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OTT'RTS't'IAN' HERALD. Letter from Bro. Edmunds C oquille C ity , O r .; . ...............-’ . 1 Nw, t g -raar— Dear Bro. Floyd: I take this method to let the readers of the H erald hear from us here at Coquille City. 1 have been here but a few months and have had to devote a portion of my time to building a home ;'but the interest of the church have occupied my mind and my labors have been him whn ha5! ’*JL6""T1 ’am wi you always.” A deep interest has been created and the little band of brethren and sisters are greatly en- • couraged and hopeful. We held —ae rviee s-hepfr-o n Sa tu rday evenin and Sunday morning and evening. Last meeting the congregations were the largest witnessed here for a lon^ timg j wp “j young disciples were added to the church by primary obedience. This is an important field and should not be overlooked by our home mission board; but aided for the year to come as for the past few months, and the church will not only be self-supporting but able to help .. other.oaeedyplac^ Tnisisa fine country, and fast filling up with good people. If any .of the brotherhood are seeking ...... homes, they will do welTTo visit the Coquille river valley before locating. More anon. Fraternally yours, -------------- - ■ ♦ • ♦ r ------------------ Report from Salem. S alem , O r ., Nov. 26,1883. • Eear Bro.: I have been negligent about making any report of our church work here. I will say that during this month we have baptized two and received by commendation two. Though many of our mem bers are absent our congregations are good and interest in the good work is good. J. W. S priggs . Report from Irving. I rving , L ane C o ., O r ., Nov. 29, 1883. Dear Bro. Floyd: Our State Evangelist, Bro. Cheetham, held a good and success ful meeting of some thirteen days at Clear Lake hall, commencing on Thursday evening before the third Lord’s day in this month and clos ing about tho time for the county meeting at Eugene. There were 5 added to the church during the meeting; 2 by primary obedience, lai med, Bro« 2 by relation an C. IS & good preacher, and 1 do hope the Board of Missions will keep him in the field. .Our people were very much revived and strengthen ed by the labors of our good Bro. Cheetham. To the Lord bo all the praise. Your brother in Christ, J. E. R oberts . —--------------- • .... —- «And what became of the plagues of locusts ?” A pause. Then small boy at bottom suddenly • “ Elease, miss, I Ki ate them.” Mrs. Leavitt, of the W. C. T. U., is doing good work in San Francisco and vicinity.—The Prohibitionists are preparing for the next campaign. Clubs are being organised in var ious parts of the State.----- The Good Templar lecturers are com- ▼ barrels of apples, to market 130 pounds of butter, tostack^ , in their, huge barns umno . ’ luiis °i nay, with oats, rye, corn and garden vegetables., They are r quired to work about three hours» day, and in vacation are paid for working over-hours. Only two hours or so are devoted now to school study,but in September U3ual hours will be observed.” Luther at Worms. Th® appearance of Luther before vigorously and hopefully.----- Bands The National Woman’s Christian of Hope are being formed, and the the Diet on this occasion is one of Temperance Union having failed question of temperance is rising into the finest, perhaps it is the very through their committee to secure finest, scene in human history. greater prominence toan before. a day of prayer for temperance in Many r man has encountered he customary. .piugiammc-.. - l U- week of prayer, have decided to set of Charity struck her husband over to be just, when he is sustained by apart the second Tuesday in Jan the head with a boot and came near the sympathy of thousands, of whom uary next as a day for special prayer . killing hiim Charity begins at - >ie ‘8 g the mo«°ent the i n the . c hui^has.Jdr -—- homr* representative But it is one thing to suffer, and another to The C. M. S. Intelligencer gives T he O ld T estament R evision . encounter, face to face .and single- ~ the number of Maori Christians, in The American Bible Revision handed, the array of spiritual Lid connection with the Church of Enjjf- Committee held its annual meeting land, in the Northern Island of New a few days since in the Bible House. temporal authorities which are rul- ing supreme. Luther’s very cause ] Zealand, as about 40,000. In the Both the Old and the New Testa was yet unshaped and undetermin-1 Middle or Southern Island are 2,000 ment Companies were present. The ed, and the minds of those who had more. The Native Clergy on the Old Testament Company have com- admired and followed him were, Northern Island are 29, Native hanging in Wpense Tor’theSieof ] £ ift t ech »stw 266? minor Prophets, and the notes have his trial. High-placed men of noble The Cincinnati branch of the Wo- been forwarded to England. Dr. birth are sustained by pride of blood mank-Foreign. Missionary Soeiet-y 1 ‘nillip Schaff, the president of t.h<> and ancestry, and the sense that of the Methodist Episcopal Church ,th,at the ®ngli.8h they are the equals of those whom has raised during the past two years Company willdoubtless complete its they defy. At Worms there was work in January, and the American on one side ”a solitary low-born the handsome sum of $22,000. peasant monk,: ind ou We olherihe' TfiK following are the Presbyter he expects that the new revision of Legate of the dreaded power which ian churches in the United States the Old Testament will be publish had broken the spirit of Kings and with over 1,000 members : The ed next spring. There is reason to Emperors—sustained and personally * Tabernacle, Brooklyn, 2,735 ; Third, believe that there will be fewer im supported by the Imperial Majesty Chicago, 2,085 ; Lafayette avenue, portant changes in the Old Testa itself and the assembled princes of I Brooklyn, 1,920; Fifth avenue, New ment Version than occurred in the Germany, before whom the poor | York, 1,899 ; Fourth avenue, New New, and that the work of the re peasantry had been taught to trem York, 1,454 ; Bethany Mission, Phil visers will meet with the general ble as beings of another nature from adelphia, 1,4G7; First, Rochester, approval of Biblical scholars. themselves. Well might George of N. Y., 1,335 ; University place, New Frendsburg say that no knight ! Of Mr. Moody ’ s farm for boys in York, 1,226; West church, New among them all bad ever faced < 1' rank 1 in county, Mass , a correspon York, 1,077. peril which could equal this. dent writes: “ The original farm The victory was won. The wav- ' The Salvation Army is being ex houses were filled two years ago cluded from one after another of the but four houses are now built, and ering hearts took courage. The 1 Evangelical revolt spread like an I cantons of Switzerland. It is now will be furnished and ready for oc under the ban in four cantons. cupancy in September, each design epidemic. The Papacy warlike an 1 “ Captain ” Beckett and her friends td to hold twenty boys, so that idol, powerful only as long as it wm have been driven out of Berne. The about eighty can be accommodated feared. • Luther had thrown his I President of the Geneva Council of in place of the forty now there spear at it, and the enchantment I was broken. The idol was but I State has replied to a petition from 1 welve of those are from Manches painted wood, which men and boys I forty-three Geneva Salvationists ter, England, and four from Liver might now mock and gibe at. Never I that the late expulsion was not a pool. At family prayers this morn again had Charles another chance I violation of the law with regard to ing one of the lads j »resided at the of crushing the Reformation.—tf. A I I religious liberty. The petitioners organ, and his comrades sang with Froude. — - ...... — • • • — — — — , I announce their intention of appeal a vigor and earnestness wonderfully We never read that Joshuas ing to the Federal Tribunal. delightful. The boys assist on the hand was weary with wielding the | farm, help milk the thirty-five cows, sword, but Moses’s hand was weary , Young lady (catechizing the care for the horses and the pigs, with holding the rod. The more | children on tho plagues of Egypt,): helped last fall to pick and sell 175 spiritual the duty, the more apt I aro to tire of it.— Spurgeon. |