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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1883)
— ■ 1 lrt*' ■ta • * I f CHRISTIAN HERALD. F 9 The Women’s Missionary Socie ties now in successful operation num ber forty-eight. Of these, thirty seven are in the United States, four in Canada, four in England, two in Germany, and one in Sweden. ing was erected.a few yearns ago-at thus enabled to use all the money never known before. a cols of 83,000, and it is only this received to circulate tracts. All the She could not leave him in his year that the debt was entirely, , profits from sales- wilt be utfed to misery and disgrace. Some of the liquidated. Rev. Mr. Spaulding, buy tracts for destitute fields. This by standers helped him up, and the the pastor of the church, assumed work merits your support. An poor mother led away her drunken charge only last Spring. It is pro- agent wanted in every congrega- son. ■ iionn r,d4,’. .y ou aww ■41^4 ■ 14 ELlIwfiLMfe ptoftea- The journal of the forty-sixth an tracts apply to me. where mere boys are poisoned, de nual convention of the Episcopal Baskets, Full of Seed I bauched and ruined by the accursed J. W. - ---------- H igbee . . ------ -----— - , Trustee. Diocese of Indiana presents the fol Madisonville, Ky. cup. Shall this curse consume Yes, full of see i of the Kingdom lowing statistics : Baptisms, 356 ; forever? Shall mothers rear chil confirmation, 155 ; communicants, of God—seed to be sown in human “ Uh, My Poor Boy 1” dren to be devoured by this dragon ? 3,881 ; Sunday school teachers, 297 ; hearts to bling firth fruit unto Or shall men and women who fear scholars, 3,l71;coutribuums, -$34.- ■ÀQÙ.IftB&j thflt tL.fi Uldmay-Lu Btiifa There are persons who find amuse- nal life. Who will become sowers? ment in the madness and misery of TTotT an<T’"Tov‘e.. ngliteousnesg'ToiisS 519. These baskets are tracts <and the the intemperate; and there are tem themselves from their slumbers and Wealth accumulates in the Eng supply now mentioned is owned by perance speakers who evoke mirth seek to banish this dire and bitter lish colonies. A Scotchman by the the Chiistian Sower Tract Fund. by picturing scenes which cause evil from the homes and haunts of __ name ü £ WyAY:audu-.ud Their lurnws BinPiir „------ IWtmr----- - ■^♦4y-w i»ta>Fy<—Bu t t ho s e who haw- ineiLr-Z'/^ * ----------------- • ------------------- to Australia many years ago, died 1. “Sincerity Seeking the Way experienced the terrible evils of When the love of God has taken this year, and left the sum of $100,- to Heaven,” 5 cents per copy ; 50 intemperance find little amusement 000 to the Theological Hall of the in auch exhibitions. Said one possession of the soul, and the whole cents per dez n ; 34.00 per hun- / man is consecrated to his service, Presbyterian College, Victoria; J red ; $25 per thousand by ex- woman, into whose family' this life loses its fragmentary character, $50,000 to Ormond College, ami press. 11 is by 1 Jeiijtmin Franklin, curse had entered, “ When 1 hear a and one o guiding $25,000 to the Presbyterian Ladies’ o stream seems to and is one of the best tracts ever temperance lecture mimic and make run through it.. Then all varying _ College at Melbourne. He has also written?" 1 kno .v of two churches, fun of men who gat drunk it makes and disjointed duties find a fixed endowed a congregation at Wickliffe each one of-which was caused by a uu mad' It is no laughing matter and appointed place; and though, with $1,000 per annum, and has copy of this tract Laving been put to have a man come home drunk !” bequeathed $2o,000 “ to the rninis- There are some women—God- from the weakness of the flesh, the to work in the neigh both ood where jein to be ter™>n<i.^ Smith 'pi ty them—wbo~have-lHtown-what 3 ruffled, there is a strong undercur Presbyterian Church in Sanquhar, The hero of the tjact is Sincerity It is see for the-first time a husband rent that cannot be diverted from Scotland, the church in which he who after much tribulation from or a sou drunk. Who can tell the ita object, but is ever flow’ing on to went to worship before he left for ignorant teaclicr-r of the Bible anguish of those through whose its one point, widening and-— Australia, forty years ago. final ly fi>und the Kingdom of God souls the sworn has thus been strengthening as it goes, and so The Memorial Church on the bat It is the. Very thing to put into the thrust. Those who have seen such mastering all that opposes its pro a sigflt will not soon forget it. tie field of Isandhlwana, Zulu land, bands of young men. gress. The very hindrances that 2. “ Our Position,” by Isaac Er- Those who have not seen it may where the Prince Imperial of Franc»1 thwarted are turned into ministers lost his life, has been completed. It rett, Jin) “ Letters on Baptism to a count themselves fortunate. I About the year 1863, says J. F. to help its course. The stronger is a beautiful Gothic structure o' l’iou.