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We elect officers annually and Let me exhort you to send a con­
strumentai. I predict there is a
field there nearly ripe for the this being election resulted as fol­ tribution at once. Postage stamps
lows : For President R. G. Callison ; are acceptable. Do you wish to
gospel harvest.
Secretary, L. B. Rowland ; Treasur­ buy ? or .are you in need of a dona­
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T. M. M organ .
er, Caleb Davis-
tion of tracts ? Act at once. Ad­
Co-operation Meeting.
On motion, the chair appointed dress
J. W. H igbee .
the Executive Committee, viz.: J.
Madisonville, Ky.
E ugene , O r .,
W. Parks, J. D. Matlock and Wm.
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March 11, 1884.
Churchill.
Bro. Floyd:
Current Religious News.
Pleasant Hill was selected to
A to »«»tiee Uie- XJh.ri.stian.
(Gleanings from our Exchanges^m
brethren of Lane county met with hold our next quarterly meeting,
the church at Pleasant Hill 10 a . m ., which will be June oth, at 4 P. M.,
In addition to Moody and San­
Friday, March 7th, by delegates including 6th and 7th.
key, who are busy in London,
At 7 P. m . each day and on Sun­
chosen from the various churches of
Messrs. Whittle and McGarrahan
said county, or a part of them at day at 11 A. m ., we were-enter­ have been holding evangelistic ser-
.vj^.,i_.Tien.t,l’leaaaiiL. JLilL tained by the preaching brethren vkfta.iu-1Dublin,large.
Drain, Hebron and Eugene. Al­ present who delivered some good numbers attended Major Whittle’s
though there are other organized discourses. - Bros. W. Callison and Bible readings, and not a few Ro­
congregations in the county which I. N. Mulkey, assisted by Bros. man Catholics have been among his
we had expeeted would have been Moore, Grubbs, and our aged audiences.
with us, and thereby very much brother, Philip Mulkey, and others,
strengtened our efforts in the much all of whom lent interest to the
Many Christians have been mas­
needed work now lafiguishing all meeting. Taking it all together sacred in Anam since the beginning
over our broad land. Nevertheless, we had a most excelent, and, we of January. The Anamese Minis­
those warm-hearted brethren who hope, a most profitable meeting.
ter of War is implicated. A Chi-
On
motion,
the
Executive
Com
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were sent up manifested a laudable
nesn viceroy; prior to the capture of
mittee
was
authorized
to
secure
the
desire to push this work to a prac­
Sontay, ordered the Black Flags to
services
of
a
competent
evangelist
ticable point. Much of the success
murder every Christian found in
of the business was due to the en­ for the county.
the City.
On
motion,
the
Secretary
was
in-
ergy instilled into the meeting by
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isthat.h
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' who seems to possess the happy the work done for publication in of people are living in the unlaw­
-L ... „ faculty of knowing just how and the C hristian H erald . All of ful relationship of illegal marriage,
when to move. However the whole which we submit ever praying that induced by fraudulent divorces pro­
God may energize and cured by a fellow known as Munro
delegation seemed to feel the im­ the love
portance of the occasion, and work­ intensify our zeal for the cause of Adams, who has figured as a divorce
er ed from the first hour to the last Christianity in this our much lawyer, but who has suddenly left
the city. It is an awful condition
favored land. ■ **
with Christian zeal.
of affairs. The one consolation
is
This county meets quarterly in
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that it may serve to help forward
the cooperative work, and we are
sorry to have to acknowledge that The Magnitude of the Work. the popular movement against the
for several months passed our efforts
Two things operate against the running of the divorce mill at the
have resulted in but a limited Christian Sower Tract Fund. The fearful rate of the past few years.
amount of practical work in spread- first is the lack of appreciation of
Afbill is. before our New York
> - ing the gosRel. This was fully de­ the power of tracts. This has been
Legislature imposing a fine of $100
veloped in the elaborate report of presented several times. The other for the sale of cigarettes to boys,
the Executive Committee, which is the failure to perceive the great under the age of seventeen.
