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VE, THEREFORE TEACH ALI. NATU» .!• MONMORTH,OREGON; C0WA’ CALIFORNIA, NOVEMBER 23, VOL. VII. ' C >■ , NO. 37. ............................ ■ ■ ■> - — x___ r* -------------- _______ :________________________ ■. ;-------- 1--------------- ----------- n long series the church of God. They, with’ all taiisrh ; there is no ^th but in the i , The care and toil-worn »(’hristian to us personally, for a Pacific other schools are strictly human. But sciences.” Well, if «nSu’cligion is. a i feels that lie has a Jiv'rig, loving- Sav- ( ■ years, and their memory and veracity ' hristian essenger the church is Divine,- let us therefore delusion. It makes us nien : : lour, who has gon»' to prepare a peace- i are as reliable as those of any other ful, happy Lome ’^r hm. In this two men living. i’<»»ci!l in question Devoted to’the canne of Primitive Christ go to the Divine for education in and better women ir ell the unity, and the diffusion <?f general in Divifte things, arid to the human for of life. ’It has been’rv-.-rified bv , place lahich <’aris* juxpares. every thb testimony of any one oil these, formation. ' . .>s- purified desir • q1" th soul sliall be nat- three ins n wouhi ’oe ridiculous, as no education in human things. If we »lo ions;that . Price Ter dear, in Advance» #2.50 ./S^d. All that tli” < ye would st--, all sane mar: .would.attempt it. this, Bro. Campbell, we will not form ’Tia religion that cm give All business letters should be addressed ''¿e ear wciil»! hear, am! ’till that What is tsstirnony : Dr. Mat- Sweetest comforts while we live ; thatt .,^< . . ■ . to the Messenger Publishing Co., Mon Mont“ terms, Nuntieries, Presbyteries’ i . ■ , \oulu le-4 will t>e-- be a son Smiili ’ wns the pht sieian . who at ’Tis religion um»t snpply mouth, Oregon. Articles intended for Synods^ Councils-, Conferences, Associ I the soul m . "Solid, cumfort when die. ’ ’ tended Thomas Paine. an;L the the pnblie ition. should bo addressed- to Otte ations, .Mi.kionary Societies, Temper Tli-s‘nl r.’.d:t\ respec/itig hi- patieiit wer. stat Since, then, »Christianity ¿njiu< •*'. , :1m» of thA bh’st, . of the editors. Subscriptions und com- ance Soçicrivs, nor Ministerial Associ lie »pent, of tho-rc \. and „ , so ■ fair, , muiiicatiojj* iu California, should bo ad ations. But v.e w ill be, content with neither the worid nor th individua^-; r ¡U ju Lu „ ¿hi —-t-wu— g i lath ’o i-n i, .j I k a t .4i > ) n»i h » * b b i * ph. ------------ dressed to Tlios. Porter. Colusa. CaL----- _ »living -, and.thii7.i3 the iecoiul: Tn aiiy^parttcular. but-has ever provi n Acd oft hie ils'glarios coijf< th:d s plan; -acid willing to work by Advertisers will fled this one of the best the Divine .pati'.rii. .Lei inc say to the highest blessing to both, if it be a ” I have lieard ’ from lihiT from, per- Hilt whn-t riipst it he Io be the. mediums on tlio Paciiic Co'a-t for making yoti and the go*d brethren forming dream’of phantasy, let us dream on in |—PMdfd <>nd- i-'" 1 kn iwletlgi , as his i.hy>rciin, ♦ heir business known. - ' 7- . th* »«rtieulars <>f which are too looth- this n<ksociation, let your first .meeting it? bli s id reveries of peace to thè j PaiaTo and Dsath. Ij ‘le'S -rib-.- fn prink He carne soul on earth, and the rapturou» . <1t j j Ministerial Association. ! your last ï-.in ting. And if yen want pill . - If-re- ’ ■•■et. am! j-f gard for lights of a heavenly home.on hi di ’ . I'r. ni nm i41 ».»is ;»-t, iM r: e- ntlv .re to educate yçurx•T’.'tx>- and others, Morsi» I!\V' h , -I'.i ks »» n Ci»; O il . is p-.■■■•onal habits, which Bùt if it is atlrined that religion -is i ceived. ive in,| re- that in some part- meet ii< «he churches of I’od, and let Oct. 20/1877. X-simpty ls ’ est.ly. Hi ■« unscientific in the trùci- sense of that • of tue co’inti-v so»-ci il »‘TdrfA are now J)r?». T. F. Campbell: all b.- benefitted, by ye: r knowledge , at t;in .. xnie habitua! am The C. M esm KXOER. of the 11th 1 f you wish human wisdor,\ go to’ the term, we most unhesitat ingly cluVlenge boin»g ma»!»