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THE TORCH o f REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, !M>7.
the
W ay the
Grows.
ing spent on who wrote the Bible,
Church word and all the ordinance» of
\ X 7 a te r Street...
M arket
God’s house, had passed a whole and too little to reveal to men the
year in supposed prayer and effort, Savior of lost sinners who fills the
Bible. Too much apology has been
Don’t tak« our word for it, but and were not able to bring in at indulged in for the Bible’s “hard
harvest time a single sheaf which
re,d below what Rev. J. A. Vance, they had gathered in the world’s theology,” and there has 1-een too
Baltimore. eave in th e Christian white harvest fields -— such an ap little faithful warning of eternal CASH PAIO FOR ALL XiNDS OF FAT STOCK.
H ID E S , PELTS. ETC.
Observer of September 29th. It palling thing as this in the history hell and the need of repentance and
faith and new obedience. “Go ye
ak6 for itself. It >» an hone8t of God’s church seems to have made
confession that the church is losing few, if any, lose a night’s rest or into all the world and preach the MEATS SOLD AT REASONABLE
gospel to every creature.” It is,
spend
a
day
in
fasting
and
suppli
r..und. This preacher has racked
RATES.
cation that the God of Jesus C hrist while engaged in this that vve can
hi. brain to try to find out why would not take his holy spirit from claim the promised presence ol
Christ and his unlimited power.
the church is losing power. We us.
D ra k e & W e b b ,
But, worst of all, something most
can infi'rm him in one little sen-
What is the result? Havethings
Oregon
tence-Hell don’t scare the boys grown better while the church ha? distressing is the matter with God’s Silverton
own people. 1 here is an alarming
and girls any more. [J. B. W., in had another nap? The writer has difference on their part to their di
not at hand the year-book of either
glue Grass Blade.
the Congregational or Northern vine mission. W hat is a ( hristian
W H A T IS T H E M A T T E R .
Presbyterian churthes, but a care for? To go to church twice on
Sunday, pay the preacher well,
If Christ were to strike accounts ful examination of the Assembly’s
AND
and, as penance for indulgence in
with the church today what kind Minutes for 1896-7 reveals one of an evening of questionable amuse
of a showing could we make? Less the saddest facts in the history of ment, go to the mid-week prayer- M a in S t r e e t - S ilv e r t o n , O r e .
than a year ago quite a stir was our beloved Southern Presbyterian meeting? “Ye shall he witnesses
created in the religious world by church. Not 407, but—L242_of—our unto me,” is the way Christ ex
CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK O r
2,816
churches
report
not
a
single
articles calling attention to the
presses a Christian’s mission. The
large number of churches which for addition on profession of faith Christian is God’s mouthpiece to
School
the year 1895-96 had not reported during the entire year.
lost men. Through the light of
As has often been pointed out, their word and life Christ reveals
a single addition on profession of
S u p p lie s ,
times
of
hard
pressure
in
business
himself
to
lost
men.
In
the
life
of
faith. Dr. James L. Hill, in the
ibe average Christian there is not
B ooks »"<i
Independent of Dec. 3, 1896, show are usually times of religious awak as
much
earnestness
aud
passionate
ed that there were 1,400 Congrega ening; hut w’e cannot see that it ffbrt in leading men to Christ as a
S ta tio n e ry .
has
been
such
with
us.
We
have
tional churches in this country
fifth-rate actor shows in playing
had
a
year
of
revival
in
catecheti
his part in a dime museum.—[Rev. D ealers in F ruits, V egetables
and 1,750 Northern Presbyterian
J.
A. Vance, in Christian Observer.
churches which for the year 1895 cal instruction, and we have jubilat
and C onfectionery.
96 did not report a single addition ed with much magnificent oratory
over
our
venerable
Standards;
hut
The
Lesson
of
India.
by conversion. A writer in the
Observer of November 25, 1896, where are the souls which Jesus
Man would feed India if h»* could.
showed that there were 407 church Christ sent us to turn to righteous
God could feed India if he would.
es of this barren kind in the South ness?
It may he explained that this is Rain would have saved India. But
ern Presbyterian church.
