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the deep waters and over the rough
seas. While this language perhaps,
had a special application, it never-
. theless coines to every Christian
bearing the sweet consolation of
'"’ftgAVrtC Ttis not only jffiysicaT
suffering through which Christians
must sometimes pass, but it is
mental, moral and spiritual as well.
The frowns and scorns of the world
must be endured, the cunning and
ossip will
malicious serpeni
drive his poisonous fangs into the
innocent Christian, while the fierce
> and Unjust attacks of designing
and godless men and women must
H eavy L ogic ’—Dr. A. M. Col
lins has been writing a good deal of
late on wùne in the communion.
He has said softie good things and
some things that are not so. good.
Dis last*^ contribution is to the
Christian Standard from which we
clip the following paragraph. He
say s :
It is a fact that can never be ex
plained away by “ Oriental poetry,”
or in any other way, that wine is
condemned and th at wine is ap
proved. All this talk about the
use of wine being approved and its
abuse being condemned, is mere
twaddle; it is the sheerest nonsense,
courage of the true soldier. This
will all cause more or less suffering.
But when the thought fully comes
home to us that it is all for Christ,
we glory on this behalf, thank God
and take courage.
bosh. It is wine that is said to be
a mocker, not its intemperate use;
it is wine that is said to be a de
ceiver, not the excess of wine',' it is
wine that is said to bite and sting;
it is wine that is said to produce
woes, wounds, contentions, bab
blings, redness
eyes, etc., etc.
On the other har/1, it is wine that
is said to be a gift of God (tirosh);
it is wine that is said to cheer the
heard of God and man ; it is wine
that is said to contain a blessing.
If there is arfy more "twaddle” and
“ bosh ” about the thing our brother
so severely condemns than is found
in this paragraph, we pity» the
cause it advocates. Dear brother,
will wine be a mocker to any one
if it is not used I Will wine de
ceive any one if it is not '-used ?
Will wine bite an4-sting any one
if it is not used I Will wine pro
duce " woes, wounds, contentions,
babblings, redness of eyes,” etc, if
it is not used I On the other hand,
will the Dr. tell us how wine will
“ cheer the heart of God and man ”
and "contain a blessing” if it is
not used I In getting away* from
one error let» us not swing into
another equally absurd.
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Selections and Comments.
F aith and O bedience . — A
writer in the Central Baptist, St.
“ Faith and Obédience,” from which
we clip the following :
1. We often speak as if Chris
tians are saved by faith only, an<
not through faith that " worketh
by love,” and purifies the heart.
We seem to forget that faith is
made perfect by works—by "the
obedience of faith ”—and thus al
righteousness is fulfilled and' *made
complete. Hence, Jesus said to
John the
íe Baptist, “
“ Thus it becom-
eth us ( (by obedience) to fulfill all
righteousness.” But we see’ii to
separate what God hath joined to
gether, and speak of faith—saving
1 faith—as if it could exist, without
its consequent—obedience. James
says : " Faith, if it hath not works,
| is dead, being alone;” therefore
: true faith and obedience thereto
must go together in the work of
salvation, for without faith it is
B ase . ball on S unday .
The
impossible to please God, and faith
without works is dead, and conse Nexv Northwest, of Portland, comes
quently inoperative and useless.
back at us on this fas!4k>n for our
2. Mark 1G : 16, says, "He that
believeth (hath faith) and is bap- little note of her display advertise
i tized, (obeys that faith) shall be ment, on the editorial page of a
saved.” But we are not authorized match game of base-ball on the
to say he shall be saved, whether Lord’s day:
I he obeys, and is baptized or not.
The Christian Herald, of Mon
Thirty years ago this would have mouth, saw’ in the N ew N orth
¡been strange doctrine to appear in west a base-ball advertisement, and
a Baptist paper ; but now it can go straightway asked:
“Are we to understand that base-
■n without even a word of com-
jail
on the Lord’s day, in which
inent from the editor. This looks
gambling is not a stranger, is one
4 good deal like baptism for the re of the planks in the “ Woman
mission of sins which our Baptist Suffragists’ ” platform ?”
brethren have so earnestly opposed
This is about as sensible as the
all along, and if the writer of the Herald's previous references to
above paragraph shopld prove able Woman Suffrage. With equally
I escape this conclusion we should good (or bad) taste, we might ask,
after noting several advertisements
regard his theological feat as an of patent medicines in the Herahl,
. other wonder of the world. Let if aiding quacks to defraud the
public is a part of the créed of the
the good worlugo on.
