VOL Vili
M0XM0ÜTH, OREGON i COLUSA. CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12,1878.
V
Correspondence.
9
,
C sristian M essenger ,
Devoted to’the cause of Primitive Cliristi^
•smity, and the diffusion '«tf general in­
formation.
Price Per Tear, in Advance, $2.50
AD businew letters should be addressed
■„ to the Me.weuger Publishing Co., Mon­
mouth, Oregon. Article« intended for
publication, should be addressed" tw one
■of the editors. Subscriptions and com-
mnuieations iu California, should bo ad-,
dressed to Tbos. Porter, Colusa, (Lal.
Advertisers will timl Uiis one of the best
med'utus on the Pacific Coast for making
their business known.
Washington Letter,
(FKlHI OCR hEOUL4B COMKBSroNWKXT )
W ashington , Dec. 22. 1877.
'ScnHldr
PrfMidciit'n'Htl Cabin­
et In
l'nrlc. TI»® b>***<*?< C m |Hta 1 turn»
hi toys. Ihc imovil I
lficmm of hut»»
Fr»»«r?a, Hiimliug«. *1 h<* Strasburg «-lock
anti "T cxmc Jack.
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Bouton or Philadelphia, where hu r- k Letter from Old Bro. Young.
things td.wrlt •
t, ,whi»-h 1 must
charit« look over the "Whole e-x¡«arise of
. '<mit for tiie present. But in cencio- '
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[«’«iHESTVILLE, Dec. q j í ¿77
country, arid reckon with- wonderful
‘
sion, ]>erimt me to pen a few lines ’’or
soqueity just what, the jMoblic, taste B ro . S tanley ,—
. the eye of Eifler J. J. ?»L>ss, of Salem, 1
Dew lùiittìr ; Please-permit-me to f)regon, 'for I have no doubt- J>ut' he
<wn«'s, hnd s« when I coiua to look in
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faK»-'z* *■
i stocking of a Christmas morning, if «write’a few lin«'« for, the Mxs.sENf.-irn, tokr-s the M e :
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I was-well ,
tnodern tasto does not banrail that old- /or I claim it to be a messepgpr in-
acquainted with Bfo; Moss forty-tive
fashioned article and hang up a bedi­ ■deed: for it brings us good news from
years M;:o ; l o , and Ehler William .
zened cornucopia instead I shall ex- the East, West, North and'South; I
ilaV't' r, and Bro? A. B. Green fried to _
i petit to find a pair of'brass sleeve but- am highly pleased and delighted with ■
t-r-arii in .my Trio r’s house ; end !
I tons, an «»»dozed scarf pin, ami a bad it. It is just
just.-thc
pap«-r we netbl
the paper
ntrid in ; .|RV
, ,;«•.
nrind\'«‘v «-n bis pro­
{ hapkiir ring (a perfect imitation ot California as ó 11 as Oregon. And its >■» dr-n an I
';rc--irti
tTifiilpz’
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. silver) from my land lady, her hus­ soon as I - get. a I r ttl e le i su r e Ai/nr»
from +'r
lhi'u
F'
j.t
An-, iis I n
••xp- '- p
band and’ laughter. No doubt I shall work, 1 calculate- to rally tor sub­
to see.him while living, 1 hope w»
i give in return a «Ctt of dollar (gold scribers.
There are articles in it
shall be al le to meet an«l shake hands
jew eh ”, so advertised, a (Lakei worth half the subscription price. The
in that everlasting work! of’bliss an«l
George) diamond ring, (price 82). and name Christian has a great meaning
glorv' abd've, where vie shall be ever
a Santa Claus to the children, not one in a paper, it does not mean political/
w ith o'i’ herd. And thi» is my preyoe
of the old red checked abnormally’ sectarian or worldly science.
that all the Disciples of Christ vry be -
«leveloped, like Judge Davis, fellows,
I have just returned from a meet­
'faithful n-nto death, that they all nui v
but a brand new Frenchman, with ing in Forestville sch<jol house. At
receive a crown of life.
mean brow, waxed mustache, and Il A. M heard a sermon from Elder
This from your affectionate brother
Mephistaphelian none. This. is the Foderee, on the faith’■t>nce'delivered •
• in hope. Farewell.
tendency, at all events. Now what I to.the naintM, euiitrastin ' tue faith of
, E B. Yoe ng .
