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ï • - « * t ■ • * i I « I — ■ , ... u PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, THURSDAY, ■ I Self-Culture. > ♦- * s ■ r | ThtTConsequents of justification 1 Jesus said on one occasion : It is ' can not get «white flour put of a coal the spirit that quickeneth.” This im- sack, nor perfection out of human na Considered. • Th'e-wise man say»: "The eyes of I portant fact will be fully recognized ture ; he who look,« i’or it had better It wOs Martin Luther who said: the fool are in the euds of the earth.” at the resurrection of the saints. In kx»k for sugar in the sea. The ohl I ’ tj.T.’STANLEY, E dito :«. It is luuch easier to look outward “ Uhe doctrine of justification, aa held i speaking of the dwelling of the spirit saying is “ Ufeless, l'autless.”vOf dead •------------ .- . ....... .4. - th«n inward. The duty of examining by a church, is th« test by which it is I in our hearts the apostle says : “ But men we should say nothing but good, * ASSOCIATE EDITORS : otfiWIvcs is by no means easy of ac- to stand or fall.” If Scriptural on if the spirit of him that raised up but as for‘the living, they are all tar complislunent, hbr is it always this subject it is easy to be Scriptural .Christ from the dead dwell in you, red, more or less, with the black brush, T. F. CAMPBELL. I V pleasant. To rtpako ■ ourselves the on all other subjects connected with he that raised up Christ from the and half an eye can see it Every L. L. ROWLAND. • object of scrutiny ami our sayings •salvation. dead shall quicken your mortal bodies head has a soft place in it, and every G O. BURNETT It will be noted by the interested and doings subjects of criticism will by his spirit that dwelleth in you.” heart has its black drop. Every rose reader of those essays that the one often reveal blemishes in our charac THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 1877. At the coming of Christ the Inxiies of has its prickles, and every day its preceding this closed with a brief ter which, in another, We would all the saints are to be raised up and night. Even the sun shows spots,and t <>n< aim »? ruvieHv of thé Materialistic standpoint clouds. censure, and endra ami faults in our changed like ante the glorious body the skies are darkened with •v of the spirit intercession. They insist 1. Ta fewlewiy advocate the teockuijs of tl>e conduct the grossness of which, shocks of Christ; for we shall all be changed Nobody'is so wise but he has' folly I that it is contrary to-jreason to çon- "Bible, ill the apirU of kiuduem. J our pride, and justifies sharpest re I (I speak of the saints). The question enough to stock a stall at Vanity Fair. 2. To eanieatly plead for th« union of all i I elude that it » ' God's spirit that proof. Yet we are commanded to'ex i once asked and still insisted upon by Where I could not see the fool’s-cap I > I'lirutiana ou tlie Bible alone. S. To point out evil» iu tile church and suggest amine ourselves, and prove ourselves. dwells in the saint that intercedes, many will be realized, and the divine have, nevertheless, heard the bells jin iuid is therefore absurd. Their remedy. ■' . ■ -__ ______ . ; force of the apostle’s argument will gle. As there is no sunshine without 4. To keep our readers prwtud on tlie move- Without such examination in the I notions of absurdity reminds us of a maiitM of tlie brotherhood in tlftn prate and light <>f the truth we shall never ! be verified in the fact that as in the some shadow,' sO i< all human good conversation listened to a few days eleewhere. - know ourselves as we ought, nor be Seed sown sW will bfe the body pro mixed up with more or less evil; even 5. To entertain and instruct the young. i since. We heard an elderly mon in duced. The' spirit of the first Adam poor law guardians have their little <1. To give a brief summary of state news and able to know whether we can appear I sisting that it was contrary to reason the latest telegraphic despatches. ‘ at the l>ar of God sustained by' the dominates in the wicked, and conse failings, and parish beadles are not 7. To make this the leading religious l<*rer on and absurd to think that Moses’ ac law of liberty' and justified by' the quently when the time comes for them wholly of heavenly nature. The best, the PaeiUc coast, eitlier at the same or suy other count of creation was divine dr true, price. Gospel of Jesus Christ. to be raised we read of no change of wine has its lees. All men’s faults because, said he, it contradicts the If our hearts condemn us, God is their bodies. Blit as the spirit