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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1883)
: ■ 1 CHTtTS'TIAlSr HERALD 8 I are still*a few old soldiers in the attendance in the city. They have pect that much of the preacher ? church who were present when 1 been using the Cumberland l’resby- Out of 60 agents who offered their services and were supplied with made the good confession aniT tenaTF^kurClT^dnri^ WN DUCTED BY PRÜF. J. DURHAM. obeyed the gospel more than a Thur preacher has returned and our tracts only two or three have sent All matter intended for this department should be addressed to Prof. J. Durham, Col quarter of a century ago. It was brethren will occupy the theatre in any money. Send in your gifts, lege City, California. within her sacred precincts I first until they put up a house of their orders for tracts, and encouraging The Abingdon, Illinois, Church. met the partner of my youth and own. They have begun already to words. I can not tell you all the good I am doing. The eyes of God joy of my riper years, and there move in the work. In a private card written to us a began the work of rearing two and of the world are upon us. few hours after the work was con- boys and two girls in the way they Bro. A. M. Sanford, a graduate of J. W. H igbee . sumated, wre were more than de should go. They are fast stepping our College City school, has just re Madisonville, Ky. lighted to hear that what has boen into the bivouac of life with educa- turned from a summer vacation with Weather Report. two congregations in Abingdon, his relations in Marion Co., Mo. He JaQaaiKand hearts ¿bontrnfn^ a holy ambition for lives of honor pr eticti eT several ¿lines, very satis^5 During August, 1883, there was years have they lived in this di and usefullness. It was there from factory while gone, tho only begin no rain, 2 cloudy days, the remain vided state, but like kindred drops the hands of the founder of the col ning in the work. He will teach ing 29 days being smoke, the smoke of water they have become one. lege Bro. P. II. Murphy an able and during the coming year near Butte obscuring the face of the sky. .Many of these brethren I‘ have faithful servant of the Master, that city in Colusa county. We hope he The mean temperature for the known from the beginning of my L-my-eompanion and—self received. . will have ample opportunity to ex- . month war"03 8*4 Highest daily---- ~ college days. We have wept, sang our diplomas. And lastly be it lit ercise his ability. mean temperature for the ’month and prayed together. I had learned tle or much it was by the authority Bro. McHatton will begin a pro 69°, on the 2Cth. Lowest daily . to love them for their devotion, of the church at A. that your hum mean Gl°, on the 17th. Mean their faith and their love, and with ble. servant was setapart'to^tto' tracted meeting at Red Bluff on temperature... for•thfì'-month"af.. 2----- - 3 pleasure, yes, a joy that is unspeak the woik of an Evangelist,” and 13th of Sept. o’clock P. M. 75.81°. Highest tem able, do I look back to that old the same clerk, Bro. J. B. Scheitlin, Bro. G. R. Hand, of Mo., is ex perature for the month 87°, at 2 sacred tabernacle where we were whose name is attached to my cer pected soon to be in California. Bro. o'clock P. X, on The 26thj Lowest wont in days of yore with its win tificate of ordination, is attached to H. spent several years in Cal., and temperature 55°, at 7 o’clock A. M., dows open toward the New Jerusa the letter of greeting that the one we are glad to hoar of his return. on the 19th. lem to sit down in heavenly places church now sends out to the church The prevailing winds for the in Christ Jesus. I look back more Falling Behind. es every where. Then with more month were from the North during than twenty years and see those than ten years spent in the church I intend to keep the brethren 26 days, S. W. 3 days, South 2 brethren worshiping' together. and college work at AdLcaDubilL ftiHy advised:¿ jn regard— -■days. Somehavi&beeTrcalledtoa'hrgh^r feel the deepest solicitude for her Christian Sower Tract Fund. The During August, 1882, there was life, others are left to wind their welfare. And now while our chos contributions to it have well nigh 0.03 in. of water fell on the 23rd, way to the old chapel again, and en home is in this Sunny Land, ceased and the purchases have 27 clear and 3 cloudy days. » with heavenly benedictions unite and I write from where the tide j materially decreased during the Mean temperature for the month their voices in singing “ Rock of ebbs with the setting sun, I look f past month or more. This cramps 6321°. Highest daily, 74°, on the Ages,” and “ How sweet how back to all those sacred scenes and my efforts and cuts off a good 30th. Lowest daily, 53°, on the ( 'heavenly is the sight.” Their eyes with eyes dimmed with tears of many tracts fr®m destitute fields. 