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by vorces among the Swiss marks a as little worth their cost, as is that many millions of India from dumb
idols tolhe one living and true
------both tW-Apirit and letter of ihrr v e yy .unfoF t miate e ondit ion of wtf*. African diamond worth the four
human lives, and all the toil and God.
New Testament, we want all Chris­ als; it is suggested that, among the suffering besides, which it cost beBut those who wauld help the
lower classes especially, a great
tians to unite upon the Bible alone many marriages are purely experi­ fore it could blaze its brilliancy in
heathen should begin their efforts
and thus belong simply to the mental, the parties deliberately en­ the sight of the envious glances
at home, and this is especially ap­
Church of Christ. This is the only tering into the marriage relation it now attracts. Before we decide
plicable to us here in Oregon.
way to do effectual work for the with the purpose of separating at that we would like to have that
the end of the year if they find which at first sight seems a tempt­
Master. *•
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P aragraphs from I ndia .—Sister
themselves uncongenial or ill adapt­ ing treasure, let us consider what
its cost has been. Many a good Ida Boyd, one of our missionaries
ed to each other.
L uther C ommemoration .
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We are of the opinion that tjhese thing is worth all that it. costs ; in India writes a letter to the Mis­
meeting of representatives of vari­ experimental marriages are not and ’ many a thing is not to be
sionary Tidings, of Indianapolis,
ous religious societies was held in wholly confin e d to {»w itzerland^-for counted good, because it is not
Tffd.7 from whtctr~~we take this “
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London, August 2nd, under the while our marriage laws do not “worth its cost.
paragraph :
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. E'RniMf ATlNUPÜRCiiiiiki1.^—
One of the drawbacks to Christi­
ance, to secure combined and gener­ things and the people do not ex­ ing of the Episcopal Convention at
anity, and civilization is the dread­
al action in the celebration in Great pressly approve of it, -yet as a Philadelphia, the Christian Union ful custom of child marriage.
Britain of the fourth centenary of matter of reality we are satisfied says :
Every
_ effort is being
_ made by
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hirtlL. of Luther. A General the hearts of many would condemn “ “Along"wiUTTKe quesfion«.--*n<î-:~®ST5--PeoP'®
Committee was formed of represen­ them. The only effectual way to really as a part of them, will run get a law passed forbidding it, and
tatives of the British and Foreign put an end to this abomination is to that of the right of extemporaneous a few of the educated natives are
beginning to comprehend its evil
Bible Society, the Religious Tract place laws upon our statute books prayer in public worship. It is to influence, but the surest remedy
Society, the Evangelical Alliance, Thai~are in perfect”’ harmony with ’ be noted that the Constitution nf... Tor all this evil is to teach' ihem~w
the Church provides that no alter­
the Young Men’s Christian Asso­ the Law of tire Lord.
ation can be made in the liturgy or take Christ and his Holy Word for
ciation, the Evangelical Continental
offices of the Church unless the an example.
Also Sister Laura ~V. Kinsey,
Society, the Colonial and Continen-
C ount the C ost .—This valuable same has been proposed in one Gen­
tinal Church, Society, the Protest­ lesson-is clipped from the Sunday eral Convention, and made known writing in the same number says :
to the conventions of every diocese,
I havb some good news to tell
ant Alliance, and the Foreign Evan­ School Times:
and
adopted
at
the
ensuing
General
you,
that is, what we call good
gelization Society. Other organi­
It is a common method of valua­ Convention. The decisive action,
zations willing to cooperate were tion to estimate the worth of a therefore, canno t be taken until 188G. news, and we are feeling greatly
encoureged and very hopeful over
requested to nominate members of thing by its cost. And there is a
When Jesus Christ established it. . I believe you will think it
the Committee. . The second reso­ sense in which this is a correct -his Chureh on-earth he gave to her " pretty good too. It is- this : We
method; for a goud thing atways’
lution was as follows : “ That the has it s co s t-;—and a chief reason a Constitution by the Spirit of God - have secured the services of a na- __
general object of- the proposed com­ why so few are possessed of skill through the inspired apostles. This tive Christian who has now been ' .
memoration be . to praise God for and ability and experience, and ac­ is the only constitution Christ ever with us one week, and, so far, seems
very devoted and earnest in the
the blessings secured to our coun­ quired knowledge, is because the intended his Church tô hâve and work of the Lord. Through the
try by the Reformation, and to em­ great majority of persons are un the onlyjone she needs. Hence we week he* is our teacher in Hindu,
phasize the great principles involv­ willing to pay the cost of these must think that those who make and each evening he comes to join •
possessions. Most persons want*
ed in it, especially the supreme au­ the results without the needful out­ and adopt a human constitution for us in our Bible lesson. He speaks
thority of Holy Scripture and the lay;—But, on the other hand, a the Church are legislating for and understands English a little, —
reads it quite well. To-day he
doctrine of justification by faith, great many things cost a great Christ.
