealthy district of country.- Slaltsman. 1. 11. 1. iks. -Of ull the lilly family, " the golden handed " is erhaps the handsomest and most fragrant. A few days ago we were presented by Messrs. Ilacheney A Meuo with a stalk which had twenty-two of these gorgeous lull blown Boweft 0l it. It was cut fiom 11 hulb sold by them lo a resident at Hutteville, from wheme the llowers wcic shipped hack to this citv. The Golden Handed thrives even if planted in large-sized Mower-pots, and will well repay any trouble that may be taken in their cultivation. To Scabeck, W. T., belongs the credit of constructing the largest vessel ever built on the Pacific Coast. I let hull is now more than half finished, and about twenty men are at work upon it Her length of keel is feet, her breadth of beam feet and eight in ches, her depth of hold 17 feet, and her future lumbering carrying capacity esti mated at 1,3110,000 feet. She will he single-decked and ship-rigged. Cap tain Edwards, now of the bark Cat samlra Adams, will command her. Hi ram Doncastcr is her builder, and Adams, Taylor k Co., will lie her owners. It is said that she is licmg made as strong as wood and iron can make a vessel, and it is thought she will lc fast. She will be somewhat larger than the largest vessel ever built on the Pacific Coast, and sin will probably be the biggest single d. N ked hip afloat. SII.VERTON. The town of Silvcttoii is pleasantly located on the banks of the lieautiful little stream called Silver Creek. It is the center of a vcrv rah agriuiliur.il district ami near the foothills of the Cas cade range of mountains. Is is a pleas ant drive of fourteen miles from Salem, over excellent road and through some of the finest lands of the State. Howell Prairie, than which none better can be found on all "God's itrcen earth," i . .. t II -A .1.. . . seen m all its loveliness, ai m wau ww of the year, aa you paas through its center, nearly. Silverton shows signs of thrift; tev cral new buildings have gone up since How to get fat (io lo the butcher's A M VI KK I.KSSON. Ws sr nut In Isanr nt mob. law, uur do - su proa ol daubing orslnr with agga ul u,uaaUuaabla sf. 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