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I traveled on, reaching Colfax-
about 4 p. m . ; { only stopped a
few minutes, and traveled on, weary
as I was. After spending another
three hours in mud and Bnow drifts
I reached home, feeling grateful to
the Giver of every good and per­
fect gift for that protecting hand
TKat ha'd lrr ougliL-me s afely b ac k.,
to home with the most precious of
all earthly friends around the family
altar and offer our hearts to God in
devotion. Praise ye the Lord.
T. M. M organ .
man on Saturday, and give him a
passport into glory, and on Sunday
say, except you repent, and come
to Christ, you are destined to go to
hell.
Now, sir, large numbers of church
members are just mixed up in these
things as I have stated. Again, I
haY£-iead, “if a man go a ware­
fare, he is not entangTecT wilTT'TTie
things of this world.”
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Reply to State Evangelist’s
Question.
(Gleanings from, owr- Exchanges), ~
Mr. Cheetham:
- D ear S ir ,—-I saw a few weeks
ago a query, “ Why are the churches
in the valley so on the back
Lground ?’’ As I have Seen no an­
swer in the H erald , by permission
|of the Editor, will give what I con-
Iceive to be the greatest obstacle in
|the way of your prosperity, as well
las the other denominations. I saw
(this question answered, not long
_of_your Eastern
^papers, published in St. Louis, I
¡^believe, called Tice Christian Evan­
gelist, and I was proud to see one
Freligious paper that was not afraid
to speak out even on what ia gener­
ally called a very delicate subject,
t Here it is, you are supporting too
ijmany lodges. Now you may be in
as many as any one else so far as I
[know; it is getting to be very
’ popular for the preachers to be in
many of the secret orders of the
day; but that don’t help it any.
I propose, when you are on your
rounds again, when you go to a
town of five or six hundred, to ask
some one informed , how many
lodges are supported there, and how
many professed Christians are in
them, and if most of the young
men are not joiping them, and very
few going into the church, and how
many old, or middle aged men, who'
belong either to the Masons or Odd
Fellows have been brought into
the church in the last «ten- years.
Now, sir, I guess you will find from
two to six lodges in all such towns,
and if you should go to commence
an effort, on lodge night, you would
have to preach to a good many
empty pews. I have read in some
Bqok yoji “ can not serve God and
mammon ” at the same time, or,
“ you can not serve two masters.”
Beason, while you are attending
one, the other is neglected. And,
how could you consistently, accord­
ing to the custom of some of these
semi-religious orders, bury a wicked
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Muddy. Or., March 20,1884.
Current Religious News.
ihe number of children and
teachers in the Christian Sunday
schools throughout the world is esti­
mated at 15,000,000.
The total value of the church
property in Ann Arbor, Mich., is
$318,000, and the total church
membership reaches 3,770—one-
third the total population of the
city.
The South Kentucky College at
Harrodsburg, owned, by...the.. Chris^
tian Church, was burned on Mon­
day, the 25th ult. The loss is $12,-
000, on which there is an insurance
of $8,000.
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At the missionary anniversary of
the Florida Conferance of the Meth­
odist Church South, nearly $1,000
was secured to establish a mission
in Havana, Cuba.
The new Baptist Church in Salt
Lake city has been completed, and
a Baptist gentleman has become
responsible for the support of Rev.
H. G. DeWitt, D. D., the well-
known evangelist, to labor there
for an indefinite period.
Minnesota, where a Sunda^
school was first established thirty­
seven years ago, has now 1,444
schools, with 76,000 scholars and
11,000 teachers and officers, ^T.e
net gain last year was 118 schools
of 4,000 scholars and-100 teachers.
At Oskaloosa, Iowa, has just
been completed and dedicated a
new Presbyterian church ata cost
of $18,000. It is one of the most
complete churches in the State. At
its recent communion twelve addi­
tions were made to its membership;
It is certainly a very hopeful fact
that 90 schools with 130 Christian
teachers have been planted in the
strongholds of Mormonism in Utah,
and that their number is increasing.
