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MONMOUTH, OREGON ; COLUSA, CALIFORNIA, NOVEMBER 16 1S77. *
T0L. VII.
since it has become so large, like all been pounds of objection in the past an'.whole, the church has progressed have my likes and dislikes, changed ? - *
.1 children
• :• i. . of r Israel
-r —i cross- i If «<>, how
¡, y fgith jm.rt- robust.,
like the
years our auccues .'would lx? apparent- ■ much vi
bodies, its progress is «lower.
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"• • C hristian M essenger , groat
' In the last few years much lias been to all.
ing the-wilderness, *oTnetiinb^ advaiy 'j or is it weak* r < I«-my'li.ope brighter,
Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi .«aid in regard to our failures and lack
k
,S. II Hnmt.x. ‘ j ciug, .‘oiuctimes retrograding.- 'll.f- ' *.f is it fainter ? Wlyereglots’she drop
anity, and tho diffusion of general in-
Fairfield, Iowa s
of syatematic work. It is true we
tabernaeb- has b-n ’pitched, m.
iui 1 lur rincJtar, wgtli’ir the'veil or/on this
■ formation.
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are not moving so grandly with our
1 again . sfeiud».. A part of tic* mare'.: i side? Ifi rhy lor.- moré anient, pr
Price Per Year, in AdvaHec, $2.50
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Some Questions.
along down the centuries, the L;vift4 R-s it Li conn* ¡like wifi I..
-How i L m .N í -,
All businesa letters should be addressed general work as desired, and the im
; seem to i>e carrying the pieces, i-
and. 1 it j heaven .serin wl;<:i I 'tLink of it?
' to the Messenger Publishing Co.j- Mon pediments are not any one. * .single
In the exhortation of Paul to the
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mouth, Oregon. Articles intended for thing, but many and all things whjcli
Well ■ if none nf t..__
them bave
be* r ‘ i tocs’.t «<-cr.: ñv.ii .
Low <lt i s
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publication, should lie addressed to one can to-day stand jn owr way. Many church of Corinth,, i« the following
-• lost, , go
so that,
fcluit, as
r.s srie
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now api i ar.«-,-Via
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of'thcsc ha re rtfway.«1 brew here-1o-rrm- -f “ Wherefore come out from ■ among 1* | may ¡-<- ,-i.'
Y ; -n t • I .* eros--.es
rauuicatious in California,, should bo ad-
them,
uml
be ye separate, saith the. .... .Bui !,o t - t- », bl
lie
tend with, and our success thus far |
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me
count.:y-uxey
r I ave seems to rink.'
-: «ireseed to Thos. Porter, Colusa, Cal.
Lord; and touch not the unclean,
ha^ been over them all. But these are
Lot us leave, the church. A« i till at hot it disappear -is t ;.“'earth
a 6
Advertisers will find this one of the bent
thing, ami 1 will receive you, and '
generally
without.
To-day,
however,
j
kingdom^
in-t-he
hands
of
Him
who
sinking
as'J
sail
heavenward
?
When
med'ume on tho Pacific Court for making
the friction is within; although the ’ will be a Father unto you, and ye | | said : “ The gates hell shall not pre we cross the oc<-«n we think, in the-^?*
their business known.
shall bo my sons and daughters, saith 1
aims and objects are the same as for*!
vail against it,” and nrrrow the field
■»e - vcyag<
the Lord Almighty.” 2 Cor. vi. 17,18.
Communications
the past fifty years. What, re f may >
qf our inquiry a little further.
the friends we are leaving .behind, init?
The true . people of the Lord. ,aro_
be the-ratio of coldnesssor evil inten
Is tlie cmgicgatimi to which I la- a.-, we find oursulve. nearing the >J»ore
coiiic-out-erH. Human governments
Our Troubles.
tions, there is still a disposition to go
long
growing better < worse?
! whither we are going, we think' more
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separate bad and good, somewhat im
forward
in
the
grand
work.