of are not writtenon their foreheads, and rocks and the’ rocks wont lie. It The Timo for Effective Work. I greater than our hearts and knoWeth turned out however, that the Bible God dominates in the saint, we read it’s qqite as well they are not, Or hat« all things. How - shall we know of him as he has borne the image of would need wide brims ; yet as sure as e> only contradic^id his false notions of the earthy, the first Adam, he shall eggs are eggs, faults of some sort nestle The harvest is. nearly over aniTtlie whether <>nr hearts condemu us unless it. Just so withothe ease in hand, all press of business incident thereto is we arraign ourselves in our - every the absurdities bi>v“e their beginning also bear the image of the second in every .man’s bosom. There is no sulfiding. The evangelist may soon word and action before the tribunal and endin«/ in a Materialistic view of Adam which is Christ, consequently telling when a man’s sins may show his body-is to be quickened by the themselves, for hares pop out of a ' take the field with prospects for large of our conscience and with the word spiritual things. But so long as it is spirit of God that, dwells in him .ditch just when you are not looking audiences and a good hetn ingr*' The of God as the standard, subject every written, The .spirit itself beareth As is the earthy, such are they that foMhem. A horse that is weak in- demand for the Gospel Was never thought, desire and impulse to the - witness with our spirit that we are are. earthy (at the resurrection), and the legs may not stumble for a mile or greater in Oregon than at the pre&eiit perfecT measure of righteousness in 1 the children of God,” so long will it time. The -country seems to be Christ Jesus. The-wise man dwells be true that God’s spirit given to the as is the heavenly (righteous) such two, but it’s in him, and the rider had nt hom-T He should have ...____ sueli + ___ r— . ._______ _ ever _________ are they that are heavenly (a>t the lietter bold him up well. The tabby saints intrrcedefi for them.- The views resurrection). To them .‘there will be cat is not lapping milk just now, but tanee of Christian effort, and a general command of himself os to be able, to ' of the Materialist to tlie contrary not bring himself to the standard and spiritual bodies given; for there is a leave the dairy jpor open, and we will impression prevails that there is to be withstanding what does the spirit do such firmness ns will enable him to natural l>ody and there are spiritual see if she is not as bad a thief as the developed within file next few months for the sainta? We answer, he inter walk in the truth. We, too often, an awakening in religious matters bodies. The" wicked having under1 kitten. There’s fire in the flint, cool • . “ • .. . ... , .. . I cedes for them. mòre thorough ami active than any- retuse to submit ourselves to the gone no change cannot inherit the as it looks; wait till the steel gets a.- Again, „wliat -is it to be a saint ? thing which has proceedetl it on this righteoUKU<v<s of God, iuid like the does it include' the body only ? or kingdom of God. Thanks be to God knock at it, and you will see. Every western coast. The apathy and cqip Jews, go about to c-ytablieh our own does it include body, soul and spirit ? who giveth th« saints the victory. • body that will remember to. keep his .1 fc- y a Q.B. . gunpowder out' of the wiy of the can sequent inactivity of Christians in the' righteonsneus. We «et up a standard If they answer by saying it only in past have given Infidelity such a hold of our own, often prompted by kclfish- cludes the body, then we say the body dle. Ex. f Christ All to Me. jra the people and such an influence in ness and dictated by ignorance, and of a horse can just as well be a saint. the country, thatjovers of order' and justify ouraelves in the things which If it takes body, aoul and spirit to be ... What it is to Bear the Cross. friends of moral institutions are l>e- tlie Bible and enlightened reason a man,, it takes body, soul and spirit -My soul is like a hungry and thirsty, child, and 1 need his lote and conso coming aroused to the necessity of alike condemn. It is not enough to be a saint, because a man may lie a Let us have a true understanding of counteracting these ¡temicious influen that -We examine every word and saint, consequently when it is said lations for my refreshment ¿¿I am a what bearing the erosa' is. HKf*after every a< f snd receive the approl»a- the spirit helps our infirmities the wandering and lost sheep, awl R-ueed whom Simon bore the cross SnMv far ces by some more