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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1883)
'W ... < •''/PM’ ' ■ • .' i. S - ’■ 'r: New England Letters. young man again, knowing what I a graduate of the “ College of the * NVMBF.R XI. do now, I think I should select just Bible,”. is regarded here and -th* U4^,and..^.;AVork you have throughout this State as on«* of our C ambridge , M ass , chosen. You and your dearwffir Graham. Dear Friends ^at Home : are in the prime of life, your family gard him eminently qualified to — L exington , K y ., conduct a religious journal ; he is a Last Thursday morning Reu- is small, and your wants few and Dec. 27,1882. close thinker, writes well, and is bena, Lucretia, Inez and I left easily supplied. Where you are Dear Bro. Floyd: kind and fair to those who differ society is young and vigorous. The Wellesley to spend a few days of I have just received the second I think he is too our vacation rich virgin soil is ready for the in from him. in Cambridge. — number of the H erald you have dustrious iu both the modest for one of his standing, but Through Prince’s kindness and the been pleased to send me, and I am literal and figurative sense. I do that is a fault in him that <rleans willingness of Mrs thereby reminded of my pro not mean to say that where you to virtue’s side.” landlady, to accommodate m mise before you left us that I It will, doubtless, seem to some Campbell’s friends, we were wel are society is rude and unculti would drop you a line once in vated ; that is a mistake made by rather indelicate in me to write comed that evening after a tire « Kentucky.^—-- - a great many in the oWfer States. such things of a former pupil, and some <1ay in 1111■ <• i t y, t < > a pleasan t 1 am very much pleased with the They forget that it is not now as in him to publish them, but my suite of rooms, vacated the day be contents, tone, and appearance of formerly when communities had to great desire to see the H erald fore by two senior lawr students the H erald . When I look upon go through a period of long and succeed must plead my apology for going home for their vacation. The its ample and beautiful pages and gradual development. When Cali speaking thus plainly to my friends coal fire gave out a cheering glow, peruse the original and selected fornia, for instance, was ceded to the and brethren in Oregon; specially and the handsome easy chairs and matter they contain I thank God United States, thousands rusheel from would I plead, with my proaching curtained Window made us feel that we have such an exponent of our this side and carrred with them the brethren toput their -shoulders .to. we had set up housekeeping in a principles in far-off Oregon—once arts and improvements of advanced this enterprise as they have never very cosy comer of the world. Mrs. far-off, but far-off no longer; it civilization. It was a transplanta done before. I suppose the paper Hayward also gives us our meals ' - seems to me nearer even since you tion rather than a slow growth has always had the general support which makes it still more pleasant have gone thither."~YoU mUst know from germs. Thus San Fransisco of ’ thepreachers in Oregon, but for us, as we expected to board ata- ~that Fspentrtwfr y ears a little south I in four or five yeiits after the <lis~ now let it e nlist your labors to o x restaurant. Friday «wrningr white— of you, in glorious California. So covery of gold looked so 'much like tend its circulation to every hamlet Prince was at a Latin recitation, you must be careful not to speak-a Boston as to be called by many and family in the State that ¿an be and Lou and Inez reading story I word in dispraise of the golden Eastern people themselves “ Boston induced to take it. books, Reubena and I went to an State, as web-feet arc wont to do, if No. 2.” While this is not true to I have long deplored the apathy examination in a Grammar school you would retain my good will. the same extent in your State it' is of our preachers in regard to our very near here where Miss Nettie, But I know your broad and catholic so in the main. You have, there- | papers, colleges, and enterprises the oldest «laughter of this house, spirit too well to fear much on that fore, a people to work with quick, I generally. We have need to take is a member of the graduating score active, independent, and under com a few lessons from Ourreligious class. We took a long walk about , I was never in Oregon, but I ditions favorable for the reception cotemporaries on this subject. How the city, first going out to the new should have been had I not been so of the truth as we plead for it. Of many Methodist preachers neglect statue of' John Bridge the first suddenly called back from Cali course you will have the same bat to push the circulation of their school master in Cambridge, which fornia. When I went to the Pacific tle with the corruption and selfish “ Advocates ?” and if they did has been lately unveiled op the coast it was with the expectation ness of the human heart that we what would become of them ? I common. At about 11 A. M. we of making it my home for the rest meet with here, but you will have am well aware they have motives found our way up the school stairs of life. We propose, but God dis a more open field in which to mar in this regard that we cannot have and into the Principal’s room where poses of us and ours. I can never shal your forces. You have besides to push our papers, but we should examinations were being held in regret having gone, nor do I now the vantage ground won from the be ashamed to confess that we will language,geography, arithmetic and regret my return, for I believe the enemy by the forces under such not in the absence of such motives history. The exercises were mostly hand of God was in both my going commanders as Burnett, Mulkey, do for Christ what they are doing conducted by a pleasant voiced and my coming back. Campbell, McCorkle, and others as for Methodism, I freely concede lady and were highly entertaining. You speakt in the paper before good and great not necessary to l>e there is much of Christ and the We afterward listened to singing me, of the cordial generous re enunierated here. We owe much truth in the hearts and lives of my by the school and speeches from the ception given you by the Disciples to these noble men and women who Methodist brethren, but these they school committee in a large fourth of the Pacific coast, and that is have made it possible for you and get from the Gospel and not from story room, coming home after precisely my experience. I have others to start papers, found col their ism. ward to a nice dinner. Saturday traveled a great deal in my time, Now, brethren, you have a there was no excitement except the leges, build churches, etc. Well but I never met a larger-hearted said the Savior to the disciples of golden opportunity to establish the pleasure that a bundle of western people than I saw in California, his dav, “ Other men labored, and H erald as it has never been es letters gave and the regret of - and from what I saw of the breth you have entered upon their tablished before, and in doing this having Reubena leave for West ren from Oregon while I was in labor».” And so it has been al- •you will be establishing your col field in the afternoon. Sunday San Francisco I formed a like esti ways and shall be evermore; the lege, your church, and yourselves. was spent among the Boston mate of them. It was my fixed in debt we owe our progenitors we The price of the paper is too churches, going first to morning tention to spend a while in Oregon trifling to be in the way of any service at the New Old South, then pay to our posterity. had 1 remained on the Pacific coast, If my dear brethren on the but a few, and in the case of these at 2:30 p. m . we entered the hall on for I had received many cordial and few let their more fortunate breth __ pressing invitations to do so; one Pacific coast will suffer a word of ren send it to them. Specially let Tremont St. used by the Disciples every, Sunday afternoon, where we •.'„ of these was from Gov. Wood ’and exhortation from. an o]d f riend, J wife, both of them Disciples, and at say to them, work now and hard to double thé’ list of the H erald . Bro, A. Harney, a young minister that time living, I think, in Salem. for the H erald . Y ou have a 'fine R obert G raham . chance to build up an influential who works with wonderful earnest As it is I am not unknown to many home paper worthy of yourselves It is enough for a man to under ness of purpose. We were told that in your State, and I congratulate and the cause you advocate. I stand his own business, and not to the organisation numbered about you and them upon your settle- forty, and Bro. Smythe, the elder, , pent among them. Were I a need hardly say that Bro. Floyd is interfere with other people’s. i Correspondence. r- . - jrn ,n ... x > - * ~ * .............. • • • »■-.... ——------------ 4 '