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“GO YE, THEREFORE, THACH Af.1. NATION’S.^
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VOL. VII.
MONMOUTH, OREGON; COLUSA OALIFORNIA,NOVEMBER IH-IK77.
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since it has become so large, like all been pounds of objection in 'the past an whole, the chnrdiTwM progress«-<1: have iny like*, and dislikes changed ?
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years our success would lie apparent . much like the chiklren of In
bodies, its progress is slower.
■' If so. how
Is my faith mure rob'ust,
■ C hristian M essenger , great
In the last few years much lias been to. ail.
1 ing the wildurnes% somethin
'■ or.ta it w;i‘kt,.T' Istny lmp' I,Tighter,
Devoted to the canne of Primitive Christi­ said in regard to o*ur failures and lack
S, II. Hfunix.,
cings >omctitoya -retrogradi
TH •or bi |,t fainter? Where.dOes she drop .
anity, and tho. dillusion yf general in­
fanA Im- anchor, within thereil qr on this
Fairfield, Iowa
tabcinaeb- has te.-en |>it<l
of systematic work. ‘It ip true we
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formation.
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—- j again stmek. A’part pf t
are
not
moving
so
grandly,
with
our
iside?
Is.'my
loVi?
more
ardent,
-or
Price Per Year, in Advance, $2.50
Some Questions,
along down.iue centiii its. tin
lias'it 1« ci-me ’ukewaru. ' ■ Hotv dots
All business Iutiera allonld be addressed general work as desired, and the im­
pediments
are
not
any
one
single
seem to l>c cttrrjfing the piece*, aiid it i
1 s-'.-m -when I tbiiik qf it ? ■ •
’ 'i to tho Messenger Publishing Co., Mon­
In the exhortation of Paul to thc +
is well If nolte (if them hi>-><- I ct , -
mouth, Oregon. Articles intended for thing, but many and all things which
t see:.; mar er fi.r F" How. .does
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publication, should lie addressed to one can, to-day stand in' our way. Many I church of Gorinth, is the. following; lost, mi that, r.s she nojy apptar.1-, she
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m J; : Jia;, it gr'.wn less or .
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of tlie editors. Subscriptions nnd com- of these have always been here to con- “Wherefore c-ome out from ainong- may be entire.
Jar,.
W‘, ■•n <.’io cro-hbu
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muuioatious iti California, should be ad-
them, und be ye separate, Mtih the
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nd with, and our suoeoa a thus far
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they h ave Se> ¡8is■fTT sirlk.
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dressed to Th oh . Porter, Colusa, Cat.
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has been over them all. But these are Lord; and toucn not the unclean I us. Let us leave the church, As a tiir'at'da-t it disappears, is ihe earth
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Advertisers will find this one of the best
thing ; and 1 will receive ..you, and
med'ums on tiia Pacific Coast for making generally without. To-day, however, will be a Father unto you, and ye kingdom, in the hands of Him who -sinking e.s I sail hi a-. - . .-.i-i ' \\ in n - jp
the friction is within; although the
said : “ The gates T hell shall not pre­ we cross the ocetm we think, in the
their, business known. ,
. shall Bo my s< 11s and daughters, saith
aims and objects arc the same as for'
vail against it,” mid narrow the field first pari ..d the veyvy . iuuel al <-J‘x
Communications.
J the-past -fifty years. —What-rer- njny • tho Lord Almighty.’’ 2 Cor, vi. 17, 18. •’ of our-iliqUH'V a lit-tle -further: —■ —- -Hit- ii ii-nds wtrttrt^learir^diclrind, Cut
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i The true people of the Lord are
be the ratio of boldness yr ov il inten­
Is the congregation to whieb 1 be­ a.s we find ourselves nearing the shore
come-out-era. Human governments
Oui’ Troubles.
tions, there is still a disposition to go
long growing better o:
"i- worse ?
whither we are going, we think more
, separate bad and good, s^tnewhat im­
forward
in
the
grand
work.
