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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1883)
cnnisTiAK HiïRArn. 4 —• as little worth their cost, as is that many millions of India from dumb AFriemt tlirtHHUid -wortii The four idols-ia- the one-living and true__ - human lives, and all the toil and God. •suffering beside*» wluchitcQst.be». —But those who--would help the----- fore it could blaze its brilliancy in heathen should begin their efforts the sight of the envious glances at home, and this is especially ap it now attracts. Before we decide that we would like to have that plicable to us here in Oregon. - which at first sight seems a tempt ing treasure, let us consider what P aragraphs from I ndia . —Sister i ts cost has been. Many a good Ida Boyd, one of our missionaries L u , ther C ommemoration . — *'"dk A thing is worth all that it costs; in India writes a letter to the Mis-- and many a thing is not to be meeting of representatives of vari- counted good, because it is not sionary Tidings, of Indianapolis, -Qus reljgious societies was held in ■ JnJ.; fr6m^whTch we take this wortli its cost." " London, August 2nd, under the . -parageaglij-------- —— auspices Evangelical Alli~ 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 Every effort is being made by says : _____ ..Christian peoplwrtnrthiBXOuntry to A «enerri- ffSTSïï Aluiig^ni^ 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 the Constitution-of influence^ but the surest remedy “Society, the~ EvangehcaT"' A hiancB, that are in perfect harmony with demoted the Church provides that no alter for all tms evil is to teach them to 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 sanie 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 thé conventions of every diocese, ant Alliance, and the Foreign Evan School Times : I have some good news to tell 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 wrere tion to estimate the worth of a therefore,cannot be takenuntil 1886. 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 réso sense in which this is a correct ' io ' This ’ tr -We ---j-fris- Church on earth "hegavc'to“h$Y p^fy -good ' too: 4t- method flor a good thing always lu ti on was as follows : “ That the k „ cj • -x -cn„.i have nave secured the serv services ices o of a na-___ has its cost ; and a chief reason a-G general'object of the proposed com why~so fewTare possessed of skill through the inspired apostles. This tive Christian who" has now been;—r memoration be to praise Cod 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 to. have and work of the LoYd. ■ Through the try by the Reformation, and to em great majority of persons are un the only one 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, doctrine of justification by faith, great many things cost a great ■(.,lh.ri.st......... ................................. ...... reads it quite well. To-day he Wir"ir~ ’ Ry (^sermons bn Sunday, Novem 7 the city. This morning, he said, ber lltli; (i>) 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. JVe are indebted to Bro. G. lic streets, but spoke in front of his* story is, that in addition to all the L. Wharton for an idol which, own door, which is in a kind of su privations and toil of the he says, is one of the most burb, some little distance trom the E xperimental M arriages . — earlier poor fellows who were hunting for universally worshipped of the main city. He had about seventy- The Christian Union has this to it, the finder of this diamond was many £ods 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 • ( zr • of n importance • . • J Sanscrit that country, and in 946 cases the its enhancing. Js that diamond affairs are » begun . by °.ansc™ language, language which which is is the the ba- ba- ‘ sis and lan- J root of all the principal lan ------- divorce was actually granted. In really worth its cost? Many~7T rrijMre pious Hindus with an invocation guages of India. He also speaks one section of the country, and, un covetous looker at its dazzling brill to this god—Ganesa or Ganapate— 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 Mr. Spurgeon’s recent address to of the persons divorced in 1881, in facts in the case. And it would spirit was stirred within him at 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 has started us into these times. Wequite agree with testant. The great number of sep ness-, which enables men an<T wom- trains of thought and currents of arations on account of religious en to glitter and glare in the pre f9£ling altogether...unusual.... Such our contemporary in what is need- differences appears to l>e 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 err .official station prostitution^f 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 nominationalism condemned by both the spirit and letter of the New Testament, we want all Chris tians to unite upon the Bible alone and thus belong simply to the Church of Christ. This is the only way to do effectual work for the Master. • ,4 vorces among the Swiss marks a very unfortunate condition of inor- als; it is suggested that, among the lower—classes—especially, a great many marriages are purely experi mental, the parties deliberately en tering into the marriage relation with the purpose of separating at the end of the year if they find themselves uncongenial or iff adapt ed to each other. We are of the opinion that these experimental marriages are not wi TO while our marriage o laws do not