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which fork of the road we should tions of life. |b points oiu way I the coming of the Christ. Christianity
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take, how quickly- would weturn toour through the wilderness, across the sea, is not a substitute for the Law of
L aorande , O reoo . y , ,
BY THE
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directory and search for the needed and beyond the deserts, to the Canaan ; Moses. It is a new thing under the
Feb. 5, 1877.
information. '—
of (tod. It is the spirit’s great chart sun. it is a new povenant. see Jer. xxxi.
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Now, we are traveler«, we journey by which it enables us to make a suc­ , 31-34 inclusive also rjii. of Hebrews
MONMOUTH, POLK OO., OREGON,
In order that you may know who from time to eternity, We have cessful voyage across the ocean of life,
an 1 iii. of 2 Cor. In the Scriptures
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dressing you I will here state' never niado the trip before, and as we the Jordan of death. and anchor in
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above referred*to, you can -easily note
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CfarletlAoIty and the J
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that iiii the eldest daughter of J start out in youth, w-e look forth ujion the harbor of heaven. '
IaarormalTon.
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I the following. 1. A new covenant,
t left vour neiglnaorhood the scene add behold there are sorrows
and E. P.
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b : i 2? Not according to the old one. 3.
are living in Walla and troubles, afflictions and misery,
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All biuttnew letters ehonltl be itklreMed to the
The old one was -maje with Israel
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Messenger Publishing Co. Article« intended for Walla in
e better circum­ and anguish of soul, and death, and
The Sabbath.
when'they came out of Egypt, the
Publication, should be addressed to the Editor.
stances, f nancially, t n when” they doubt, and uncertainty and darkness.
Send money by Baah Draft. Registered Letter,
nejvcovenant was made after the deg.th
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left Polk bounty. I suppbs^you well And we. are led to exclaim who are
er Money order on Dallas, at our risk.
of Christ ami ratified with his bloisl,
Advertisers will And thia one <>f the bent rr.ediwme remember that they were menibers of
these and what does all this mean? Sinter M. J. L. i ■
while the old or first testament, was
•n the lhtcifle Coatrt for making their businews
the Christian church at Bethel, but I And to our astonishment, w'e see. there
Yours of Feb. 5th, is before me ratified with the k»I<fr m L of calves and of
known.
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do not think they have ever attended' thpse who but a few years ago were- When your letter arrived at Amity,
goats. See Heb. i.x. l!i. Out of this
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a churcii"of that n^me -since we left the youths of promise who started out Or., I had removed to Dayton, IV. T.
doctrine *f change, substitution, etc
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Polk countv.
1 wish
to state here to enjoy
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pleasures,of the flesh and This accounts for the delay. Well do comes the doctrine of infant baptism,
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that it was through the preaching and the world.
t. behold them ' their we remember your father and' mother supremacy of the- clergy, centraliza­
August 13,1877.
revivals of you and old Bro. Murphy, bodies are rack
with pain, their as members of the church at Bethel, tion of ecclesiastical power ;in one'
/toy Bi o. Stanley:
that I first felt a desire to -live a minds are filled witli'feightful visions, nor have we forgotfen Sister Jane
earthly head, the Pope for instance,
I see several communications from
Christian life., but after I moved to
During
a
meeting
we
held
in
Walla
that
die
and
many other monstrocities too nu­
Bro. M o S r , headed with- the office of
Grand Rondo. 1 was ^surrounded by without hope, they seek to be
ledT^VaÎla
city
last
Aprili
we'TTad
the
merous
name. —You may desire to
an Evangelist. . I wish to say to all
entirely different associates, and for but there are none -to give them ccn< pleasurej>t’ renowingiour acquaintance ;
know if none of the duties required in
the brotherhood, and Bro. Moss, es­
awhile I almost forgot idl my resolu­ solation^, they pans nwav, darkness ime has written its cares and its la-
the Old Testament are binding on us
pecially, that rjfnow of no such a
tions to live better. Three years settles over their future, there hail
their kind faces and we were, Christians ? I answer yes. But they
thing named in Scripture as the office
after we came to Lagrande. I married been’no preparation of soul, no ar­ fordUy.
indeii that we all do fade are not binding because they Are found
of Evangelist, and if lie or any one
a Mr. H. P. L., who was a devoted rangement for an inheritance of a as a leaf. May<hev l«»ng live to hon­
in the Old Testament hut, because
else-does, I want them to name the
member of the Missionary Baptist home and the pleasures of the heaven­ or the profession thato^hey have made
they are fbund in the New or by vir­
verae and chapter,
church. The more I became acquaint­ ly world. And as we look upon the before many wituesses.^Ypur, experi-
tue of their having beeh enacted, or
But I will cut itwhort by saying I
ed with that denomination the more I sad result and our reflections run ence and the experience of thl ■hurch
to use a homely illustration, God .tore
will accept of nothing but plain Scrip­
became attached to if, and the result back over the road that they have to which you delong is nothing licw
down the old house aud took it out of
ture.
