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MONMOUTH, OREGON, SEPT. 24. is;;
VOL. VII
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Tim. iii. 1, and office nowhere else.
The Relation of God to Man. .mission of sins. This mighty Prince
The words bishop and deacon, ‘are
of Peace, w ho was from everlasting
In the-latter part’of the Jewish dis­
neither of them the word office; so
to everlasting, deemed it necessary to
wo have not got the divine word pensation, after the Israelites had been receive baptism al tile hands «.f his «
office applied to any.of the ab ov e, w n- fully tr ied for many go.m rstions and ■ inesH-nger before < ntcringon iiis grand
less we make King James* translation found to be a backsliding and stiff- ; mission in the .world. “ But John
divine. But how about the idea? necked people. The Lord through I forbade him saying I have need to-
Christod, anointed to vwhat ? to the his prophets reproved them for their be baptized of thep, and • eoraest thou
office of King, of Priest, of Prophet, wickedness, and foretold, the ehanms to me ? And Jesus answering said ■
All buhinc-SM letters uhould l>e «ddres»«! to ti e
of Mediator, of Redeemer, and would he was going to bring about in regard unto-hini suffer it to Le 'So now', for
Bro. Payne’s Criticism.
Meeneuser Pnbliehing Co. Articles intended for 1
not Bro. Payne or any other one, lia>k to the government-o£ his people. In thus it becomcth us to fulfil all right­
J'ubUcation, should be addressed to the Editor.
upon 'liTF’as hypercritical, if 1 were^o the pi-bphcciiW of Isaiah. after the eousness. Tl««.he suffered him, awl
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Send money t>y Bank Draft, Regia^red Letter, Bro.
er Money order on Dalia,, at onr risk.
Iirthc M essenher of zkugust 30th, ask them for chapter and verse when prophet had reminded the people of Jesus when he was baptized, went up
Advertisers will find tins eno <-f tbcbef me linros-
their utter sinfulness r.«id corruption,
ea tlie TacUic Coast for making their business is a short criticism from B/.o. Payne they speak of his office of King, of
straightway out of the w ater; and lo,
he
prophesied thus: “ And it shall
on the title to my articles, “Office of Priest, Ac.
known.
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the heavens . were - opened unto him,
Evangelist;*Ip which 1 wish to' reply,
1 will not repeat the „arguments or» cpma to pass in the last’days that the and he saw the Spirit of nod descend-
The Fallen Leaf.
not so ranch for his benefit, as for the evidence of the idea of office as con­ mountain of the Lord's house shaikhs, mg like a doVe, and lighting Upon l^nn,
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instruction of the'UrotheihotHl goner- nected with apostles and "evangelists, established in the top of the moun­ and .Ip, a voice from heaveu saying :
as set forth in my articles’. King tains, and shall be exalted above the This is tny beloved Son in w hom I
ally.
yintiering down from, tlie tree top.
Our common system of education James’ translation got the idea of hills y and all nations shall go and say anr well pleased. ’
In through the open door.
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With its soft edge curled with a crisp or is bail, beginnihg with sound without office in the words dhi-konia and come ye, and let us go up to the I
Here is something worthy of ourcon-
sense, and ending with words with-
brown.
and Bro. Payne got it in mountain of the Jxitd, to the house of i sideration. Baptism was unknowii_in.
And the gentlest rustle in coming down
. ou-t ideas, and- one fnritftil course of the words deawn, bishop, er elder. ..Lite..God of Jacob, .and lw will teach i i tlïé Mofi'I as a religious rite, until the'
Down from-its lofty place,
atvisioit, is tlie study of {he Scrip­ Have I found it in the word evangel­ us of his ways, and we will walk in i coming of John the Baptist, who in
Where it swung and sung before,
Ips paths ; for out of zion shall go forth
To lie with the loss of its greenwood tures by the jingle of words, and not ist ! Please, Bro. Payne, ’'lpqk over
i fulfilling his mission in making ready
by
the
ideas
contained
therein.