Our
Perhaps w can
fbet Wc arc, in ! of ilit- friends over tlmre. How rnuth
NUMBF.K If.
perfectly, by arresting the guilty, and
local work has been clone in niapy
ftome-*Tneasure, responsible here ; and da» I third al • ut tl ■ . . m
in
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putting them in jail,’ the penitentiary
S an J ose ,'C al ., Nov. 1,1877.
places, in others the pioneer work is
the question becomes more practicable. ! heaven ? How iifuch1 about the friend e
or executing them. Divine govern-
C. 1‘. Mi sni n gc f '
st. 11 to. be done. Our work to-day is
The Baek slider say»*- it is growing here in sinful pl< asurt
!
Tho si trhid difficulty, under which so broad in its scojk * that we need a merit ki ‘ i ests the good; er such as de­ woi-.se; the devil -his colored his our voyage end,.that country seems to
we have labored in California for the great power to inove it, and that sire to be made good, and leaves the glasses, poor man and he thinks all rise up out of the deep to meet usi
l bad. Human gqvemnicnt.- deeui all
• Jasrt six years, nrisçs from our
¡tower is within the brotherhood both
the church is stain»-.<l. You can never Doc^heavcn seem to._r:- up- out of
men innocent, tilL proved guilty.
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RKLKilors NEWSPAPERS.
in liberality, and talent. In a-local
■tell whether the ’church is growing e ternity to receive us
Divine government declares the whole
Out troubles have not been so much work it w well dêvelôpëd and often world guilty, as a mass, afid calls such bettejdor worse by the "bac' slider’s P Ip conclusion, my frii’..d. : 'you an*
opinion.
• on account of th- quantity as $he man­ for h tirtic quite effective; but beyond“
! a. -sinner, .suffer • the f.vhortatiun of
as would be saved, out. Hence the
Yon a:-k tho saint, who i? pure and I Peter wli< n he delivered the, first
ner in which our papers lr.ve. been’ this many ifever seëtnêd to go, per­
church means a calM out ptapit; warm in the love of’ God, he tells you
rondiipted and sustained. We have haps because they can not fully see
Gospel sermon: -‘‘Save yourselves . -.
from the Greek Word cccZiwo. . -
it is growing better perhaps ; he looks ’from this unt<5Xvard. generation.'
not bail so many. papers as colleges. the results, or tail to see the line
Those who are called out, are for­ "at things through a different medium ;
, I believe we have not had at any of march in detail. Uiitil we shall
given of nil ¡»ast sins, are counted new you must make some allowance far Acts ii. 40. There is a sense in which
time more tliau one religious paper in have a united, general effort, the cause ,
you must 'ave yourself; there is a
creatures in Christ Jesus ; and though
the State. ’ That one, tlu*»»gh, at times must stand or languish as the case once strangers and foreigners, are him. But after all, is, not,our field too .sense in which'Christ must s^ve you.
large yet. Suppose we narrow it nnd Yon are to leave this wickeif'gem-po­
ably conducted, was not sustained by may be.
counted fellow citizens and as belong­ ask, Am 1 growing better oij worse;
For
this
fc
cause
we
should
striye
to
■the ehnrehes and in some instances
tion, just as those men Peter addressed. •
ing to theTiousehold of God.
Here is a small patch in the vineyard must leave their-generation.
’ _ opposed by them. . J The result was obtain a small amount from all to a
To j 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, stiffer
coral's,
“ to come out from among them
Brother and Sister, one,thing is the exhortation of Paul: “Come out
to try, than try and fail. California in many districts where there is great
' and. be separate.’’ There must be .1 I sure, we are ¡¿rinvi Mm?
kut /I we and touch not ihe unclean.’’ Bo sun
io not able to«.stist{iin- a religious need of work, "Rn average from each
member of It) cts. would sustain a line of demarkation between the are conacious wr- arc growing into a you make the line of demarkation
“ paper, so as to make it a success.
1 people of God and the people of the fixed ihmoete'Khatever rpay be its
The religions information obtained good work. Individual and local en­
clear and distinct.'
