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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1883)
highest political opportunities when and J wish you abundant success? he exchanged the palace of a king I hand my copy to our senior elder for the tents of an ungrateful, un and his wife, two of the best posted disciplined, and half civilized race and best every way, members of the escaping' from ; “Paul was ‘ Reformation, and their reiterated an improvident man when he cast statement that it is “a safe, sound away the advantages of his position paper, with the gospel ring in its as a Jewish teacher to become the .columns indicates the impression it ivn nd Arina esi haa made.”_ . The best way to advertise a good and rejected gospel; Luther was a foolhardy man when he left the thing ia to send the thing itself. peace of his cell at Erfurt for the So if you will .send a number of seething turmoil of the Reforma- copies to me I will put them in the tion; all men who set the impress' hands of my members, and if it of their personality upon history does you no good it may do them “ ^i n rel r n p rotteiit m e n; th ey d ef y the some good; R. B. N eal . precepts of a timid prudence, and throw themselves boldly into the Letter from Bro. G. W. everlasting. arms that uphold 1 the Richardson. universe. If you are in any kind of M c C oy , Oft, Aug. 14, 1883. Letter from India. temptation in which prudence and Bro. Floyd; I wish to say to my friends that policy draw you on one side and A. M. M c L ean , principle on the other, risk all for on to-morrow I expect to start for Cor. Sec. F. C. M. S. principle; if you are in perplexity Waitsburg, W. T., where we expect Dear Brother: or doubt, if past unfaithfulness has to remain for a time indefinite. From our oriental home among "juvoTved you lira network of em-’ "FfliCTHfe wüt;ihrttre~fnrtrrr e, ad^- » strangë p e opfe;di a vgiwro wimt i ___ it. _ - 1_____ — ~__ _ 1 i i 1 <1 ill* r* **i barrassment and entanglement, dress us at the above named place. to watch the weekly line of mail take the boldest and shortest way My health is poor, but have been steamers as they leave the far-off out; God is pledged to help you, preaching as much of my time as I Western shores, and through fhany and as he guided Abraham, Moses, could. While at Sodaville we had thousand miles of ever changing Paul and Luther, so he will direct four meetings. Bro. Doty also had seas, bear to us the news from loved one meeting at Sodaville during ones, and somehow I have not often your path.— Christian Union.. our stay of two weeks at that place. imagined that those white-winged Our audiencca were said to be the messengers might be coming clothed Correspondence. 'v largest ever convened at the school in mourning. Letter from Bro. R. B. Neal house in Sodaville. Much interest The painful news of the death of seemed to be felt on the subject of your cousin and my true yoke-fel- L ouisville , K y ., religion. Our assemblies contained luw in the gospel—D. C. McKay— Aug. 6,1883. men and women of all sects com Dear Bro. Floyd: was most unexpected, and has pro I have been fighting sickness all mon in this country who were duced a peculiar sadness in my summer—since May I have been there for health. heart. I only knew him for two While at Sodaville my wife was years, but during that time we preaching by proxy ; "have had all my appointments filled by some taken very ill, and so soon a* she were often together in the common one else. I am now able to pre was able to travel we started home work of the Master, and I loved pare Tice Worker for August. It ward. On our way home we him as a brother and confided in will soon be out “ red-hot for pro visited many old friends and rela him as a true man of God and my hibition.” As I am the Publishing tives in the Forks of Santiam, and personal friend. It does not seem Co., Editor and Mail Clerk of this at Scio preached for Bro. Doty on possible that his useful and promis prominent journal and do the work Lord’s day. I felt much like I was ing life has ended on earth. About and board myself, during my sick taking my leave of them till the the time of his death I was writing ness if rested. I trust that soon a great meeting beyond the grave. to him about his coming to India Scio is the first church that 1 to assist us in our mission. The long list of temperance men and women as subscribers will enable ever attempted to organize.» In thought almost startles me that in me “ to hire a hand or two.” As a 1852 we began an organization at all my correspondence home I may number of your readers are sub what was afterwards known as the be writing to the dead insteal of scribers to Tice Worker I state the Hester school-house. It was com the living. Though so far away, 1 above that they may understand posed of the members of my father’s feel this loss most keenly, and can that The Worker is not fashionable family includ.ng father and mother. but unite with you and his brothers, enough to take a willing vacation Their names were as follows, viz : of whom I heard him 8peak so John G. Richardson and Orpha often, and all the host of his friends during “ the hot season.” I note with pleasure Bro. R. ^Richardson his wife, lather and and brethren, in moufning, what Graham’s " Words of Cheer ” to mother, L. C. Richardson, W. W. seems to us, his untimely death. your paper. Such is his prestige Richardson, G. W. Richardson and Let us, my brethren, press on in and influence that if you could get Mary Ann Richardson his wife. our pilgrimage Zionward, though at his statement before those not For that church I labored five times we are in sorrow, knowing readers it would be much better years, and then removed ty Folk I that “ weeping may endure fur a than a chromo to swell your list. county, where we now live. Four night, but joy cometh in the morn You are giving us a good paper, out of the six charter members of ing.” 0u> comfqrt and hope is in AS. <c WJ ge bu g« sei the Scio church have passed away and now know and feel what it is to be beyond the dark river, and I feel like one who has come to the ThwHffi nl r, an d w -waifeing for tha boatman pale to come and take me over. Many may pass over before me, but |hey will not be greatly in advance of me. I have but one re quest, and that is, that I may be carried safely over to our Father’s house. During our trip of near four weeks we met many old friends that we will not meet again till the malting Gxul all. who love our Lord in sincerity and truth. - Yours very truly, —. G. W. R ichardson . $ Him “ who giveth ds the victory through oifr Lord Jesus Christ.” The monsoon has come at last, and we are thankful that we can .ugAin-npen-mixjdoLira- and .window^__ _ and look out upon the refreshed earth. The rainy season was ushered in with storms of wind and dust, accompanied by lightning and thunder, and in many places much hail fell. It rainsnow nearly every day, and In many places in India as much as nine inches is the rainfall in one day. We are just emerging from our first hot season as well as the eight months’ drought, and the change from the dry hot air of the past three months to the damp and sultry weather of the last two weeks does not seem to agree with us very well. Most of the people complain just now of depressed spirits. We are much weakened in body, and have very little energy to work, bilt we hope in a few weeks to have our usual strength. been morein- Jhe fanai tensely hot than the average years, according to the meteorological re ports, which may account for our enervation. None of us has had any con tinued sickness, though all of us, excepting Mrs. Wharton, have had II attacks of some specific disease. Last week 1 had my first sickness, which consisted of acute inflamma tion of the stomach (gastritis), from which I am now gradually recover ing through the skill and nursing of my ever-faithful wife who in much anxiety successfully filled the place of physician and nurse. There is no M. D. in Hui da, and the near est one at Khandwa, 68 miles away, has no enviable reputation in his profession, so we are left in sickness to our own resources. We have made, and are still making, as good use of our medical works and medicines as our strength and time will permit, and though we often wish we had the help of a good physician, yet in the absence «of a skillful practitioner we are thank ful for our library and medicine chest. Though deprived of the wisdom and skill of men, we have in much sympathy ministered as best we could to each other in the hours of affliction, and while using the remedies our best judgment prescribed, we have not failed to look to Him “ who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction.” Our mission work is opening upon us much faster than we aro able to meet the demands. Per* -