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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1883)
-■ èïtRisTiASi u wkAtb. 7 Cutting the ice however was simi told us of their trials on the voyage the coming spring. Perhaps there Letter from Sister Hawes. lar to writing upon the «sand, for from Athens to.. Alexandria. It will be something pleasant to tell E ixieuomb , K ansas , the king of coldness was near, even was very amusing to hear her (ell you after we have visited the dis Feb. 17, 1883. nipping the fingers and toes of the of Mr. Cook’s anger when he found play of orchids in the Hunnewell Dear Bro. Floyd : workmen now and then, and they some grand Turk had taken all the greenhouses. We have been having a very in were no sooner gone, than the ice first-class accommodations on the Do you have any fences in Ore grew again and the snow fell, and steamer with his harem of twenty gon, and if so do the grizzly bears teresting meeting here. Bro. J. J. covered all as it is to-day. Yester- wives and retinue, while it was lift the gate latch and walk in, and Henry did the preaching. He or . ■nt a whed around- with the greatest trouble that ihay.. do-4ou.hjt at KQiir back dnorH^and. ganized a church of twenty-eight the avenue for exercise* with the at last secured a cabin. The land practice archery on the wild In members, fifteen of where had nev er been members of the Church of mercury 0° below zero. Jt has been ing at Joppa was exciting as the dians as they go by ? • Christ. P. J. Hawes preached last M ary S tump . colder for a few days at a time, but waves ran high and the picture . ---------- :---- -------------------------- Lord’s day. not as a general thing, and should drawn from the night ride from Letter from Bro. C. H. Hodges; Yours in Christ, anyone ask how we stood the cold Joppa to Jerusalem was vivid and G racie H awes . G lencoe , O r ., Feb. 2G, 1883. wave sthat struck Boston, you may made memorable by the total Wttp.seof the moon as they rode J- Tiay we ”^ly bt'anT^ D ear B ro ., —I came to this place Letter from Bro. Craigie Sharp. over the sandy plains.- The natives the newspapers. J ' ----------- six months ago, having been en v There have been so many said “ the moon was sick.” P ortland , O r ., Feb. 26,1883. They were sometime at Jerusa gaged as teacher in the public J. F. Floyd: concerts and lectures for our enter school ; found a few members of and walkin" Bethlehem, tainmfint thia term, that it js hard lem, ---- — Xj----- about -- — ". ....... --rTI|- __ to know which to. speak of first. one day they entered a dwelling tmr-f•tTrWariehnrclr at Hhwrty ton, W. T., a week ago, and met Perhaps you will be interested in and she sat down with the woman Brook, two miles from here. 1 at once putin my church letter I with the brethren there. They hearing of Mrs Joseph Cook’s in at her mill that she might know have no house at present, but hope formal talks about her two years what it would be like for “ two with them, and commenced labor to be able after a while to build tour in Europe, from which as you women to be grinding at a mill.” ing in the cause of the Master, and one or buy. They now meet in the know, she and her husband return She gave too, a touching scene of found my congregation made up of M. E. house. They are working the Jewish pilgrims outside the people belonging to various denom hard to build up the cause on the ed a few months ago. inations, Adventists, Baptists, and _ Her talks have l>een given in the walls of Jerusalem, chanting the foundation of Apostles, some who claimed to belong to the sure chapel to the whole school on Fri Lamentations of Jeremiah and cer Church of Christ (or Advent Chris Prophets, Jesus Christ being the days at 2:5 l*. JL, instead of the tain Psalms, bewailing the fall of the tians), some United Brethren, chief corner stone. Bro. Morgan •wstral -Bible lessons-at that hour. TempJtL. She is going to take us "Presbyterians and Mbthodists. preaobea-for-them onee a month. Mrs. Cook is very tall and though next to the Pyramids and therTto None of these were strong enough Bro. Jackson, formerly of Eugene, India. Dr. Duryea is giving* a not handsome has a smile that to form an organization of them Oregon, has just been elected one very interesting series of Tuesday makes her face radiant and one of of their elders, and the cause now selves. the sweetest voices in the world. evening