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MONMOUTH, OREGON ; SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER IS, 1*77. ■ w VOL. VIL NO. 32. . • ■« . , ties, and many an ecclesiastical bull about supper. This being over and Thus glided the first day’s wqrk in conscience if w« see. them ruined for have they taken by the- horns ami time to go to sleep having come,' no Polk t-oupty^pf one of the purest .men time and eternity, and looking back ■ hristian essenger shorn them of their strength. little uianagemeiit was found -neces 1 ever had\h.e-plea.su re to be acquaint we sec it is but , the result of our Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi I Tell Bro. Peterson, to come up tv sary to find sleeping loom for all-: ed with. DearesY brother,- thou hast neglect • of duty Let’ us here urge anity; and the diffusion of general in 1 thy j’est, sweet be upon every Christian parent the ne- Salem,-and he shall not be hurt,, for This want was met in large, part by long since gone ; to fondation. '*• • although ,1 am an old man, over spretuling beds on the-floor, a thing of thy slumber till He bid the arise. -, cessity of showing-our children that, Price Per Year, in Advance, $2.50 frequent occurrence in those days. Amen. G. (./. B. .there is a realitv in the religion of All business letters should be addressed seventy-one years old,' I feel that 1 JêsUs which we profess,. that we be to the, Mestenger Publishing Go., Mon-i am strong enough yet to grapple witli. Bi fact, the early .Oregonians in Die -«r- Prayer as a Duty. mouth, Oregon. Articles intended for any calf that may be , brought into time of which, we are writing never , lieve there'is a God in heaven who publication, should be addressed to one existance at that meeting, and will ■thought his house full as long as he hears and answers prayLr. And Every man «whs a duty ti> himself of the editors. ¡Subscriptions and com stand between him ami all harm. had room on his floor to spread a should these lines come under the eye munications in California,' should bo ad' and his family. As Christians we are single blanket. . This meeting is to be composed pf of any who have beefk neglecting dressed to Tiros. Porter, Colusa, Cal. ’ ♦ r • i r> - r> Morning came bright and clear, and I exposed to conflicts and. temptations | family Wi.r^ijp let us kindly hut evangelists or preachers, ejders and Advertisers will find this one of the best on every hand and in the discharge of ' earnestly entreat you‘to do so no .niediiima ojj this Bacitic- Coast for making i deacons. The elders and deacons will breakfast over we proposed to Bio. to an ap- every duty. No man is strong longer. Your own interests demand j out number the preachers, thyee or McBride to accompany their business know;!.. ' SE I four to one. If the preachers were jiointment lit -was Sunday) distant enough, in hi- ¿g. n «tr< -gth, to ifac« ' . that you should attend to this . duty. the difficulties surrounding the Chris- Communications disposed, to make a calf, surely^ the : nine miles. The appoint me nt-was at ,. . . -J. The community in which, you live ■ _ ■ - —— ____ • a'H'V * C i-arid the honor of.the Lord all demand eiders, and» -deaeome—especially -with’- ■ tntrsdtl and- well tried ~ fril-ibL James -tian, -¿iitiway-. , < Ministerial -‘ " Association. __ - the aid < >f a few such valient men as Allen’s, who had kindly invited me to. termed “ innocent amusenjertts,” -to l it. Jesus once 'said that- men ought' Bru. Stanley: -, - . Bro.' Peterson, could manage tin mi and speak at his house. Janies Allen .was , catch dhe unsusjiecting, while? every always to pray an . not p> miner* Let Tin1 last M essenger contains Bro. their calf, and prevent its ever grow- a ('umberland Presbyterian'. but one of them tenth to draw the affec tis who are of the day walk in the Peterson’s article against the Minis i ing so as to get horns. Sb come up. stood above party prejudice and party J tions away £rom God, from, all that light,'' that* others may glorify our is holy and pure. To'sfym this cur terial Association, and Bro. Camp- i Bro. Peterson, and help‘ strangle the feeling. Father ■ who is in heaven.— Bible ■” beli’» repfyjM . On otm way Bro. McBride was re-; i rent we require powerr—jiower direct / /zldz.r. I thing at its birth. - -.«„Although I jim well satisfied with, , •),. quested to do the preaching, which Ire } ed by Divine wisdom, iim p,rd has' f provided us with all tliat is necessary ; - i__ ' Bro. Campbell s reply, yet there is a j ¿id- Loug Time Ago. 4A~riri^-«ul. w i4t---nC: - iJislionesty Bfagins at. Home, misrepresentation of the ^pioneers " oft j~toThe' day bitote the'ineeting. itt pre-1 Twenty-nine years have added • paring wood for the use of the meet •then, to " put. on, the whole armour of (• The crying sin of the day is dishon- this great' reformation,” that I wish Noriiing more, nothing -less to correct, 1 have been a preacher their days of sunshine and rain to the ing, Mr. Allen cut down a large oak I God , esty. I >ne hears muchrtrfit in public : will save us from danger j’heChris- over-forty-six years, almost from the calender of time ' since the incident j tree for that purpose. Out of one of I life ; hut there is too much 'of it alto « ■ beginning of our work,-aitd 1 have now foi^ie first time to be related ' its hollow ' limbs- the bovH caught a tia.il who neglects prayer leaves part gether in private life. And its cause traveled and preached with Alexan i took place, in which a beloved brother squirrel in a dormant state and put it I of the armor