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does it slEmean that things should be I Abraham
and the ancients to the
ocience and the Bible. ~ '
going in this way with us ! I think I Christiana, foith in the Gospel dispen­
In these delicious Maydike «lays
of December, Washington lifts ceased
to l»e the < 'apital, ;uid betoft of the
i list ration. (Mbinet, an<5 ('ongress.
turns for a charge to toys. Toys till
the shop windows on Pennsylvania
Avev ue and Seventh street. Toy-
A Poem.
stamls encumlv r the pavements, and.
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The following poem is from the pen of
aredsirrie on the heads of itinerant
old Bro. John G. Haley, of Sandstone,
Mo. ; well known to many of otir readers. toy merchants. At night the sh«)p
The mnsea seem to hover very nmr our windows, brilliantly lightod, vie in
brother in bri advanced years :
attrs.etiveness. and, the one that han
Palé autumn with its chilling breath has something unique, like the automatic
come.
negv > preacher, never fails to draw n
The faltiug leave«, sure omen «(decay, crowd. Th« toy preacher, a sable.
Admonish tnotbsl we are going bacee
doctor of divinity L who moves Jii’
Where sbiaes a blight and evertesteog
head and lianas in impressive gesticu­
day.
lation, has a r instant, large, and ap­ the stories we have heard from abroad sation. The Ehler made it very plain j . Bro. Pres. Smitn is after Scientific
■Stern winter will ensue, and kxM. tbe
of^how foreigners raise the price of . and forcible.
The assembly was' '/,» in tide,>iiy ^ rough-eliod,” as will bn
preciative audience; and proinenaders
earth,
I everything when an American ent rs small, on account of its raining in the set n by the following from the Fo'o
ALd spiesd its coat of stow both near havrJheen cowrpeUed to walk on 'tie1
.
a store, are, in a measure,: true, and morning, but 'the hearers paid good fCAA/ail:
streets in ordvr to flank the throng,
i a I far,
. .,
that
n«lt
content
with
cheating
us
on
attention
to
the
discourse.
Preu.
B.
H.
Smith
delivered
his
Era long ahull «orne, tbe resnrewetion. composed-of'people of all denomina­
their awn aide the water, they are
One week ago Saturday, December Fourth lecture <>ti Sunday evening
birth,
tions, that haxg on his mute minis­
‘‘¿Legions of angele caa’t eonfiar us
coming-after us here—plenty ef them 15th, I started at 1 o’clock p. M for last, having for his subject—/ Scu nco -*-
trations. So<you must know that al­
there.’’
came to the Centennial to look over Santa Rosa, on foot, and alone, a dis­ an«l tn^ JHible. ’ In laying down his
though we i have neither t’onkhng,
£piing time will coin» ere long, with
the ground—and not only that, our tance of fourteen miles ;-I! arrived at premises, he said tl.r.t the author of
congress, n«w the President, (th«^
f sweetest Mcom,
Eastern merchants and inariufactnrers the bouse of Elder Burnett a little be- future—consequ. ntly of the science*-—
And- fill the .air with its ambmsial haveall gewetio New Yodli) tb«Tv i» are proving apt scholars in thia direc­ 1 fore five, and there, at th« Eld«-.'r’s'i was also the accepted author ot' the
still tlbed far reflection—-shams and
breath.
tion tbeiuselvea. We are becoming residenqp, I took rest for the night, lijcrje. li science <ii«i n >t luirmoniz*1
The saints »halt rise trfuWpbent froauthe realities in grotesque and pathetic
a
tawdry1 ornament loving people ; we and was well cared for. I wn« verv , with tire BiLe.he should be compelled
tomb,
, proximity.
¡Here in one widdow,
. And sing, " Where is thy fatal sting, O standetg before a little mirror, with r aie sujH'ificially, spurious and decep­ tired indeed, but I rested unaevunt to accfpt. scii iH-e as correct; but the
tive ; and there is danger that it -will alile well the entire night. JBut to deductions from science must be
death I”
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toy oainhs and brushes, exquisrt -ly |
strike in; we go along the street pre- return to my traveling to-
“ P aradise restored," theyli ehantrfje !