And
my articles again, and see if
idea thedaw and the word of the Lord a people for’the reception of the Lord.
grace.
from Jerusalem, and lie shall judge
then again, our WtiFiTTncn, like Bro. is there ; never mind the word.
So low oh the cottage tloor.
I baptized those of the people w-ho re-
Payne,
who
ask
for
the
exAet
words,
Once more for the idea. In 1 Cor. among the nations, and shall rebuke J ceived bis teachings. And now we
So T said O, tiny leaflet,
chapter and verse, go upon the sup­ xii. MinUthe 12th to the 27-th "verses, many «people, and they shall beat I see the Hon <if Goditlïi,- htir.of heaven
Why do yon oome to me?
Why do yon leave yonr nest in the trees.
position that King James’ translation wc have the word member, singular their/swords into pioitghshari s and
i and earth, he by yvhorn and for whom
Where yon played with the frolicsome contains the divine words, anil that
and plural, thitteen tithes. In what their spears into-pruning kooks, na­ all things were created;, calling for
snmnaer breeze ?
s any departure from them is a depar- sense is that word used ? Webster’s tion shall not lift up sword against I
i land submitting to the ordinance of
The livelong summer day.
tine from the divine ideas. • I can re- I nabridged : 1. “ A part of an animal nation, neither shall they learn war I baptism, claiming that it was thus^be-. .
In the-wildest of merry glee,
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member when 1 thought it „ was body, capable of performing a distinct any more ”
To lie so low iutbis humble way,
^coming to fumil' all righteousness,
Again Isaiah prophesied . ' l’or Zi- I
So wrinkled and brown to be.
wicked to call a meeting house a office; a composing portion; a vital
s j And jo a vojeê from heaven,* as soon
will I nert, hold1 mv- pvaee, r - . . . a
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church; but G'od made me a ^>ro- organ.
2. “ One of the persons com­ on’s i sake
Bring yon a message leaflet,
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as ins laptism
laptiem had taken- place, a<-
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Of the curious things you’ve seen ?
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gressive being, and 1 am thankful to posing a society,, community, or ¿.he and for Jerusalems sake I will
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anowledgmg
him
the
Son
oi
God
with
Of the clouds of enow with the golden him that I have progressed to the like; an individual forming -pert of rest until the righteousness thereof go j
whom he wa« well pleased.' Tims we
tinge,
forth as brightness, and the salvation :
divine idea-xif callinc a house a church, an association.
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find that Laj^isiii was iu&tituted-A^v^-
That sweep the far horizon's fringe ?
This whole context ehows th&t thereof as a lamp th«J burneth, and r
and have got rid of the awkward ex­
Or the stars that sparkle by night,
the God of heaven, since -John the
the gentiles nutwi
shall nut
see thy i righteousness
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pression “church henrse." Doesanyone Paul uses this word in the former vaiv
Or the moon with her silver sheen,
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i - I Baptsst was sent bv nun. and ths
and
all
kines
the
ghu-v,
and
thou-shalt
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sense,
not
the
latter.
Oil
this
there
Or carrot you forth a peon bright,
ask where in Scripture I got that
. tin oollnri
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declaration tiiat he was well pleased
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In praise of your boding green ?
be
called
by
a
new
name,
which
the
can
be
no
doubt
in
the
mind
of
any
idea ! I answer, in the word syna­
i with his Son when he had just- Suth '
gogue. See Webster’s I’nabrldge and one who looks for ideas, pot words. mouth of the Lord shall name.”
Hevcr a word said the leaflet,
mitted te this .institution, it seems
And yet, my darling, I know,
Many, other prophecies were spoken
Smith's B. 1).: the people or assembly But if anyone copld doubt, Paul
I was sufficient to give
impoitance to
Tbisliumble trembler comes toonr hearth, 1 who met, literal ; the place or house woa|d settle his doubts in Ilom. xii. by Isaiah in reference to the coming
it.
