CHRISTIAN
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what ones are left in their, places or spiritual strength.
A happy new year to you and
comparatively unnoticed.
■ And why is it so ? Surely if yours and all the readers’-of the
every parent and teacher should H erald . We like the paper much;
take as much pains to learn the may it be a power for love, union
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character and influence of the au and growth.
.„Pmpar Rnnriipjjf.
Fraternally,
thors With whom tthcir charges as
S. M. H ubbard .
reading storys from the pens of sociate, tótKey WOTfifthu ddHipau-
MAY E. BEAN.
P. S.—Letters sent here un
some of tlie best of fiction writers, ions with whom they sustain inti
I have been glad to notice in the
and after a time those that are less mate relations at school or on the further notice.—S. M H.
H erald several articles in which
pure of tone and moral, until the play-ground ; provide such read
reference was made to improper
desire for romance and adyenture ing matter as will be helpful and
reading, for I think that it is a sub-
Letter from Bro. White.
like the appetite for strong drink elevating, and at the same time do
' in the tippler dl'ILIHllds Mumctihinio ■ -»rluit H...y « jin fo prohibit and re
said, lioth from pen and pulpit.
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more exciting, until even the most move what might have an opposite
It is an old and true adage that
D ear B rother ,—I salute you
wicked ami impure thoughts and effect ; and l»y example ami pre
“ a person is known by the company
acts, if clothed in pleasing words cept teach the necessity of a wise with brotherly love, and best
that he keeps,” and ordinarily there
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embellished with elegant sur selection of. reading, there would wishes, for your success. I like
is no compambn that' mote fntty
roundings cease to shock or offend; j be less dcinahd for the tiashy- -ami the best number of the H erald ho
engraves and governs our thoughts
I believe that there are few if j vile stuff (flat is now so freely cir well, (No. 50,) that I send yotT”
than the book with which we en
fifty cents, for that much worth,
any, who lo>e-«to fill their minds culated.
gage our leisure hours. Conse-
of
papers of that number,if you have
with the tragedy ami drama that is ; But as long as fathers and
quently there are but few things
flooding the world to-day, who can mothers themselves devote more them, as there are two articles in
that have, more to do with the con
long love to think of Him who is time to unprofitable reading than it (A Reason for our Existence and
struction of our minds and charac
all truth and righteousness. Ami they do to that which would be of The Law of Conscience), that I wish
tel’s, than the class of reading to
those who publish it believe tins some benefit to them, and careless to circulate. If you have not the
which we give, not only the time
also. Not long ago a paper of this ly '•'allow their children to read papers, and have any tracts, good
spent in reading, but many minutes
class w’as left at our otlice, ami in whatever circumstances or their for distribution, please send them,
and perhaps hours when our hands
it Hie following notice was conspic- taste may dictate, this evil will gnd oblige, yours in the one hope.
are o th er w ise cii 1 pT< >y ed7"™Xnd fTi us
Llleasc aend theui to C. D. White,
grow worse,
it*shbuld
for XV
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The publishers of The ----- that none can fail to .recognize
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edge of the way of salvation. ~ It
Lowell. Maas.
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[We publish this private letter to
was to this means that Christ di —— Family Story Paper are at
. .show the interest the brethren
rected the Jews that they might ease as to what your religious be
Letter from Bro. Hubbard.
are taking in the H erald . Let
learn of and believe on Him, when lief is. We are not asking for in
others follow the good example
A mity , O r ., Jan. 1, 1883.
He said, “Search the Scriptures; formation.
of Bro, White — E d ]
NO SERMONS,
Elder J. F. Floyd -.
for in them ye think ye have eter
D ear B rother , I hope and ex
nal life, and they are they which Appear in the columns of The
pect to be over to Monmouth this
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testify of me.”
Sad News.
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week.
We
closed
our
work
here
Let us therefore be very careful
E den V alley , W. T.
Every living being has a right to yesterday, per agreement, and ex
that we choose such booksjis will
Dec. 25, 1882.
pect to go, in a few months, to
create purer and better thoughts, do as he or she pleases.
This
morning
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s
mail
brings the
I Poitland to reside. We had a
P ositiv EYLy ho sermons,” Arc.
instead of those that will leave be
As I read my heart ached to splendid audience here, as usual, -ad news from our beloved evange
hind even a suggestion of evil.
If a question should arise in our think into how many homes thisj last evening. The Amity Christian list, C. J. Wright, from Summer
minds as to whether a book is paper wotlld be admitted,and to how congregation is a good one, and de ville, Or., dated Dec. 18th, stating
profitable, it seems to me that there many innoceht youths it would be- . serves, and should have, a resident I that on the 14th, ult., his horse fell
is no better way of answering it come a teacher. For to those boys minister, as well as able preacher with him, breaking his left arm and
than bv asking ourselves whether and girls—ami not to boys and of the word. 1 have had a useful, | shoulder blade, and dislocated the
we lielieve that it will impart more girls alone, but to men ami women but laborious year’s labor here. J shoulder joint and tramping on his
energy, strength and wisdom to do who peruse its- columns, it will ; But the work is done, and I have I breast, thereby inflicting inward in
our work—the w’ork that we be have as much to do with forming had too many precious spiritual juries. Bro. Wright had just closed
lieve to be most w’orthy of our the ideas and character, as the feasts to believe that my labors a meeting at Grand Rounde, and
manhood and womanhood, and, if teacher to whose care their educa here have not had the blessings of was just starting for home; the
we are Christ’s, the work of Him tion is committed. And the num heaven. We need here, and the ( stage not being able to proceed
to whom we have pledged our ber of homes whose teachers of world needs less human creeds, but,| farther, owing to the washouts, was
strongest efforts ami best endeav-. this kind are allowed a part in the ■ more of the bone, muscle, and | returning horseback, when the
ors; or whether it will defile our education of young minds, wouhl sinew of an efficient Christianity above mentioned accident occurred.
ideas of purity; retard our convic if numbered read a figure that Christ which will lift struggling
This will bring sorrow to many
tions of duty, and undermine our would alarm Thinking people who j humanity to a higher plane of hearts, but we sincerely hope and
determinations ami weaken our have even the moral interest of' thought and life. May the doc pray that we may be favored with
efforts for truth and right. It is a humanity at heart.
trines of the Gospel of Christ be his speedy recovery and lie being
sa<i thing to see a professed Chris
If you wish to know what class loved an< obeyed by all, and may once more able to resume his minis
tian neglecting the Book of books of reading creates the greatest de every one. of the members of this terial labors. His family have our
for light and frivolous reading, and mand, go into a news office t^nd no congregation stind in their indi heart-felt sympathies, anil our lie
yet it is no uncomnioii thing to see tice the books and periodicals there vidual manhood and womanhood,( loved brother may be assured that
one of ll od’s professe< 1 ch i Id re!n Wi us 1 "drspliryc<{^ Ar^TiTto our public libra- clothed with the—a'h.oJ.e_i>anoi>ly gfl he is remembered in the prayers of
forsaking the true bread of life for ries and ask the librarians* what God, and in their united capacity ; his brethren in the Lorcf7~ ’ r
real and reread, and ! be a giant of moral'and Christian,
the husks and vanities of the liooks
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and after a longer time, perhaps,
than was necessary to consider the
proposition, he received the follow
ing reply from the rich man.
(To l>e continued.)
world.
And how many there are who
have acquired a taste for the vile
and ungodly reading in just this
WAjfj by neglecting and laying
aside God’s book to indulge their