otf, aiiii when he comes is to r»- found in the want of selGcon- der ' ..Campbell and with hi* father, 1 in Christ was the chief actor. q in a little box in the chimney coifier. into open conflict he finds fii/n-elf in- -trol in the indulgence of tastes and to- Thomas Campbell, with Veal ter Scott, i Lt was in the month of-February, tfn the opposite side from-where the •j ' s'uiiieient for the task, and falls a vic appetites. Reckless, extravagant 'liv * Rigdon, Haydon, Bently, Collins, and the’^Weather was most beautiful 1 squirrel, was stood Bro. McBride ; and tim to the-enemy. Prayer, then, is a. ing is at the bottom of*it all. - If this Henry and others. I have -preached and pleasant. The long and dreary ! as he warmed up in unfolding his i duty we owe to - ourselves, in self- , living had any true foundation in any in Bethany and a'.l over West Vir ! storms of December and January had j theme to the people, the squirrel also defence, against the wiles of the devil. desires for desirable things, there ginia and Western Pennsylvania, ■ passed and Oregon had put on her j from the fire or Otherwise, warmed Nothing else can take its place. The would be more hope of amendment. where this reformation first liegarn^ 1 | most lovely green dress and the first I up, and waking from his long winters | man who is trtfly devotional goes out But when any one comes to see what have traveled and preached-with Bar f breezes of spring had begun to shed' "sleep, and- hearing.an - unusual sound into the world strong; the world ill-gotten gains are spent upon, the ton W. Jitone, T. F. Johnson, John j their rich fragrance upon the tender opened his mouth 'fnot L presume to J know it and do not expect him to ’ outlook is a sad one. Dress, display, Smith, Hall, Fall and die Rogerses in and delicate "tendrils of the honey t reprove the madness of the prophet) enter into their follies, and should amusement, costly things bought just “Kentucky, and been, on the groumf suckle. . The shadows of the evening and just such another nnearthTy'sound he ,1o so, he falls even in their I because they are “ costly ;” w-ealth won where their work first began, and I had already spread a thin curtain of no nran fresh from Mo. ever heard be estimation; they fee! that he has c*'ily, merely that it may l>e wasted KNOW that they are misrepresented shade over the beautiful valley of the fore. The preacher in vain tried to I come down .from the.high dignity of a ' foolishly : these are the signs of a time when it is said that they were op- Yamhill, whilst the drumming of the silence the, voice of the animal, at ' (Tifystian to a. level with the world. which it is not pleasant to contemplate. posed to preachers meetings and pheasant could be heard in the dis length he stopped and in .a sort of It is true a man may attt nd to-a form If a man loves any one thing, say cooperation. That they were op|«osed tant ash grove that skirted the little under tone said, '* I wish you would I of prayer whose heart is far from God. rare books, or pictures, or objects'of* to, v all ecclesiastical association^, i clear streams of mountain water that take that thing away.” At that Mr. , , Such thereby gain no spiritual "trejagth any kind, or music, or science, so well syiusis; assemblys, conferences and sWept onward in its hurried ripples ■ Allen got up quietly and took the ■ and may be expected to go with the that toy the sake of the one thing in ! world; but I have yet to meet the which lie would be rich he is .willing everything else that had delegated towards the river. The writer of I box out and slew the animal. authority, or authority in any other these reminiscence left his humble log After order was restored the preaèli- man who is indeed devotional, that to be poor in every thing elw.no mat wav, to lord it over the qhurches and cabin to strole away to enjoy the in- , er resumed the thread of his discourse, j j falls in with its degrading conversa ter though his choice be an unwise over nieifs consciences, or over their spiration and sweetness of solitude, and as he expatiated upon the u'"Oil tion and actions. Such a one feels one according to the best standards of "Taitli, or even their opinions is true; it was our custom at evenings after ■ things-of the kingdom of God in the I | that he is always in the presence of I choice, lie will yet have a motive ’ and it is equally true that our modern ! the toil of the day was over, and 1 ; name of Christ his wimted energy and ■ I God. and shun- theaUMm things hate- i which will help to keep him upright. preachers are just as much opposed to had returned from thtvwiountain where - pathos returned and making one I ful4* Him. Paul, knowing the* hal- I But for those W’ho love none of these this as the pioneer preachers were; I had l>een engaged in rail splitting, grand upward jesture lie had the mis- j I lowed influence t>f prayer, tefls its things hut simply desire them because hut that the pioneer preachers were to seat myself upon a Hat rock that j fortune to reach high enough to | ■ who are contending for eternal life, to ‘ it is the habit of the time; because, anv more opposed to the cooperation overhung the valley below, and there knock dot Mr. Alien’s watch. The pray always, with all prayer and sup like pampered children, they must in delight upon the lovely land- I ' time teller struck the floor near me plication in the Spirit, and watching j needs cry for whatever they see of churches for their mutual benefit, gaze „ and protection, and for the spread of scape as it stretched away to the dis- land separated into different parts, thereunto with all perseverence and just out of their reach; for them is ' the Gospel, or to minister's meeting j tant timbered mountains in the west, . which caused some delay in gathering supplication for all saints.”