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« ■ » 1 ~7 » t CHRISTIAN Query reign ( a . D. 68) the church in the Roman capital numbered probably j Is Missionary Cooperation with not fewer than fifty thousand, and «Western Oregon desirable and good there were many similar successes. for us ? If so,, why ? — -------». Before the close of the first Chris • U matilla C ounty . ' tian century, and within 65 years from the crucifixion, the gospel had — —iro.WAHKn;- ~ %eerr^reaefie?FTn all lands ” and" .Cooperation is always desirable many a Roman province was in the where it is practicable, Whether condition of Bithynia, whose gov- missionary. cooperation between - ernor testifies that the contagion Eastern and Western Oregon is of Christianity had seized not oidy practicable at present or not, is not the cities and villages, but also the < ■ 5 HKRALD. none in America. There were or ganized in 1793 the English Bap tist Missionary Society; in 1795, the London Society; in 1796, the Scottish and Glasgow Societies : in 1797, the Netherlands Society ; in 1799, the Church Missionary So ciety. Between 1800 And llflO, sixteen foreign societies were or ganized ; between 1830 and 1850, thirty-three more. The Protestant world now numbers seventy foreign missionary societies, with many , The Progress of Missions. . * H. W. EVElihT. <> < f » < • | Extract from an Addreaa befjte the Ohio Chri»tian Convention, held in Columba».J A brief survey of the history ol missions will afford abundant en •« * couragement. The sublime faith < and love of the Gospel, when once placed in human' hearts, began im mediately and powerfully to work for the salvation of men. Ever) *5 disciple was a missionary, and all the money was missionary money. The first sermon converted three thousand ; the second brought the number of the church to five thou sand ; then multitudes were added, /Z*' and a great company of Jewish priests became obedient to the faith. The circle widened, and Samaria and all Palestine received Christ. It widened still ¡ Jewish prejudice gave way, and the blessings of the Gospel flowed over to the Gentiles. ’Still the circle widened, as those scattered abroad at the death of Stephen went everywhere preach ing the word, and heralds of the cross were in Cyrene,-Phenice, Cyprus and Antioch. And sti.l the circle widened, till Ethiopia, Baby lon, Ephesus, Philippi, Athens, Corinth and Rome fl it the rising and the surging of .the tide that was soon to sweep over the whoh empire. By the end of the Neronian 4 » ■ going grandly on before our eyes, and the future is full of promise. When before were all nations of the earth so generally in treaty rela tions? When before could Chris tian civilation carry so many bless ings of science and art to uncivil-- ized races ? ihe slower and prfepaf^ atory work is nearly done ; all lands have been explored, languages have been learned, and the Bible trans lated into 250, or into four-fifths of all the tongues spoken by man; ——.....easily.dixidad. Suc.Cfi§afeL<^op,gI.-. atioivovera large area of country, must be sustained by Cooperation of churches and individuals in the smaller portions that compose it. — ,'thrr "missionary work -is young * both in Western and Eastern Ore gon. The two sections are so sep- aiated by the time and expense of —r---- —. travel that the propriety of uniting their missionary organizations is very questionable. We believd more good can be done at present '* by each working separately, but • harmoniously, till our work" is bet ter organized qn both sides of the mountaimT O(T there are7 quickei « ■ • * and cheaper lines of travel conncct- .« ing the two sections. ’ Inng anildAngarnns l‘U ■ '4 4’ ftxperimenLs__ ___ .unbought and heathen temples de- Since 1868, fifteen foreign mission have been tried and all things are sertedi Persecution followed per- ary societies have been organized ready. The centujr-plant of Chris cution ; the catacombs of Carthage, among the Christian women of the tianity is ready to shoot upward to Alexandria and Rome were filled United States. The home mis the zenith. The wealth and learn- with theslain; prayers went Up sionary work among all churches, ing"t>f the world alt in possession from prison dungeons at the mid including tract and Bible distribu-’’ of the church ; and the church is • L night hour, and the blood of mar lion, Sunday-schools and evangeliz learning that, grand as it may be tyrs flowed ; but the gospel had its ing efforts, is Vast beyond all com to develop science and art, it is far course and was