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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1882)
4 /U 4 ' Í. > "I A ’ A ’ - •-* » st f CHHÍ STI AN ► I A- < IIKR AT, I). -í~—■---------- —— j-— . - ■ - — --- T- - _------- ---- ye saved al I the ends of the earth ; for I am God, and there is none else.’’ J^hni. 29; “ TMe next day» John seetji Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.” John iii. 16, “ For dod so loved the world that lie gave~his only-begotten Soir, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have everlasting fife.”— Ex. C hristian H erald . we philosophically concluded it was to the congregations there is found much better standing on a flat car a wonderful and growing luke warmness in thecause. Sometimes than sitting in a coach anyhow. EDITORS On arriving at Dallas we found the committees in charge are not D. T. S tanley , B ruce W olverton , the usual bustle, stir and pronlen- sufficiently discreet with selection Monmouth. Portland. ■■ ■ - nub* incident to such meetings on of evangelists; They may l>e good Sunday. Bro. Burnett preached for some departments of the work, FRIDAY, .TUNE 30, 1882. the funeral of a little boy who had but not for all. Many things thus Our Rambles. ■JLie.en_k.iUed on tht;z.prtr.rioitx.d4Tiday^ Uu+4 to hinder that hearty eon^ - June is the time aliove all other By being run over by a iwagon/ fidence in the work which should times when Oregonians are wont After a few minutes intermission •exist. Now, in various parts of to forsake their homes for a time Bro. 1 Inbbs rd preached and nf, flic .lLis-Baerfir (»oast the brethren are A Cheerful Face. - aryl go—-go somewhere—go any- Hconclnsion triedthe difficult experi beginning this work in earnest, and There is, no greater every-day *Khvrc—to the’coast, to the moun ment of preaching to kill time till they are determined to carry it for virtue’ than cheerfulness. This to a . successful * ..... .... .r •_■ . :_ ■ . . ' termination. ----- . . - ----jf.. . tains, to see their friends, to, camp- Bro. Burnett would return from the ward quality Th man among meh IsJJFe meetings—everywhere: 'but go interment. Bro. H. succeeded prob May we lie allowed to make and sunshine to the day or renewing they must. . Nature .is inviting. ably as well as any one would un> enforce this suggestion, that those moisture to parchAl herbs. , The -The balmy air and sUnny skie's, •1er the circumstances"; but if we having the responsibility of em- light of a cheerful face diffuses it- (Showers excepted), the delightful were asked for advice, we ’would ploying and counseling with evan- • ~ roads leading through Valleys, over advise. speakers on all-occasions to d? Felists»etfn not be.too careful in re* aelf>a.nd communicates' the happy spirit that inspires it. The sourest . mountains, across streams of beau beware of talking simply to occupy quiring faithful work, and main- temper must sweeten in the atnttH- tiful sparkling water, with verdure tjme. Jt is hard on thé speafcéK* ■iaining order and system in the ad phere of continuous good humor. > of lovliest green clothing the fair and trying on the patience of the ministration of. all affairs pertaining people. to the chtirch aiid its advancement As well might fog and q 1 ou <1 and ■ „ face oF earth On every * hand; all vapor hope to cling to the sun-illu After lunch Bro. Burnett again of its claim upon mankind. invite, and he must be dim of sight med landscape as the " blues ” and . , . - , and dull of hearing, or altogether addressed.the Audience after-which ------------ , __ _ - _ - - moroseness to combat jovial speech. lost to nature’s charms, or else tied there was a general dispersion.» Sacred Mountains. Be cheerful always. There 'is no After careful reflection over 1&e down by inexorable late to duties 1st. Mount Ararat, the mount P^^h but will be easier travelled, at home, who fails to go—soine- large amount of work yet undone no-load but will . where.-» - , __ at the H erald .office that needed ,pon which-the ark of Noah tested, -»low on le*art or Irmin but will lift J^fter the'months of close con- our personahsuperrision, we deeid- and ’ which first overlooked "the-‘ finement and hard labor of the ed to forego the pleasure of remain* graves of a ruined world. 2d. sooner in presence of a determined cheerfulness. 11 may aLtimes seem office for sjx months past, we hail ing to enjoy the meeting and rest, Mount Moriah, the mount upon ed the opportunity for a little re^ as had lieen intended ; so we board- which Abraham offered up his son difficult for the happiest tempered ___ creation with no small _drgr^-of- cd the tniin at 6.o'clock and were Isaac ; where afterwards Solomon t° k*»ep the counte-nance o£_pcacp soon at home agaim • built the Temple. 