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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1883)
<;• ■■ « •J-' ‘•.t 8 ■ * ■ . CTTTITRTT AN HERALD.- number some hundreds and to em- 989,224 copies. To this must be tberissues ofo-several" smaller trtKCb Tfiey societies, of private enterprise, and have a bishop, one Mr. Rayburne. the vast mullitude of the Revised * The introduction of Presbyter New Testaments, if we would com ianism into Florida is to be cele pass the work of publishing the brated in the Autumn. West Florida Scriptares as recorded in 1881—82, was colonized many years ago by This is simply prodigous, falling Scotch Presbyterians whose descen not much short of six and a hall dants retain the old psalm singing or seven million copies. But we characteristics. It is proposed to do not get the full significance of establish a Memorial Presbyterian this work till we follow the colpor ^College“ at LakeHfo” EiinfakT teurs of a great society like this into every nook and corner of the The 76th session of the general habitable globe—about 3000 scat- conference of the New Jerusalem- tered about Europe and 200 in the Church has just been held in Lon regions beyond. And to this still don. The Rev. Chauncey Giles, of -HMiet- be--added-^ of. Philadelphia, and the Rev. Louis many other societies; for example, Tafel, gave accredited messages in India the Vernacular Education from America to the conference. Society has 158—eighteen more Special interest attaches to the -than the Br*4i»b--and--fof,e+gn—DibU- present session as this is the first Society. And yet, again, the won centenary of the establishment of der grows when we find* that the the New Jerusalem Church. One Scriptures are published in 250 hundred years are not actually com languages or dialects, in 345 ver-r plete until the 5th of December sions, more than four-fifths of which ~ next, on which day, in 1783, at five have been prepared since the So in the evening, five persons met at ciety was organized in 1804. So, the London Coffee House, Ludgate the assertion we sometimes hear Hill, and the outcome of this meet that the Bible is losing its hold up- ing was the formation of the exist on the people is the emanation of ing organization for the dissemina shallow minds totally ignorant of tion of Swedenborg’s doctrines. At the real facts in the case.— Work the time of Swedenborg’s death it , The French bombardment of was stated there were only about 25 persons in England and the Con Tamatave, in Madagascar, has about tinent who cordially embraced his put a stop to the mission work. writings. The number of societies The “ French soldiers are going connected with the New Jerusalem everywhere, burning villages.” A Church was reported to be 63 last letter from the Anglican Bishop in year, comprising 5,490 registered Madagascar, who states his belief members over 20 years of age, and that it was only the representations 6,597 Sunday scholars. There were of the English missionaries to the 35 ordained ministers and 15 licen Malgassy Prime Minister that pre tiates. Missionaries of the church vented the French Jesuits from be ing murdered,adds: I have a strong were successfully working in Ger conviction that the French will not many, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, be allowed to take this country, as and Switzerland. The centenary of I believe there is still a God of bat the New Jerusalem Church was tles. It is a regular case of ‘The ’ ” celebrated by a great meeting held Wolf and the Lamb. ..... in the Memorial Hall. A terrible huricane has swept over the Samoan Islands which The annual report of the British must have seriously affected the and Foreign Bible Society presents, English Mission churches. All ves in one view, the immensity of the sels in the harbor were wrecked, and for twenty miles west of Savaii circulation of the Scriptures going only one house remains. We hear on in all parts of the habitable that at Apia the Catholic church globe. This one Society has issued and school buildings were blown during the past year, of Bibles, down, and one of the missioners Testaments, and portions, about killed. The London Society began mission work in Samoan in 1830 10,000 a day, a total of 2,938,000 ; and the Welseyan Society in 1835. and from its organization, 93,053,- The population of the group is 000! Add to thiB the Hibernian about 120,000, and Savaii and Society’s issues, 65,675 : the issues Upola are the principal islands. The of the National Society of Scotland, London Society has upward