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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1883)
-4 5 CHRISTIAN HERALD. monopolies are not only the real ed itoVs of these large news papers, but they seek in many ways to mislead the people and to keep them in ig norance in reference to much of the leading movements of the country. Just in proportion to the unrelia bility of these men themselves are nomination ” at all. As we can find no place for the denominations in the Mew Testament,*we know of no better use to which we can put them than to turn them over to oür Methodist friends out of wnich to make “ branches.” We profess to belong simply to the Church of God without such, we call foolish preaching; and the church that de pends on that alone for all its spiritual food and salvation is evi dently a foolish church. There is are even seeking to control the leading cable lines in order that they may the more effecti vely carry out their purposes. Of course we •have nothing but contempt for that man or body of men, who has not the moral courage to think lor hirii- self and to speak and write for him- ! self about matters involving.the in terests of tbs whole nation. But wLt H-Try Trinh to ony fo « word in reference to some religious papers. We are fully persuaded that it is not an uncommon thing for these to lack independence of thought and expression. It is refreshing indeed to see a paper professing to be a first-class religious paper trail ing alongabout two or three years behind the popular sentiment of a large poition of the church it repre- senls. Whun some preachers engrge with a church the first tTimg they do is to go among the members and ascertain, the “ it’s ” and “ and’s,” “ why's ” and “ wherefores ” laid down as conditions upon which his meat and bread depend, and having learned these, he makes up bis mind to conform his course thereto, Now it occurs to us that this is the principle on which some Editors are wont to operate. We think about’ as much of one as we do of the other, and our opinion of both is about as high as it is of the mono poly spirit. If a religious paper, or, indeed, any other, is worth any thing, it should endeavor to keep in advance of the people. that, then we belong to no and if the Church of Christ is a branch, will the Advocate please tell us what it is a branch of ? 2. We claim to be a “ branch ” ourselves. Christ, said to his dis much preaching, but the trouble is to always know just when and where it should be doné, and how often. We would say, if the churches can have regular preach- ing that is calculated to bent fit them, they should have it by all means. But when the preacher can not be there every Lord’s.day, let the church come together and break bread, and exhort one another; and so much the more as they see. the day approaching. - “ Adulteration of Intelligence.” t I’ve got a right to smoke ; if you don’t like it, you can emigrate." That is hi* stand-poiut—that he han ar ght to smoke. But has he a right to smoke his neigh bor too ? Has any man a right to poison and vitiate the common air for the sake of his own enjoyment? Have men any more light to pollute the atmosphere of Murray Hill with the smoke from pois onous weeds than they have to pollute it with the noxious odors of.a slndgo- acid factory ? Have men any more to right to pnff out tobacco smoke in a good things.” And again, “ It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that be lieve.” But we must remember that Paul does not say that by foolish preaching God proposed to save any one. And preaching that lieve that branches'' Docs the Advocate un derstand ? .3. iribe- Advocate and the “other religious papers of the coast’ (To~not wish to be J' cor rected,” they may expect to do one of two things, either to fold up their' sheets and retire from the theological field, or to speak as the oracles of God speak. Aportion of the H erald ’ s special work is not only the correction, but the abso lute destruction of sectarianism and denominational ism in all of their forms, and from present indications -ft good por tion will have to be devoted to this work, We con- sider this*a fair introduction. Inlbhc Korth. American for January we have a very clear aud forcible article on “ The Adul teration of Intelligence,” by Charles T. Uougdun. In this article it is T he T ransit of V enus .