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GO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS.” M0NM0ÜTÏÏ, OREGON ; SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, NOVEMBER 2,1877 VOL VII NO. 34. -------------------------------- ------------------ the' ratio of the debt of the conviction ture of the lost condition wm set be,-, the whole power of the Gospel be it is too late for me, but it is not too Pacific „ of sin and a realization of the lost fore us in those demoniacs, as the to bear on the hearers fey late lor all young men who may read hristian essenger condition resulting from sin. But we .beauty of the state of salvation is brought their salvation!- Under this combina this, and who are now blessed with Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi return again to the question. Why are shownjn saints in whom the Holy tion of things, there could be a good being in.possession of a happy home anity, and the diffusion of general in We deemed-lost when out of Chris^ .Spirit abode. The state of salvation meeting at almost any place and at ami have the advice of Christian pa formation. We compare ourselves with' people! in was sfet forth .in/a strong light by any season of the year ; for God is in rent*, as. I onite had, but never availed Price Per Year, in Advance, $2.50 , the church and see but little differ miraculous gifts, which lasted for a his institutions and, laws, “ yesterday myself of the opportunity. . And now, All business letters should be addressed to the Messenger Publishing Co., Mon«, ence. They perform a few ceremonies time; so also", the lost state was set' to-day, and forever ” the same.. Shall .boys, remember the road Bill Longley ' mouth, Oregon. Article« intended for ¡jve do. not, but it is hard to realize forth by superhuman powers from the the chang>-be.madv ? This in the has traveled in disobeying his parents/ publieation,. should be addressed to one that the4e ceremonies can amount* to Kingdom of Darkness. Go study the hands nf the brethren and sisters, and and when you go to do wrong remem of the editors. Subscriptions and com much. Why should ,we be lost and poor man who was possessed with a if they come up to this work like ber that a very small wrongjeads to a munications in California, should bo ad they saved ? legion of demons, and you see, set brave .-.lid. n.ibli: soldiers, >vith the, . atili gceater.nnc, and .txum until finally dressed to Thos. Porter, Colusa, Cal. Thus we reason ourselves into the Tor th; a damned num. See them whole armor on, the enemies of the nothing will seem*wrong toymi.if you Advertisers will find this one of the besi belief that it matters but little wheth drive him into-the wilderness. See Gospel will yield the ground. mediums on the Pacific CoaBt for making follow the wrong road. My first step er we belong to the church or not? their business known. him making his abode in the tombH. was d? obedience ; n.-xt, whisk -y d ritfU~^* «==■ Now, my friendly sinner, belonging Hear Ifim cry day and night. He is From the C'allows. ing ; next carrying a pistol; next, gam From the OhrUthm. to the church,as it is commonly called, wild, fraptic,. Cutting himself with bling, and then’murder, and I suppose , • 'The Lostr i The Giddings (Texas) Tribune con and being in Christ, may be different stones. What a fearful picture ' My BW>. H. M* COL LOUGH. i'the following-tetter from. Bill Longly, the next, step will be the- gallows. 1 Tilings ' Bringing people into the fe-TTri^nS^ arejpoii 'ôn-'lKô"rôaJïosuch an hope my father arid mother will never 1 addressed to the citizens of Lee county. Jesus said; “ For the' Son of man is latten called “ in Christ ” must bo an end ? May not this be the secret of be-blamed for what I have done, for It is dated" from the Giddings jail : come to seek and to save that which is important" thing, nr the Son of God heaven being moved with pity for i they tried toraise me right. “Well the blow is over; the die is lost.” Somebody was lost thep. 'I’o would not have come to. seek and you ? If this poor demoniac was but j catt nTTd I am condemned to die with- Postal Savings Banks. the pushing through from the other deny this is to. make the mission of ave that which was lost; tfyye estimate the.danger .by. wliat side the view of the* lost, boded forth | out the sympathy of a single one that the Son of God a fool’s errand. But | I know of You are all eager arid The project of transforming the how lost ? Lost to whom ? God knows the search cost, we see it as seen from that we might behold it, be admon ¡hope to see rue brought upon the P<r^p0f4ce Department into a grand where we all are. Angels know,doubt heaven. It cost the life of God’s only- ished ere it is too late. A baved man : scaffold. Then I hope your vengeance savings bank is- seriously entertained less, and we know where one another, begotten Son. The search, as organ is not only pardoned but relieved I will be fully glutted, and that you in some quartern. The wide sweep of are. How, then, are we lo9t ? We ized in heaven, includes the angels. from these unseen beings, wjm ha ye will be satisfied when you see the lairt failure "in this class of institutions, and prekch a great deal about -salvation, How great must be the danger to en been leading him on to the condition I footing knocked from under me and "the immense losses inflicted on the la which implies-sofhething to be saved list all the heavenly hosts’ As' or of the demoniac. A waved soul has my soul hurled into eternity. Then, boring classes constitute one of the ■from ; biit do sinners feel jhe fact that ganized