3d. Mount Sinai, and content, but the difficulty will satisfaction. We remained in the-office until tha mount upon which the laws vanish when we truly consider that Our program led us first to the meeting at Dallas. We had intend the H erald was printed and mail were given to Moses. 4th. Mount sullen gloom and passionate despair ed going on Saturday the 17th and ed, when we were to start to tli^"iior, the mount upon which Aaron do nothing but inultiply-thorns apd remaining until about Tuesday fol Linn county meeting. Of this we died. oth. Mount Pisgah, the thicken sorrows. Ill comes to^us mount upon wTiTfli Moses died. 6th. providentially as good—and is lowing. < )n Saturday we were un will speak next week. Mount Horeb, th»» mount where godfl, if we rightly apply it^s lessons. able to secuTe a conveyance. So Co-operation. Mqses saw the burning bush, and Why not, then, cheerfully aCeept on Sunday morning with wife ami There can,.lie. none without con ..wh'ere Elijah fled from the face of the ill, and thus blunt itM apjiarent two smallest children we were at the depot ready *for the special fidence. Much of the want of. co-. Jezebel. 7th. Mount, Carmel, where sting ?—J von. train. We fourni at the depot Operation among-the churches to lire came down ami consumed the Mankind are always happier for an Assemblage of persons aUnit day arises from the fact that former sacrifice of Elijah and where he having lieen happy—so that if you equal in number to the average efforts have not realized what was slew the prophets 4>f Baal ; and make them happy now, you make Sunday congregation at church, all promised. This failure to realize from the summit of which he pray them happy.twenty years hence by in the same notion—to go on that is often from laxity of system. ed for rain, and was answered. Nth. the memory of it. A childhood special train to Dallas. At the ap Often churches have systems of Mount Lebanon, the mount noted passed with a due mixture of ra pointed minute the train 'J') arrived, working, but in the practice,«they, lor Tts great and beautiful cedars, tional indulgence, under fond and consisting of one passenger coach. whose charge it is, from a false etc. 9th. Mount Zion—the literal wise parents, diffuses over the whole The railway officials evidently did timidity, fail to require from those Mount . Zion, was onej.»f the hill- s o>L>fi life a feeling of calm pleasure, not take us for a church going peo under their emptoy,L aTT that is at which Jerusalem was built, and and in extreme old age is the very ple. And worse yet, that one coach first, stipulated. For instance, an stood near Mount Moriah, . where last remembrance which time can came already V filled almost to its evangelist is to be employed whp Abraham wffi»r<<d up his son Isaac. erase from the mind of man. No will devote» all his time to the. 19th. Mount Tabor, the mount up enjoyment, however inconsiderable, seating capacity. But then we were going to ministry. Me commences this ar on vliLJt JL’hrist was transfigured. is confined to the present moment. Dalljw'on that special train, So duous work, and after a few weeks 11th. Mount Olivet, the mount A man is the happier for life from the genth men vacated seats bi or months, he says to himself, “ I where our. Savior prayed, l>eing in having once made an agreeable thé coach, ami the ladies of Mon can and must appropriate a few iigouy, amLsaying, “ If it I«» possi tour, or lived for any length of time "with pleasant people; or enjoy ble let this cup pass from me,” etc. ed any considerable interval of in mouth crowded in to the full ex 12th. Mount, Calvary, the*mount nocent pleasure. It is this which tent of every inch of standing where our Savior waa crucified- contributes to render old men s(T~ room, while we took first class standing aOMTimodatiom on ■grass of the work. This he» fails.in •The List mount in the barred cate inattentive to the scenes Wore doing. Ike .brethren are loath to gory is not, however, least, in im them, and carries them back to a flat cars. world that' is past, and to -acenes Away we went. The road'was remind him of his duty. So, in portance to a ruined world. Isaiah. never to lie renewed again.— ¿>yd~ smooth, the time was short, and so (their presentations of these interests xiv. 22: "Look Unto me, and be ney /Smith, í • • ■ -> »• a . »