—The shown that nearly all the large and Old Path Guide draws a good influential news papers of the lesson from the recent transit of country are owned and controlled Venus. Read the following : by the great monopolies and rail Venus, the firBt of the sister planets, road corporations, and that these made her transit of the sun on the 6th papers are simply used as the inst., that is, she passed immediately between us uud the suu. The conse means of carrying out the selfish quence was, that on the evening of the end and purposes of these corpora 6th, the thermometer dropped about forty degrees ; nearly to zero. The tions without regard to the general next day the 7th, was the coldest day of good of the people at large. In the season. Are our readers aware of thut ? Venns intercepted the rays of stead of the editors of these papers the sun for about four hours, and caused speaking and writing their own this cold snap. The principle is the same as when a body comes between yon clear convictions of the great prob and the tire—you don't get as much lems of the day, they are operated heut. Now, let this teach every Chris tian a lesson. If you let anything get as one wouM operate a new ma between you and Christ, you are spirit chine, and are nothing more than Selections and Comments. ually cold. This is why there are so cold Christians. The cares of the the slaves physically, mentally and We take the following editorial many world, and the ueceitfulness of riches morally of such selfish monopolies note from the Pacific Christian intervene. The prayerless Christiau, as Jay Gould for the adulteration Advocate, a Methodist paper, pub the Christian that constantly absents himself from the house of God, has of intelligence and the oppression of lished at Portland : something between him and Christ. what a change in a day or two after the people. It is a fact which has The C hristian H erald has the funny See Venus made her transit—how pleasant never been called in question so far habit, whenever it gets a now editor, of ' the weather. Remove these obstacles undertaking to correct the Advocate and j as we know thathundreds of editors the other religious papers of the coast in , from between you aud Christ, and how actually sell themselves to those quite a pedagogical way. I«st week it ' warm will be the sunshine of his love ! says that the Advocate “ talks about the ; men and will sit in the seat of the different branches of tho Church of S moking O ther P eople .—The editor and not only write and pub Christ," and it asks the original ami ' profound question if** the Advocate Christian Union has some very lish that which they do not believe very does not know that the Church of Christ sensible and practical things to say and which they know to be false had no branches ?” The Advocate has about the right of tobacco smokers and detrimental to the nation’s only to ask, if the H erald does not con sider the little denomination to which it to smoke other people. The follow welfare, but they are so much un belongs a branch of thfe Church of ' ing should be read by every con der the control of their masters that Christ, what is it a brauch of ? sumer ol the poisonous weed : they are .afraid to attempt to do A “ profound ” question, indeed ! j The average smoker, on being remon UacU.well4__We/eNy 1. The H erald does ; strated _________________ * where ___ _____ with for smoking it will _ understood bythe people that the« ¡not profit io .belongn^ nrd e- 1 aunb y ? t h»>*t wUl wy, WU*t ----- vitriol in a crowd? \Ve j<rant tnat l man has a right to smoke ; but be ha* ho rigLt to compel others to take hi* smoke. In bis pursuit of happiness he has no right to iufringe on that of an other mm. If a man must smoke, let him do it private, and not where he will annoy and injnre others. Public opin- ion ought to compel this ; if it is not ought not the law to aid? If not, why not ? x We have been imposed on and thoroughly disgusted more than tfttee-w4U»~4«A»accu anmke from the pipes of others. Sometimes we conclude that we have lost all patience with those who persist in smoking and chewing. As much as we deplore the drunkenness in • the land, we must confess that we have never been annoyed half so much l>y it personally as by the offensive tobacco smoke. We have lately received a batch of letters at this office that were so saturated . with tobacco smoUFthal we 'coQtJ^ ~ hardly endure them in the office. How Christian people, and especi ally ministers of the Gospel, can reconcile the intemperate use of this deadly poison with the charac ter of a true Christian man as set forth in the Scriptures, is more than we are able to understand. M issed the M ark —The follow ing note is clipped from the Oregon Statesman: The Pacific Christian Advocate talks «bout the “ different branches of the churchDoes the Advocate not know that the Church of Christ had no “branches?" The above is taken from the C hristian H erald . It is not our “ put," but we offer tue foliowin? : “ I am the vine and ye are the branches.’’ Well, as this is not the Statesman's “ put,” if this is the best he can do, we respectfully suggest that if he wishes to retain his reputation as a Bible reader (?) he had better keep quiet. , - ---------- ♦ s ♦ ------------ As the Sunday School Lesson for some time to come will be in Acts of Apostles, we hope that all Sun day -school teachers will improve the opportunity of teaching the young people how to become Chris tians. The book of Acts was writ ten more especially for that pur pose. It is a kind of comment of the great commission of our Savior, and is hence a book that should be of great interest in this day of cor- fusion among the people as to whi t it. takes to make a Christian. * » < , ' ..... . CM •• . ' 1 njffi --