s&lutary system. Few are so Wind o'r so prejudiced tion of u vitiated fit ’i^noiant coti- < entire saint is ineluded, not one port him an a good and faithful shepherd ; above all woe and weariness and ¡»in, I as not to know that the Gospel is the- science. The Christian , must, place of him, and the other part left out. my' soul is like a frightened dove pur and needs no help or comfort of ours. only instrument available, to us by himself in the light of the truth as it The Hpirit of God helps our infirmi sued by a hawk, and I need his We cannot even follow him in pdnon, wounds as a refuge ; 1 arqa feqble vine, which we i-an hope to carry forward is in Jesus, and try his words, ties; ho knows in what they consist,_ as He called the rich young man to our civilization. It alone come« to i thoughts and purposes by the divine ho is ever present in tlie saint and and I need his cross to lay hold of and do. It is in heart and spirit, in life Us with .that authority which c< m- rule. Where there is even the ap- I , takes cognisance that the saint does wind myself about • I am a sinner and and conversation, that we are to bear mand« respect and with piomiscs and pearance of evil, he must shun it. He I ' not know what to pray for as he 1 need his righteousness ; 1 am naked the cross, not in an dutw&rd or bodily threatening* which enforce obedience, should never ask, "ill the world ought to know; he hears the groan and hare, and- need his holiness and way. True, even outwardly the eroe» i’o it we must appeal for results de- 1 ' approve, hut will God approve my ing» of the saint to l>e cloathed upon innocence for a covering; I am in is a Christian symbol. But should sired by all good men. A recognition conduct? Realizing by strict self with his house from heaven, and hence trouble and alarm, and I heed his sol the cross be made an ornament of the of this fact has given rise, no doubt, examination that all his purposes are ■ lie intercede« for him; Christ who ace ; 1 am ignorant, and I need his person ? Should the symltol of re to the prevalent notion that something pure and right he will have an ap i ever at the right hand of God also in teaching; simple and foolish, and I demption, the likeness of the cross of more is to lie accomplished in Christi proving conscience, and lie may safely tercede« for him. And thus it is need the guidance of his Holy Spirit. Calvary on which the Lord of glory anity in th«* near future than has hgen say, ‘ The Lord is my helper, 1 will 1 first the saint intercedes, second the In no situation, and at no time, can I died for our souls, be put on just as a not fear what man can do.” Toe firat I spirit intercedes for him, and third Jo ' without .him. Do I pray > He done in the past.. - brooch or bracelet is put on, and dan The evangelist should avail himself step in self-culture is to know thyself Christ intercedes for him. Every must prompt and intercede "for rife. gle from the nock amid dance and Am I arraigned by Satan at the /)i- T. F. C. of these favoring circumstances to in the light of truth. saint therefore has not less tbau three vine tribunal ? ' He must be my ad- song and light-hearted tnirth ? Is this • carry forward the work with zeal and intercessors, and may have more, con seemly or right ? 1» it not rather a energy. Now is the time to arrange Christian College will open next sequently I ‘ am persuaded that- Vocate. Am I in affliction ? lie must be my helper. Am I persecuted by painful parody on the bearing of the Monday. • for protracted meetings in October neither death, n<»r life, nor angels, nor the world ? He must defend me. cross'?. Is nbt the cross to often thus and November. 'The evangelists principalities, nor powers, nor things lx>me when the mind of the bearer i» The wisdom of the delay in opening I present,nor things to come, nor height, When I am forsaken, he must be my should send in their list of appoint- still vain and frivolous, and there is ~ meats for publication so that the the seaeion until «the third Monday in nor depth, fior any ‘other creature, support; when «lying my life; when no bearing of the true' cross in the irethren generally may know where September, instead of the first, is ap shall separate us from th« love of mouldering in the grave, my resurrec heart or life ? The true bearing of parent, since the harvesting will be God, which is in Christ Jesus my tion. Well, then, I. will rather port they are. the cross after Jesus is to follow him, The harvest is plenteous and truly completed and all students will be Lord.” And yet there are still in with all the world, and all that