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Letter from Zena.
• the most costly church edifice in
to Oretown, Tillamook Co., Oregon.
— > the city. If piles of brick and
’Z ena , O il , Sept. 18, 1882.
I like your invaluable paper very
From Bro. T. F.< Campbell.
mortar can honor God or advam-c lira. J). T. Stanley :
K ansas C ity , Sept: 19, 1882. I his caij^e and kingdom on earth,
J arrived in Polk county, Oregon. much. It should l>e read by all
■ Kan sas Xlity. b».ftuntribiiUugJLi-£Hfe on thi* 1 ’Jtli <Tay of lasl March? 7
I | IllR1) h'neTTulh alMiv""larkness”
Yours in Christ,
found Albert and his family, con share to that end. By invitation | i heard you speak at Bethel on the
J. B F ranklin .
sisting of his wife and daughter, : of Bro. Haley, I occupied his pulpit funeral
occasion
of Bro. T. M. Mor-
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Pride in the Church.
and his mother-in law, enjoying on Sunday at II A. M. and also at gan’s deceased daughter. Myself
7:45
p.
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The
hall
occupied
by
tine health. They were not look
and family are at Zena until a few
It is a sin .and a shame for men
the
congregation
on
Sunday
and
ing for me so soon, hence their sur
more weeks, when I will move out and women profes.sing Christianity
prise. I am pleased to learn that Friday evening alone is sub let at
"tiT
money'the way Ithey do to
k . mgnxsor
Albert nas establisnea for himself
country.
gilitify a proud heart. There are
(¡nite a reputation not only by his : Pithias who hold the lease; I can
My object .in going to this far off many evils in the land and in the
skill in the practice of medicine but! not, therefore, get the use of it to coast is to get 100 acres of govern- -church, but I'doubt if anyone evil
also by his efficiency in the church. lecture in, as it is occupied con inent land, and to build up the is doing more hariulhaiLqnidtv.- It-
r -has stolen into the church by de
His -wife and -Mr.< Coleman, her stantly^ I can secure the opera eause (4- one-denr
Tlmfl
at
a
rental
of
fifty
to
seventy/
Whether I shall be able or not .is grees, ami now rules with a rod of
mother, are earnest Christians and
five
dollars
per
night;
but
1
am
zealous workers in the Master’s
•one of the problems in the hand ¡of iron. Churches that were once
!
hesitating
whether
it
will
not
lx*
providence. I Lave been invited by noted for their plainness, ami
cause. * Fortunate the man whose
more
prudent
to
pass
Kansas
City
a few good and noble brethren “ to whose law still stands against pride
companion is a faithful servant of
by
for
the
present,
as
I
did
Denver,
come over into Macedonia (Little and fashion, are practically power-
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and
seek
greener
pastures
in
moje
Nestache) and help them.” 1 have less on the subject.
This city is a marvel of the age.
addressed them four times already
When every thing is moving at favored localities.
The religion of Christ is pure,
Yesterday
(Monday)
I
made
a
upon themes pertaining to the peaceful, gentle, easy to be entreat
railroad speed, this seems to have
outstripped in development every I flying visit to Independence, kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. ed and full of mercy. All C'hris-
other in this age of progress. The ' situated twelve miles east of this. Good hearing and profound rever- tiiuis are—Lifptizcd with onr xpirit.r...
census ;I£8D gaveuvpopulatMm^r ni’9- A J?ioctor, why^
was
into one laxly. They mind not
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cordially given. On the 24th high things, but condescend to men
. 57,000. inhabitants ; they now claim
. .fjilly 80,000. Judging from the in Bethany college in 1848, met me proximo, I -shall, the Lord willing, of low estate. Their highest ambi
price of rents and the demand for at the depot and conducted me to speak to them again on topics per tion is to honor God with all they
houses, it might* be inferred the his pleasant residence in the suburbs taining to godliness in the-huinan Lave and are.— They are not puffed
^growth of the’cityJs marveTous. I of the-i-cityr His Christian wife, heart. May the truth find a ready up, not conformed to this world,
notice-many new buildings in pro son, and two daughters gave me a soil ini the field upon which it is but transformed by the renewing
cess of construction in every part cordial welcome. The oply remain sown.
