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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1884)
>■’ ”' '■ • AA ... > • * • , ... & y ■ 0 CEfTtlSTTAN’ TTTCT? ALD. 4 i 22! the grave, not so much on account of the waywardness of his son, as because of parental neglect which was in one sense the cause of that fatal waywardness. Christian parent, have you , a family alter in your home ? Are you trying faithfully, in the fear of God, to surround your children with Christian influences ? Be- j' o ui pres e n t neg lect mak e- bitter the days that are yet to come. —Central Baptist. 1♦ r I > ■' , ■■ 1 Amity, Bethel, Carlton, Lafayette and other churches if agreeable to the churches and likely to be help ful. , I hope the churches that haye made pledges for 4884 will be prompt with the first quarter, and by so doing give the Board some evidence of what it can depend on. I also hope that many that did not ■aaqlra plculgoc at. S mi I pth because not represented may attend to taking the collection just the same and forward to I. G. Davidson, Treasur er, Portland. Missionary Column. Is it too much to hope for $100 --MISSIONARY BOARPv...__ on this first quarter ?_ vYp shall confidently expect this much I Chare!»' of Christ in Oregon. W. H. Adams, Portland....................... President. think I see how we may possibly Leo. Willis, Salem..................... Vice-President. work through until the June meet-" £__ Mrs. Belle P. Walker, Forest Grove, Rec. Sec. I. G. DavidBon, Portlari3............ ,.. .Treasurers" Tng, k^p Att^m- promises’and keep J. W. Spriggs, Salem................. .Cor. Secretary. the Evangelist at work. The All communications relating to the employ ment of evangelists, protracted meetings, co churches receiving his labors must operation in securing pastoral work, etc., all pledges, of assistance With requests for the do all they are able to do to com same, and Ml business properly coming before the Board will be addressed to the Cor. Sec pensate him. The churches that retary All collections, payments of pledgee, have made pledges must be prompt etc., will be addressed to the Treasurer. and pay in full; and those churches MISSIONARY NOTES, that have made no pledges must I desire to say to the brethren help out, then we can all rejoice at with regards to the work of the our next State Meeting. J. W. S priggs , Cor. .Sec. Evangelist, that the future, so far., Satem, Jan. 21, ,884. as mapped out, is as follows : LATER. About the first of March he will S alem , O r , Jan. 24,1884. begin a meeting at McMinnville. Bro. Floyd: He will hold a meeting at McCoy Please say to the brethren that in April, and the month of May Bro. Cheetham has "returned from ■will, probably, all be spent with his visit home, and is now at Hills three congregations in Benton boro. Churches on the West side county,beginning at Liberty school desiring his services during next house, going from there to the month let me know at once. Fir Grove school-house, and from ---- ------------ there to Chesher. The Evangelist OPEN LETTER. has taken the most of this month S alem , O r ., Jan. 23,1884. to rest and visit his family, but will begin work by the last of this E. Mays, Monroe, Or.: M y D ear B ro .,—Yours of the week. It has not been definitely determined where he will begin, 18th at hand, and carefully con but probably at The Dalles. I un sidered. I had just written to the derstand the churches at Hillsboro, H erald announcing the appoint Forest Grove and Sheridan desire ments of the Evangelist, and among meetings, but neither of them has others I announced that he would asked through me for the Evan spend May with the churches at gelist. If he does not now hold a Liberty, Fir GroVe and Chesher. meeting at The Dalles there will be Of course, if upon due reflection the month of February that can be and proper explanation, you do not taken by one or more churches. desire his services, the appointment There will, probably, be time in will be called in. But I think you March and April for two other do Dot understand fully, and there meetings. Churches desiring the fore I write this letter of expl ana time indicated should address me tion. It is true the Evangelist receives at once, and arrange the time. Portland would be glad to take all $83 J per month and traveling ex vacant time and compensate the penses. I will not stop to argue Evangelist for it; but the Board the justness of this compensation. think best to keep him in the I will just say that I have been general field as long as there is de raised on the farm, and have for mand and funds to sustain him. over 15 years Jived in town and While on the West side we would am raising a family