Our
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Perhaps^wc can se<- that we are, in i ! of the friends over there!' How much
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perfectly, by arresting the guilty, and
local work has been don< in many
some intasure2.re«pon«!ble here; and ’ do I think about, the friends in
putting them in jail, the penitentiary
S ax J ose , C al ., N ov . 1, 1877.
places, in others the pioneer work is-.'
j the question becomes wore practicable; i ,h( :;\<n? !b w lunch a' • -ut.
or .executing tlienl. Divine govern
C. P. Mccet ngt;f:
st 1) to be dony. Our Work to-day is j
Tim backslider «a\s. it' is growing ' ! here in rii.igl pleasure - As we near . ‘ '
ment <i> iesl9 the good, er such as de-
—
The second difficulty, under, which so broad in its scope that wc
need a a*! i .
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■ worse; 'the^.ddiL hrs coloradf Kis 1 ouryiyagc tivl, that c
.;.y seems to
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we have labored in California for tlier groat power-to move i w thaf6"^
■gtassee. -pcor- man -jmd dw ,fh iuh « all ’ riac Up out of! the. deep to meet us....
bad.' Human governments de£m all
Jast six years, arises from our
power is within.the brotherhood bgja.
the church is stained. You cjrfi"never Does Iieav? ii seem to
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in liberality and talent.
ii^Uical ,
RELIGIOUS NEWSPAPERS.
tell whether th» churcl» is growing eternity to receive us ? -
lent. In a^iyc^l
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,
_
Divine government declares the whole
ofttjrrf
'eloped, and -oftqri
better-or worse by the bac slider’s
,
Our troubles have not been so much work if is well developed,
In conclusion, my frk-i.-l. i you are
world guilty, as a mass, and calls such
for
a
time
quite
effective
;
but'
beyond
* on account of the quantity a« the man
a sinner, suffer» the exhortation of
r as would be saved, out. . Hence the opinion.-.
ner in which out; papers hive been this mauy ne ver «ee.ined -tt>- go, per ! church means <i collet óvd people-, , . You a;-k the si aaint1.who ¡s pure andJ-Pvlcr .who» he delivered the first ’ •
warm in the love
God,
---- of
»••■(.
j v lw a tell«
t. yor^Gi rospcl. sermon: “:Save yourselves
conducted and sustained. We have haps because they can not fully see I from the Greek Word ecc/iurw*.
it
is
growing
better
perhap«
;
he
looks
the
result«,
or
tail
to
see
the
line
not had so many papers as colleges!
Those who are called out. are for at things through a differentmedium ; from this, untoward generktiori.
of
march
in
detail.
Until
-we
shall
I believe we have not had at any
Acts ii. 40. There is a sense in which
■ given of all past sins, are counted new
time more tl«np o»p religious paper in have a united, general effort, the catwe creatures in Christ Jesus; and though _ you must make some allowance far yv” inust rave yourself; there is a
the State. That one, tlrnugh, at time« must stand or languish a« the case once* strangers and foreigners, are him.4. But after all, is not our field too sensedn which (‘hrittfr must save you-
large yet. Suppose wc narrow it’ and
ablv Conducted, was not sustained by may be.
counted fellow citizens and as belong ask, Ain I growing better or worse ? Yoti are to leave this wicked genep1'-
For
this.cauie
we
.should
.fitrire
to
ilie churches and in somy instances
tion, just as tho,se inm Peter addressed,
ing to the household of God. ~
Here is a small patch in the vineyard, must leave-their gen*. ration.
opposed by them. The result 'was obtain a small amount from ajl to a I
To such persons the exhortation of the Lord, is it weedy ?
failure. In any cause it is better not general work. We say small, because
If you are a professed disciple, suffer
femes,
" tokcom» out from among them
Brother and Sister, one thing is the exhortation of Paul: “ Come out
4o try, than try and fail. California in many districts where there is great
and be separate.” There must be a sure, we or* girvici nr/ «omr terry ; we
is not able to sustain a religious need of work, an average from each
and touch.not the unclean.
Be sure
‘member of 10 cts. would sustain a line of demarcation between the are conscious we are growing into a von make the line of dernarkathm
pajter, so as to make it a success.
i people of God and the people of the
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The religious information obtained good work. Individual and local en i condemned world. This line must lie jixed <h<^r<Kt(r-, whatever may be its " dear and distinct.