These facts justly aroused no seed-sowing time, and that harvest it did not rain. What think you
small stir. They indicated a de will come by and l»y. But look at must he the thought of a philosoph We can furnish the following books
plorable weakness in reaching out these figures, giving the additions ic Indian, when he reads from the well bound in cloth; good print, standard
for the extremely low price of
after the unsaved.
Mr. Moody on professions of faith d u rin g the bible of the missionary, “Behold sizes,
60
cents
each, postage 10 cents. Don t
wrote a burning art’cle in w hich he past four years in both branches of the fowls of the air. for they sow fail to take advantage of this oner.
made these the basis for a stilling the Presbyterian church: South not, neither do they reap nor gather Origin of Specie».............. Chas. Darwin
of Man............ .
“
appeal for more evangelistic ern Presbyterian 1894, 14,098; 1895 into barns, yet our heavenly father Descent
First
Principles..........
Herbert
Spencer
feedeth
them.”
“Are
not
sparrows
13,598;
1896,
11,874;
1897,
10,592.
preaching. Other articles appeared
of Ethics..............
«old for a farthing, and one of them Data
Emerson’s Essays
Northern
Presbyterian,
1894,
74,
calling upon God’s people to take
falleth not to the ground without S arto r K e sa rtu s........ .. .Thomas Carlyle
826;
1895,
67,938;
1896,
64,806;
heed to thenselves and see what is
the notice of your heavenly father, History French Revolution
of Epictetus
ri i i
1897, 57,011.
are not ve of much more value than Discourses
wrong.
Past ami Present.......... Thomas Carlyle
These figures show a steady and they?” And then he looks up at H y p a tia .............. ; « • i* ~ C ’v r ’ K ing y
It was pointed out, however, by
that cloud less, brazen sky, at that Autobiography of Benj. Franklin
other writers that this apparently an alarming decrease for four years. burning sun, looks out over that Fifteen Decisive Battles of the
World........................E. C. Creasy
dreadful state of things could he What is the matter? There is barren land which needs only tain Tennyson’s
Poems
‘‘explained ’. Many of these church something the matter with the to make it productive, and sees his Shellev’s Poems
es, it was pointed out, were mem world. There is a growing skepti little ones, with thousands of his Longfellow'» Poems
fellow villagers, slowly hut surely Pope’s Poems
bers of groups; and in the other cism in the world as to the divine perishing of hunger. W hat must Milton’s Poems
members of a group in which was mission of the church. W’e believe h(i his thought of a heavenly fattier Hood’» Poems
Burns’ Poems
on-j barren church, there were other it has been appointed by Christ for who has such a care over his crea R<d>ert Browning’s Poems
Poems
churches reporting conversions. A the gathering and perfecting of the tion, and yet lets them perish in so Byron’s
Shakespeare’s
Poems
large nuudier of these barren saints in this life unto the end of cruel and heartless a manner. He
Address,
cannot reconcile the word with the
churches, it was also stated, were ’ the world. The world is saying, in facts, and never will accept so con
J O N E S ’ BOOK S T O R E ,
many
cases,
that
the
church
is
act
291 A lder S t .
PORTLAND, ORE.
very small. Many of them, it was
trary a philosophy.—[Humanity.
ing
as
if
all
the
saints
have
been
said by way of excuse lor barren
ness, had contributed nothing for gathered, and effort is now being
their own support! At any rate, ‘ confined to perfecting them. Not
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whether explained or not, the a few goldly say that pure religion
would
flourish
better
if
the
ecclesi
church seems to have been solaced
by these “comforting remarks,” astical organizations were destroy
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ed.
Such
a
skepticism
is
impious,
T
he
G
ov
ern
m
en t n a t i o n a l i « ^ t h e
and the appalling fact that one-
the
Money
System?
A plan is told by C. ELTON B LA N LH A K 1
fourth of the Congregational it is true; but it exists, and we do
in his book entitled............................
churches in our land, over one- well to consider the cause of it.
Something is the matter with the
UNCLE S A M ’S
fourth of the Northern Presbyterian
pulpit-
Too
many
sermons
are
be
and over one-seventh of the South
H O M ILIE S ON FINANCE
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thousands of professing ( hristians,
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preaching
with
passionate
earn
It should be in the hands of every thinking person. Addrese a,I orders to
thousands of church buildings, the
estness
the
truths
of
sin
and
salva
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