to the city positive. He would accent.no deduc-
dreased
of »OOU4SUU»
fashion. j
_-w • in-
•»- ribe
vovx. l.ighth
i.a^nvii WML
tending-to be that we arc not,
' lollit .-thaL.- Wnl'kl .t i n«
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hjr
atonda» wax ' ti ril i ! pri c e $75 ; b B b Ì8Ì
That Alls the «»art» of gtery far.cn
*D aurrouaded by a throng of admirora, ¡ bugging others ant}. being most- un­ in the winter, and so far in so short a tact beyond controversy. He then
high,
,
mercifully humbugged by other», time, and o<r a day so pleasant and took up the various Aciences awl ex­
’W-aere ahines the aftlemlor of eternal day and is linally purchased and borne
sharper than .ourselves, who make a warm, clear and beautiful, as that amined th»’ni carefully, beginning-at
There-aaint» aud at gel» never, never die away fiom tlie 'Worshiping gaze of a
study and trade of it. I have not act day, Dec. loth, from my earliest re­ mathematics,, which he said was con-
Trentportiag tUougit ’ to those that law i half starved little girl to whom $75
op for a reformer, but I am disposed collection, up to my present age, sMered the most correct by a!! h arm d
would mean akoes, and bread, and
theiLord,
I
Ard oalbupon his a-ime from <4av today, life. This Christmas tide (or time to protest against thia nonsense and 64 years, 11 months, and 25 days- men. He then astonished his hear« rs
To my great surprise, as I arose by stating that there was nothing
"Who t rem We at. and-trnst his licdy^rord, ■ which is better ¿English) gives us, by extravagance. 'I regret exceedingly
♦»/see so much money, that might bo in the morning, it had rained in the positive in the science of mathemat-
And shun that dolonous sod awtol way.
the way, soinuridng of a guage by
O Gad ! h<dp u» to humbly wuicli and which^to measure certain tendencies spent for r>-rtl comforts, wasted on night enough to make the ground *cs- T|iere never waa such a thing
pernicioiM frauds. TJ>» h is the .season quite wet, but not so much as to pre- a* a ti.angle, a square, a circle or a
’ pray,
of social growth. I believe it is evi­
That we m»y rise triumphant fsotu the
of spectacular, and histrionic, as well vent the parents and children from | para’lh'l*firi*i,u All these things . were
dent in the hoh4fty surroundings of
'
tomb,
going to Sunday school or church.
mere suppositions. There could be no
as of material and brassy humbugs.
Aod fort ring meet onr Sevior on bis way, fto-day thai, we d»» not tend so much
After morning service with .the cel^&,n deductions in the science of
For a week or more there has be-n on
To Utie hrn junta to their eternal home. toward the old English heartiness,
He then took up as-
exhibition, in one of the public halls, family, the Elder and I walked over ®athematics
fie Christmas clieer, the family re­
a so called Jac timile of tl«e Strasburg to the church, and the house of wor- j t,(,noniy. an<l showed that no two
• Weather Report.
unions. the decoiaiion of our churches
clock. The real clock, it will be n - ship was soon filled with parents and scientific astronomers had ever agreed
and homes with evergreens, and the
During Dec., 1877, there were 10
I membered, is wound but once a year, children, ready for Sunday school ex- uPon any subject of distance as t*
d/vs during which rain fell, and 4121 general reviving of old legends and
ercise.
The lesson in Acts 28th an7 of the PIa“ct" from the earth,
chcerished traditions, a*4 we do to a I and keeps perfect time of the month,
inches of water, 9 clear days' and 12
dav, hour, and minute, with the pro- chapter, was made highly interesting from c^’h other, or in regard to
contain Frcnehy taste for glitter and
cloudy Jays other tiian those xlll
to the
Bible class and the entire their revolutions or envolutions. There”
parade. The quality of Christmas . cession of the tw.lve apostles, and a
which rain fell. Frosts occurred on
'periodical appearance of the devil. i school.
And as soon as the school ^ia<^ Eever been a positive deduction
prewnts offered for sale, and eagerly
the 3, 4, a, 13, 21, 25, 27, 28, 29, M
The interesting feature in the real was dismissed by prayer and thanks, ma'^e by the science of Astronomy, and
bought by rich and poor, indicate the
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31.
Bro. J. Derbain, the superintend« nt of, tbere
there never would be one made to
character of celebration in our homes. clock is the perfect mechanism that
The im-au temper-.tture
or the.
the
school,
passed
up
and
took
the
,9°
nfl*ct with the Mosaie history af
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Highest daily f1“ ,'*uH,K1,,'u’nt. with an exceeding- produces these results. In the dum­
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month was 40./1 .
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rtil'Uiun
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my clock, the mechanism is left out, ■pulpit, and gave the church and Sun creation. Lastly he examined the
,
.