,
likeness ; wc are sure we Are settling
•from papers, published' in the East, terprise has lieretofore-done the work,
J. H. MtCorxouGH. 7*
. broad and distinct enough to keep the
will not supply our wants, especially and some seem to think no other is ! childrentof God lroih touching the un- down into «omething, and that we :
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have less and less disposition to
'n l<(eal news. What then, does that needed. Yet whilo w*^ direct our
k
PohlTIVELY
THE
0t.I»fcsT
iNHAHf-
\clf<io.
The
sow
that
is
washed,
but
change; our tastes and habits are be
cause, which stauds elevated above main forces in this way why should
I goes back to her wallow in the mire' coming confirmed. What is better ? 1 tant .—-A negro^.knowu a- “ Unci«-
we
noY
by
the
smnll
penny
contribu
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all causes, demand? I answer, One
is the same as though never washed. What is worse ? Where shall we find 1 Ben,” has been found on the Etlaue -
good religious newspaper for the tion, if no other, do a great general
■ If we dabble in the same old «ins that a measuring rod to dotermine. what plantation, eight miles from Chappell
pacific Coast, well conducted and sus work. Shall our local work continue i polluted
“d 4 -jwe, we will be like the | these things are. we calt “ better” or Hill, in Washington County, Texas,
tained by '"the -"friends of Primitive to absorb all our means, time and sou. ¡Since
Smce rAhe* relation of Father “ worse ?” With some people it may who says he was a "good-**ized boy,
tliristianitv, and success will crown talent !
and
child
i< to*obtain on cdhdition we I be a human philosophy, but with us_ I blowing the bellow« in a blacksmith
lid li
We ask now -if the mistake does not
4Hir efforts. This, by the blessing of
maintain this purity, we should be i it shall be the will of God; the re- 1 ‘hop in Virginia, at the time of EnuL-
God and the nssistanceof thechurches, Í rest here ? I11 the past, as localities
very sure we progress far enough ! vealed w*ill, as set forth in the Bible. i dock's defeat, 1754, He lost his eye-
will be obtained by the P. C. M es - become established in the truth, they j
' sight at about GO years of,age, but in
have become wholly al>sorbed with from that which is unclean, to know In this Book there are classes 'of per
, f EXGE i.
! sons dnsAvn up in lin^s ; one lind com 1 the course of twenty years it Vctur-ned
some local enterprise ; a collego, a.+ we don’t lunch it.
Fraternally,
Let us-examine ourselves as to the posed of such men a* Cain, Pharaoh,! ♦ to him, and he seeS as wellas anybody
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H EXRY T homas . I paper, a house,'or a preacher; and for
now. Hi* hair turned white with
j years their whole forces were directed ¡ir- re ■ wc I w . m m^lc, and are mak Ahab, Herod and Judas Iscariot are
j go, turned black again, and is now
I
ttnd cinsuni-.l in tlii- :*A ¿mall ‘scop. : ing? Tltere is much «peculation, these mile posts on the road fix Satan and
Our Aims and Objects.
white.the second time. 'He now mas
whereas, if three per ce nt of the mer.n.-i days, as to whether the world is grow hell; the other linexlomposeU of such
ticates with Ills thir l set of teeth.
That the aim and object ot the had been to a general ;i:ird for general ; ing better err worse?* Ask young men as Abel, Noah, Abraham, Moses;
true 'Chjiaüan hââ-_êYÊ£ ^æen to ad-1 ^tork and thus dir tvd. Low great J“1!.-, _and tl..y will say, "growing | David, Peter an • John are mile posts i He hris had 14 wives, and is the fath
compared , on the road to Jesus and heaven. er of M children, and is hale, hearty
’
’ will
•" better.” What they see, compared
vance Messiah’s kingdom, and thereby the ’result. A second - thought
and active. From his stat- ments he
drive away evil and «ave the world convince ali that a steady. How of v, ith what they, read of in ancient his What these^Mjefi did,, and what God
must l»e 135 or 140 years old. Tho
imutin, i« a fact that no one ques- three per cent of the amount expended tory, seems to prove it. Then they has said about them, and through
Centennial ean have him if they want
.
xions, however peat may have been for local purposes in any county, dis look out through joyous spectacles, them to us, enables us to decide what
him.—A’z.
th« firilin e of past efforts. While we trict or state, w here our brethren have and yon know tl.^ world looks green is right and wrong as viewed by God.