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was that three years after I was traveled, we say what a mistake, It- is but the experience of many
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thtsivav and whatever material was
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married I became a member of that what a failure, how sad ia this, and churches and individuals. . To-day
churcji, in which I lived contented all because they either "had been thousands of churches are it nt to
Office of Evangelist.
and quite happy, ¡until about one year wrongly directed" or had failed to take shreds by -the errors referred to in
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ago. The Seventh Day Ail vents came heed to the Guide Book.
your letter, and their mt^nbers in
covenant
In the foregoing we have the wvi(d through this eountiy- preaching and
We look again, and there are those their* bitteme.-s are heard to say'Tif’ it cannot consist
ificatioti
almost mined our little church. Our who had great opportun^iie^-find have their once beautiful Ziim, ” lyr gloty
of an old one bu
evangelist but twice, but we have the
pastor has kept the seventh day ever set their affections on Riches, have is departed. ' - ilfrilth is conservative
of the old Iftws or covenant, and tlie
frame thing, or office-, undoubtedly in
since, although he claims to hold to striven to satisfy the <leu
Of tbC and unites Gods chddi eu. Error her- i . en^cJ^uciiUuf ne w latrs -or a new cove-
other words. In Eph. iv. 11, we have
rewlt- etical aiul «livid»* tix- purest «nd tm-1 h«nt.
this wort! once inore. “ And he 'gave, every other ¡mint of Baptist doctrine ; flesh, have smothered out
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and half of the lay members, including ing oct of the conscience, hjfre erushed est of friends. While the church was
N>me a^stlos, and some prophets, and
Yours in the Lord.
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myself, arc in doubt and distress in its inner warnings, have ippled its satisfied with G im I' s word, they- were
some evangelist*, and some pastors
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regard to the Sabbath.
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power, and have at last s
ed in united prosperous and happy. Wlifcn T
and teachers ’’ Compare this with 1
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my
troubled
reflections,
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The Foundation.
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Cor. xji. 28, ib. “ And God both set
tainting its character, and have made they, gilded tojiis word in the form of
ceived the idea of writing to you, that their spirits yield to tlje leadings #and creeds anil confessions they lost that I
some in the church, fust apostles,
. “ According to the gratf of tied v.hich ia giTon
perhaps you could advance some guidance of the flesh until they are love and unity f or which the blessed ; unto as a wise maater-bailder, I have laid the
secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers,
fonuclaiioo and another buikleth thfrtnpcn.v But
i evidence or Scripture that would justi- completely under the rule of the flesh, Savior prayed. See John xvii.
after that miracles, then gifts of heal-
, kt every nun tak?*tnfte.l hew he t side th then-
: fy me in keeping the first day of the and are worldly minded, bowing to its
1 once befiwed the doctrine taught upon.”
ings, help, governments, diversities of
week. I should like to know why dictates, passions and carnal pleasures, ! bv Eld. William Miller, and was fa-
In the proceeding article onz this
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and when the Sabbatli was changed. they, pass away in many troubles, j ' miliar
with
the
advent
literature
of
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subject,we
discoursed that thefounda-
phets ? are all teachers f are all work­
! We have no preachers here that will having great anxiety and Ao peace of those times. Since his day grentchang- ■ tion
w-as
laid
in <X1VI4,
Zion, which
v*T/u
,a,u ill
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C^UIMftVC’d
ers of miracles ?”
In these two
I talk, or at least, lecture on the” sub­ mind, no treasures in heavAi, no mana es have come over them. He simply in the death, burial ami resurrection
jiassagw we have it three times.
ject. My husband is very much . laid up to satisfy the huinring soul, taught the near approach of the time ' of the Savior, and it was on that rock
1. Apostles; 2. Prophets; 3. Teachers
opposed to keeping Saturday,, and I Godless and without hojHq Sad end of the of the return of our Savior to that Christ’s church was to be built,
or evangelists. But we find teachers
think will leave the church on account 'indeed ! and all on accountfof not fol- our earth. Now Adventism is but the And in this article it will be our pro­
in the fourth place in the first text.
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! of such division. For his sake I am lowjng the true Directory.
These cloak for a variety of errors, none of I vince to inquito into what means were
Yes, but those are teaching elders.
1 so anxiously inquiring, in part, but I were like the travelers on the plains which are P innocent.
4. Gross
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“Let the elders that rule well be
can not live in a church myself, with­ in 1847, they grew tired of following rialism. 2.
Unconsciousness
of
the : rial to be ujit’d in erecting this build-
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counted worthy of -double honor,
out acting .the hypocrite, with such the old road and threw asU>* the old dead. 3. The annihilation of the i ing. The Savior says, “ on this rock
especially they wbo-lobor in the word
strong cbpvifctions resting on my
and doctrine.” 1 Tim. v. 17,and these I conscience, and God forbid that I chart, and made a guide bdok of their wickod. 4. Keeping of Saturday as I will build my church,” which build- ’ ,
own to follow ; they traveled on, but the Sabbath of the Lord. 5. That ing was to be done by human agency.
teachers answer to the ” helps,” teach­
should be a hypocrite.