on the earth, it includes all the angels of God leading him by gentlemen, for God. ’ » sake, I hope your moat aggravating causes of discontent the saints. These are all sent out to their unseen ministration ; and when they are ip danger ? , prejudice will cease when I pay this- among those classes. --Tile Govern In the beginning of the Reformation, search for the lost. If our condition the saint lays his body down in death, dreadful debt.which is exacted of me ment is* expected to take the place of men pretty generally believed in. total is such as to enlist the Father, the they will carry his tried spirit, like Son, all the angels, and the saints, had the LazarUs of old, to Abraham's by-the law. Fam; willing to pay this the savings banks by providing bonds hereditary depravity. debt for the good, of the rising genera at a low rate of interest redeemable The lost were in this filthy pit, and Wé notbetter stop and think? But bosom. . r ~ ' tion, anti I hope now that tire law will on demand, and the postmasters salvation was a cleansing and lifting w hy does sin lose us ? Let us see When we get into the next world up of the soul from this condition. how a daughter can be Jost to a family we will see the magnitude of these triumph oyer all lawless characters, throughout tlie country are to be the We preached against this doctrine be living in virtue and honor. She com things. Till then we must .walk by for of course you know my reasoning medium through whom such invest cause it was not taught in the Bible. mits lewdness, and deliberately keeps faith. .God has caused enough of faculties are good enough to know ments are to be made. The amount But have we substituted the truth as company with the vile. Is she not these solemn and fearful realities to ■ I : that the world would rqn back into of deposits in this country, is estima to what constitutes the lost state in lost ? The father may know where protrude into our world to give ground , barbarism, if the laws of the land ted by reliable commercial authority stead of this doctrine ? I fear our she is,' mothW* may know, and each for faith. He has caused facts to pro- ' i were not enforced. Certainly life is as high as $1,500,000,000, or three- children have grown up under our in brother and sister. The girl” may trude from hell as well as heaven, and i ; sweet ; yet I cannot expect to escape fourths of the national debt. There struction to disbelieve in depravity know where all the family are, and a full, knowledge of all these facts con l the penalty of the law For should I arc about $S(>0,000,000 in 6 per- cent, itself, so loud have wo been against yet she is lost. Why is she lost ? stitutes the Gospel of the grace of. escape either by pardon or by break securities which the Government can ing jail, it would be encouraging to thus replace with bonds at less than, total hereditary depravity,and so silent Jler act is an offense to the pure and God_ all boys that are now growing up who 4 per cent., thus saving over $16,000,- en what constitutes the real danger of the good ; and has separated between San Francisco, Cal. Yr. are disposed to be lawless. I have 000 per annum in interest. This, of her and them. She has formed other (the lost state. «. Protracted Meetings. two dear brothers, now in their boy course, would horrify the old Jefferso True, we often affirm the fact that associations, and is dead to her former hood, and are disposed to be wilder nian theorists, but .very different ideas »inners are lost, but do we moke them friends. Now there arc acts we may “ G C.” in a letter which he write9 j than I was, and hope this will bo a ^f Government«:! tunc!.¡••n- pr- .ail now commit which offend the good beings to the Christian Messenger, says on realize it, is the question ? warning to them, for I would freely | I from those of 4798' The "old issues Ybu go up to a man quietly walking on thè other side—sinless beings in the above subject : die rather than see them live the life ! are silently disappearing and .new along the street; grab him bv the arm the spirit world. These acts are I have jtut read Bro A Clark's i I have led ; yet I believe that I have ¡ ' ’ones are taking their ploc ’. Bite it-js and hustle him off, crying, “ I want to called sins. God has revealed to the practical suggestions on protracted • save you my friend.” He would very world this fact, and has provided a meetings, in Christian Preacher, and I been the most successful outlaw that I rather steep to expect that thy Gov- naturally aek ""what from ?” UnlesB remedy. When we realize that we assure you, that they touch |>oints not ever lived in T$xat>, as far back as 1 | ! ernment will suddenly appropriate. you could point’ out a real danger, he are in full sight of the" spirit-world, realized by the brethren and the ! can remember. Éut look at me now, i I such an enormous share of what has would not appreciate your effort, nor and our sins are to the pure intelli churches. Too many of the brethren I after all the victories I have gained i : hitherto been private business. - It be thankful for the place of safety. gences of that world, as open as if the think that all they need lor a good | over my enemies, during the past ten ' I I will necessitate a largo e increase in th«- meeting is a " smart ” preacher. Thus or twelve years ; where I now sit i clerical force of the Bost Ofltee-De- wayward daughter had committed her Just so when we get people into the they send off for a preacher of this I partinent, but it will throw out of i bound up in irons, awaiting the doom church without making them first re lewdness before the eyes of father, j business a very largo number now em- that I know is certain; Yes, I am { stamp and flatter themselves that alize the lost condition, it is not much mother, brothers and pisters, then the I ployed by the savings banks. they have now secured the desired re thankful to almighty God that I have ! faet of our lopt state will take hold of cf a thing after all to thei>ys You can never make veiyrotive dis us. But another fact must be con sult. How mistaken the thought ! the opportunity to repent of my sins { porter. ciples out of such converts. The fath sidered. When we lose the presence Should our people wake up to the and fit my soul for tho blind itep it W aste .