-to circulate. tHc works o' a Venn < ss \Xf.7 Lrd.di inst., containing my article, and your schools and colleges where this wis the assertion. But if it Abe aliirni-ii ; Faine, an ] to.add to their- intliienpe >rici s i 'c*' fore !:»> let .. Stintly fbarfd reply ,Jn regard to the Ministerial dom is--imparti»I, and obtain a full only that the chemist cannot find its -by »'bqemling th - personal character ,. i not tinf fr-iiiiiNy 1 xnlesc y __ „ author. ... ... TLot jh we have fr - Association, was duly received-. ■ I am sepi ; Let every 'm. mi rr gfov. in elements in his crucible, thè ¿geologist of . that tl- e txajride, »«> 1. ‘ he» I abun la.nt and ih- intoxica»"d that I.--: had to t Le cam much ph. used with the kind spirit ,'iaee n*iil jn the knowledge of’ t?m cannot trace it in the lithographic* to- q-jentlv published N lio -of th? past age», the botanist does contrnv. rtilJe testimony on this sub- manifested in'your reply, and 1 have ti'iith. I .’wish.you al! to understand home, as I have, booh t»-;».! Uy p rsons . L • . ’ Ad'd'oubt of the good; intentions of distinctly that I do not oppose educa not discover its beanties amid the met, we give the following extract , who b^l .b-frien-ied hi: i .in that ■ you and your associates in forming tion neither, human norDivine; but 1 p i*d.s arid stamens *of the fiower, n«>i ¡for the berntiT of several ' còrrespon-I piii.ille c<»nsifiiin There wn e some this association. But I doubt much do oppose these human expediencies the astronomer trace its course lunon»’ dent» , who desire this informati» n '■i'.'V ih. >1 ito' ot ilio .shame and de-, n-mswnr to tr. ? n flsleftìon that S’t<>r!(’S ' .radjition into • which he fell, Still the propriety of such an institution that ar.', now- intvod&eed by so many, all the millions of rolling world.-» nor j In answer «ven for educational purposes, as you to accomplish that which God deter yet can the mathematician fiml tint of Paine’s drunke'nn>'ss and degrad 1• herished a linjorir _r r -seect ■’•YvUiat claim this to be, I"think the tilin' and mined to- accomplish through his units of its forman»! <11 mensions among tion were the inventions of the clergy he-had ’tle had been, id-:rth;b. cf been, and and’ dn dn < c.»n«id' iTtich -of means spent will be greater than the church, ù’hicl» is the pillar and "round all his lines, angles and Jiyperbolas, the Rfry.Dr. J. I). Wickham writ»..* a* the st io ice lu- bad rjiidered in the ’ * profits derived. . of thejruth. That we all may be lively we assent. N’or do airy of these’ ma lôllpws : Rcvidutii nr.ry"ca'isc by his pidifieàl “ The writer of this communication writings; but no one in dial vicinity, Again .when I look into the divine member^ of this Divine institution,- terial sciences reveal to man his own pattern I find no model for this letting our Fghts so shine that others mental aiM spiritual nature. What is Was more than fifty years ago a resi as Lite as thirty, years ago, would Ministerial Association. But when I seeing our good works may be con faith and its grounds of credence ?’ dent of Nèw RiM'helle, N. Y., where have had the temeri’y to deny these look into the “ gryat volume of human strained therebv to glorify our Father What ia love and thr- source of its be the body of l’ainc was Buried. Hie things, much less to call them ' wicke,d getting ? What is conscience and the gravé was in one corner of a farm, invi-ntioi’s of the clergy.’ ” expediency ” I find similar expedients in heaven, is the prayer of laws of its action ? What is hope and which, having being confiscated a« springing up in different ages of the Your Thimble.brother in Christ, Paine died in ¡ SCO, and these facta its end to be<reaiized ? ’ What is mind the. property <»f a Tory during the in n-ganl to his habits of liTe have world’s history, with the same avowed M artin P eterson . anti spirit land the undying existence Revolutionary War. . had bi-en pre hern as publip and taini’iar as” that object« in view which you declare to for which they long < These are all senter! to ... Pain? hv the A State of New William4’ubbett carried óti’his bones. be the object of- your Ministerial As ___ ,.