Christian herald., January 18, 1884, Image 1

RESTORATION OF APOSTOLIC CHRISTIANITY.
; FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1884.
C hristian H erald .
----------- J. F. FLOYD,
Editor and Publisher, Monmouth,, Or.
H. T. MORRISON,
Monmouth, Oregon, Associate Editor.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
Our letter from Australia will be
of interest this week.
The week of prayer has been ob­
served by the denominations in
Albany.
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Bro. Spriggs, of Salem, reports
an interesting prayer meeting in
that church which may develope
into a revival.
The brethren all over Oregon and
the Territory are not sending in as
frequent reports of their work as
we should like to see. Brethren,
send them on, for the people want
to know what you are doing.
We have received from the Tract
Committee, Cincinnati, Ohio, two
tracts entitled respectively, “ What
ib the Christian Church, who aré
the Disciples of Christ ?” by J. S.
Lamar, and “ Your Need of Salva­
tion.” These are splendid tracts for
free distribution, and can loe had for
6 cts. per dozen or 50 cts. per hun­
dred by addressing, Standard Pub­
lishing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
The following invitation came too
lflf^ jfnn„Rnsidas
we were too far away. They
have our congratulations and good
wishes all the same : “ Mr. and Mrs.
D. N. Graham request your pres­
ence at the marriage of their
daughter, Kate, to A. Judson White,
Thursday evening, December 27,
1883, at 7 i 30 o’clock, Abingdon,
Illinois.
The following note from our mis­
sionary in Paris speaks for itself:
I make known to my brethren and
sisters, the Disciples of Christ in
America, that I am forming a
Christian library for the Paris Mis­
sion. I will thankfully receive any
pamphlets, debates, sermons, reports
of conventions or churches, any
printed matter bearing an interest
on Cne work of the Diseiples in
America.
Address, Jules
de
Launay,Rue Bausset, Paris, France.”
Bro. R. B. Neal says: “ Congress­
men Wills and White are both
members of the Christian Church.
The one is a Republican, the other
a Democrat. The first named works
for the interest of the Whisky Ring,
and the other takes pleasure in
checkmating his efforts.” Well
Bro. Neal, who could expect any­
thing better from political Chris­
tians ? Politics and Christianity are
somewhat like water and oil, with
usually this exception, that the oil
of Christianity is in the bottom.
The Christian Standard has un­
necessarily stirred up a good deal
of strife among the brethren by
hastily and unwisely rushing into
print with a mere “ rumor ” to the
effect that certain prominent breth­
ren were engaged in a “ secret con­
spiracy,” or connected with a com­
bination to formally divide the
brotherhood. It has utterly failed
to sustain itself in this matter, and
we think it now about time for it
to make some more satisfactory ex­
planation of its course than has yet
appeared. The whole thing was al­
together unnecessary, to say the
least of it, and every uninterested
and right thinking man will hold
PRAYER ONLY.
the Standard directly responsible
^4^pl a<Mng .»4h^ 'diBeipIe.r ^oF Ohrig t8
Lastweek we called attention to
in this false and awkward light be­ the doctrine of faith only, and
fore the world. Let us be done showed that the .Bible does not
with it.
teach it. This week we wish to
There has never been a time in notice prayer only. Almost every
the history of the world when those day serves to confirm our convic­
advocating primitive Christianity tion that there is a good deal of un­
should plead louder and mofe earn­ necessary praying done by Chris­
estly for their cause than now. It tian men and women. We do not
is evident that human creeds as mean by this that it is not right
bands of union are fast losing their and proper for them to pray, nor
pow er over the people, and the great that they should not pray often;
danger is that many who cut them­ for we not only believe it to be the
selves loose from the creeds, finding duty of all Christians to pray and
nothing better, will drift too far in to pray earnestly, but we very much
the opposite direction. The aban­ doubt the genuineness of that re­
donment of all formes of creeds and ligion which does not manifest
confessions of faith too often means itself in prayer to God. But we are
nothing more than liberalism. Be­ persuaded that the trouble with
cause a man concludes to give up most Christians is not that they do
his human creed is no reason why not pray at all, but it lies rather in
he should give up his Bible alsp. the fact that they too often' fail to
But such is the history of* some. pray in the spirit of prompt and
They do not like to be bound by complete obedience. We should re­
anything, strange as it seems, they inember that prayer alone, like faith
prefer being out at sea not knowing alone, is dead. Furthermore, in the
whither they are drifting. Seeing, spiritual kingdom as in the natural,
therefore, the unstable condition of there is and must be a human part
Christendom, let us as true disciples and a divine. There is not only a
of Christ, show them the better part for God, but also a part for
man, and these two elements in the
way.
divine economy are so connected
We learn from Bro. Spriggs that and blended that they can not be
there are now plenty of calls for separated. This grand principle
the work of the State Evangelist. runs all through every favor be­
But it is just possible after all that stowed upon man as well as every
the Board will not be able to keep act of obedience on his part, yet we
him in the field the entire year. He often hear men pray as though they
says the matter is fast revolving could do absolutely nothing and
itself into a question of dollars. that God had promised to do every
While the pledges for last year that thing for the mere asking. They
were in arrears are mostly paid, yet take the pains to tell the Lord of
they only have on hand and pledged the social vices and sins of the peo­
a little over $400 for 1884. He ple around them, many of which
further says it will be better to might be corrected or removed by
keep the Evangelist in the field if a little earnest and patient work,
possible, but the Board must respect and ask the Lord to do that which
the obligations already made to he has placed them here to do, and
other work at Albany and other then they go home with folded
places, even if the Evangelist has hands and confidently expect their
to be retired at the end oj' his six prayers to be answered ! What an
month’s engagement. We see no insult to the Divine Majesty! It
good reason for neglecting any of sometimes seems strange to us that
the work, if the brethren will only the God in whose moral image these
help by their money to move it for­ people are created does not become
ward. This we* believe, they ought indignant at subh a travesty on the
to do.
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