it con in faith and love, through all that his the laborers are few; yet they should ready to enter the first week. The calculable blessings of the spirit wait tains, than with thee, my Savior; and, service leads us to; to give up all that not be discouraged, for the Lord will classes can be promptly arranged, and I ing for utterances. ('hriat said: “ If God be thanked, I know that tbou too he requires to be given up; to under be with them and will bless their all start together. A full and pros ye love me keep my commandments, art Dot willing to do without me. take cheerfully whatever he calls u» perous session is expected. The ,4^nd I will pray the Father, and he Thou art rich, ami I am poor; thou labors in his work. ___ to; to be willing for him to suffer hast righteousness, and I sin; thou It is not sufficient, however,^tEat abundant harvest and the fair price of 1 i shall give you another comforter that shame and km, to be mocked, despis the evangelists give themeelves to the grain will furnish ample means to I he may abide with you forever, even ' hast oil and wine, and I wounds; thou ed, disliked, persecuted; to submit work; every Christian should be educate the children, and parents can I the spirit of truth, wljcra the world ! hast cordials and refreshments, and I cheerfully to all his doalings; to sur zealous and careful that he perform not make a better investment of their cannot receive.” And says the apos ! hunger an«l thirst Use me, then, my render our will to his will. An out his whole duty. If he can not preach I surplus. We hope to greet many of tle : “ Know yo not that y« are the ! Savior, whatever purpose and in what- ward and formal bearing of the cross the Gospel, he can sustain him who I the former students in our midst next temple of God, and that the spirit of j ever way thou mayest require. Here iB easy indeed ; such a bearing of it as doesjiand be partaker in the fruits of week and to welcome, many new ones. God dwelleth in you.” Again, as ?uy- is my poor heart, an empty v<wel; fill tliis is not easy; nay, not potnible for it with thy grace. Here is my sinful his labpr. In many ways, by prayer, eth God : " I will dwell in them and anil troubled soul, quicken and refresh ns, unhelped. Yet this is what our by praise, by singing, by money, Watch Your Printed Address. walk in them.” it with thy love. Take my heart for Lord calls us to, and he himself will by presence in church, each may The indwelling of the spirit of God thine abode ; my mouth*to spread the give uh help and strength. His grace After your name, " v ” Rtan«js for aid in rallying forward tbev good end “ n’-’ for iwwnher. You in the saint does not cease its work glory of thy name ; my lovo, and all is sufficient for ua.— itov. F. Bourdil~ work. If we all do our whole d wil^ always find the volume and when tlie soul leaves thia life; but on my powers, for the advancement of Ion. the Lord will pour U3 out a blessjfig tijfiber of each week’s paper at the the other hand is present at his resur thy honor and the service of thy be richer than that promised to I head of the first page. When the rection. lieving people.— Chrintiun Trtatury, Meeting at McMinnville. old. T. F. C. volume and number on the. paper, ia Will we be permitted by the patient : the same as th that following yonr name, reader to linger here until we con Mr. Spurgeon on Perfectionists. Bro. H. 11 Waller returned from McMinnville on Monday, wherer*he We will send one copy of the your time rt-oi rat. If the volume and behold the part taken by the spirit, He who boasts of being perfect is and Bro. J. J. M om held a meeting on P acific .C hristian M ks . sk . no er free number of the paper is more than that in order to our full realization of the ¡»erfect in folly. I have been a good Sunday, resulting in one immersion redemption wrought out for us by the following your name, you are in will for one year-tn any person who deal up and down in the world, and 1 and three accessions to the church by love of God the grace of Christ and send us the names of five new sub- arrears. To find the amount due, never did see either a perfect horse or letter. Bro. Moss remained in Yam the quickening power of the spirit Hcribers with the money or a guarantee count St 50 for each volume' and five a perfect man, and I never shall until hill County carrying forward the that intercede« for the saints accord that the money will be sent in three •ents for each number that you are two Sundays come together. You Missionary Work. ing to the will of God. J behind. ' - months. —---- - CHRISTIAN MESSENGEB. t 13. 1877. -