But
there
was
a
class
of persons,
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To teach ub a lesson of trippie north ;
where they mfc, figurative ; see also i 8. In the fourth verse he uses of Christ and Lis government, but I
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As we pass «king our way.
even in that day who sayv mo iinpor-*’
church. Synagogue is used in the tlie word member and office both, these are enough from one prophet for | tance in the right, and hence would
Through this world of joy and woe,
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It nays that some lmkiDg evil may
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’mt submit to it. It,
however, we
In the prophesies ot Jeremiah we urn i , , <
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O ershadow the path we goA
I teen times: example. “And desired /o-oc.'s. and in all oilier places it is 1
should
find
that
Christ,
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<mr.st,
to
whom God
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letters of him to Damascus to the ( tr.mdated w-ork or deed. In 1 Cor. I this propheev: Behold the days come l
’Tis thus and thus, my darling,
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4 gave the government of this people
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For my thoughts come very fast.
synagogues." Acts ix. 2. Letters not | xii , we have the foot, the band, the i saith the Lord, that 1 will make a,
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. , alsjlis!.eu tills right, or attached no
Wo may revel awhile in the di«e of fame, to the city or houses of worship, but I ear, the eye, the nos?, and the head ;1 new coveMnt
with the house of Israel I
importance to it, either before er af-
Ami he heralded forth with a gilded name,
to the people who met for worship : ' that all these have an office, or work 1 and with the house bf Judah : not ac- j
But alas 1 the moment may come.
ter his resurrection. it will show jtoix-f.-,
and forty times for the house or place ; to perferii:. ip end for the animal, ar cording to the covenant that 1 made;
When the dye of onr fate is cast ;
clusively that it is of no importance
And we dizzily fall from onr lofty dome, of worship: example, “ Tor lie loveth ! Iv.iinau Isyly. is scli-evidelit, and that j with their fathers in the day that I ’ to us. Then let us in our next lesson
To lie in the dust at lost.
our nation, and he hath built us a it is in that sense that Paul- speaks of took them by the hand to bring them I
endeavor to learn that new and -liv-
tln-i.n, and that Christ cs the head of out of the land of Egypt, - which my'
; synagogue. ’ Luke vii. 5.
You stand by my side, my darling,
ing way, shown to us Ly him with
My darling w ith goldtn hair,
Many of our ablest and best writers | the Isi iy. the cl/unli, Illis the o'Mce or covenant they break although I was J
whose
blood the new way, or new
And I eee in yonr eyes of the violet hero, are still caviling- about the words, i perforins the wofk of the head of the an husband unto them, saith the Lord,?!
covenant was sealed.
Mirrors of faith so deep and true ;
“ Christian church," “ Disciple church, ' eh'.U'.h, and that the njKitier’, pro­ but this shall l>e the covenant that J ■
And the shining halo of truth
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and sav it is unseriptvra! thus to phets, evangelists, pssti'is/r.nil Teach­ will make w»th th? house of Israel, |
Round yonr form so gracefully fair,
As you stand in the buoyant beauty of speak, and like Bro. Payne, ask for ers <?f ¡Jph. iv. 11, that tlie “gifts” after those days, saith the Lord, 1 will
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youth,
chapter and verse. Never mind the of Rom xii C—S, prophesying, min­ put my law in their inward pgrttq and
Causes of Failure.
And its glamour of innocence rare.
words, have we got the idea ? You istering, teaching, exhorting, giving, will be their God, and they shall b?
JDit the world is io crnel, my darling,
have an assembly of Masons, a con­ ruling, as well as the apostles, pro­ my people. And they shall teach no
Savs
tlie Xorthucttern
And the tempter lnrks to devour ;
gregation of Masons, a lodge of phets. teachers, miracles/ healings, more every man his neighbor and ev­
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And he seeketh the fair and* the best, you Masons^ and you have in that the
Adw.mfe
: Many persons fail from
helps, government«, tongues of the I ery man his brother, saying know the
know.
false intellectual estimates of them­
And to snlly the lives that are pnre as idea of a Masonic assembly, a Masonic Cor. xii. 28, as also the gifts of the Lord, for they shall all know me from
congregation,
a
Masonic
lodge
;
so
if
seventh
verse,
fill
the
office,
or
per
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the least of them unto the greatest of selves. On the one hand we have the
snow ;
And yonr head and your eye are so you have an assembly, a congregation, form the work of the eyes and ears, them saith tne Lord, for'* I will for­ 'shy. bashful, unccnfident person. Vim -
bright,
or church of Christians or Disciples, the hands and feet, and of every give their iniquity, and 1 will remem­ knows r.ot liis own re sou re as, and be-1
And you're pure as the lillie flower,
conics an underling from sheer under^.
you have the idea of a Christian or other member of the lx»dy of < 'hrist, ber their sin no more.”