1 condemned world. This line must- be
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•from papers, published' in the East, terprise has heretofore done the work, ! broad and distinct enough to keep the likeness ; wc are sure wc are settling
J. H. M< C olt - ough .
will not supply our waifts, especially and-some'seem to think no other is ! cl.il Jren of God Irorh tmichiay the nn- down into something,- and that we
have less ami less disposition to j
tn local news. What then, does that ' needed. Yet whilo we direct our
! clrt/i. The sow that is washed, but change; our tastes and habits arc be­ j I’llblTlVELY THE OLDEST I n HAHI-
cause, which;-stands elevated above : main forces in this way why should
i gees back to her wallow in the mire coming confirmed. What is better ? ' TANT;—A negro, known as “ I nek
all causes, demand?’ I answer, One - wc not by the small penny contribu-
1 Ben,” has been found on the Pilaus
is the same as though never washed. What is worse
Whire shall we find
good religious newspaper for the j ; tion, if no other, do a gretft general
If we dabble in the same old sins that a measuring rod to determine what I J plantation, eight miles from Chappell
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Pacific < ’oast, well conducted and Sus­ work. Shall our local work continue
polluted
us before, wc will be like the these things an-, we call " better ” or iHill, in Washington County, Texas.
to
absorb
all.
ou:
means,
time
and
tained by the friehds of Primitive
' who says, he was a good-sized boy,
sow. ¡Since the relation of Father " worse I
With some people it may ! blowing the bellows in a blacksmith
Christianity, and success will crown talent ?
and
child
is
to
obtain
on
condition
we
be a human philosophy, but with us
We ask now if the mistake does not
•»or efforts Tliis, by the -blessing of
• maintain this purity, we should be it shall be the will of Gal; the re­ * shop in Virginia, nt the time ofErad.-
rest,
here
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In
the
p^st,
aS
localities
God and the assistanceof thechurches,
; very sure, we progress far enough vealed will, as set forth in thes Bible. I .lock’s defeat, 1754,•■ He lost his eye-
will be obtained by the P. C. M es - become established in the trutbi they
■ sight at about (¡0 years of age, but- in-
have become wholly absorlied with I from that which is unclean, to know In this Book there are classes, of per­
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the course of twenty yeare it returned
sons drawn up in lines ; one lint?'com­
| some local enterprise; a college, a ■ we don't touch it.
Fraternally,
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” Let us examine ourselves as to the posed of such iqen as Cain, Pharaoh, to him, and he sees us well as any body
H enry T homas . ! paper, a house, or a preacher ; and for
rt.ow. His'hair turned white with
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years their.whole forces were directed, ; pro-r<-. - we J i . t . v tn^le, and arc mak- . Ahab, I.'end and Judas Iscariot are
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ing.
There
is
much
apeculation,
these
mile
posts
on
the
road
to
Satan
and
and
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msumed
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thb
small
scope
Our Aims and Objects.
white the second time. He nbw.'mas-
wb< r<aa, it' three i\ r c<ntof th ■ means days, a® to whelhcr the work! is grow- helte, the other line composed of such
ticates
with, his third set of teeth.
That the aim and object of the had been to a general fund for general . ing better or worse ?• Ask voting men as Abel. Noah, Abraham, Moses, I
He
has
h.vl 14 wives, and is the -fath­
true Christian has ever been to ad­ Work and thus !dn. ci. I,, how gn-at j folks, and t|.ej will say, " growing j David, Peter and John are mile pods
er
of
85-ehildi't-n,
end is hale, hearty
vance Messiah’s kingdom, and thereby iln .resn'i
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thought will • better'’ What they see, compared, on the road to Jesus and heaven.
and
active.
From
his statements he
drive a way .evil and save the world convince all that a steady flow of I with what they read of.in ancient his- J What these men did, and-what Gal
must
be
135
or
140
years old. The
rfrom ein, is a fact that no one ques­ three per bent of the amount ex|>ended tory, seems to prove it? Then tjiey 1 has said about them, and through
Centennial
can
have
him
if they want
tions, however great 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 t .
