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HERALD HIE CllRISTIANiHEKALD p. T. STANLKY, I f K**U»r^ J. W. WBMB, M o . nmouth , .... MoMmoulh, Or., . . «BUOI July W.'lHi ) Editorial Notice. BMttmeute uKpreiwe«l by oar contributor*, ut for ■'ur own writing alone. Hence oui reat n< □aunt judge for themselves. We intend to jve ■pace fur the free e Koreasiph of ub - aumii , wifi in limits of Bound lUsi ietion, .1. u U.o ¿jot- Qf the cause ; but not be “held as in.«1 at others may write. • 7 All matter intended for publication in this paper should be written : -U. On one side of the sheet only. X In a plain legible hand. 3. Let there be plenty of space betwee! the nee. * 4. Write with a pen wis§ftd of a pencj 80 hat it maj not be defitceti ill transit. 5. W. I'o brief article*. 6. Expect no attention toxarticle8, notice, or' queried not accompanied by your name. Ministrici Directory, and xnamv» of ( hu w whei e UlMHlHp'. r p ». v/ z r r « K P as you lean, then the general trend of your life ¡8 . most important. Every man as waking his future, day by. day. If he is casting out evil and cultivating the good, if he if in harmony with the divine and leaning Godward, and continues ■♦ ------------------------ -B hw > to dor, the. -~A-¥owng-Jd.an's Diagram.— One need have little anxiety how he shall fall, or when he shall fall, In the parable of the prodigal/ the disgrace which sooner or later if be is leaning right. is sure to follow in the wake of wayward and wilful youth is sim Every Christian should meet to ply and vividly suggested. The break, bread on the. first day of the fine young gentleman presently be week. “Lay aside every Weight;” comes a poor slave. Tli^ som be Christ’s death is the event asked comes a hireling and a stranger. to be remembered-—thoughts of his The late heir of great estates, the death, burial' amf resurrection possessor of princely fortune ‘is should be uj’ipermost in all hearts» herding the swine. He thinks of, the center of worship. the lowest of his father’s hired str-' —____ _____ e has failed in her duty toward those Bt*te Siiniliiy-school organization pupils. The saperintendent who by E d. Richardson, was heard. The following constitution wus fails to urge thia matter upon his unanimously adopted: teachers, and also to do what he CONSTITUTION. can, by example and exhortation; A rticle 1. ,1’he in\me of this to bring the children into the church, is not W thy of the honor system of Christian woik is, State of such a position. - Every effort -Sunday-school Association of the pos-i’alecwhould bo made to bring Church of Christ-m Oregon., tïï~™t only to' knowkdjê, Ifflt W . .... U l lj>ct of thio Advice to the "Unhappy.' ciation is to place in the field Evan the obedience of the gospel. “The unhappy,” says an exchange, This is the object of the Sunday- gelists. whose duties, it shall be to “are indisposed to employment; all school, and should not be ovei look hold- Sunday school Institutes,Cou- active -occupations are wearisome venlions, Protracted meetings, and ed.” “ and disgusting in prospect, at a May 1 ask the question bow do such‘work as the association time when everything, life itself,is rninyof your pupils can intelli may impose, in the interest of the full of weariness and disgust. Yet gibly answ er the proposition, “What Church of Christ. the unhappy must be employed or must the alien sinner do to be sav ARI 8 The officers of this asso they will go mad’. Comparatively' ed from past sins?” One of the ciation shall con.-i-t of 1 resident, blessed are They, if they are set in very important features .of work Secretary and TnAsui'er, who shall fainilie.i where claims and duties in a Sunday-school, is to cause chil conttitu'te the executive biard, and abound, and cannot.be escaped. In dren to know ju4 what the Holy shall ¿hold their offices one year or the pressure of business there is phost tcadhes in this matter» of until tjieir successors are qualified. present safety anTTuRTiiiatiB’ Kttuf" salvation. To say,’ faith, Hpcrrt —A RT. 4. —A+f—t m-mbsi M—o f - t he Harder is the lot of those wTio have -•“‘V, ml f-’l',edieiico is-one thing Christian church in Oregon may few necessary occupations.iftTofi'sT but to know what faith is/or rC- “ivilXi'“ ¿1 Ih 4 by other claims than their own pentance, or what it takes to con-, attending and pnrt.eiputing in its haimkssness and profitableness. stitute .scriptural obtuitnee, is quite deliberations» Reading often fails. Now and then a something more than a mere A rt . 