glorified. At the putation. The men and money em grander to use science and art for close of this first campaign, when ployed in foreign missionary fields, the elevation and salvation of man; the soldiers-of the cross had been by the” Protestants of Europe and that glorious as are the services of marching arid fighting for nearly America indicate the grandeur of wealth in the subjugation and de- * three hundred years, to the Roman the work—«20,00(1 stations, 45,000 velopment of natural forces,yet the emperor, Constantinus the Great, missionaries, and more than 1,000,- ministry of wealth will be far more .the cross had become the sign of 000 - communicants ' in mission glorious when the world’s capital victory, aiiTT 6 vcry\vTienF the~UaTF' cliiH'chesj 9,816 mission“’”.schools ; "shall De miiinTydevoted to the ' 447,602 mission scholars. These well-being of immortal souls. lean was triumphant. * The church had barely time to ijfte~sustained by vast sums of mon Personal. settle its faith and accumulate a lit ey, the BritialrTsIes and the United tle reserve force, when tjhe barba States alone furnishing, in 1880, —Bros. T. F. and P_L. Campbell rians from Central Asia-and the over eight millions of dollars, and northern wilds began to overrun during the nine previous years more and Sister Mary Stump all sailed « for the East on the Oreijon last 'the Roman Empire. From the titan $67,500,000. • - "r We can hardly realize the extent Sunday night. fourth to the tenth century it was -—Sister A. M. Bedwell started to busy Christianizing these savage of Protestant missions. “ They are hordes. It was a home missionary everywhere; on the continent of California on last Saturday to l>e work for the conversion of the in North Auieriea ; in Mexico, Central gone several weeks. She is the coming heathens. During these America, Greenland, Labrador, the agent of the C hristian H erald dark centuries, though the church Hudson.Bay region, British Ameri and will canvass in its interest was in unholy alliance with civil ca, and.California; on the continent while gone. We bespeak for her a powers, and though the great apos of South America ; in New Granada, Christian welcome and numerous tasy was fastening itself on the peo Brazil, Peru, Chili, Uruguay, the subscriptions. —Bro. S. Monroe Hubbard spent ple of Europe, yet it never lost its Argentine Republic, Guiana and zeal for the conversion of the world, the contiguous islands, Falkland the last of last week and the first when this great tidal wave of bar and Terra del Fuego; in nearly part of this, in town looking after barism ceased to advance, then the every nation of Europe; on the-con- some business. church tevived its work for distant tinent of Africa in Egypt, Tunis, —Bro. H. A. Johnson, of Salem, Algeria, Abvssinia and Zanzibar ; nations. Between the tenth and called in on us on Tuest lay. thirteenth centuries the missionary in South Africa, 369 stationsand —Bro. R. H. Moss has moved fields were Scandinavia, Russia; 1,112 sub-stations; in Central and from Goldendale, W. T., to Weston, the far North, Lapland and Fin Western Africa. 135 stations and Or. The brethren of Umatilla land ; the far East, Persia and be- 451 sub-stations ; op the continent county have secured in Bro. M. an of Asia; in Turkey, Syria, Persia, able teacher of the worth J ———— yond. Then followed the great Protes India, China, Thibet, Japan, Bun- —Bro. Bi •uce Wolverton, our mah, and in Siam, there are 4w4 tant reformation, the victory over junior editor, has been elected as stations and 1,417 sub-stations the Roman heirarchy, the exalta Principal of the Preparatory de tion ofjhe Scriptures above all hu The Indian Archipeligo, the islands partment of the State Agricultural man authority, the rebaptism of the of the Atlantic —the Bahamas, the College at Corvallis, and has ac church in the Spirit of Christ, and Bermudas, the West Indies; Mada cepted. t z~~~---- ----------- --- - ■ _ the renewal of the great commission. gascar, Maritius, Australia, Poly Kind looks, kind words, kind The end of Popery, the revival of nesia with its 309 islands, and the missions, and the beginning of the mighty world of Australasia, have acts, and warm hand shakes—these millennial glory had come. In 4 I all been conquered by the soldiers are secondary means of grace, when men are in trouble and are fighting 1790 there were only three foreign of the cross.” But this is not all; the work is | their unseen battle.— Dr. John Hill. missionary societies in Europe, and • , f ( x J’ ,■ ■> & '.S. V-T u I Ï V’t I ' < I