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gregation was organized and a but, thanks to God, once in awhile
number added to the fold. We feel comes a letter from over the great
waters, from Bro. McLean and
great loss and to you a great gain others, with words of praise to our
as minister, member and neighbor. sad souls that give strength to our
Done by, order of the church, faith, bringing the Lord’s sayings
to our remembrance.
Sunday, Aug. 5, 1883.
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WM.A SANDERSJEl^rg
A little over a week ago I had
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the pleasure of shaking hands with
To the brethren of the Church of some gentlemen belonging to a large
excursion company of Americans
Christ, we send greeting :
, This is to certify that our Sister traveling through Europe. Among
Hannah Wright is a member of the company were two of our
churcti arais^lac^HMur'is iIT brethrim- yGtHiffiRHh—lrwinr from-
good standing both as a member Columbus, Ind., and Bro. Goodpas­
and neighbor ; and as such we take ture. Bros. Sweeney and Errett
pleasure in recommending her to had kfndly ad vised me of the coming
the Disciples wherever she may cast of Bro. Irwin, and so I met him at
I her lot. Done by order of the the boat coming from Norway. The
church at Spangle, Spokan county, stop atCopOhhagen was only two
days, and as he did not stay over
W. T, Aug. 5, 1883.
Sunday, he was not at our church,
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which I know would have been a
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We now number 79 and meet the pleasure for hini and all bf" usl He
: first day of every week for worship, said he was longing to get to
| have a good Sunday-school and church. .• As these lines will reach
; good social meetings when we have America before him, and probably
[ no preaching.
Our evangelist, Bro. Irwin’s father will read them,
L Bro. C. J. Wright, still preaches for I can inform him that hiB son looks
I us as often as he can ; but his field very healthy, and will likely gain
: of labor is so large that he seldom fifty pound« in weight before he
; gets around^ although he is travel- reaches Columbus.
^“'As far’-as-Hme--allow&d, I went
Fing and preaching all the time.
I . Brethren, pray for us that we with them to see the sights, which
; may continue faithful to the end seemed to please them very much.
I and receive a crown of life. More As we could not beat church, they
went with me to the office for my
anon.
weekly paper, and although they
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could not read tha Danish, they got
Letter from Copenhagen.
a paper apeice te take home with
them as a souvenir from Copenha­
C openhagen , Aug. 8, 1883.
D ear B rethren in A merica :— gen. My weekly paper gives me
I It is not very often that you find great pleasure. It has over 3,000
' my name nor the Danish mission in subscribers; so in one sense 1 am
your papers. The reason of this is, preaching to more than 5,000 peo­
: that of late we have had nothing ple every week, and now when fall
strange to report. I have not had comes I hope for an increase. 1
any additions to the church to en- hope, brethren, you will not forget
I courage you nor n.y own heart, still the Danish mission in your prayers.
i I am glad to say that the little band May our good Lord bless you all,
here is living in peace and harmony and may your interest in foreign
' and in hopes of better times, hoping missions increase, and as a fruit of
i the time may come when many shall your love, bring many souls to
I inquire for the salvation of their heaven.
A. H olck .
[ souls. What a pleasure for a mis­
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ll sionary to be permitted every month
It is said that to live well we
to report of souls that have come
must pray well. All true. The re­
into the kingdom of Christ, and
verse is true also, that to pray well
how sad do we feel when our labor
we must live well. When life is
for a time seems to be in vain, when
correct; when the walk is thorough­
God tries our faith and patience, not
ly conscientious and upright; when
alone the preachers’, but the church thespeech savoreth of thethings that
and the brethren that support them profit and elevate, then it is not
in their labors of love; then we difficult to pray. Unbecoming con­
missionaries that live thousands of duct makes a sluggish, heart, and
miles away from our great brother­ words unfitly spoken are a weight
upon the pinions of the soul. No
hood get a longing in our hearts preparation for a prayer-meeting is
after those that can whisper courage so good as work done for the Mas­
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jn our ears and keep up our hands j ter,— Set,
Sunday School Report.
A lbany , O r .,
.. Sept. 5,~I860.