5 Animal and other meet it may beguile ; but much oftener knowledge of words. Again, sup ings shall be held at such time and the attention is languid, the thought pose a pupil should interrogate the pla^, as may be agreed upon. At wanders, and associations with teacher in regard to some item of ,aid meetings measures^ may be the subjects of grief are awakened. history, or prophecy on-the* gospel, adopted to curry out the spirit of in low company is a degraded wretch, and all the more degraded, if he does not know it. There is no disgrace in work even of the humblest sort. It is not tending swine but in living a swinish, ani mal life that makes a man degrad ed.— Sei. The- Unitarians of this country vh’ese are so many touches of the n44a«itar’g lit nd fta hfi BQHiaYB fgl Ca^ pWcllJ. A., Hilkboro, North i'anthill and C&rlton. ship they reported four yeays ago. us the doom of every young man 1 Cheatham Neal. Centervjtle. It has Iveen proposed recently to who wanders from the law of God Cox Eliiu» Mehama, (ocabionally.) . CajRaon R. Eugene. .unite |hree of their strong Churches Vs taught in his father’s house, at AJotv’D. M.. Amity. Vart B. C , Molalla- Rock Creek. in one of the eastern cities. Is not his mother’s knee,-in the instruc Flemin-' H. C., Eagle Point—vant ki|8 point». Holman F Dillard, Forest Grove« their doctrine fatal to growth! By tions of his Sunday school teacher, Jones-------- . Lagrande. MeFBick If. M., 128 Mifl ¡St, Portl. Sta‘e their fruits they are to be known. or by the ministry of a faithful pas Evangelist. Plea-ant — Bill—Trent Spring- Mulkey 1» N., l-ira-aui tor. Disgrace lies In wait for him. field, Halsey and Monroe. V. N.. Moi.; jllO. A goodly number ■ of additions Degradation yawns across bis have been reported ny brethren Tor Mound Ranch. ■e ffi.i imml i h i t iii n ... , . ............... . Roberts J. E. AumaviHe—Mill C oek, Scio last month. The gospel itself, is What is this young man’s dis not do, .will obtain no relief from tion of the great Ixiek in which and Mt Pleasant. An I" fi- ri''» constitution may be Richardson S. W P., Independenot — Inde God’s power unto salvation. Men grace ? It is not the disgrace of sewing. Sewing is pleasant enough they may find an answer to the amended nt the annual meeting. pendence and Bethel Richardson E. H., Gooaberry—Eight Mile. obey it that they may save them have having to go to w’ork. He may in moderation to those whose minds question they profound ? Sunday- The following officers werç elect Rich G. P., Damasent, and Farn^ngton. * Stanley D. T., Monmouth, Pres. State Nor selves. are at ease the while ; but ’ it is school institutes are admirably ed / President, Eld. D M. Doty, of They preach it that they so regarded it. So far lie has been mal School. Hweapey J. M., Latham—X^IUMI clunty, Evan- may save others. an idleF; the world were no worse aiTTmployment which is trying to adapted to the bringing out of Amity; Secretary, Sister L.O.Friz- gelist. • ’ * ■ off if he were dead.—Hr ha^ enrrrar- rthc nerve* when long-continued, at Tho u ght, on all -¡wieli -pernte-and-thu. . 1--. jEerv-vdide-LTlcasu rer2^ister. Shelley R. L., Drain—Drain am| Elk Creek. Shuck Peter. Monitor—Bethanyi Waller H M... Monmouth— Albany, Oak It is the privilege of eyery be- ed-through the night and slumber- the best, and nothing can be worse sooncr we' avail ourselves of the Eliza Hawley, of McCoy. Creek a id Sheridan. Resolved, That tL6 next annual Weddel Elijah, »11. Pleasant. dleVer to attach himself so closely ed through the day. Rising in the fojjhe harassed, and for those who opportunities, and benefits to )«■ de Wiltse W. 11., Cartright-^Jnncnou City and ___ Marrisbnrgh.__ _______________ = ........ and firmly to Christ that he will) late afternoon he may .have looked want to escapo from themselves. rived therefrom, the sooner we, will meeting be held at Turner, on the- r Webb J W., Salem. but from his luxurious apartments Writing is bad. The pen hangs develop that wliic’i is so needful first Monday ot the campmeeling, [The shore list fab made vp at the Chmp- have no desire to follow uninspired '“¡TJ o el6ck n ’tn.