lectures on Evidences of I commenced in a very humble looks bright. But there isa good Her hair is almost white, perhaps Christianity. Last night waxing way to preach the simple truths of opening in Farmington for a broth from ill health as she is still young warm against Agnosticism and the Gospel to them, advocating er who would engage in the furni looking and she dresses very quiet other theories as fanciful, he said, Christian union on the platform of ture business, as it is a young and ly in black. In the beginning she “If you are skeptical, go home and growing town with rich fanning the Bible alone. reminded us that there was only exercise your knuckles on the rip On Sunday last we all had the country around it. Any brother ples of a washboard and you ’ ll find one public speaker in the family, pleasure of seeing many of these wishing to locate in this country there is something real in life. ” and she was not that one. She discordant elements (the immersion will find the brethren ready to re then took us immediately to Athens . You would enjoy, too, Prof. Niles portion), united on the following ceive them with outstretched hands where we ate Thanksgiving dinner lectures on Geology especially the and warm hearts in the cause of conditions viz: with her upon the Acropolis and one he gave with views on the 1. That we call our body by no our Master. while we tasted the honey of Hy- Peaks and Passes of the Alps. He Yours fraternally, other name except the Church of mettus she pointed out the place spoke of his teacher Prof. Agassiz, C raigie S harp . Christ, or Church of G<xl. where Paul stood preaching to the exploring the Alps,, and gave much 2. That we receive as members The late A. T. Stewart was one of Athenians, and afterward descended of his own experience among the all persons who believe that Jesus the wealthiest tnen in the United to Dr. Schliemann’s beautiful marble mountains, where the frost build is the Christ the Son of God and ers are still at work, and this fact States when he died, and yet he house, where we met his interesting have obeyed his commandments-. family and talked of excavations of the frost building mountains, was not allowed to find even a 3. That we take the Bible as and the certainty of the Trojan and tearing them down is constant quiet resting place for his body. ourordy rule of faith and practice war. This occupied the hour on ly dwelt upon by the lecturer. Though he possessed millions in in life, discarding all creeds and Last Monday evening there was two Friday’s and in the meantime, life, when death came he was pow doctrines of men. Prof. Leotsakos gave us a lecture a song recital by Mrs. Huniphrey- erless to own his own grave. His We had a good meeting. A very with dissolving views on ancient Allen, of Boston. If I repeated body was stolen, and even now it is large number of Christians were and modern Athens, so that we what 1 heard around me, it would not certain it has been restored. present and favored the union. The “ Be, 7r 'she “ wore a magnificent white' could the easier follow her Tn her~ After alt, it is better "to be richin very best of feeling prevailed. The in her rambles. Prof. Leotsakos is satin dress, and sang like an angel,” faith and good works; then we may spirit of the Master was in the an Athenian and a graduate of the and she did. It was very hanl to hearts of all his followers . It was know " how to abound and how to University of Athens ; he has been come back to earth and find we an occasion that all will look back suffer need,” and “ in whatsoever five or six years in this country were common mortals still, after to with joy and pride. We meet state we are therewith to be con connected with a school in War-* listening for an hour to such an ex the third Lord’s day of next month tent.”— Commonwealth. to elect officers. cester and the Summer school at quisite voice. Thus the Lord’s work moves Civility is in itself a fortune, for Botany grows more interesting quietly Amherst. His. English Was very on “ to conquer and to con a courteous man always succeeds in broken, but he appeared perfectly every day. We have finished ger quest.” life, even when persons of greater happy when rehearsing from a mination and are beginning the Your brother in the Lord, C. H. H odg £S, ability sometimes fail. play of Sophocles. Mrs. Cook next study of Howers as a harbinger of —IMlWrf I