-X- Our Heav6iflir Home. f ____ questions, not contrary to physical York for his patriotic service in aid of sociation. Take for illustration the In confi-mation of this te-Jimr-nv science, but beyond al! these material the Revolution, tin this farm he an estimable member of the Society forming of Monisteries and Nunneries, “ My heavenly home is bright snd fair.” Death’s knejl is heard in every fam tests! Yet all these have become aux spent his latter days with a solitary of Friends aays : in their first formation. What were their objects and aims ? No doubt ily circle. The sound has become fa iliaries in the solution of tile greater female attendant I have heard the “ In the johrnal of Stephen Grellet, physician who visited him describe but their intentions were purely good, miliar to all earn, but welcome to ploblem -of spiritual life. no-jl an i most worthy jninister of the condition in which he was accus th^J^-iety of l i ieiid<- I find the fol- But there is u true science but what are their fruits ? Evil. So none: Earth’s happiest homes are tomed to fin’d his patient, and to'4»¡wing t record, jnade in the Fall of with every organization hat has been draped in mourning and the cheeriest tory, and this unmistakeably 1 cheek is drenched in tears. The voice to the facts of our holy religion. The which his vicious habits, and especially i*oi> r formed by man separate from and in of science is heard and commended; lives and doings of Alc.^hnd.-.r. '< ’ ¡esar. [ his habitual drunkenness, had • re "I may not ora:t .reeoid.ng here’'-A.. dependent of the churdi of the living God, in all ages of the woriil’sJiiYtory, but hut by the grief stricken ones. Mahommed, and Cliarlemagne are far duced him. This be reprMiigtvd n,s.fthc death oi Thoma», Paine. A. few It lias only served to alienate, divide The god»less of science may dwell in less evident to us. under the canons revolting to. his sensibilities, making days previous to liiy leaving hotne on and retard ; the truth needs them n»»t. the house with crape on the door of historical science, than are tlio-e of |;*ven the necessary calls to prescribe my last n-iigioUs visit, un L hearing lie 1 do not doubt but what others as knob, but’no one of "that sorrowing' Clirist and b.> Hpbsth-. I pen this for his relief exceedingly unwelcome vas ili and in a verv destit t ;te condi-. weH as you, and tho.'C brethren asso group within, worships at her shrine. and the work accomplished by them. and repulsive. This physician was an tioti, I w and found ciated with you; .thought they could In the library an many volumes of 1 is turned the lamp of ty¡»e and proph esteemed elder in the church of. which him in a <r>v.w<.T.,. „vww, iijf he had accomplish greater good by t(ieir human lore ; but the tear-dimmed eye : ecy, which 11‘dited the world’s path- I was at that time .pastor, highly re been so ii glected ami foisakeij by his . r r human plans, than they could by the J looks'fur the one voluam. of heavenly : way for four thousand years Epon garded not only for skill in his pro pretende’ triends that the common a smk nmn had been Divine plan. But this reminds me i science. Orators, lecturers, banisters, them is turned the still brighter Imht fession, but as a man of sound judg attention j and kindred efficients, abound in the wiiheid from of the prophecies, miracles, and history ment and unimpeachable Veracty. He him. The skin of his that you disavow that vnurs is a body* was in of the Christian era. Better still is has been dead many yeai-s. But the community, but the nearer of sail .some places worn oil".' plan, or that you have any intention the warm heartthrob», the conscions name of Matson Smith, M. D., is. still which greatly news passes ’ all these by, till lie comes increased bis f-iifierings. x>f departing from the Divine patteigi. A ’ nurse held in honore<l remembrance by all realization of the redeemed soul testi was provided for him, and- but simply intend tl is as an educa to the man of God. In these halls tional organization. Well, admit all has been heard the music of mirth, fying in feeling words and actions to who knew him. His- grandson, Rev souie needlul comforts were -supplied. you claim then, I have two objections and through them have whirled the the perfect a<laptation of Christianity Matson Meier Smith, D. D., it is He was mostly in a state of stupor,but to urge against it, that I consider devotees of luxury. Here, too, have to the soul, in giving it peace and joy stat’d, is about to remove from Hart I something that had passed brtwbcn US valid. First. You form a class dis been displayed the ensigns of worldly in this lifi*. and affording a lively as ford, Ct.. to Philadelphia, to be a pro I had made sm.li an imprisslon upon tinct from