—-——------- - - Vi p’eare notliv men. Many of our dissensions upon the,grimy and plodding mul idly suspended over the paper, or among us. 1 hope every Sunday- by cards. W, P. RicharJrion.J - Rt tolied, That each school make the sad thoughts that are ali-ve titude in the street or in tire mar school worker in the state will * such report as the board may direct. aiisedTom giving heed to opinions ket place with disdain, and scorned within write themselves down. write me a Liter on some point re I Retolved, That each school take The H erald does n^t furnish its andneglecting the “Lively Oracles.” the thought of decendrng to theiii, “The safest and best of ail ôceu- lative to the work, give an idea, i qmuterly collections for this work, The same J esus that said, follow usual Leader VJitorial) this week V pations for sueh suflbrcr.s, as are fit advance a thought at ask a qm-s- luml that c- ntiibutions be solicited level or joining in their on account of unavoidable circum me, aNo said, Beware of man. I oli.at.dl may have opportunity << for it, is intercourse with young That old feudal hensy that there, tioil, and thus furni dins material l<> stances—lmwever, it- will n d be so Hence we should scrutinize all i to a-, i t the «oik. ■ children. Next to this comes hon is something disgraceful in honest work on, in hope, that at least tonic things in the light of Gcal’s truth Resolved, That one perns . next issue. acquaintanceship good may come from, an effort to work continues to the bane of est, genuine audjeject whatever lacks divine point, d by the tonrd t< as cor- z ~ modern society. In countries among the poor; notduerc charity- stir up an eitthuiea-m mi th. grand ivspoipli::g .»cCTttary ami financial - The go«d report^frou churches ‘VTC ftftBgryrnwwdtid >■»*> 'i ri- ■ -{-T-1 it |- t 1* A “ “ f :*- M,jri¿ ¿jj imuiiijo .......... of all leadership except the leader in laist week’s issue in convention and blankets, but intercourse of nurture and admonition of tin I sociate on equal teri|s with the ship of Christ, who has the sole voices the expression that there s w. r. r . provò! by the associati-in right, to direct our way. Weie this tradesman. Even fl^ minister of mind, with real mutual interest be Lord. never was a time whei tlie work purties. Gardening is the gospel ;ospel guards againt agiui-t mingling. mingling, tween the parties, which, on motion. tli4 a-’-'. rule observed, divisions and sects nf th. el.i:i-di aa.-’ nô.ii fiindy apd -primitiv e. too freely with th’t part • ltrs excellent, l iee a uMMt unites bodily wdfouMwd lu tlie action womu Oisuppear, _ . aï! a a v 111111 / ’ ÎHfttfVirsR Oregon Oregon b-Uvw State cxi^uan. üh-iatiani ùj Sun- . . ; l ñ Ti'll ’ l of the Itourd ~~ ” unity . be restored. Having the flock who must eat ibrir bread in exertion ‘ wïtK'â suflkiêîiT; engage . day-school Asi ociation -«nd Washington than at present. J II M.\s< HER, D. M D uty , word of Christ dwelling in them the sweat of their face. It has ment of the faculties, while sweet, W. T. Richard-("irwpondiiig secreta S ■■! tiny. Brc-ident. • .richly, all men wouid then “be per coinc to pass in our country of late compassionate Nature is minister- 8. and . mu - ut, I tox 75. VaepeWlatiee. roll, The Central Hapt^t says itii fectly joined together in the same that the lady who purchases a par- ing cure in every sprouting leaf ry comity, Oregon. 1, 4 remarKalile as well as a milling ,tu_ auud.uud in the same judgment."-— cel at »<lry goods store does not anij scented blossom, and beckon- The executive board of the Oru- . see take it home lest this act of drudg- , ing sleep todruw high, and be ready ■ Tin; (Oregon Statv C.H i-tnji Suu mthoib^jdiplo) resort gon Stats V iri.sliun Sunday-school to evade temperance fcws. Jvo'w rantarrnmu ....... -.. , Bro.