Aed I knoa he would chuckle with
Disciple church, whether you have is equally certain, and that that is
These prophecies uttered many «¿timr.tion of Ills resources and abili­
grim delight.
the words or not, and without chapter Paul's application of the figure, and it years before their fulfillment, show ties, 'jDy,, tjv: other, we sec all al ont •
To think you in his power.
is just as certain that Timothy tilled Conclusively that God was going to us the arrogant, snpcrpllieus, impert:-
and verse.
sCan yo« measure the greif, yv darling,
And now for, that terrible expression the office,, or did “ the work of an *bring almut a change Tn his order of ■nent, self-asserting wan.who estimates
Or the depth of the agony wild.
If, from Hie ill rone of your innocenso "Office*of Evangelist.” No trouble evangelist.’’ 2 Tim. iv. 5. Member dealing with’ the human family or himself three or ffitir hundred per
cent, above )mr. Hitch persons wear
about the word “ evangelist,” but is translated but from one word in with his people.
sweet,
With bis withering: blight yen lay at my where is your “ office of ?” The word Greek, nielof, and that is never trans-
We will now try to find when and their knowledge as they <lo their
feet?
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office is not applied'to Christ, apostles, lated by any other words. It is found how this change was brought about. watch-chain, where it may lie seen of
’Twer« wort« than * bitter death,
prophets, evangelist«, ciders, or thirty-three times, and in the thirtv-
In fulfillment of the many prophe­ men. In both these eases thcie is a
With yonr warm, young heat defiled ;
deacons.
But
tho
word
Christ
means
two
cases
it
undoubtedly
means
office,
cies concerning him, Christ came call­ loss of power,'which ought not to
I would rather see de »oid of breath
anointed.
Yea,
but
tho
word
anoint
­
aa
above.
The
doubtful
one
is
Ej»h.
ed in the prophecies, Wonderful Coun­ exist. The bashful men should cast
Your form in the oo.Mn, my child.
ed
is
not
the
word
office.
But
Paul
iv. 25, and that in the light of the selor, the Mighty God. the Everlasting up on account of his mental resource«,
’’ Set ir never must be, my .Urlitrg.
says, “ Inasmuch as I am the apostle same chapter 8—lfi, and of all the Father, the Prince of Peace, Emanuel, and having discovered their full value,
For the mighty arms are around ;
And my love shall ahine a beantious »tar, of the Gentiles, I magnify mine other texts is settled. “A« vertairt the Sori of righteousness, etc., on should bring them to bear upon thu
A-nd the fame of her deeds go ».mar and far, office.” Rom. xi. 13. True, but in then as the forgoing is true, so certain whose thonlders the
government unsolved problems of human life and
The f~me of her deeds of love.
Greek it is ffafonut, and is translated it is that we have the idea in the should rest. This wav being prepar­ duty. ^Ttic ^ryper-self-estimate<l man
Till for.her ne work is found.
office
nowhere else. Diakvntt, trans­ Scriptures of divine truth of the ed before him according to prophecy, should cease his lionets, and come
And her white' spirit goea To dwell
down to solid work.
lated office of deacon in I Tim. iii. " Offico of Evangelist," if we have not by his messenger, John the
above.
x. and xiii, and nowhere else.
the word« in chapter and i .verse.
wiw
who rains
came baptizing
napnzing «nu
and |> icboii
And her body reals in the ground.
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koptt, translaled office of bishop, 1
J. J. Moss.
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