Christian herald., March 21, 1884, Page 6, Image 6

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ing else fits into the becoming
A Correspondence.
sequence of events. The absence
of it would create a vacuum of Letter from Bro. W. A. Gibbins.
mystery to be explained. Not suf-.,
A lpha ,’ W. T., March 7,1&84.
fering but sin is the inexplicable
phenomenon; the lapse of man into Bro. Floyd:
Thinking that a few lines from
it is the appalling tragedy.
this part of the country would be
That a world wallowing in the
interesting to your many readers I
..m oral puU i d i ty , s h oul d. I m . .
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indignantly buried from the ofiend-
Wright, sent us an appointment for
ed eye of the universe by avenging a protr^pted meeting , to commence
waters, that cities steeped in viees
on Thursday evening before the
io which language could give no
fourth Sunday in February, but
other name than theirs, should be
owing to storm and drifted snow,
swept off the face of the earth by a hedid ne t re ach hie a p p ointm o At
storm of fire; that nature herself
till Saturday evening, and on his
should stay the operation of her
arrival he was taken with a spell
laws, that the oppressor of God’s
of heart disease, which prevented
people, the representative of the
him from preaching till Thursday
oppression'of four hundred years night. The meeting was conducted
might be engulfed in the sea; that by the writer till Sunday night,
idolatrous races, whose stock - was when wfi_were^relieved by the ar­
already rotting in their corruption, rival of Bros. Cannon and Gibson,
should be crowded to their doom to who did the preaching till Bro."
give' place to a purer blood and a Wright was able to go into the
nascent theocracy—all these things work, from which time we had the
are recorded simply as monumental gospel presented in its power and
tokens of God’s righteousness. The ancient simplicity. We had good
doomed ones were monuments of
attendance from the first with in-
IgrrtttTttrey must be made monrr- creasing interest till the close. The
ments of retribution. This is the meeting lasted till Monday night,
story and the whole of it. It is left March 3rd. The church was great­
io later times to raise tangled ques­ ly revived and sinners pierced to
tions in the ethics of the story, and the heart, and five of them came
io pile up volumes of apologetic out and made the good confession,
Criticism. Not a word of this seems
and were buried with their Lord in
io have occurred to the contempor- baptism. Two others, one by rela-
iHfieslookmgonyor-tO'th^aimalists«
tion and one reclaimed, wnile many
recording the tragic history. The an­
were made to feel like Felix of old,
cient wisdom saw no mystery which almost thou persuadest me to be a
needed solution. It was enough Christian. This meeting -will long
for the ancient ethics that retribu­ be remembered by the church at
tion was visited on sin. Penal jus­ Hangqpan creek.
tice was right; the right was ulti­
W. A. G ibbins .
mate ; and Hebrew philosophy held
her peace. ,
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Letter from Bro. J. W. Cald­
well.
But Hebrew piety was not con­
tent with silent acquiescence^ It
. C orinth , K y .,
March 3,1884.
gave to the retributive decrees an
approvalvocalwithprai.se. Prophets Bro. Floyd :
Our State Evangelist, Bro. Mun-
foresaw them with complacency.
The people exulted in them at the nell, has just closed a meeting of
national festivals. The popular two weeks, resulting in 1G addi­
songs rehearsed them in the temple tions to our cause. He is a great
worship. Inspired poets poured worker and very successful, as you
forth imprecatory hymns without well know.
Missionary day was observed
stint, and the people chanted them.
God’s enemies were their enimies, here and a good collection taken up.
Prohibition is growing, and our
and they appeased their own retri­
butive instincts in celebrating the people are forming a solid'front
retributive achievements of J ehovah. against the whisky crime. Five
—P rof . A ustin P helps , D. D , in counties have, in a body, petitioned
the législature to pass a prohibitory
the Congregatlonalint.
law, to take effect within their
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Paper gas pipes are the pipes of bounds. • Two-thirds of the bills,
the future. They are cheaper, more enacted by our present legislature,
durable, and being poor conductors are in favor of prohibition in some
of heat and cold the gas is far less way. Of course many of these are
local.
