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for the brethren; and preachers in
particular. We regard the last
lecture by Bro. Errett and the
CriticismT0f~Bfo7 McGKrveyatoTTg
well worth the price of the book.
Address the publisher. Price $1.60.
The second, from the Christian
Publishing Company, is the Chris
tian Sunday School Hymnal; a
compilation of choice hymns and
tunes for Sunday-schools. This
book in shape and style of binding
is very much like the Revised
Hymnal Tf. U nronwr^
for the Sunday-schools of the
brotherhood, and is admirably
adapted to the desired end. Much
of the music is the very best in use,
and the sentiments as a rule are
We would be glad to see the book
adopted by many of our schools
where very inferior ones are now
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Publishing Company, St. Louis,
Mo. Price in cloth, 50 cts. per
copy.
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Queries and Answers.
C lackamas , O r .,
Nov. 14, 1883.
Dear Bro. Floyd :
few questions through your valu
able paper, the H erald .
* 1. Compare 1 John 1 : 8, with
1 John 3 : 9. TherC is a difference
between those quotations about sin,
and as they do not seem to agree I
would like to understand them.
2. Was not Christ in the begin
ning of creation with God ? Al
though I understand he was, I ask
this for the information of others
who are not fully satisfied.
Yours truly,
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ANSWER.
1. The first pissage teaches that
the child of God does not grow to
perfection in this world so that he
never makes mistakes and hence
commits sin. No one can live a
perfect life in the flesh. The
second passages teaches that the one
who is truly born of God, can not
while the seed and love of God re
main in him, be a willful and
habitual sinner.
2. We think so. John says the
Word was in the beginning with
God, and all things were made by
Em.SeeJohnT.T-r4‘UX^UT7
16, 17.
Scio, O r ., N ov . 20, 1883.
Bro. Floyd:
I wish you to give me some
li^ht, through the H erald , upon
the following question : Is the Holy Î
Missionary Column.
B™“ ,E™P'™ .fcB J'if" ,'V
moral life had decayed. The French
Spirit sovereign ?
Republic, we fear, is not a whit
MISSIONARY BOARD.
Yours in the one hgpe,
more virtuous than the French Em-
s: pi re was, and has but doubtful "*------ VBWfeB W"UW4«4 I m Oregon?.. ‘
prospects of stability. By-the by, W. H. Adams, Portland............... ..PresiAm«
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Leo. Willis, Salem......... .
Vice-Presidem
We think the Holy Spirit is a is it not an instructive fact that^ Mrs. Belle P. Walker, Forest Grove, Rec «•/
atheism everywhere -goes to the LG. Davidson, Portland. ~...... ...TreMureT
real person of the Godhead and same shops as,indecency ?”
J. W. Spriggs, Salem................... Cor. Secretary^
possesses all the atributes of the
All communications relating to the employ,
So says the London Outlook, and ment
of evangelists, protracted meeting«; co-
Father and the Son ; that He was we presume it knows whereof it operation
in securing pastoral work, etc’ <11
pledges of assistance with requests for’ the
in the beginning in the creation of affirms. It would seem to most same,
ami all business properly coming before
all things, and in that sense is people that France has had. enough the Board will be addressed to the Cor. Sec-
retary All collections, payments of pledgee
etc., will be addressed to the Treasurer.
’
Sovereign^
of the bitter fruits of atheism in
day’s gone by to put her people to
MISSIONARY NOTES. .
Winking" more" seriously” afeou
Bro. Floyd:
matter. It is a demonstrated fact
As the H erald of the IGth prom
S cepticism and the B ible .—The
that no republic can long exist
ised some missionary notes from
Christian Intelligencer, in speak
where atheism reigns supreme. It
the President for the 23rd, I con
ing of the prevalence of scepticism
is not only true that indecency, but
cluded I would rest one week, as I
in different nations and its influence
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Ll^ukLxul.. . go hand in Jin.nd.-L.
lFave*wntteri for nearly every pa
on xne DiDie says:
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with atheism.