•the failure of past efforts. While we trict or state, where our brethren have and you know tho world looks green ‘is right and wrong as viewed by God.
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_>diuirc ¡¿he efforts of the Primitive worked, would soon make us a good when we look through green spec­ I Having determined what is right and !
X’hriatia*1, there are a host of reform- fund for our general work. Now shall tacles. Ark old i>eople and they will wrong, we can decide what “growingi The postal cards which will be used
«irs from Luther to the present cen- wo not see to it, that while our local tell you, "glowing worie.” Through j better or worse ” is.
. | in our Country during th'n coming
,<urv, who 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. | four years are to lie manufactured, ac­
complish a good work, and have l>een shall not be lost sight of ? While one which Jay hid from childhoods eye; If we conceive of each one of these ' cording to contract, by the- American
¡Visaed with a fair degree of success, gets the great bulk or bur efforts, tho so they concltuiv there is more evil. mile posts as having a mirror, we can | Phototype Company q£ Ne>v—X»ifk.
masonic re>y < i Y< t. there is now other shall as knrefy have our small r 4V right cons man tnav say, “ growing see our<elvcs, and thus decide which j The. paper upon wh'ieh- the cards an»
«■violently much to do. However fully mite. Once such a state of affairs is better,” for his n-nociations are such way wc are traveling; so as we com-1 printed is manufactured
in Holyoke,
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the .acope fif reformation may have in practical operation, s*uccr,*s will be that he has been kept from evil, and pact-ourselves to these whose biogra- j ^*
8s*cbusetts. I'orty cards can
been purveyed by all the great leaders realized. . / A few congcegations work- sees the world in its Sunday clothes, phies are briefly, given, remembering Printe<l on each sheet at a single irn- ()
of tho past, to*day we see the work ing together, -, or alone,
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' always ¿0 to speak ; bur the wicked man al­ that God is no resjecter of persons, Press‘fln- an,l arrange mentis have been
should
only partially done rand the energy of have a small per cent of their qieans ways fcejs'that things are corrupt, he we may know how we are progressing
^or *^e printing, cutting, and
what was desiglieli
designed to be a great
grca.t re- to go l»eyond the scope of their own sees this phase, nnd eKperienres the in the sight of Gai. By using old! ^"8. ?f.abo“t
hundred
formation advancing the cause of- p-^jfy. And this wilt we'do if we presence and nhun- lance of evil; and associates in sin, wc may see how far thousand daily. It is estimated that
truth, has 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 ofjx>stal cards will be re­
build a single fort for the safety of localities.
or purity. But let us leave the world tance between them and us; they quired within the four yearn.
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Can wc not soon direct our4 Aiea ns with God. and take a smaller field of having made no progress in the re­
ihoae immediately connected with the
■work; while we all sit down to won- though xnm.ll to a general work and observation.
formation of their lives, are like buoys
Many so-called Christians live like
Is the church growing better or on the sea You, having taken pas­
der why the cause does not progress patiently rest from so much disputing
infidels at home. They do no^
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• sage on the ship Zion, may measure i
with mure rapidity.
The currant abou|plans? Arc we so weak that worse I
prayer is neVer heard; tna Bible is
The church, aa a kingdom, has been the knots per hour you are traveling.,
reformation of this century presents a, all onfehergie« must be spent simply
i not read.
In what
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’»wen sense is
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problem for careful study. It has to keep back the work till our own progressing in its conquests ; she has Have you goge out from among them, Christian home ? In wha>
teen a success in many respect« with- i ideas,of the work in theory shall be spread her borders, but can we say ' or are you
. sense are
voti in a dead
rleaJ calm
rains ? ’
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they
Christians Î In.
ent a parallel in modem times, awd j acceded to ’ If we nr^te.had
ertk bad r
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mauy she has grown in tho stature of men
no
sense of
By comparing myself now with which we hav re
wo belief is still succeeding; yet 1 ounce» of practical work m ’here have and women in the Lord ! Viewed as what I was, Obe, five or ten yean ago, Afewenjer.
any k aowhWgc.—
Paolflo
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