fully set forth not only the work need for tracts. This causes some Change the seventeen to twenty-
done, but the work so vastly needed to donate a dollar to this fund who. one, and then°put it on its passage
in many places in our own county would otherwise give ten. I have by unanimous consent. We notice
not done. And although there just received an appeal for a dona­ a bill is also before the Legislature
was not a sufficient amount tion of several thousand pamphlet prohibiting the sale of liquors to
pledged by the churches represented tracts from a well known brother any minor. That changes the lim­
to secure an evangelist for the whose congregation is struggling it from eighteen years as now to
whole year, the delegates felt the for an existence in one of our large twenty-one years. Pass it.
absolute necessity of securing a eastern cities. No better field for
zeal oils, active, live brother, if such work could be found, but I
The Jesuits, says the London
possible, to take the field, con- could only give him several hun­ Tablet, have ten or twelve men at
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fidentially believing that the good dred. I must give some tracts to work on the Zambesi in Central
brethren would sustain him and all the worthy applicants. Another Africa, and within five years they
keep him the whole year. The h«s just sent me a five column have lost twelve by death. Nine­
cause of the religion of the Bible newspaper article with the request ty-two members have joined this
must be sustained, and although it to print 20,000 of them. This will African regiment of pioneers. A
will have to be done partly at the take $100, but I searched the en­ training school is to be established
expense and even sacrifice of many velope in vain for the much needed near Port Elizabeth, South Africa,
of th is world’s comforts, yet what is money or any part of it. I can use under the direction of Father Weld,
to be gained in the “ everlasting ten thousand dollars per year in Superior of the order, and men will
kingdom ” is worth intrinsically this good work. This notice will be fitted for the interior missions.
pore than all those sacrifices.
be read by many liberal brethren. The Jesuits have purchased an es- j
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tâte of 7,000 acres fpr the school and
mission house.
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The English company for the re­
vision of the Old Testament recent-»
ly finished their eighty-third session
at the Jerusalem Chamber, having
sat for twelve days. The final re­
vision of the company’s work was
carried to the end of Psalm 100.
The Methodists have
churches in Virginia.
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1,185
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The Salvation Army has com­
menced a cpmpaign at Buffalo
ted States 84 churches, 70 minis­
ters, and about 10,000 communi- .
cants.
At Milbank, Dakota, on Sunday,
February 10, a Congregational
church building—probably the fin­
est in Dakota—was dedicated. It
was built by Mr. Jeremiah Milbank,
of New York City, at a cost of
$15,000, and given to the American
Home Missionary Society in trust
for the Congregational ists, on cer­
tain conditions, which have been
complied with, and tne Congrega­
tional Society are now in possession-
Milbank is a growing town of 1,500
people. The new church will seat
500, and is well filled at the Sun­
day services. The dedication ser­
mon was preached by the Rev. Dr.
Hovey, of Minneapolis.
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WHEN THE GENTIANS BLOW.
Not in any garden close
Where the lily and the rose
In stately sweetness grow ;
Bat in some waste field, or nook,
Where you’d never think to look,
Do the gentians blow.
Radiant plume of golden rod
Twixt the purple asters nod.
Red the sumacs glow,
All the corn is heaped in shocks.
And the blue birds fly in flocks,
When the gentians blow.
High o’er rustling sedges dun,
Swaying sun-flowers watch the son
Fearing signs of snow . '
And the wandering cricket’s note
In the ohill air seems to float;
When the gentians blow.
E mzadeih C umimos , in Wide Awake.
An old minister in Ohio seemed
rather opposed to an educated min­
istry. Said he, “ Why, my * breth-
ering, every young man who is go­
ing to preach thinks he must be off
to some college and study a lot of
Greek and Latin. AU nonsense I
All wrong! What did Peter and
Paul know about Greek? Why,
not one word, my ’ brethering."
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No I Peter and _ Paul preached
in.
the plain old English, and so’ll I ”