Not only Spencer, but Darwin, j
per since the Convention. I don’t
Ty’ndall,and Huxley have been read
know what matter the President’s
P assive or A ctive , W hich ?
for years in Japan. A few years
article will contain but will call at-
ago the Eagliab, ‘1
ican professors jn the Imperial I ni- unscriptural use of the word convert tention to some matters pertaining
versity at Tok io were nearly all , by giving it a passive signification to the work. • At these conventions
sceptics, and they introduced the
the Board has been instructed to. -
where
it
is
al
ways
acti
ve
in
the
works of the European materialists
employ an Evangelist. After great
and delivered infidel lectures to the original. Doubtless, the Authorised
difficulty it succeeded in securing a
students, in which they asserted Version is largely responsible for
that in Europe and the e I'nited ; t|ic minconeeption to which wp again good man for the work. Be care- J
ful, now brethren, that the Board
States intelligent men no longer direc(. attcntion But shal,
believed in the Scriptures. Miss ...
be not compelled to call him in be
Bird also tells, in her interesting tinue to use a style of speech which
fore the close of the year. There
that in a bookstore in a town in the is wrong ? We are led to make must Be raised during the year be
interior she found Spencer’s works, this inquirjrfrom what we read And ginning with January 1884, at
but no New Testament, and on in hear every day. We really.feel con- least $1200 in .order to keep the
quiry Jearned- that the book setter
Evangelist in the field and do the
had never heard of the Bible. cemed about this matter, as we little work besides that we have al
Scepticism has been very busy in firmly believe that a whole system
Japan for certainly a dozen years. of false philosophy in regard to con ready agreed to do. Without even
Notwithstanding, the Bible and the version has largely had its origin in mentioning the much other work
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friends nmnnathp
among the nt
educated
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had
hoped
that
the
rendering
of
classes. We speak from full knowl
edge, being in constant communica this word in the New Version would
tion with Japan. Usually infidelity at once be generally accepted, as
follows after Christianity in heathen there can be no question ‘ about its
countries, but now-a-days it is ac correctness.^ But, alas, for the in
tive and often keeps step with the
Church. Scepticism has »already fluence of creed and custom. Sin
begun its work with Coreans, has ners are still spoken of as passive
obtained influence with the Corean subjects in the hands of some irre
embassy to this country. Unbelief sistible outside force whieh takes
is active in India and probably will
be before long in China. But it is possession of them, and practically
a mistake to say that the interest uses them as automatons, instead of
in the Word of God is abating any recognising what is the real fact in
where. The desire to have the Bi the case, that the sinner must him
ble and the willingness to pay for self convert or turn if he would fill
it is greater to-day than ever before the requirements of the original
in Japan, China, India, Africa,.Turn
key, on the islands of the Sea, and word?“ We should not say the man
wherever the Church of Christ has “ was converted,” expressing there
established its missions.
by the passivity of the subject, but
that the man converted or turned,
A theism at H ome .—“ In the and thus met the obligation of in-
best streets of Paris foul literature ' dividual responsibility. Unques
is obstruded on the eye of every tionably the re. ought to be a radical
passerby; and mingled wttlrUieTn-
decent books and pictures are blas reformation as regards this whole
Moly r I maHer.— Christian Commonwealth.
phemous s works ridiculing the Holj
Bible. Alas, - for
‘ - a city
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such
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J where
Oie raark
things are sold without scruple and
bought without shame I The Ro- aim a l^tlo above it; every arrow
man Republic was strong so long that
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flies
feels , the attraction of the
as the old virtues were maintained, earth.— Longfellow,
o^nnmnlîok
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accomplish
this o ? The pledges
tak
en at Salem amount to $307.50 by
19 churches. There 32 churches j
reported at the Convention. At
Eugene 18 churches pledged about
$413 but there was one pledge of
$50 from one man and his wife who
were not present at Salem. Of last
year*» pledges over S100 remained „
unpaid at the time of the Salem
meeting and though the last quarter
was not then due and has fallen
due since, less than $50 has been
paid id since. There must now be
over $130 due on last year’s pledges.
1 hope -soon to TiaVe alist oT~un-~
paid up delinquents. Brethren, are
not these obligations as sacred as
others ? What does the Bible say
about covenant breakers ? The
Evangelist collected nearly $12 the
mon^ I wish I had a com
plete list of the churches of the
State. I only have a list of sorts
^•’gathered from reports to the
Eugene and Salem meetings. If
every one of these would give to
the "work we might nearly double
our
WiU not the churches
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