> l’edobapti-4,” by R. T. Mat and more fixedly the soul is set on white sandstone. At the opening thews, 3 cents per copy; 30 cents Sanderson, 1 saw a scene I shall one object, so much the more does services the attendance was very per doz-n ; $2 per hundred; $15 never forget. I was walking down- it find pow’er to overcome all diffi large, but it is noteworthy that rit per thousand by express. They are the main street of Nashua, N. 11., culties and despise all that may be ualism has found its wray into even proving very effective and populai and came in sight of Jim Bright’s only outward or accidental.— Mrs. -aloon, a horrible place, from which those remote regions. We read and deserve a large sale. Augustus Haret. 3. “Chiistian Union,” by I. A honest and sober people turned that the Bishop was vested in a Many Christian people would do white cope and mitre, two tapers Thayer, 4 cents per copy ; 40 cents aside with disgust and dismay. As were burning above the altei, and a per dozen; $2.25 per hundred, and I drew near the door opened, and I well just now to read more church large brass cross shone out above $20 per thousand l»y express. This saw them lead out a boy of fourteen history. They are complaining of is. a forcible presentation of our or fifteen years, who was drunk the attacks made on the Scriptures the vase of flowers. . — Union plea, and will attract atten sick, and helpless. Being unable and the churches, believing, also, to walk, he sat down upon the that if they are overthrown the The village of Spotts wood, N. J., tion. was visited by a tornado on the 4. “Eriett’s Review of Sum- sidewalk, the picture of wretched damage done them will be almost 23J ult., resulting in a great deal of iner’s ” (MetLodi-t), 6 cents pel ncss and distress. A number oi irreparable, and that there never damage. The Reformed Church,a eopy ; 60 cents per doz<n and $4 persons stood around him, laugh inp was a time when religion was in so i I rather handsome ff^une structure, per hundred. It is rich, rare and at his pitiable condition, and crack great peril. A study of the past wascompletely wrecked. The wind racy, and is a complete reply to the ing th« ir customary bar-room jokes will - undeceive them. Beginning struck the steeple directly in front, Methodist tract. “ Why I am not a As 1 draw near, 1 saw a well-dress with the days succeeding the As and toppled it over upon the ridge Camphellite ?” Invest largely ; you ed, bright, intelligent-looking ladj cension of the Master, they will of the roof, which sank under it will never regret it. walking up the street. She cam« find there were “ false Christs ” broken to bits. The walls, except 5. Seven kinds of card tracts, along, apparently happy and uncon and other enemies, and learn that the front one, were bulged out at each containing from one thousand cerned, until she was opposite tht the later days of tlie apostles them what were the eavvs from three to’ to twelve hundred w’ords, printed saloon,, when she cast a glance al selves were darkened by the shadows that came from worldli four feet. JI’he south-east corner of on tintetl card board, efficient, at the helpless creature on the side ness in the Church and the assaults the building is split open as if riped tractive and durable, 50 cents per walk, and exclaimed in tones 1 of its foes. They will also find that down with an immense rip saw. hundred; $4 per thousand. Laiger. shall never forget : in all ages there has been criticism, ridicule, malignant spite and hostili Timbers, boards, and debris of all quantities by express at lower “ Ob, my poor boy ! ’ kinds, are lying round the church in rates. Since this Fund began It seemed as if a life-time of ty, and that many times the truth was in such peril that its present _ heaps, at tho rear to the extent of work it has priuttd more than agony was condensed into that one situation is, by comparison, invin y thirty feet, while the lighter mat)- 160,000 of these tracts, 1 receive exclamation, which marked a reve cible and triumphant. — United rial is scattered around. The build- no salary for my work and am lation of such Borrow as she had I P resbgterum. 4 L -r-»- «ì I 9' -, H