of their minds. There is no such
1 found some infidels over there,- thing as a proud Christian; there
" of the city. . It is a railroad center ing memlier of his family not men
of the west, second in importance tioned above, is a daughter, his whose minds the wisdom of this never was nor ever can lx?. Pride
eldest, who is teaching in the orphan world had darkenecj/! Paul says,
only to Chicago.
is of the devil—it originated with
Of its religious status I can not school at Camden Point. Time has “ It pleased God, by the foolishness him; and he is managing it most
«peak so favorably if my estimate laid its hand rather heavily on Bro. of preaching, to save them that be successfully in destroying souls.—
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Proctor,
and
his
abundant
labors
in
lieve.
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Not
foolish
preaching,
but
should lx? based on a remark of one
Bishop Weaver.
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of its leading men—it was to this the Master’s vineyard have pre preaching the Gospel, which was,
maturely
furrowed
his
cheek,
bent
Statuary Christians.
and is foolishness to the Athenian
effect, “ that the atmosphere was
his
form,
and
whitened
his
locks.
unfavorable to Christianity, that
and Greek philosophy, and still is
Ib is said that when Oliver Crom
I)r.
Bari
x?e
and
his
Christian
wife,
there was not a man in the city
to the infidelity and carnality of well visited York minster Cathedral,
who devoted one-half hour per whom I met in Memphis, Ten the human heart, which is now a in England, he saw in one of the
month to the consideration of a nessee, in I860, are in charge of the new fungus growth issuing from apartmeuts statues “ of the twelve
future life, that if I would lecture boarding school in Independence. the press, and falling into hard and apostles in silver. “ Who arelhose
successfully to this people, I must In company with Bro. Proctor I obdurate hearts. Oh! may the fellows there ?” he a^ked, as he ap
make railroad extension, corner called on them while their- xchooL TLordsmile with his gracious provi- proached them.
On being in
lots, or additions to the city my was in session and found them en dence on the brethren in Oregon formed, he replied, “ Take them
subject.” My intercourse with the gaged—he in the literary depart and everywhere in the far off down and let them go about doing
people thus far? has impressed me ment, she in music. •< - We called also climes;- and may those who are good.” They were taken down,
with something more than the on an old acquaintance from Mon i lukewarm arise from the spell and melted, and put into his
shadow of truth in this hard esti tana, Sister Cogswell, whom 1 found which holds them away from truth treasury. There are many who,
to be still faithful to Christ and I and duty. Arise, soldiers of the
mate:
like these silver apostles, are too
My friend and brother, T. P. zealous in good works as when I cross, and prepare for the great stiff for service in much that the
Haley, with whom I labored in knew her in the far west.
conflict which the signs of the times Lord’s work requires. Some are
After many pleasant calls, I re
many a pleasant and successful turned by evening train to Kansas indicate will soon be inaugurated too nice, some too formal, some
meeting in the “ long ago ” .is City. 1 shall remain here about on this mundane sphere, and even disinclined. They stand or sit stiff
preaching for the church here. The ten days, with my friends, before in heavenly places in Christ, “ Put and stately in their dignity, and
congregation seems to be at peace, resuming my travels and fairly in on the whole armor of God, that ye sinners go unsaved and believers
and in a healthy condition. They augurating my work.
may be able to stand against the uncomforted, unhelped, for all the
Your brother in Christ,
wiles of the Devil; for we wrestle effort they will make to lift a hand
are putting up a large, commodious
T. F. C ampbell .
not against flesh and Hood, but to serve them. They need to. be
and handsome church edifice. The
This
fair
universe
is
indeed
the
against
principalities,
against melted down and sent about doing
material is brick put up in .modem
star-domed
city
of
God.
Through
powers, against the world, rulers of good. Statuary Christians, how
style with all the latest improve
every star, through every glass
ments. When completed, the cost, blade, and most through every liv fhjs darkness, against the ■spiritual ever burnished and elegant they
hosts of wickedness jn the heavenly may be, are of little real service in /
including the ground, will probably ing soul, the glory of a present God
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yeach $45,000; nor yet will it be j still beams.— Carlyle.
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