Bro. Floyd:
You will please find herein a re­
port of the Oak Creek Christian
Sunday-school, for the six months
beginningFeb. il, 1883, and end­
ing Aug. 12th.
Out of 27 Sundays we have had
Sunday school 19 times; there be­
ing preaching on the other Sun­
days. Average attendance of pupils
during the six months, 20 ; average
attendance of teacher, 2; aggre­
gate attendance, 22. Bro. John
Huston, Superintendent, has been
present every Sunday ; Bro..James
Churchill, teacher of class No. 1,
has been absent two Sundays ;
Sister Hendrickson, teacher of class
No. 2, absent three Sundays ; Bro.
Hays, teacher of class No. 3, absent
ten Sundays. The following are
the number of verses committed by
class No. 3, and the names of those
memorizing verses : Beit Cour-
ter, 406 ; Ida Huston, 326; Addie
Huston, 273; Fred Churchill, 137;
Annie Churchill, 100 ; Anderson
Cannon, 77 ; Charlie Huston, 5.
Total 1.324.
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J ohn H uston , Sfipt.
M rs . S. W. C hurchill , .....
Secretary.
Current Religious News.
In Germany, where there is no
restriction of the sale of liquor on
Sunday, statistics show that thirty-
two per cent, of the murders and
crimes are committed on Sunday,
and fify-three per cent, between
Saturday and Monday morning.
And this is the German Sabbath,
for the introduction of which in this
country so many are clamoro»’’d
108 years old, and has been 84 years
in sacerdotal orders. He lives at
Lupel, enjoys excellent health, and
TïïlfiIH’aTTKîs redigious" duties""Wlthk.
the most scrupulous exactitude. •
Colored Episcopal ministers are
to hold a conference in September,
to consider thé needs of their people
at the South. The authorities of
the Southern Episcopal dioceses
give the contemplated convention
their entire approval.
Sunday-school Union in Kansas
writes of a township Sunday-school
convention, in which of the eight
schools represented, five were or­
ganized and three were aided by
him five years ago. From four of
these evangelical churches have
grown up from these Sunday-school
efforts.
The number of members of Bap­
tist churches in the Indian Territory,
according to a statement prepared
by Rev. Daniel Rogers, General
Missionary, is 6,419, distributed as
follows: Cherokees (including 206
Delawares and 596 colored), 1,800;
Creeks, 2,500 ; Choctaws and Chick-
123 colored), 365; Wichita Agency,
(Towakomis, Delawares, Wichitas,
etc.) 65; Ottawas, 45; SacaudFox,
19; Peorias, 25. There are some
colored members among the Creeks
and Choctaws and Chicasaws, but
Mr. Rogers was unable to give the
number of them. The work among
these aboriginal people is a ho’-
and interesting one ; bu* *
. ,
« were, as in
every other
field. there
is a serious
Qf means anj of
men t** carry it on.
Mrs. Adeline M. Smith, of Oak
Park, III., offers to give ten thousand
Four Congregational ministers dollars to found a Methodist medi­
have recently ‘ieft London for sta­ cal mission at Nanking, China.
tions in China. Rev. J. Gilmour,
Peking ; Dr. J. K. Mackenzie, Tient­
A Norwegian Methodist Church
sin ; Rev. W. H. Reese,Peking;and has been organized in Salt Lake
Rev. G. II. Bondfield, Amoy.
City, with a membership of 25 mem­
bers. A Norwegian pastor has beenu
Mr. Moody will begin a series of
obtained from Chicago, and a i.*iy
evangelistic meetings in Baltimore
as a teacher. It is supposed that
about the middle of September.
there are 7,000 Scandinavians in
A Christian Policemen’s Associa­ Salt Lake City, and 30,000 in Uta.
tion has been organized among the
policemen of London. What we
need in New York is the organiza­
tion of an association to labor among
our policemen and endeavor to
Christianize them.
The daily papers are publishing
a sensational account of the organi­
zation of a new sect in Schuyler
Co.; Ill., under the guidance of one
Caleb A. Obenshain, which has rev­
elations, perforins miracles, and is
Germany possesses the oldest charged with running into free
priest living in the world. 1^ is love doctrines. They are said tQ