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Notice
To the Brethren of Lane County :
I am requested to say io you
that the Executive Committee oi
the County Codyeration have em
ployed Bro. R. G. Callison to labor
as County Evangelist, who will en
ter immediately upon his duties
* and that the comnffttce Lopes and
confidently bfillBVSS tfi&t thB Urutty
ren will fully realize their privi-
. leges, and will lend all necessary
aid, financially and otherwise.
Take steps immediately, so as to be
ready when he comes, and we will
g oo d work - l-bi-
' season.
L. B. R owland , Sec.
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; TheBible Reading Alliance
lover of God’s word in this effort to
cover the earth as the waters cover
the'sea with a knowledge of God’s
will to man and man’s duty to his
God.
We need dimes and dollars to
efficiently and rapidly advance our
work. Thè majority of those re
ceiving cards, have negtbeted to
pal Chinese Mission School. A col
lection was taken up for the Bible
cause, amounting to $63.40.* ‘ One
Christian Chinese mer?hant gave
$20 in gold coin. All appeared to
give in the spirit of the gospel,
“liberally and cheerfully.
May not other societirtf and con
gregations, more highly favored,
Igarn an important lesson from this
ex"
those who have sb recently been
converted from t}ro darkness of hea
thenism ?
ubtless the influent
ces of thi Chinese Bible meeting
will reach home and liearts in the
asked from each—not oflft>'if per
sonally appealed to, would refuse
one dime or even more to promote
such work. Such an appeal is im
possible, but we write in hope that
Jhe-qmio mind?. of many will be
WFfe3’’’i^r'Tfcr’ pr0I^pt}y “forward
their dues. The aggregate of these nese have come.
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small mites, if each is faithful, will
K Perfect Marriage.
refresh our work as rain drops re-
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As President of this alliance, it desiring cards, send to R. B. Neal,
is my duty and privilege to present Secretary, 841 Franklin street,
and insist upon its claims as a Louisville, Ky.Those who h
means for doing great good before dimes or dollars to contribute to
this work, send to John T. Frazier,
the reading public.
First, consider the object rather Treasurer, 352 West Jefferson,
than the alliance itself, “To read Louisville, Ky. The cards state
and induce others to read the Bible concisely and clearly the plan and
Jt-Lwoik of thealliance as well as out-
---- any~man ta. ’lining a' y
the largest remnant of Eden left, was
lodged in the home. A lovely oasis
would truly have, been snatched
from Eden’s shut gates, and plant-
ed in our midst, if husbands and
wives, in their special relations,
obeyed Bible commands. The rhap
sodies of poet and lover fade into
tawdriness, compared with inspira-
The Book of Nature
In this dilemma where is man to
look for truth ? Where can he
read the history of the past ? Is
there nothing reliable and endur
ing ? Is there no truthful record
of the earth’s history that can be .
transmitted throughout all time ?
Yes, she writes her own autobiog-
rnpby which c^n perish only with
a perishing earth. Slib litt-d« iiv
amanuensis, no book of parchment,
no historian, to record her- epochs
serene or catastrophes stupendous.
Her great volume lies open before
us. Even if not mendacious, man
TFWt finite arid iminnfecFT Nature
is Infinite in all that she, does.. The ,.
earth rolls through space, impelled
arid Restrained by invisible and in-
fimfe forces. Man cannot cornpre- -
hand them, muoh less the manifes
tations of an infinite power that is
exercised alike upon a twilight
monad or a whirling planet. The
great volume of Nature is open for
all. In it we may read, in God’s
own handwriting, which no man
can Counterfeit or imitate, the his-
.lory of tlm illustrious past. Study__
wiiei you send for brief commands enforced in Eptîês- ing which mail ha£ written unless
understand the languages and Inclose stamp wjien
ians, chapter v.— ‘Of themselves
dialects of earth, comparatively few cards.
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it harmonizes with this grand his
complete in beauty.” Reverence
j G eo , J. P eak , Pres’t.
are’ and only a few need be
tory.— Wes^Shore*3
and duty from the jjjoman love
thoroughly conversant with the
Chinese Bible Meeting.
and’providing given by the man;
* science and arts.
Do you want to know the man
such
a
heart-satisfying
picture.