and contrary to that s.’t pride and gay revelry. But away surance of a home beyond life’s fitful fessor in the Episcopal Divinity | him that some time after ipy depart- forth in the word of the Lord; this with all these, when a loved one lies gleams,—these all rise as incontestable School." ' i ure he sent for me, ami on being tel l In answer "to‘a remark of Mr. 1 was gone from home, he sent fr- you name “ Members of the Christian shrouded and confined for the tomb. proofs of the genuineness and authen Ministerial Association of Oregon,” The. hearts ofHhc mourners will have ticity of our sacred’records. The sci- Frothingham of this city, that Paine , another I’: I. ii 1. Tliis induced a vr ’- thus forming two distinct bodies out none of any such things. The sweet I > ence of historical credibility, the sci- “ » Iran k occasionally more brandy than ' uable young Friend Alarv RascoeY of the Christian brotherhood of Ore consolation of religions are all that are ! I ence of psychology, or of the human was wise, more than would now bo i who had resoled - in my family ar. 1 ' mind and soul, and the science of deemed dignified, but reputable . continued at Greenwich »hiring a part gon—the Ministerial anil those not desired now. In such an hour the voice of Jesus ’ moral and religious* rectitude, are no : Christians of his time kept him in I of my absence, frequently to go m t Ministerial—then propose to educate less exact than those of chemistry, ¡ I countenance in this,” we published and take him some little re/re/amint falls iqxin the ear of the Christian — the one to the neglect of the other. geology, and zoology. It is with the the following summary. This first objection I deem sufficient mourifs a kindred spirit, saying: “In suitable for an invalid. Once when for to cause you and others to see the my Father’s house are many mansions. former of these that religion has to Matson Smith, M D., of New she was there, three of Lis d «istical impropriety of your 'association. I go to prej»are ¿“place for you.” *A11 do. far inoré than with the latter .Rochelle, was a distinguished physi associates came tv*the dour, and in a Second. The church of the living God the wisdom of the rocks from the Si The mere physicist might, with equal cian known to us and to hundreds of loud, unfeeling mknner, said: ‘Toll, is his school on earth, where his lurian to the post-tertiary, cannot propriety, complain that the science others yet living as a gentleman of I l’aine, it is said you are turning Olrrisi- people, ministers and all, are to meet equal in consolation these sweet words. of zoology is not found among the the highest social standing, a calm, i tian, but we hope you will die jus yon together to build one another up in Curiosity may feast ujmn the wonders rules of Euclid, as to complain because studious, judicious, thoughtful man. have lived ;’ and then went awav. . their most holy faith, and any depar of science, but the spirit finds rest Christianity is not directly deducible whose integrity was Fabrician, which On which, turning to Mary Rascoe, ture from this is scismatical, and wilj only in the comforts of our holy relig from the physical sciences. Every with Mr. Frothingham is far inore ¡ he said, ‘ You see what miserable com ion. It is not that we should think question should be referred to its own than Christian. He is dead. sooner or later result in evil. forters they are.’ Once.he asked her Concerning colleges of which you less of science, but that we should appropriate science. The mere fact Rev. J. D. Wickham, D D., and the ¡f she bail ever read any of his writ- that any given science is silent upon Rev. Charles Hawley, D. D., were ings,.and on being told she-had read apeak/this I have to say, Colleges are think more of religion. certain questions, does not’ argue that eucCOMiveh’ pastors of the Presbyter- but very little of them, he inquired But does some skeptical scientist < pot Churches, neither can they take sneeringly remark, ’ “ Your religion is i they are contradictory. Too many ian church in New Rochelle. Doth what she thought of them, adding, the place of churches, but should in variably be separate from and beneath all a myth, a vague, nervous sentimen- i mistake mere variety for con trafile ty. are living. They have been known,1 (Concluded ’ or>' page 5.) M ,