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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1883)
OHTtlSTIA-TST ' HERALD, -F' * . X. ' _ A rain somewhat interfered with th e Sunday KchooT Institute at W illiams. Many of the brethren J. DURHAM. and sisters were prevented from this department J. Durham, Col- coining, -Bro. Hand eame to the rescue and we went on with most of the performances. The Lie. « > -/Adrnr - house and a mammothTradingpnsr r in Salt Lake City, control the lltah Central Railroad, and collect $500,- CONDUCTED BY, I’llOF. 000 a year in tithes from the faith* I n^tur intended for Hh°uld be addled to rruf. ful followers of the Church of the logo City, California. Latter Day Saints. ■«» «t ~ nA t'WO lii T u A capital story is told in Paris of It is not very becoming in a an American lady who at an inn in preacher to try to prove his pro Normandy was deputed, as being positions in the pulpit by using —'----- ““------ *-------- ' ’ *• 1 » / • 1____ » T to make the arrangements for their “ He’s a liar,” “ Who says so and accommodation. She did her best so.” Of course these are knock —which was a long way short of down arguments, but they are the perfection but the clerk did not kind that produces knock-downs catch her meaning, and his remarks - --------------- -- ’ iu_thc saloons and other disreput- were jsrgon toiier. able places. peration, shs said, slowly and with I said the language is not be awful distinctness: “Do—you— coming, that is too mild a form to LIILMISU : - “ Waal, n urn, * neow, ivv »» j | speak—Engl ish T* j^15Hinr^nwE«rW ana vulgar ai>d you’re •• Guess I’d orter speak Eng- far- beneath the JiginFy of a clerk. “ ..... mii«. fm,» proclaimer of the gospel of salva- . lish. 1 was raised ten miles from tion. In fact such words never Bangor.” ought to fall from the lips of one of Reports from Panama show that the Lord’s embassadors, scarcely active work is going forward on the even in jest. And the preacher maiitime canal, and before long that has to prove his propositions 15,000 men and many machines will by such arguments as those to .zhaJ^LHily jMqraged in excavating. which 1 have alluded, has run out The great difficulty, that oFmanag-’ The ing the Chagrcs River, is yet to be the “ billdosing ” cudgel. encountered. The rapidity of the world will never be convinced in work will be much hastened during this manfiefT“llTd tt—wiH not the winter, the most favorable sea strengthen the saints. Christianity son. One American dredge, the must stand on its merits, it has ar Hercules,removes 0,000 cubic metres guments numberless in quantity of earth a day. The |>ort works at and unanswerable in quality, if Colon are nearly complete, and the has arguments for every form of its whole work will be finished in two propositions, its bulwarks are im years, according to the roseate dis \ pregnable, it has forts that are as patches. Just at this moment M . invulnerable as the throne of Besides the de Lesseps is claiming that the con Jehovah himself. struction of such great works of in angel^ of the Lord camp around ternational communication as the about those that fear him. All Sue* and Panama Canals introduces these truths and facts make the a new principle in the relations of Christian warrior bold and fearless, courageous.- His nations. His argument is that the strong and association of the capital of the ’ weapons are mighty through God world in enterprises of this kind, to the pulling down of strongholds. conduces to a solidarity of the in Let then the “children of light” terests of all nations, and tends to use discretion, sound judgment, raise them above the plane of polit that our good be not evil spoken of. ical tontlict Experience in regard Zeal should not run away with the •to the Sqex Canal hardly yet bears i judgment, particularly of those who would be teachers of the people and out this claim. j expounders of the word. Prof. Philip Schaff says that the > • • • . ■■■■ — Old Testament is still in the hands Brief Notes. of the American revisers, who are preparing the American appendix • Bro. Foster ministers to the that is, selecting from all their read brethren at Santa . Rosa half his ings and renderings which the time, one-fourth at Fulton, and British revisers have rejected those i which they deem worth laying be one-fourth at Petaluma. fore