of 30,- 000 hearers and more than 7,000 in ’ 468,775 ; and those of the Ameri its schools, the Welseyan Society can Bible Society, 1,524,772, and has about 1,700 scholars, and to we have a total issue for the last gether the societies have perhaps 1 * ... , year, by four great societies, of 4,-1 5,500 members. . i X i r The Southern Camp Meeting in augurated by our venerable Bro. Rendnck of IfowneyTJity;was very " CONDUCTED BY PROF. J. DURHAM. satisfactory. It closed this year All matter intended for this department should be .addressed to Prof. J. Durham, Col with 23 additions, fourteen by con- I lege City, California. fession and baptism. The great Bro. Jno. Sanford, of Missouri, is length of our state makes it almost expected out to the State Meeting impossible for our State Meeting to and will in all probability preach have the representation of the bro for some of the churches in Colusa therhood of Cal., that it ought to have. We need to get together Co. often and encourage each other, to * 1 t-...... T^fo^tngether and comfort one ta Rosa, a few days ago and imme other. It is said that the Hebrew diately entered upon his work. soldiers after they were fully pano- I have not seen him since he was L_plied for their wartfare, they would a little bov at his father’s lumse in eat together and pray together be Illinois. His father was one of the fore they went out on the field of J able preachers whom I heard dur battle. We all.feel stronger for ing my boyhood. And uncle Bob duty. One brother who comes Foster as they, then, called him some distance to our State Meeting was a master workman. 1 hope AiuLhaa¡mtmyidLxbMLdMinYiltge ! to meet W B. Foster soon at home, said to me, he wanted to The News tells us that Bro. get enough to fill him up till the Meloan has had six additions at next meeting. • So these meetings Oakland lately. The prospects for are like the relay batteries along a the church at the Brooklyn of Cal., telegraph line they add strength to is truly encouraging. Bro. Meloan the whole line. .So the line of.our is the right man in the right place. life work is strengthened all along We will hail with delight when the its way by these frequent cotnmun- ings. Let us come up to the house church of their own. This was the of tbe Lord- and gain strength great desire of bur lamented Bro. against the mighty evil. Reagan, and for years he had been planning for the consumation of We did not think when we that work. May the good Lord chronicled the report that our State give Bro. Meloan his choicest bless Evangelist, Bro. McHatton, was ings and may the brethren be knit negojjating for property in Santa together in love, and by every thing Rosa, that we would so soon, if ever that supplies the body to its edifi be called upon to record the nup cation in love. tials between him and a Cal, Sister. California Department. One more addition to the church But we thought that notwithstand- at Healdsburgthrough the labors of ind it was known that “ he was in the hands of his friends,” yet we Bro. Hiram Wallace. still thought that he was like all Our venerable Bro. Joshua the young tmmigrants who come Lewis of Tulare county, lost his out to the golden west, that, in his companion last Spring. She was silent musings he would sing of a noble woman and a faithful “ The girl I left behind me.” We Christian. Bro. Lewis is preaching acknowledge the invitation for us at different points and reports to and ours to be at Bro. and Sister the News several additions during T. B. Hood’s in Santa Rosa, at noon the Summer. The brethren at on Sept. 5th, to witness the cele- , Kelseyville in Lake Co., are mak brating of the marraige of their.— ing an effort to establish the cause- daughter Eva, to Robert L. McHat at that point. ton. One brother writes that Bro. Me is Hoodwinked. Be that as it Bro. Belding who is now in San may, if she has agreed to put the Francisco, has lately been paying Hat on for life, he has likewise a visit to the southern portion of agreed to take her Hood for the the State. He visited Southern same length of time. But we must Cal., State Meeting, and reports the congratulate him on his selection. outlook for the cause as quite eri- Sister Eva is well worth his com cjuraginjji — — ing to Cal. for, and may their lives Two confessions at College City be btfppy and prosperous and when on the eve of Sept, 9. one of them, its voyage is completed may they a lady teacher, for several years in enter the portals of everlasting the public schools of this Co. _ Peace;------ —- ----- —7-»- *