and most gifted writers of th©
nineteenth century, and a believer
in the abstract right of woman
suffrage, says:
l
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me ballot mv
* w * those
But
dofor
A forty
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thousand
, ^offien^hen' tlrey
get it ? It will not give them hus
bands, nor make their thriftless
husbands provident, nor their inva
lid husbands healthy. They can
not vote themselves out of their
dark, unwholesome sewing rooms,
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offices, nor have they generally The
qualifications which these places
require. Tl^e ballot will not enable
them to do any thing for which
their constitution or their education
has not fitted them, and I do not
knowofanylawnow, which prevents
NEW THIS WEEK.
them from doing anything for
which they are fitted^ except the
holding of government offices. I
can think of no other occupation,
which, the right of suffrage will
Stars vs Portlands. ’ open to woman, and of public
officers the number must be, in pro
SPECIAL MATCH CAME, portion to population, insignificant.
Christian Church. We hope oui’
contemporary can see the point.
• When our fair sister convicts us
of ad vertising that which we know
to be demoralizing to the communi-
ty and a'"sln Inihe si ght of doff ,
we pledge ourselves to clear our
columns of all such ; and if we fail
to do so, she is at perfect ljberty to
set down demoralizing the com
munity and defrauding the people
as a _ plank in our platform. Can
we expert as much of the Neto
Northwest ? From the following
advertisement which appeared on
the editorial page of the last num
ber, wtrlcavc- our renders to judge:
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BASE-BALL!
At City View Park,
N ext S unday ,
july is , at 2:30 p . m .
“ W e W ould S ee .”- Under this
heading the Signs of tfie, Times
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The New Team, McElroy and ’ ■ says i
Kragen, will play with the Stars.
We have no disposition to inter
fere in any controversy between
the Christian Advocate and the
C hurch R afflings .—The Do Christian Herald, Disciple, of
mestic Journal, Springfield, Mass., Oregon, but we have a. request to
has this to say about church make of the Herald. In its indict
ment of the M. E. Church, it
rafflings which we fully indorse :
says:
Church »rafflings and lotteries
"In this church the Lords table
have for the most part,- we are is set quarterly, whereas the Scrip
happy to say, become things of the tures require it weekly.”
past; but there are some relics of
We have no little anxiety to
these still remaining in some of our learn where in the Scriptures that
churches, that ought to be -buried requirement may be found. . The
with the grab bag and games of Herald makes a strong profession
chance. We refer to the bed quilt of strictly conforming to the Scrip
mania. It is sometimes some other tures, ami we are certain that wa
article, but the bed quilt seems to wish to do so. Now we will con
be the most popular in this line form to that particular Scripture of
Some would be Dorcas gives a bed which it speaks as soon as we are
quilt; two or three prominent informed where it is.
members of the church are men
Prof. McGarvey is a man highly
tioned as candidates for the honor esteemed among the Disciples as a
of receiving the prize, and the teacher, a preacher, and an author.
friends pay a dime or a quarter for In his “ Commentary on the Acts,”
the privilege of counting a vote in he says:—
favor of their candidate. Jly such
" It must, in candor, be admitted
cunning devices a few dollars are that there is no express statement
diverted from the pockets of the in the N. T. that the disciples broke
people into the treasury of the the loaf every Lord’s day.”
church. The plan is less objection
Now as there is no command
able than the lottery it is true, but ment that they should do so, and
it is one that is not creditable to no express statement that they did
the church of God, and the sooner so, that is, there being neither pre
it is consigned to the oblivion of cept nor precedent, how is it to be
the past the better.
known that " the Scriptures require
it ?” We wait for an answer.
WOM an -S uffra GE.—Once upon
We would ask the Signs how he
a time one of their orators was led know that females have any right
to exclaim: “ Shall Senators tell at all to commjinc ? -for there is
me in their places, that I have no " no command that they should do
need of the ballot, when forty so and no express statement that
thousand women in the city of New they did so.”
When the Signs
York alone are earning their bread answers this question we will tell
at starving prices with the needle ?” him how we know the Scriptures
In reply, Gail Hamilton (Miss A. require weekly communion.
M. Dodge), one of the brightest v But we give the above extract for