—We h< ar a great deal from ers who lay beneath the burden of of the sinless angels, and are^put fact that many things are needed' to will soon take off into the realms of the stump about the reckless waste of • sin for years, under the old time away from the presence of an offended make, or constitute, or secure a good the unknown future, and also to ad public treasure in ’“the administration preaching made very active, sdf-deny- God because of sin, we are in the pre or successful meeting, and no other vise the rising generation, and tell of govern meijt. it i*, impossible for jng Christians when they did "get, sence of demons, and the prince of the kinjl is desirable, then they may take them of the .evils and dangers of a I those in power to escape their 6wn the steps to bring about such a result. reckless life. There are many who through.” If we have succeeded in demons, Satan. very serious responsibility in this Man’g. position in the scale of being The past has shown that there has may not take my advice, but if I can dispelling the erroneous views . about , matter, but the cause of the evil lies the burden of guilt, without showing is one of mediumship. He cannot es been too much »stress laid on the be the means of saving one soul from ■ beyond the reach*of any administra the true danger, wc have failed at a cape this position, for if he sins him preacher, and too little on the breth eternal ruin, it will pay me for all the tion. No administrative ability can self oat of raport with God and the ren and sisters, who can do more real writing that I have done since I have vital point. holy angels,'he will by the same act, service and effective work than the been in jail ; for that is what I have adequately guard an expenditure of The " mourner bench n system laid a three hundred millions of dollars per weight on the soul which, when re Come into " raport ” with the powers preachei himself, however ^ldquent. been writing of my life for. Not, for annum. The, spirit of partizanslifp The reason for this is, the preacher is of darkness. It is this fact which any good that it could do me, nor to moved, caused a rebound into a shout that cover« up so many and such too far from those whom he seeks to makes the lost state so dangerous. boast of my exploits, but only to show of joy. Wc have taken away that glaring delinquencies finds too much benefit and serve, wjiile the brethren The danger is in the final end. A the rising generation the great danger weight as not being thfe'real load, but popular sympathy. 1 *n til a conscious- and sisters can, without opposition, and folly and final end of such a life. J fear we hjive failed in many instan- young man joins a band of robbers, ness of individual liability in thij cee in making the sinner feel any load. but has committed no deed of blood-p approach the town of " Mansoul ” A man not only destroys his happiness matter becomes more .genera), wily If so, our error is worse than theirs. yet he is on the road to that deed ; without obstacle, and carry all its de in thiB world by leading such a life, politicians will use political combina- The Christian experiences of former hence the'fact that he is one of tho fences before there is any preparation but he runs a great risk of being ent tiens to stave off consequences of their days was but the delating of that band is a terrible fact. Now there is for a stout resistance. How impor down in sin without one moment’s own crimes. Will the new political «udden transition of feeling from the a great deal of teaching of our blessed tant it is, therefore, that our past time for r.-flection. Yet I am one ,of era, which every one believes is now bowed down soul to the uplifted state Lord on the subject of the possession methods of the all-sufficiency of the the fortunate cn»s t int have I .-eii opening, bring ub additional safe into which he rebounded when he was of demons or unclean spirits, which preacher’s labors be .given up or aban bleseei with a little,tiir>e, and guards? — Reporter made to believe the load was gone, seems to bo almost entirely overlooked doned, and the only Scriptural course I shottld 'devote every niinute of th at But these experiences were an index by preachers' of the Gospel. This be purso/H, viz; that jll the church, time now in do rg good, after hiring ■ We touch not» wire but i’t vibratel thrown r.way so much precious time 1 to the zeal and »elf-sacrifice the di«- teaching Jesus deemed necessary to I male and female, unite .. in the songs,. in eternity, : nd there is not a voice ° prayers, exhortations, teachings", warn- that I should have put to much mor) ' that reports not at the throne of precede the presentation of the offer ] ciple would afterward show in his and representations, and thus-the profi tablé us.; than 1 Lave. But rmw, heaven. i Jife. For the activity i» always in of pardon. I takorii tho fearful na- ings C M , ! » I ' „ 0 I 9