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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 ;
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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, ! . .
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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 ­
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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.
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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
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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.