J. W. C.
likely to freeze.—X Y. Herald.
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Letter from Julia A. Wilkerson. town?
If such influences were
brought to bear they would soon
W est C hehalem , O r .,
have to close for want of custom.
March 8, 1884.
you think this worthy of pub-
Editor Herald:
lication please publish it.
Not seeing anything from our
We remain yours truly,
little valley in your paper I thought
T hree L ittle G irls .
I would write a few items. There
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is some sickness, and there have
Evangelizing.
»everal'death»--herer •■■■We-'-are**
Leaving Dayton, W. T., on Wed­
having nice weather and farmers
nesday, in the afternoon, I reached
are busy plowing and seeding; it
the residence of Bro. R. L. Daahiell
seems as though spring bad come.
after considerable plunging through
The fall-sown grain looks nice, and
psopiertle in better spirits,for they mud. Bro. Dashiell is one of our
wideawake working men, both in
t he-W d- . we at h e r -w o u l d i a^
church and out pF it. Sister Dash-
jure the grain. Our neighborhood
iell is a worthy Christian lady, a
has been quite interesting for the
daughter of old father Campbell
last two months; the Adventists
living in Polk county, Oregon, and
have been holding meetings ever
a sister of Sister L . Frazier, so-well
since the 20th of January, and will
known at Bethel, Or. The kind
continue for awhile longer. The
feeder will here allow me to say
people were pretty well interested
that this section of country is made
for five or six weeks, but it has
up of the choicest material. Time
grown monotonous.
Some few
would fail me to speak of the kind­
have signed the Covenant, as they
ness shown by the worthy Chris­
call it; they take them on trial.
tian brotherhood of this section of
Elders Boyed and Debard, of Port­
country. Leaving Bro. Dashiell’s
land, are the ministers; they are
on Thursday morning, I continued
real nice appearing men; but I
think make too much a hobby of
Lost Spring, to commence meeting
the Sabbath. If one of our minis­
on Fridays before the 1st Lord’s day
ters would come down and hold a
in March. Reaching the pleasant
meeting I think it would do a great
home of Bro. Wm. Anderson about
deal of good, for the people have all
noon, 1 enjoyed a good rest till '
been reading and studying the
Friday evening, when we met a
Bible a great deal since this meet­
goodly number at the school-house,
ing has been going on. If they
.commencing the meeting.. with the...
could hear the other side I think
best of attention. The attendance
we would all be better satisfied.
increased till the close. As every
There are but few of the brethren,
one was commencing farm work we
not enough for a church organiza­
concluded best tb close at the
tion; but we would be glad to hear
school-house on Lord’s day night,
one of our preachers.
making an appointment at the
We have a Good Templar lodge
residence of Bro. Kramer, for the
started with 21 charter members.
benefit of old Sister Kramer, who
I think there will be quite a good
is now among the few octogenarians,
lodge in a little while, as people
generally are taking more interest having reached the extreme age of
eighty-four, and is waiting and ex­
in the temperance cause. More
pecting the angel messenger to soon
anon.
Your sister,
bear her away to the sunny shore.
J ulia A. W ilkerson .
She is full of hope, having spent
the larger share of her life in her
Questions.
Master’s service. Her neighbors
M c C oy , O r .,
and well-wishers, after services,
March 11,1884,
sang for her some good soul-cheer­
Mr. J. F. Floyd :
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ing pieces of sacred song, and after
S ir ,—Three little girls would the Jjestowment upon her many
like to know why the people should friendly greetings and kind words
let ten or fifteen lazy men keep they retired.
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saloons instead of earning their
I formed some pleasant acquain­
living at some useful work ; and tances in the neighborhood of Lost
why doe» Mr
the lawyer Spring, such as Bro; And erson and
who pleads s so eloquently to hang a family, Bro. Turner and family, the
poor naan whom liquor has ruined, Brown’s families and Bro. Kramer
does not make speeches against and family. This is a nice neigh-
them, and why all our leading men borhood, and the young folks are
do not join together and work taking lessons in writing and prac­
against having these grog-shops in ticing in music, both vocal and in-
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