^dmirc (the efiovts of the Primitive worked; »would soon make us a good when we look through green spec- Having determined what is right and !
1 'Tile postal cards which will Lc used
■Christi*»’, there are a host of reform- fund for our general work. Now shall i taeles. Ask old ¡xople and they will wrong, we can decide what “ growing
g
-rfirs from Ltlthcr to the present cen- we not see to it., that while our local tell you, “growing worse.” Through better or worse ” is.
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■ 1 ‘n our ’ country during
- the coming
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r
/tmry, wlm have struggled hard to ac work goes on, so our general work a long life they have found many evils
Now let us measure our progress.!,clir year* ni< l<’I«“ manufactured, a<?-
w'ntract
<he American
complish a good work, and have been shall not be lost right oft? Wliilc one which lay hid from childhood s eye; Ifwe conceive of each one of these ■ cordin«
iV^essed witli a fair degree of success, gets the great bulk oT our efforts, the so they conclude there i« more evil. mile posts as having a mirror, v[e can ‘ Phototype ( ompany of New-AaMk.'
income respect. Yet there is now other shall as surely have our small 1 A righteous mdn laay «ay, “ growing see ourselves, and thus decide which !
P®P®r upon whio^ tho cards ar®
evKtantiy moch to do. However fully- mite. Once stidi a state of affairs is : better,” for his n-sociations are such way wc«re traveling; so as wc com-i P’hited is manufactured in Holyoke^
the aoupc of reformation may have in practical operation^suCccas will be ' that he has been kept from evil, and pare ourselves to these whose biogra-1 ^“^chusetta. Forty cards can be
been jwrveyed by all the great leaders realized. A few congregation« work sees the world in its Sunday clothes, phies are briefly given, remembering t Pr*nte'* on eRfh sh^et at a single im-
of tho past, to-day we, soe the work ing together, or aKme, should always so to speak.; hnr the wicked man al that Gild is no .respecter of persons, i Pres*‘on- and arrangement« have been
only- partially done nnd the energy of have a small per cent of their means ways foels that things are corrupt, he | _ we _____
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• ' made for the printing, cutting, and
may i- know
we are progressing
what was designed to be a grea,t re to go beyond the scope of their own sees this pha«d, and exj>erieno»s the ’ in the sight of God. By using old i packing of about twelve - hundred
formation advancing the cause of locality. And this will we do if we presence and abundance of evil; and associates in sin, we may see how far J thonsand daily. It is estimated that
irirth, ha« literally gone into camp to ever see a work* done beyond our own so concludes there is no virtue, honor, we have got, by measuring the dis ! one billion of postal cards will be re-
¿tòlda single fort for the aafefy-of locality
or purity. But. let us leave the world tance between them and us; they . quired within the f^ur yean*.
Canute not soon direct our means with God. and take a smaller field of having made no progress in the re
thofte immediately connected with thè
work*, while we all sit down to won- though ’ouall to a general work and observation.
formation of their lives, are like buoys
Many so-called Christians live like
the can»
proper 1 patiently .-«I l™> » much <h.pUtmg
Is
the,
church
growing
better
or
on
the
sea
You,
having
taken
pas
infidels
at home. They do no^
.
"oT mvt» rapidity.
et.nenl^ut plan, ’ Are „
weak that
worse I
with mord rapidity.
The currant
sage
on
the
ship
Zion,
may
measure
Xriatioa af thi. eoatary pl«enf » •» ™r
’""P'r
prayer is npver heard ; krtê Bib’e is
The church, as a kingdom, has been the knota per hour you are traveling
not read. In what sense is *v’ncirs a
r
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to keep bnck the work tdl our own
progressing in it« conquests; she has Have you gone out from among them, Christian hojne I In whaf sense are
problem for careful study. It ha«
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been a succew in many respects with- Meas of the work- in. theory shall be spread her borders, but^^pan we say or are you in a dead, calm ?
they Christians I In
sense of
ettta parallel in modem times, ax'd acecedod to ? If we now had as man v she has grown to tho stature of men
By comparing myself now with which
i we have any k ¿owlddgc.—
We believp is »till succeeding; yet ounces of practical work a* -there have and women in the Lord I Viewed as ’ what I waa, one, five or ten years ago,'
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