of five girls. be glad to have him visit Dallas, Now I don’t know how much of a i familv you have raised, but if your family was but ordinary and you could live your life over again with the expensiveness of living as it is now, you would change your mind. The churches are asking us now to devote our whole time to our work and to follow no other calling. Now when you pay $15 or $20 per month for ren£ $5 or $0 per month for wood, 12| to 20 cts. for every pound of meat, 40 to 75 cts. for every chicken, 30 to 45 cts. for every pound of butter, $G per bar rel for flour, 16 J to 20 cts. per pound for lard, groceries, dry goods, boots and shoes in proportion; then you raise ami” educate a family without one dollar from any source besides what you get for preaching you wiH have a different opinion T keep up your library, do your part for all benevolent work, do the work of a minister faithfully, and if you don’t earn the little you get as hardly as most any other man, then I will say I am mistaken. I have been a farmer, teacher, law yer and preacher, and I earn my money with more labor now than in any other calling I ever followed. But I shall not pursue this thought further. You say the Evangelist is the servant of the Board. In this you are mistaken. The Board itself is simply the servant of the brethren. The churches represented by dele gates chose us, and instructed us to do a certain work for them ; among other things to employ and direct the labors of the Evangelist. After the Evangelist was employed at the present salary the engagement was submitted to the Convention made up of delegates from over thirty churches, and the action was en dorsed by the Convention. You say the Board would better pay him his wages and keep him at work among them or discharge him from his obligation. Why, my dear brother, the Board has no work for him to do unless he works among the churches, and we are not at liberty to pay him off and discharge him, for the brethren have said and still say keep him in the field. There are places where they would be glad to have his services and pay the full compensation, but it would not be vjise for us to have him work entirely among churches able to compensate him in full. But there are many weak churches unable to pay in full for his services, and we desire to have him help these. Then there are places where there are no brethren where' a church might be established Now we ask all churches to assist by contributing to a com mon fund to sustain the Evangelist and aid other missionaries who are laboring where they cannot be wholly supported; and then when the Evangelist goes among these churches and gives them his labor that they compensate him to the extent of their ability. If they are able to pay him a full compen sation .4b much the better: If unly half, so good. If but a quarter or a few dollars it will be thankfully re ceived. I know nothing of the ability of these congregations re ferred to in Benton county. But we witt certarnly ssk nothing be- yond a reasonable liberality accord- ing to ability. One church to which an appleal was made to help the missionary work said we are pay ing a preacher $2.00 per month and with this burden we do not feel able to do anything this year. For shame! If I did not do more myself ‘I would never ask for another dol lar to help on the work, ■ Believing that what I have writ ten might be of benefit to others beside youself I transmit it through the column.? of the H erald . Trust ing that we may all do the things that are honest in the sight of God and men. I hope we may all get our jeal ousies about “ Boards,” “ Stall-fed Secretaries,” “Fat Evangelists,” etc., etc., and go to work with the ability God has given us to. save our fel- low men. In all kindness and fra ternal love. I am yours, J. W. S priggs , Cor. Sec. On looking back through thirty years of church life we are com pelled to come to the conclusion that the most unsatisfactory mem bers we have ever had have been those who were best satisfied with themselves. One brother became so thoroughly sanctified that he could not live with his wife; and another had so clean escaped from sip of every sort that he quited us all in disgust. We find in the Sunday-school, the lay preachers’ association; the Christian young men’s meetings; and in all other forms of work, that as soon as any of the brethren or sisters begin to brag about their holiness they be come wholly useless, and before long the place that knew them knows them no more. "Great cry and little wool ” men are not very numerous among us, but we Jiave a few now and then just by way of variety.—0. H. Spar geon. ' — % 4$ 9 (j | I ». r w - *■ 1 LA HHM S •'! * • • ' • C