And yet Mormons are increasing
too— as rapidly as the fecundating
General News Basket
quail The most hopeful fact con-
cerning Mormonism is that God is
against it. On the
abilities are that the Almighty will
The public debt statement for
win.'
February shows a reduction of
While the Mormon problem is $2,582,586.
being discussed by the politicians
The new editor of the London
and moralists of the Uuited States, Times, Mr, Buckle, is only thirty-
the different sections of the Church three.
are not inactive. Among the Mor­
Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt, of
mons in Utah are 50,000 of Scandi­
navian and Lutheran stock." A Boston, is the superintendent of the
special effort is making to restore National Woman’s Christian Tem­
them to Christianity. The Presby- perance Union for the Pacific Coast.
teriaris are working ihTOtrgtr Nur£ —Tt
wegian evangelists. The Metho­ rebellion against the Governor Gen­
dists have a Norwegian missionary eral’s oath which declares that he
at Salt Lake, where he has erected will permit no foreign potentate to
a church edifice and opened a school. exercise jurisdiction in Canada.
The Swedish Lutherans have sent
Mrs. Mary Brown, widow of John
a minister who has gathered a con­
Brown of Harper’s Ferry fame, died
gregation, and a Danish Lutheran
at Sin Francisco on the 29th ult.
clergyman will soon also commence
Mrs. Brown was John Brown’s sec­
operations.
ond wife. She had thirteen chil­
Mr. Milne, the agent of the dren by him, of whom four are liv­
American Bible Society, who has ing. Since February 1, 1881, she
passed from the Atlantic to the Pa­ has been living on a ranch in Santa
cific, across the continent of South Clara County, Cal., with her two
America, gTves”nib§1C'“'tnterestTng"TeM'- ffanghief«-, ■ a- son in-la-w and....four.,
oorts of his work in Peru. On the grandchildren.
She was hourly
2Gth of last November he was at sixty-eight years old.
Iquique, meaning in a few days to
The funeral of Tambo, one of the
take a steamer for Valparaiso. Of
party of Australian boomerang
a consignment of 3,000 volumes he
throwers, who died in Cleveland
had remaining only 70 Testaments
Sunday night, took place on Tues­
and 300 Portions, which would soon
day. The burial was strictly pri­
be disposed of. At Tacua, notwith­
vate. Even his companions were
standing the poverty and distress
not informed that the body had
caused by the war, there were sold
already been buried. They protes­
in eighteen days, 164 Bibles, 79
ted stoutly against our mode'of
Testaments, and 185 Portions, for
caring for the dead, and insisted on
$163.60. Many persons were found
practising their native custom of
who had not known where to pro­
suspending the body by its legs
cure them. No opposition was en­
from a limb of a tree, or placing it
countered either from the civil au­
in a sitting posture, tying the knees
thorities or the clergy, and not an
up to the chin, and covering all but
instance occurred of a purchaser re­
the head with dirt.
gretting his bargain and desiring to
A dress worn by Mrs. Levi P.
return his book. In Africa, a town
of 2,000 inhabitants, several hun­ Morton, the wifo of our minister to
dred volumes of Scripture were France, was of dark blue velvet, the
sold in a single week—not in quan­ front breadth covered with fine
tities, but by canvassing from house Oriental embroidery in gold. A
to house—the largest purchase by dress worn-by Mrs. Shepherd (a
one person being four Testaments daughter of Mr. Vanderbilt) at one
and twelve Gospels; his receipts of the President’s recent receptions
from sales there were $112 in gold. was of lavender satin, covered with
This was even better than the priceless point, the square neck fin­
work accomplished in Tacua. The ished with countless balls and
commencement thus made upon the crescents in diamonds, and hanging
from a necklace of solitaires a but­
Pacific coast is every way gratify­ terfly of immense diamonds, with
ing. Mr. Milne reached Monte large rubies on the wings. On the
Video in safety the day before same occasion pretty Mrs; Senator
Christmas.— The Moravian.
Jones, of Nevada, wore white satin,
with .white plumes in her hair, fas­
Ah! if you knew what peace tened by large diamonds, and dia­
there is in an accepted sorrow.— monds of enormous size about her
throat and wrists.
Madame Guyon.
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