the public for final decision. Bro. J. H. Rosecrans, our Singing The revised Old Testament will probably be published before next and Sundày-school Evangelist, will spring. Then the convocation of go to Vkiah, in Mendocino county, Canterbury, which originated the movement, will subject it to official next Vkiah .is the field of Bro. Jas. Logan. judgment Bro. G. R. Hand is now seventy- ono years of age, his locks are like the snow, but his eye is not much the fire of his early days. He is a inaster workman, and can present tJhe gospel with a power that de- ’nghts the heart. B ro. Ja mes nderson,.' Wit} Uf Ulir old pioneer preachers of California, has been engaged in the Clerk’s office of Sonoma county, for several years, but n^pniFout occasionally and preaches in the country, or at home in' Santa Rosa; he used to say when there was no one else or there was a fifth Sunday. | suiting in thirteen additions. ers of California. His name is as household words in northern Cali fornia. He has many sons and daughters in the gospel who praise his name. May he have many more years to labor in the great vineyard. Bro. and Sister Dewitt spent part of last summer in visit ing their brethren in Colusa, Yolo s,;i t,..r time has left his imprint on their rows, their locks are very grey, but their voices are clear and strong, and they bid fair for many more years of useful pess. May il)eir““g01d6n‘~ .pe ace and ... joy- __________ Educational Department. jfeiuiiSifia:” irarnsTsm-™»■ --»««A- ------------ -------- “-— CONDUCTED BY PROF. W. E. YATES, A. M. All matter intended for thia department should be handed or sent to Prof. W.. E. Yates Monmouth, Oregon. ’ OU At Teaching. po It is sometimes thought by those The brethren at Pleasant Hill, in Sonoma county, have agreed to dis not giving much thought to the band and unite with the church at subject of teaching that scholarship <*.«'• ...... vz— ~ Wt not able to keep a preacher all the worth for the teacher to possess in time, and there are several other order to be successful in the school -- congregations tn the vicinity that room.— A person may be a Solomon in are in the same fix. Probably this wilj do when they cannot do better, learning, and a failure in teaching. but it is far better to board at He may possess a good education, home, I hope they will soon be in ™5Ct. and be totally ignorant Of all a shape to worship around their methods of instructibn? An~inus- own firesides. The poor of their tration i§ furnished by the Phila neighborhood will not get much of delphia cloth merchant who retired the gospel. Bro. Gentry lives in from the business and had to tell that community, and he will do all his junior partner how to discrimi he can. He is a dear and faithful nate and set values on the different saint. cloths brought to the place of busi < ness. The older merchant was an • AM»rother writes me asking if he adept in the discrimination of the did wrong in refusing to loan his discrimination of the cloths; in horse and buggy to persons who fact, had become wealthy by means wish to go to a dance. He has of the skill he possessed in being been censured for refusing on the able to simply glance at the fabric ground that it was a violation of and let it run through his fingers the " Golden Rule.” We are to and tell its value. But when he avoid the’*’ appearance of evil,” and came to instruct his partner in the exhorted to “ not conform to the art he so well knew was totally at world.” It is but smiling at a sin a loss. He did not know the first ful and demoralizing practice, and principle of education, or instruc it is as merciful to keep a^dumb tion, for he, after hesitation for animal out of bad company as any methods of explanation, said, “Why, thing else, so that it would be no all you have to do is to feel of it thing but good old fashioned bay and loot at it,“ which did not horse sense to keep a good old make the work any plainer than if sorret mare in good company, and he had said nothing. So often in especially if she belongs to a Chris- schools wo find one trying to teach, tion. who understands well the-subject in hand, but is not able to intelli- Bro. A. W. Dewitt, of Tulare ' gently communicate the knowledge* county, has just closed a very in he has to another. teresting meeting at Visalia, re- Instead of telling the child -Jo cesi .JH