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CHRISTIAN HERALD.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
—Please remember- our tract on
Dancing. Let them be well circu
lated among the churches.
The Christian Standard cornés
to us in a new dress. It has en
larged its pages a little anti dis
pensed with its supplement, We
think this letter.
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The Overland Monthly, San
Francisco, comes to us again en-’
larged and otherwise improved.
We wish it success. Price, $4.00
per year. Address Samuel Carson,
Publisher, 120 Sutter St.
Orders are rolling in for our
books and tracts, which is a favor
able- indication of—the spiritual
growth of our brethren on this
coast. We say to the brethren,
send them on, we will take pleasure
in filling them.
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Some of our three month’s sub
scribers express themselves as being
well pleased with the H erald . We
expect the H erald to stand on its
own merits, and we only ask n
patient reading of it for a few
months to make it a fixture in that
household,
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MONMOUTH, OREGON ; FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1883.
We can only speak for ourselves,
but we would much prefer seeing
difr esteemed "contempoi ary, the
Christian-Evangelist come to us
trimmed. We have enough trim
ming of our own to do without
trimming our exchanges. Brethren,
can you not manage to get up a
little earlier and attend to this mat
ter ?
brother wishing a field of laljor in
the Territory’ will send us his ad-
-d-pess,-we-wilL-publish it, that the
brethren may see who he is and
what he proposes to do.
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Our good-brother of the Pacific
'Christian Advocate thinks we did
him an injustice in our criticism of
his article on “Fixed Methods;”
but a portion of his reply, like some
_2Bro. Jas. W. Lowber, of Lancas of his doctrine, is so dim that we can
ter, Ky., an<l one of onr ablest con not read it. We will see what
tributors, says the H erald is a there is in the remainder. That
good paper. This- is only ~one our brother felt the force of our
evidence among hundreds we re criticism we do not question; but
ceive from far and near to the same just where the injustice cames in is
effect. We again thank all our not so plain. He is aware that we
'brethren "Tor Their encTfifraging'T'gOhiniCTTrt'ed the great. part of his
article, and only basedour criticism
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on onf sentence which we thought
We have received the first num nmrred its beauty. While speaking
ber of the Missionary Tidings, a of the “ spirit, -of" life aud lal>or back
new paper conducted 1 »y the Ch ii sfi an in the being of God himself," the
Woman’s Board of Missions, and Advocate said: “Methodism was
published at Indianapolis, Indiana the birth of this spirit of life, ¿his
It is a small folio monthly neatly mode of action, over a century ago.”
printed and well filled xtith good We replied that our opinion was
things. Mrs. M. M. B. Goodwin that Christ was this birth, that is,
becomes its editor.
This little as we meant;’ Christ manifest in
paper will be conducted in the in the flesh and the system of Chris
terest of the missionary work en tianity which he established which
gaged in by these good sisters. We is inseparably connected with him.
place their paper on our exchange Our friend,evidently misconceiving
and wish them all success in their the point of criticism, came l>ack at
new enterprise.
us with an explanation, saying:
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We simply said, in other words,
We have received a letter from a
•rentleman who is not a member- of that Methodism was the child of
the church stating that the H erald this spirit of life and labor.” This
comes nearest filling the bill of any is exactly what we Understood him
religious paper he has ever read ; to mean at first, ami this is exactly
but he thinks there is yet one what we. criticised first and last
thing lacking. That one thing is a This is the issue, and that is all there
mod sermon published in our is of it. Hence we still Ifelieve that
columns once or twice per month this “spirit of life ’’ never brought
fhis mart also says he would like to. forth such a.child as Methodism, or
he a member of the church, So any other of the modern isms. As
here is a fine chance for some of we said before they are illegitimate
We children. The dc/twa/e further
our preachers to do good.
will agree to publish all the good says:
As to whether he has an " ism ”
ones.
or not we don’t care to dispute the
During the last few weeks we matter, although it seems to us that
have received a ntrmlter of letters when he and his church interpret
from different parts of Washington certain passages of Scripture, indeed
many of them, one way, and wo and
Territory for preachers to gather in
our church interpret them another,
the bountiful harvest. They say and both base: our personal denomi
the harvest .is plenteous, but the national affiliations on these inter
laborers are few. If any preaching pretations, we both come “ mighty
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near ” having an “ ism,” and one
just as near as the other. Of course
we are entirely aware of the
Herald's little delusion thatTiisIs“
the only Christian church. His
happens to lie one of two or three
little bodies that make that claim
each for itself; a claim that sounds
very like what the great Roman
Catholic Church says of itself; but
the great l»odies of Protestant
Christendom, the Presbyterians,
Baptists, Methodist, and others,
conceding to others what they
claim themselves, are crowding their
millions forward to the world’s con
version to Christ. This suits us
better. If it does not our brother,
we have not a word to say. His
opinion as to what Methodism is, is
of the least possible concern to
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—That wo, as a people, do not ... -
always fully live up to what we
Itelieve to be the divine standard in
this respect, we are free to confess ;
but at least one marked difference
between him and us is, that he be
lieves in and advocates isms, whilewe
are unanimous in condemning them.
Methodism ~fs busily engaged in
building pens for the Lord’s sheep,
while we Isdieve in turning them
all into one pasture. The Atlvocate ' -
is sadly mistaken when he thinks
the isms grow out of different inter
pretations of the Scriptures. God’s
people are not divided about what
is in the Bible, but over that which
is not in it. For example, does our
brother find a Methodist church in
the Bible ? Does he find it in the
Bible that the primitive Christians
wore human names by divine
authority, ami that it is right to do
so now ? Does he find human •
creeds in the Bible, or any rule of
faith and practice for the Lord’s
people save the Bible alone ? These
are some of the pens that our
brother is aiding to build, and
which need to be scattered to the
four winds. We would like for the
Advocate to answer definitely if he
believes that the Bilde authorizes
such diversion among God’s people,
and that it is right for any one to
advocate it ? If not, then tell us
how they can last become owe in
Christ ? The Editor of the Advocate
is evidently not posted, or else he
has but little respect for the facts
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