« VOL 1. M L \ ERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 22, i897. A S o n g of Life. NO. 38. Dr. F ra n k lin and O rthodoxy. ligious system s, an outgrow th of P ortland, Oregon; delivered Dec 1, pre-ex intent sy>tem sand conditions. 1896. striv e on, striv e on, O h ! wearv h e a rt, rhongh I seldom attended any The C hristianity of the first century T hat perform ance is c h a ra c b r- Though rough th e th o rn y ro ad ; Though deep th e wound of every d a rt, public worship, I had still an was w hat the doctrines received isticof your God. H ecaused a whole And heavy is th y load. opinion of its propriety and of its from the past and the m ental and lot ol innocent men to be sla u g h te r There is a rest, forever won, in consciousness of d u ty done. utility when rightly conducted, and moral soil am i clim ate in which ed because Achan “ knocked dow n” Press on, O h! g a llan t h e a rt anti tru e, I regularly paid my a n n u a l sub- they flourished, m ade it. The some of the booty gathered on a Prove every laurel th in e ; . . e Though trav el-stain ed and wet with dew, s c r i p t i o n lor th e su p p o rt ol th e only C hristianity of to-day is what the thieving, m urdering raid. Thy virtues still m ay shine. P re s b y te ria n m in is te r o r m eetin g system, modified through centuries The New Testam ent doctrine de < Hi! k n ig h t, th e world is looking dow n, we had in P hiladelphia, lie u-ed in adjustm ent to its changing en clares th a t there is not sufficient To scorn defeat, or triu m p h crow n. Press on, w hile th e re ’s a world to serve, ! visit me som ethin s as a friend, vironm ent, has become in the diff tim e in the present life to give re tri A noble deed to d o ; and adm onish me to a tend his a d erent countries in which it exists. bution tree play, but an unlim ited W hile th e re ’s a tab let w here to carve m inistrations, and 1 was now and Effects become causes, and in th a t eternity is pre-em pted by it in A spotless nam e and tru e. which to show th a t it shall be well ( )h ! h eart of genius, to th e strife, then prevailed on to do so, once f.»r sense C h ristia n ity has been a cause with »he righteous and ill with the And build th e m asterpiece of life! live S undays successively. H ad —especially a cause of opposition wicked.— E ditorial in the Chicago Strike h ard and deep, am i loud and long, ! . . . . . , For all th e h e a rt holds d e a r. be been in m y o p in io n a good to science ami intellectual freedom; Advance (C ongregational organ.) Strike h ard and deep, ye g a llan t th ro n g , p re a c h e r, p e rh a p s 1 m ig h t have of whole-ale persecution and blood Any God who is unable to satis There is a rest, forever won, | c o n tin u e d , n o tw ith s ta n d in g the shed, and of political ami religious fy his craving for revenge on a In consciousness of d u ty done. occasion I had for S u n d ay ’s leisure | despotism such as prevails to the m an in fifty or sixty years is just -Sel* in my course of study; but his di.— greatest extent in C hristendom the kind <>f n fiend to build a d u n x-i ' ' - courses were either polemic argu- where C hri-tian belief is the least geon in which to satisfy his lust for The Gospel Hearts Glad T idings. . . . 1 m ents or explications of the peen- impaired. hlo-d, by to rtu rin g unbelievers And yet W bal are the glad tidings? i liar doct''ines of our sect, and were “C h ristian ity is a cause, civiliza throughout all eternity. 1. T hat m an is to ta lly depraved a " me ver-v d rv > uninleresting tion is an effect,” says this fa re you have the gall to ask ns to anil polluted. Good news! 2. T hat a '" ‘ '-»edilying; since not a single teacher. Was C h ristia n ity tin* “ love’’ such a celestial m onster. he deserves eternal torm ent. Glad m oral principle was inculcated or cause of the civilization of Egypt, W ithout the bible there had never enforced, th eir aim seeming to be of Greece, of Rome which existed tidings! 3 And th at nine ten th s been a reform o ra protest.— Bishop ra th e r to make us P resbyterians before C h ristia n ity appeared in the John F. D urst in the P ittsb u rg of the hum an race w ill get their C hristian Advocate, J u ly 8. world, as a system ? deserts. “ M any .re called, | n)t i th an good citizens. You have your nerve with \o u . G lorious news! | At length he look for his text “ When C hrist takes possession,” lew a re c h o se n .” 4. T hat hell is in v ie w - n e a r at »''’.t verse of the fourth ch ap ter to says the Tim es, “civilization ad- On May 13, 1836, the General con hand. D elightful lidings! 5. T hai !the I’hl lipp.an^: ‘ F in ally , breth- vauces.’’ Indeed! Is be most in ference of your own church u n a n i the reprobate cannot escape. G |or. | ren, w haisoever things, are true, possession w here he is most lielievcd mously passed the following reso ious gospel! 