25th. T. P earce . have grown dim, their steps are joy, 1 hope and pray that they * all This work is no greater than the Eola, Or., Sept. 1, 1883. feeble, but fresh on their minds are may be one that the world may be brethren make it. It is not my the words they have heard within The Freethinkers’ Convention lieve,” that the sunset of their lives Fund any more thkn it is yours, those sacred walls from Campbell, shall be most happy and promising It has no endowment from which will be held at Rochester, N. Y., Murphy, Franklin, Errett, Burnett, and when their footsteps shall stray to obtain assistance in time of from August 30 to September 2. It Burgess, Lard and others, unfold down the shore of death’s river the need. If it fails in its work it re- will be one of the largest gatherings ing in thrilling eloquence the boatman, ever ready shall take fleets no more upon my zeal than of the kind ever held in this country. glories of the world to come. Many them to the sunlit hills of everlast upon yours. A new’ edition of Many prominent speakers are ex times like Jacob at Bethel they ing rest. Amen. 21,000 tracts is now on its way pected. In June, the Convention,, could almost see the Son of God as here, but the cask box is empty and through the columns of the New cending and descending, the heaven Bro. Frank Tandy has located at York Herald, invited to meet with ly scenes were so graphically Wheatland, Cal. He says, “ My nothing can be done till liberal brethren send in enough to relieve them as their guest any representa painted. work opens out here very nicely. matters. At least $50 is needed tive of the orthodox churches. This The church of Christ cannot be divided. Any other church can be Bro. James Logan is earnestly at now. Many calls are being made invitation has been accepted by the divided, but the church is one. \york at his old home in Ukiah, for new tracts, but these cannot be Rev. Thomas Mitchell, of Brooklyn, Members may differ in views and Mendoceno county. Bro. Logan is issued unless more than this N. Y., a distinguished Methodist may separate from each other, but a workman, and we expect good re-| amount is sept in. From letters minister. Mr. Mitchell is a member that are constantly being' received of the Hanson Place Methodist that is a division among its mem suits from him. Church, and is not now a pastor ; bers and not a division in the Bro. J. B. Johnson who come to I am sure the Fund has many for a number of years he has devot church. For the brethren and the California with Bro. Ingram, has friends, but each one seems to thiuk church at Abingdon, Illinois, I have resigned his work at Los Gatos and that some other body is helping to ed himself to literary work. His the warmest affection. They have Saratoga, on account of poor health. support the work and so gives address before the Convention will beared and fostered a college that Bro. Johnson’s health has not been nothing. When the work first be delivered August 30, and will be has done untold good for the cause good for several years, and he hoped began making appeals the noyelty replied to the following evening by of education and primitive Christi that California would greatly im of the matter caused some to con the Hun. T. B Wakeman. anity, and I hope and pray that prove him. He will soon return to tribute and some to purchase tracts. The dynamite type of politics is These liavp ceased their efforts. Phoenix like, that that noble insti Missouri. the outcome of atheism. • <• What Brethren, you must not expect - a sacredness is there in the life of a tution may plume herself for a ---- * ' . ‘ Bro. Ingram’s work in San Jose conversion from every dollar’s creature without a soul?— Christian more lofty Hight toward usefulness than has ever been recorded., There has greatly improved. The largest w’orth of tracts sown. Do vou ex- Advocate. 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