D
rCaChfiil twirP nn.
airo.ai.a of
,
by (a) sermons on Sunday, .¡Novem­ deal "TtrrTrr~HTan^^
the city. This morning, he said,
ber 11th ; (b) public meetings on Here comes, just now, for exam­
A n I ndian G od .—The follow­ two or three hundred came about
ple, a big diamond from the South
Monday, November 12th ; (c) praise African diamond-fields ; and all the ing item we teke from the Chris­ him to listen. In the evening he
did not go down on the more pub­
and prayer meeting.— Christian papers are telling of its size and tian Standard:
its worth. And as to its cost, the
Intelligencer.
We are indebted to Bro. G. lic streets, but spoke in front of hi.\
story is, that in addition to all the L. Wharton for an idol which, own door, which is in a kind of su­
burb, some little distance trom the
E xperimental M arriages . —- earlier privations and toil of the he says, is one of the most main city. He had about seventy-
poor fellows who were hunting for universally worshipped of the
The Christian Union has this to it, the finder of this diamond was many gbds of India. " Pictures or five to hear him there. He was
say about marriage and divorce :
murdered by a companion in order images such as I send are seen over formerly a Brahmin, but says he
Switzerland makes as bad a to its obtaining; and then the doors or somewhere in the houses now has no caste, but is a Christian.
showing in the matter of divorces murderer was murdered for the of most shopkeepers throughout He seems very thankful, and so
as some of our own States; in 1881, same cause; and so “it cost four the land. All sacrifices and reli­ prizes his religion that he wants all
for instance, not less than 1,171 lives before it reached America” gious ceremonies, all serious compo­ his people to know Christ too. He
actions for divorce were begun in we are cooly told, as a reason for sitions in writing, and all worldly is well educated, and speaks the •
that country, and in 94G cases the its enhancing. Is that diamond affairs of importance are begun by ^Sanscrit language, which is the ba­
-—4ivorce was actually granted. In really worth its cost? Many a pious Hindus with an invocation sis and root of all the principal lan­
one section'of the country, and, un­ covetous looker at its dazzling brill­ to this god—Ganesa or Ganapate— guages of India. He also speaks
fortunately, a Protestant section, iancy, who will wish from his heart the Indian god of Wisdom, Pru­ Hindoostani and Hindu.
there were more than thirteen di­ that he had that diamond, would dence and Policy. He is said to
vorces to every one hundred mar­ never be willing to pay one-quar­ have the same characteristics as
S ound D octrine .—An esteemed
riages. The principal cause seems ter of its cost, which he has the Janus of the Latins ”
contemporary, commenting upon
to be difference of religious faith; means to proffer, if he knew the
We do not wonder that Paul’s
of the persons divorced in 1881, in facts in the case. And it would spirit was stirred within him at Mr. Spurgeon’s recent address to
less than one per cent, of the cases be the same with a great many Athens when he saw that city his students, makes an earnest plea
both husband and wife were Cath­ other dazzling temptations if their wholly given to idolatry—for the for sound doctrine as the best anti­
olic, and in less than three per cent, full cost were written on their sur­ sight of this senseless and almost dote to the prevailing rationalism of
both husband and wife were Pro­ face. The profits of many a busi­ hideous thing lias started us into these times. We quite agree with
testant. The great number of sep­ ness, which enables men and wom­ trains of thought and currents of
arations on account of religious en to glitter and glare in the pre­ feeling altogether unusual. Such our contemporary in what is need­
differences appears to lie in cases sence of their fellows, and the gains degradation of human nature and ed, but we are not so sure that the
where the husband is Protestant of many
_ a ... social or official ... station 1 prostitution of its noblest faculties method suggested will bring about
and the wife Catholic. One ex­ which uplift men and women above as are here suggested, plead might­ the reaction towards a healthier
planation of the frequency of di- the average of their neighbors, are ily for our best efforts to turn the understanding of the truth. Our
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