6. T h at God hales hone8t- Just. PurG lovely, ->r “ f g«"d in, where he has the largest num lu tio n re g a rd in g sla v e ry : “ Resolved, by the delegates of the most of the race and has from report, if there he a n . virtue, or ber of churches, when* there is the eternity doomed then, p, elP rn a| » " ? praise, think or, these things.” least doubt and disbelief as to bis th e an n u al conferences in general conference assem bled. (1) T h at woe. And all th is is the gospel ,,f And I im agined in a sermon on divinity, as in Spain and Portugal they disapprove, in the m ost un such a text, we could not miss of and S outhern E urope? C iviliza qualified sense, the conduct of the glad tid in g s!— Sel. having some m orality. But he tion advances there less rapidly two mem bers of the general confer confined him self to five points only, than in the land of K ant, Geothe, ence who are reported to have lec- O rder. as m eant by the apostle: 1. Keep- H um boldt and H aeckel,or o f Hume, tm ed in this city recently, upon and in favor of m odem ab o lition W’liat comfort, what strength, big boly the S abbath day. 2. Bc- Gibbon, Mill, Grole, Darwin, ism. what economy t' ere is in order— big diligent in reading the h<»Iy Spencer and George Eliot, or in the “ Resolved, (2) T hat they a r e d e m aterial, intellectual and moral Scriptures. 3. A ttending duly | United States, where th e clergy are cidedly opposed to m odern ab o li order. To know w h ere one is go- the public worship. 4. P artaking now calling atten tio n , in th e ir own tionism , and wholly disclaim any . ; inational *7 i organs, .. ' . to the de- rig or ing and w hat one wishes— this ¡g , of th e Sacram ent. 5. P aying due denom ® h t, wish , . . . intention , . . . to , in te . r . ! fere in the civil and political rela- order; to keep one’s word and one’s re.-pect to God’s m inisters. 1 he-e clm e ol belief in th e d o c trin e s of ,H. |Wee„ m aster and slave as it engagem ents— again order; to have niight ail he good things; but as C hristianity. exists in the slaveholding states of this U nion.” B. F. U nukrwood . everything ready under one’s hand, they were not the kind of good T he general conference of your to he able to dispose of one’s forces, things th a t I expected from th at LITTLE TORCHES. church, on May 19, 1840, passed and to have all one’s means of text, I despaired of ever meeting the following piece of scoundrel ism whatever kind under com m and— with them from any other, was dis- The church of C hrist is a fighting by a vote of 74 to 46; the p u rp ise still order; to discipline one’s habits, gusted, and attended his pleaching force, constituted for the purpose of of the resolution l»eing to conceal one’s efforts, one’s wishes; to organ- no ,nore attack in g sin in all its strongholds. B e . n . jamin F r a n k lin . ize one’s life, to d istribute one’s This is a Divine idea, all too fa in t the diabolical relations of Metho- time, to make the m easure of one’s ly re a liz e d .— The C h ristian (L on- diwl P o a c h e rs w i'h black slave girls. C hristian ity and Civilization. don) Ju ly 1. duties and m ake one’s rig h 's re “ Resolved, T h a t it is inexpedient T h at is dead true. C h iisti.m - spected; one’s capital and resources, The Sunday School Times says: have been fighting, m urdering, and unjustifiable for an y preacher to employ one’s talents and one’s am ong us to perm it colored persons “ It is easy to confound causes banging, burning, cu ttin g th ro ats chances profitably—all this be to give testim ony ag ain st white longs to and is included in the with effects. Sum m er showers do and inventing to rtu rin g m achines persons in any Male where they are word order. O rder means light and not so o f ' en lo w e r the tem perature for each other for nearly 2,000 denied that privilege ¡n trials at peace, inw ard liberty ami free c o m -' an the lowering tem perature pro- years. Yes, it is a “ Divine force,” law .” Then after the war when the rnand over oneself: order is pow» r. duc» s the showers. C hristianity is sure enough. slaves were treed, the general c»»n- -Esthetic ami moral beauty consist, a cause, civilization is an effect, or He showed lew , in »he defeat of ference passed resolutions Imasting the first in a tru e perception of re -u b .” o rder, and th e second in subm ission It is t»Ue that civilization is an ’be elder- w aited before th e o f the firm stan d of the M e'hodist to it and in the realization of it, by, effect, th e product of a m ultitude of L,'rd a n d use rta tn e d the c a u se; -‘against Hjav,.ry »» For j in, and around om-self. m a n ’s g re a te st need a n d well-being. — Amiel. t j O rder is causes. It is ju st as t rue. just 88 j wa8 punished.— Pacific B aptist, drow nright, m onstrous lying, call his tru e d e m o n stra b le , th a t C h ris tia n ity J u l y 8, !>ei ng a p art of a report of a 0,1 a bishop of the M ethodist church, is an effect a >d like all other re- sermon bv Rev. G ilm an P arker of W. E. J.