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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1883)
y r- • -, < ■ uZW'-. - ôiifiisï’iAisj’ tìtìtìAhb. id Notes and Comments others will open if we judiciously enter the ones now open. Support’ Louisville, May 14th, 1 confes your missionary, your ptiper, your CONDUCTED BY J. W. CAIJJWELL. sion. B. B. Tyler. preacher, and your poor, and God will bless, you. All matter intended for thia department Quinby recommends the cultiva should be sent to J. W. Caldwell, West Union, We need to do more tract distrib- Owen Co., Kentucky. tion of catnip for bees. We wish to correspond with every preacher u ting. The Standard Pub. Co., .w- 7 Ke_utucky referenee lo th* ,.f tne HEttAxir, and contributions to its columns. TTw'NZYrrrïb/tiie paj-s t2*7,000; •Uhristian Pub. '^o., John BurnsjU Send for terms. • and the Herald $21,000 per year Thos. Holman, and J. W. Higbee, postage. *** are all doing a good work. But we Preaching. think it proper that the General More conversions in foreign fields Society take hold of the work, and The religious press should watch in the last ten years than in the push it vigorously. Or that a c with jealous care the pulpit. If that Christian Tract Society be formed ever our callee.ls.CQrxupUd..and-utc- missionary work is a failure. go down on the breakers of corrup to publish in large numbers, to in tion and division it will eminate sure cheapness, and circulate at Honest atheists who know any cast, thousands of tracts. All these from the pulpit. thing of the matter, recommend now publishing, could unite in one We had the opportunity recently ------------------------- - ------------ ■^ciety~an<T Jo a much bclTe’r work. “learning seme vital lessors from Where the gospel is not no civiliza Our papers could, and we believe a brother, who is a representative •“ Politicians used to move the tion can flourish. would advertise these tracts gratui of a "large class of qur preachers, people as a western cyclone does tously ; and our brethren would lie is a graduate of one (f our best the houses.” The cyclone tears the The excise law is unreasonable, schools, and has been preaching for houses to pieces. We are happy to require respectable dramsellers, donate liberally for free distribution. | Brethren, think on these things. about 15 years. Upon this special that we did not live in that age, when no such anomaly exists. It meeting the one at which we learn when people were torn limb from might as well demand polite ruffians ■ From several quarters come crit ed the vital lessons in question, we limb by office seekers. or pious highwaymen.— Rescue. icisms on Carlyle, for his abuse or propose to offer a few criticisms in He made one special effort to neglect of his wife. One authority . order to correct a few mistakes. It show that thought would discover In three months there were im- avers that his influence has suffered was in the midst of a protracted the connection betwegp the* body, porUd into this„£X)untry.,3,390,264 50 |H?r cent. diseount sinee hia __ meetings and thiabr< -- ■ ZZ ■■... tnnivr TTRn v iolu" and spirit, and also demonst'ratiTthe dozen eggs, valued at $465,564. death. We have no sympathy with ing in the neighborhood, and—came immortality of the soul. And tlie There is a chance' for preachers to these outbursts of bigotry. It is to church. The brother who was impression was made that the Bible engage in chicken raising, as they the same spirit that is crying out preaching invited him to preach, account of these matters is common “ take to that excellent fowl. against Luther, and on a smaller and he accepted the invitation. place, and will never accomplish scale, condemning our efforts to The C. W. B/M. will send J. F. Spread the gospel. It is of Satan 1. This is an imprudent practice. any thing without science. When a man is holding a series of This kind of preaching is posi Taylor, of Kansas City, Mo., to and cannot be winked at. Too, it - meetings and a brother visits them, tively injurious to the cause ‘of labor in Montana. He will begin is none other than tho first germs - he should not accept a request to Christianity.- The church and the the work in June. Sisters, what of Nihilism. The spirit that asass- 7 preach. Because it interfears with world both need the unadulterated are you doing for this noble enter inates a Czar, kills a lord, blows up the general drift and interest of the word of God in all its natural terse prise ? It needs your prayers and a parliament with dynamite, cen meeting. There are, of course, ex- ness and power. Circumstances, your purses. soriously criticises Carlyle and v captions. now and then, may require a pulpit Are you helping your brother or Luther; and impugnes the motives 2. The prayer was not what we discussion of science and the Bible, of good men laboring together for sister to bear the burden of life ? the duel nature of man and immor conceive prayer to be. It is a se- the conversion of the world, Let t Or are you by your coldness and tality of,the soul ; but to make rious thing to criticise prayer. But us labor and pray to eradiate such indifference making the burden a man should not tell God that He these general topics is worse than a spirit from our midst. heavier ? Take cognizance of their -^•4— y— ______ made the world and the planets and no preaching at all. wants and sufferings, and . draw A true and tried man of God, man. God needs no information on There is not.one preacher in 50 them nearer to you, and also nearer Bro. O. Wright, deceased, when on this subject. It is equally irrele who is mentally able to discuss to Christ. his dying bed became delirious. vant to tell him how wise and pow these matters, and they should be His .physician and family were erful he*is. Giving a general de handled by none but a master Miss McEvan, of the Midway standing round. His lips moved scription of creation is not prayer, hand. (Ky.) Orphan School has gone to and one bent over to catch the in any sense of the word. We must never cease to preach Jamaica to assist Bro. AzbilL She whispered words, " Two forty two,” 3. .The text was, “ We know the Word to both saint and sinner. will teach. “ They welcomed her were his last words. They could that we have passad from death The gospel is the " power of God with songs, fruits and flowers.”’ not divine tne meaning. The Bible unto life, because we love the unto salvation,” and whenever it is The school with_ 32 pupils. wag searched, but to no purpose. brethren.” The preacher then gave laid aside for something else, the Bro. Houchins has also gone to A fej* days after he was buried, the a short and uninteresting autobiog church will degenerate and sinners assist in the same work, Let us family were speaking of the affair, raphy. Told where he had been, cease to turn from the “ power of visit them with our prayers and when one of the little girls re what he had done, tec., &c. This Satan unto God.”- dollars. marked, * I know what papa „ getting so much self in the pulpit We must not ignore true science ; meant,” that is the way they give and so little Christ, is wrong. No but it must never take the ascen Before the close of the. year sev- out hymns at the meeting.” The man who comprehends the magni dency over the Bible. Reason is eral other missionaries will be sent well worn hymn book was got, and tude and solemnity of the work profitable so long as it is subservient abroad. We are glad that the 242 turned to. It was the old will continue so to do. to Revelation, but when it usurps spirit of Christ is so manifesting sweet hymn, “ O when shall I see ~4r The sermon was broad gauge. authority and runs unbiidled at itself. Our exhortation is to give Jesus.” What a glorious exit, to It contained Calvinism, Arminian- will there is certain ruin will fol abundantly to these enterprises, for sing of seeing him just before the i®m, Darwinism, Algebra, Geometry, low. several effectual doors are open and meeting, to part no more. KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT :-------~ ♦ s • .. I Anatomy, Philosophy, Electricity, railroad telegraphs, newspapers, books, &c., &. A smattering of each. A little of everything and not much of any thing. (Here re member the text.) It was a heterogenous volumo of words hav ing no connection wiftr ttie subject whatever. 5. A few of his statements may be instructive, in a negative way : “All men think, and think cor rectly.” This is certainly wide of the mark. “ Knowledge is as general as the waves of the sea.” We have no sea waves hereabouts, and hence there is something wrong with the À