—Eph. vi. i needed the wholesome self-diseipline , _ , On this occasion my meditations j up the scat&jred fragments. When 1’8. to help each other in their- growtii in which shall teach them to let alone Again, we owe a M*dy to ° ut tyhatever is not theirs; And the be grace and in the knowledge of the were suddenly interrupted by the I done and quiet restored, our brother tr uth, and to mutually help each other Sound of bells as upon cattle and by a falicity not common, took up the families which never can. l>e fully di*- ginning of this self-discipline is at the . to "better understand their duties and horses, and the voices of cattle drovers broken thread of his sermon and charged if we neglect prayer with home. Parents must toaeh their boys them. We should feel that their in- i and girls the great lesson of doing responsibilities, and how best* ta dis could be heard, and occasionally the j went on. charge them than modern preachers old familiar crack of the ox whip It was hoped that the last interven- tercst is ours, and should not leave i without whatever' cannot bo^Jitly with the our memorably “ wo-haw " is not true. ! ing episode in his sermon, woiitd be anything undone upon our part that theirs. There need be no niggardly of the drivers, as a sort of prelude to j the last hard trial he would have to would'tend in the least tp--their hap-, restraint, but in some way the first Over forty years ago, at one of our great annual meetings in Northern the crack. Anxious to ascertain encounter in this his first sermon in pines«. I know not of a greater res^ lesson for childhood should be that of Ohio, Alexander ('ampbell urged upon what all this would come to, we Polk county But humanity is ponsibility resting upon parents than earning its pleasures. To get what ♦he preaching brethren to hold a hastened in the direction, and had the dooned to disappointment, and we that of bringing up their children in ever it craves as soon as it asks tor it, ministers meeting, and under his in great pleasure of greeting our dear had to share largely in its withering the " fear of th«' Lord. The forming is the worst training a child can have. fluence, and by his advice and coun Bro. Thomas McBride and all his tide that day. ‘ of their character, the moulding of — f'ZturcAmoti. * ♦ cil. a minister’s meeting whs appoint- family from Missouri. Our brother The chimney was on the inside of their minds, their usefulness in this J . ed and held annually. Those meet did not go through with the cold and the house, and occupied some four life and their eternal destiny in the ings I attended, ami Bro. Campbell lifeless formality of asking if fie feet-, I presume, in thickness, a bench lift to come, depend largely upon the * " Doctor,” said an old lady to her himself sometimes attended, and as a could stay all night, because that ,yras placed along side of it to set the example we set before them. If the family physician, “ kin ye tell me how ■— vpart of his reformation, Ministerial formality had no place in the vocabii“ water bucket Up(>n. - The water bent of oiir lives is to amass wealth, j it is that some folks are born dumb Meetings have spread into Kentucky,' lary of early Oregon dialbct, but the buckçt was setting on the end'next to wc may certainly « xpret them to " Why, hem ! certainly, madam." re Indiana. Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, New word '■ welcome" responded from every the preacher. On the other end "of catch the same spirit. If we-habitu plied the doctor ; “ it is owing to the York, and perhaps several other states heart in all places. To find a house the bench sat a woman of dark com ate them to thbatre going, let us not 1 fact th Atthey come into the world . J have myself attended them in Ohio, in those days of (.Christian simplicity plexion, of African descent And as be disappointed when we see them without the power of speech 1” “ lai., and brotherly kindness, was to find a our brother was long speaking and thirst after such a life. If we li$e a -me"’ remarked the old lady; “now Indiana, Illinois and New York. With all their forty years existence shelter and bread to eat. Conse continued his speech this dark lady prayerless life we may expect them to jest see what it is to have a phvsical and wide spread prevalence, I have quently no time was lest in fiseless fell into a deep sleep, and fell not j do the same and should not complain eddication. I’ve axed my old man never yet known any discord, aliena frivolities of this kind, but all were from the third loft, but from the , if they do not become Christians.. It more than a hundred tjmes that same tion of feeling or division growing seated in the cabbing some on stools bench, and with her fall down also ! is but the fruit of our example. When tiling, and all I could ever get out of j*"d this, Kase they is. ’ out of them. The pioneer preachers and others on the edge of the beds. came! the bucket of water which had wc do all in our power to lead them .'^'m Meanwhile our wife, ever foremost a tendency to . wash away the in the right way, and fail, we mourn, were not scared at shadows, and were ' . r .1 but how awful must be the rcTiwrsc of ^ot afraid even to grapple -with reali- wheji the hungry are to be fed. v^nt preacher. 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