- W. E. Richardson of Span- 'V-'-b'fllffFUl IIHJl a t Ptrr ydwl» July— we have “temperance bitter.s’Jwhicli gle, has been appointed assistant Sty. It is a strange . thing that Walking is good ; not stepping T | president ; L C FTTzTI, fsvcrTO 12 1887, with a full board. from shop to shop, Of from neigh-1 ** Hawley, I rea mrer. apt n analj is, aro in. on ■evangelist lor Spokane county, W. people who own a caipenter for Elder S. AV * I’. RitharJson, of Having Imen app- iited by the found to be half alcohol. Look out T. He is one who will make his their Savior, and accept the author bor to neighbor ; but stretching out association to act as > rresonding Independence, was appointed cor- for the “temperance bitters!” presence felt for good in the Mas ity of apostles—laboring men all of far into the country to thé freshest secretary and lin-ineiMf agent, un- I re-p»riding secretary and agent for ter's'cause in that county,, and is them, and one of them boasts that fields, an<l the highest ridges, and der instructions to hide “Institutes j iiie’war, will) instructions Io hold Bro.Richardson,reports the work wide awake to all the interests of he labored with his own band, that the quietest lunes. However sul when and where practicable,” 1 institutes, when,and wherepractioa- on their new church building at the church in their respective work. he might be chargeable to none— len the imagination may hay* L*. Also to Lave two hundred Independence progressing nicely. Also Bro. Sanderson, evangelist for should esteem it a disgrace to labor. among it) griefs’at L’o> 'how )t wish a few items of iiformation : copied of. constitution printed fop . I want the name and J bit < fliee ad Also we learn, the brethren at Per-’ Whitman county, is well received, Certainly a country's disgrace is cheers up an 1 smiles, distribution, and one hundred blank rydale are not slack with their and much good is the outlook for not the men who labor in its shops listless the limbs may have been dress of all the Sunda .school sup its factories, its furnaces, its mines, when sustaining a too heavy heart, erintendants of school run under reports printed. building at that place. Tiii* is as his labor. It was further agreed that all its marts and docks, who fell, its here they they are braced, and the the direction of our brethren in it should be. moneys received by this associa forests till its fields, build its high lagging gait becomes buoyant Oregon. -1 wish all schools or- B irthday C elebration .—The ways, but in tliosb who eat the churches desiring institutes or tion, procecjiicgs of mootings, and again.” The officers* of the Chicago und church at Cynthiana, Ky., will be meetings, to inform m< at an early corresnondenco of interest to be bread of idleness and dependence, Alton R R. nave issued an order sixty years old upon Sunday, July ’ ’’Jute. We.desire very* much, that puUished from time to time in the taking no part in the world ’ s work. Object of Sunday-school. that their train men shall n<.tenter 24th. The congregation .desir^to every school will begil at one- to lll.ll.VLD -■ The prodigals, the rioters, the a saloon*- This is not fanaticism, mark the occasion with’ special Adjourn 1 to mvut at the call C*f “Many Sunday-school superin take quarterly collectifs. 1 hope spendthrifts are the shame and the but it is the deliberfte act of nien memorial services. All the former many chW^ m wi ll ta»e collection- the pre riridei.t. tendents think they have done who know that a drinking man is pastors now living are invited to peril of a nation. The young man D. M. D oty , President, who quits his }Tio<ligal ways and their duty, and have made a grand - at home, or of their friends, and an unsafe servant. attend and participate. Historical goes to work, thongh it be a menial success when they have an attend together with their o.vi gift, write J. C I rizzel . . SeC’y, E liza H awley , Treas. sketches will be presented and the work, is not degraded but enobled ance of 100 to 150 pupils, who have me a letter, and I will arrange to Says a correspondent from Elma, good old tunes will be sung. The thereby this is the end of his dis attended the schoq.l, and read from publish their letters, ur extiacts ,W. T; to ths Oivyuniun : ■ The church Luilding lias just been re grace and the beginning of bis re the leaves, the answers to tli<’ therefrom, in the H i . ralii , thus 1.1TERARY N»»i'KS—Dr. Alexau- Christians (Disciple-) here have novated, refrescoed, carpeted,. etc., form. making a Children’s Corner, und tious on the lessen. and guests will be welcomed, with der McKuuz'.e has liet attempted to made materia!’’ improvements in There has been no special ser Sunday school Departió nt in our The young man’s disgrace does true Kentuckey hospitality. pr> ach a . nji in in “8 >m» Xuings their edifice recently.. Among other not begin only when he begins to vice in their behalf, and all doc paper. Now what llt’e girl or Abroad, "ur lu make a u iidu^Lo betterments a fine b 11 has been C. 1» E dgar , Pastor. fl?-*’ k * fhel it. Disgrace does not consist trinal or controverted points have boy will send the firstjletier. Ad but his jottings of w fiat he *aw and added—the first in this town. This nica i ns and fi t in the discovery of one’s unworthi been carefully guarded, and persis dress all Communicii heard in bit travels are racy and denomination is prospering and. do-' A lady contributes to the Watch- ness. ' The prodigal wqs no less dis tently rul d out. No teacher has ters of enquiry ri elativi to our Bun ing a g -od work here. man and- Reflector a significant re- graced when he kept Lis riotous been allowed to uige upon her pu- Jay school work to KV. [’, Rich novel and full of po nt concerning things that people want to know. ------ft D■gratifying to loam —of-thc- ■ uiini'tcence - Jt’t the date -Rev. Dr; company than whon be kept the jnls the necessity of accepting atdion, Lox 75, Indifp mL nee, Ote progress apj'success of'fhese earn- Stevens, the veteran missionary in Ly jALutLiup X lv.upa.ny, Christ, lest she be accused of trying gom ~ TZ 7~ company of the swine. He cower- ^st,brethren at Elma. By thyir Burmah : “During his last visit to Thu* famous btatue of Queen Vic •ed in shame an<j self-abasement to join “our church” and the result works ar,- they known. toria, by J. E. Boehm, R A., which this country, we had the honor of wlien he thought to what a pass lie is, that of the 100 children ami • SUNDAY SUHQOL. is in Windsor Castle, is pictured in a vi it from him at my mpther’s had come. Many, a man stammers young people in the school, not one In answer to a. call,'tie members a ful I-page etwr&ving in the July .It ha A ih i 1 -tb;.t a tree will hole • in Auburndale, whervhe*gave out his confession of sin only when has, during the whole year, been IfoWe An-ol,- . \ nni. only !•»•_ a., it, Ulis, but it a most touching account of his )«- | its consequences reduce . him to a , induced to accept Christ f the Christian Church attending O1 I m , Turner j-juiqum-.qtinUJK:Cinbled Sum' ol'Tolst- i ’ s d.m t stories are will fill as it leans. brom this wu cent return for the first time to his nuT“the di^graceT Tfil! l|Ui*sliun—now come», has jnay draw a very important lesson birthplace in Georgia, lie had met began a good deal further back. this school been a success? . 1 ans- at 1 o’clock. Juti" 21) ■7 The yl in a’uily life The inclinations of there an aged lady, w ho told him The fact that one carries his sins w - do. -Tlie ol-ject of the $un- the soili have a very important re how in his infancy his mother had tightly, and is able to think well of dA »chool, if it Ims any <>lj-< t,i- by S W.'B. ruchiircson, and “lu^ lation to future dt-tiny. Do juii si nt lor her |>utor, an" 1, holding the himself even while he wastes his to < overt its members who are |>orary organizatjon cho Min:.' 1) M. 1 ’ hi anil lerfti toward» thosq things that inc ir.f.vnt in her arms, n quested him substance, and it may be the sub J ! v ' '. ■ ,>. i .k good an 1 pure an 1 truer or dut you to dedicate the child in solemn stance of others, irt riotous living, i/C '■ I..J-, to inipii - upon tin J. IL Mascln r, aeci by a Russian ffply.for 1). Lythiop low n in the opposite direction li prayer to Hie work of foreign, mis- is itself a burning disgrace, J ÍO inds of her pupils the importance dress stating the a< Company. vou We to lie a you M an 1 Jail sjmis. Of this act pf his- mother I who consumes life on low aims of ol tediencc to t he Master’^ will, derived from fconc Burnett P. R., Monmouth. E. G., Hubbard, (occa^ralhJ al % Dr. Stevens learned for the first time, after nearly forty y®»rs of missionary labor. *1 now she,’ said, he, 'why I was drawn so irn ipu bly to the missionary work It was the answer to my mother'* prayers.’”