The
A very interesting and successful
But every son and daughter of
against whom you "have the most
single
would
indeed
have
a
right
to
- Adam must know and obey the Chinese Bible meeting was held at
reason to guard yourself ? Your
bemoan,
were,
m
arriage
what
the
"tbirCaptistr “t Gha p <.4-»
-hakiag^la^wiR,.^
Lord
would
have
if
.
The life, that now is as well as the in Portland, Or., on Sabbath eve-
fair likeness of his face.— Whately;
There
is
a
marriage
mystipal,
life that is to come. Here is a ‘ning, February 24, -1884. The var
Do you think of one falsity as '
work in which every Christian can ious Chinese mission schools in the glorious,sweet and eternal, to which
harmless, and another as slight, and
engage, however humble, and a city with their superintendents and every human soul is wooed who
another as unintended ?
Cast
work which is as far above de teachers, came together, and with has heard of Christ. To this mar
them all aside; they may ba light
nominational lines of creed or color one accord united in the services of riage “ the Spirit and the bride say,
and accidental, but they are ugly
as the heavens are above the earth the evening. There were over two Come.” Christ pleads for it when
soot from the smoke of the pit for
—to read and induce others to read hundred Chinese in attendance, in-' he entreats “that all may be'one; as
all that.— John Ruskin.
• . the word of God.
eluding several Chinese women and thou Father art in me, and I in.
thee, that they also may be one in
Our alliance is but the scaffold children.
Eight Years’ Scrofula Cured.
TJs.
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That
they
may
be
made
The services were- opened by
ing to the building. A year’s ex-,
A valued correspondent, Albert Simp- •
perience, .struggling with almost singing the hymn commencing, perfect in one,” ami “that the world son, Esq , writing from Peoria, Ill.,
every adverse circumstance, has de “ All hail the power of Jesus’ name,” may know that Thou has sent me, says : “ Samaritan Nervine cured me of
monstrated that our little card ar in which the whole congregation and hast loVed them as thou hast scrofula, after having suffered for . 8
ranged
readiug regularly and joined, singing most heartily as un loved me.” To be one -with God in years with the disease.”- Mr. Simpson
lives in Peoria. Ask him.1“ Your drug
systematically the Bible through to the Lord. Seven brief address ' Christ, is the true soul-marriage.— gist ke.ps it. $1.50.
annually, is an invaluable aid. The es were -made by persons connected L eigh N orval in Frank Leslie's
If, on hoiking back, your whole •
Sunday Magazine, tor April.
card is given freely to any and all with the several missions.
life should seem rugged as a palm-
These addresses were interspersed
who apply. The optional dues of
“ It saved my wife from the grave or
one dime per year is to supply with appropriate pieces sung by the an asylum,” writes a gentleman whose tree stem, still never, mind, so long
cards, pay the printer and cost of audience. ’ A statement of the work wife had been a fearful sufferer .from as it has been growing, and has its .
correspondence^ The reports asked being done by the American Bible Neuralgia. SJie had used Compound grand, green shade of leaves and
Oxygen for a few weeks. All informa
for stimulate others to faithful Society in China and elsewhere for tion about this new agent of cure will weight of honeyed fruit at top.
reading. To date we have tract 25,- the Chinese was maue by the Dis be sent free by Drs. Starkey & P.aien,
If'you feel dull, drowsy, debilitated,
havo frequent headache, mouth tastes
000 cards printed and over 15,000 trict Superintendent for Oregon I 1106 Girard Street, Philadelphia.
AU orders for the Compound Oxygen bad, poor appetite, tongue coated, you
are now in circulating
and' Washington Territory.
A
We; need the aid of every minis-1 brief Statement of the 'Society’s Rome Treatment directed to H. E. are suffering from torpid liver or “ bil
Mathews, GOG Montgomery Street, San iousness.” Nothing -will cure you ho
ter especially
attain the grand work was-fiwl^ itt the Chinese lan- ■■■ Francisco, will W-fillad ou the game speedily and permanently as Dr, Pier
est possible success in this work. guage by Rev. A. J. Hansen, Super terms as if sent directly to us in Phila ce’s “ Golden Medical Pisoovery.” By
We solicit the cooperation of every intendent of the Methodist Episcor delphia, w
| all druggists.
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