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growing dissatisfied with ¡that they, Christ has no kingdom as yet. .6. As Pttul sayl, “ let every man take
ing elders, " governments,” ruling
Pleasp answer as soon an convenient, began to alter and amend, hud finally That these opinions are essential to heed how he builds thereuponfor other
elders or pastors ; and thus we have
and inform me was the day changed they broke np the old coikpany and salvation. Happily or unhapily they foundation can no man lay, than that
teachers or evangelists in the third
at any time Scripturally, or are we becarpe divided, and each party manu­ are much divided among themselves. is laid which is Jesus Christ.” The
place, and pastors 'or ruling elders
carrying on our fourheads the mark
factured guides to suit their own feel­ Allow me to say that there is a pop­ foundation' God provided, but the
“'governments,” and teaclser or teach­
of that dreadful beast described in ings, tastes and fancies, mtil many ular error underlying Adventism, building was to be by divinely ap-
ing elders, "helps,” in the fourth
Revelations.
perished. So these have gfown tired zealously advocated by Methodists, pointad human agency.
jflace.
Yours very truly,
Mau could not provide for hiui^lf a
of following the great spiritual direc­ Baptists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians
Of the above forty-one persons, two
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M. J. L.
and
Roman
Catholics
that
is
respon
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foundation,
but man can build upon
tory
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the
Bible
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and
have
practically
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aae. called Pawl’s fellow helpers, two
sible
for
all
this
trouble.
They
a|l
the
fountjation
that
God
has
laid
for
thrown
it
aside
and
have
mado
evangelists, two fellow soldiers, three
Follow the Spirit.
guides and directories to suit then- say that the ten commands, Exo^ius hipi. ■ Has man any divine instruct­
fella w servants, four fellow- prisoners,
own vitated tastes, theirevil,immogin- 20, is still binding, and that no part ion or directions about how to build
four fellow workers, five teachers, five
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How
pnrefill
are
men
who
are
stort
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ations and fancies, until they are At thereof has even been done away. .If j qpon this foundotiun ? Most assuredly.
preachers, seven ministers, ten fellow
ing
upon
a
trip
through
an
unknown
war, indulging their carnal natures, this is true we can have no valid ob­ ¡"Let every man take heed how lie
laborers, one partner, one yoke fellow,
countiy
to
procure
a
guide
in
whom
and are perishing upon the plains of jection to keeping Saturday as the buildeth thereupon.” Take heed to
And three joined him in sending epis­
tles. Thirteen terms together are ap­ they have confidence; or if we are sorrow, in the Wilderness of woe. and Sabbath of the Lord. Ask a member what? To-jthe divine instruction.
* of any of those churches for authority Whât was ¡the divine instruction?
plied to twenty-four men, leaving only traveling through a section of the rallcy and shallow of death.
Now we have strayed from the way for keeping the Sabbath and you are That given .by the twelve apostles. v .
, seventeen of them to- whom none of country where there is no very groat
them are applied. Eight of them are risk to run, we are-very careful to and what shall we do ? The true and quickly referred to Exodus xx. The Did-4he- apostles have authority to
applied to Tjmothy, three to Aristar­ follow our directions or guide books, only intelligent answer is “ follow the Christian church takes ’ the ground givedivine instruction ? Certainly. By
chus, Mark, Epaphras and Steplianas; or directions which we. have received spirit." Yes, follow the spirit ami you that none of the ordinances of the Old whom did they have authority. ? By-,
nine of them have two each, and ten from some friend, and more- especially shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, Testament have bean' changed, but the Savior. When did the Savior
cue ’each. Sec table. {The table is this true when we are upon a for if you be led by the spirit you that they huve all been abolished or give them tips authority ? After his
mission of great importance, and when shall live, but if you are led by the done away, the ten commandments not resurrection. He commissioned them
would not go in our column».—E d ]
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a mistake in the choice of roads be- flesh you shall die. To follow the excepted. But you ask have we noth- to go unto^11’¿he world- and preach
lateing us a few hours, we would loose spirit is to follow its directions to be i ing as a substitute for the Old ^esta- the Gospejsto every creature.
All power '(authority) in heaven
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Some soignons are like small all, with what anxiety we would written out for our instructions. The Iment? T I answer, no. A substitute
All
and
In
earth
is
¿iven
unto
me,
go
therefore
regard
every-
fork
in
the
road,
an<
iif,
country-houses with big piazzas—thé
Bible is the guide book of the spirit, swexa the same purpose as the thing
introduction is larger than the »true while journeying, we should come to by it -we are brought on our way for which it is a substituted, conse- and teach all nations, baptizing them »
• point where we were in doubt as .to through the trials, sorrow« and afflic- i quently We would be no better off by
|ure behind it.
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