- rifly
warwian
name,
located
tin
the
mean temperature for tins month, ■>'_ , .
school one of the most energetic, science of G«^ology, which he charac-
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Avenue, an«l containing all sorts of and every thing is done bv hand. A a day
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enthusiastic"
M
laU>8t’ th”
on t ie 1st, lowest da.., naan temp
js ,;oing probably painting of the clock would be quite brilliant,
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xra'nre, 31 , on the 31st
I the best business of all, the large ns great a curiosity ; but this huin- , have • heard • for
ovei forty
years of my
naos^ »oiay brat . <tf
all ... in ...«
the
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t i- 4 1^®; aud I have been in attendance bandwrof atheists and infidels. G'*olo-
Mean temperature for the -month at !taltM.nutn
thronged with cus- bug
La* drawn well, and, through dint, .
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.
o <Zclock
M 4G.16
’. Highest
tlier- touien»
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x on 1 of advertising, ¡a making
. .— money
Sunday
schools,
or less,
since
. denying
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1 j in wu
a scholar
of more
thirteen
years
of gists
,ron‘ made
the *««7
sUrt by upon
the
an'attack
the
Bible
I
m. P .«.,
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t,
ironi
morning
till
night:
tiitn. ru from morning till night; on
_
>1. 41«.°
1 x*_
*»
moiueter
for 4k..
the rullnth,
tlV°, ■ -4
at •> 2
in
the
theatres
we
have
Joseph
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j the otlier hand, the solid merchants,
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«clock P. M., on the 10th. Lowest
J.ffenion as Rip Van Winkle, ami
and now I am ready to confess ( • Mosaic h'atory of creation,” which
i having stocks of useful goods, thrum
heard
anything
that
exiled
*’lId ------
m‘ - ke ..c the
^MK) this
-v*a as
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thernioi.acte^JiK, at 7 A. M., «on the
Texas Jack m a sho« t.ng? sta’qum 1 never
W fact
j have
n(,tllear
j any
Rllch ' old.
u hi earth
nw accept
, on their glass doors, and l«jpk out on
25411.
lassoing,
war
whooping,
farce,
.,««
aQ
that
j
id
with
it
I
a
positive
deduction
from
the
Bible,
U bile he did not accept this aa
the passing crowd with painful Solici­
The prevailing winds for the month
utay
be
»upponed,
by
readers
of
«lime
|
tude1, thinking perhaps of the pay-
2 ' I wish it had bee« written and put in anU while Mo8es never tixed *n-v tiu,e
were from the North during 16 «Jays, I meht of their next note, and wishing novels, t<> be a histrionic portraiture
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wh«n h»
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—-A form,
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- be s nt
S W. 9 days, Fouth 6 days.
.
| . life
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r , is •
. big • a ’A tract
so it could
ail ___
w . n . c saif
ot
l»»rder
Texas
Jack
a
,,
• *, “In the beginning God
■ that they had bought a few bushels
During Dec., 187(1, there were 0 {
hero, shooting with pistols in both over this western world The time - creat**d the hea.ens and the earth,
of brass rings and copper buttons in­
days during whidi rain fell, giving
hands, and piling tbe Indians in at- has come that we want ton thousami ( he nevertheless defied geologists to
stead of standee. I notice as I pass i
in. of water, 11 clear days, end 14
tistic
confusion on the stage. T’hero such tead.^, as is BrP. Derh m, ol ,n*ke one P***1"« deduction from
j that the show cases display a plentiful
„ , . • . Rosa,
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------ new-born
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cloudy days other than those oa
California.
If
would
not lie- a sufficient number,of. Salita
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their
science which would
I quantity of counterfeit jewelry, well
which «win fell.
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. meet ...
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talent in’ Santa
Rosa would make a even controvert this, commonly ac­
Indians
to
the exigency
of r the
.,
and tastefully made, without doubt,
Mean tomp. for the month, 35.29’
...
, . as soon as one I R
striKe,
general
strike, Infidels would have to cepted idea of creation.
murder
business, but
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'but selling up so well#towards the
to furnish
the sharp
UU-h
rf
l~...
h.v.
■>»
-nf
to
¿4
1M*
lh
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ir bo“‘i,‘.« h“j>
“ ,™'1 I"“ We
»“ are
»' unable l«-to
’n.. ' Tbi;
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Highest daily, 48°, on 28th.
1S price of real gold as to amaze one that
We want
..ints
of
this
lecture.
They
were-
daily, 24’, on 10th.
happy
i
hunting grounds,
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the curtain ‘ no compromise with the god of thm keen and convincing. \V e mean they
such high prices should be paid for
een and convincing. We mean they
,
T. P earce .
falls, and rises again on the same red* world ; but let us fear him who ^pake would
convince any —
mind
not warped
•0111.1
;~d
Tuuped
brass and other liase metals, disguised
Fola, Or., Jan. I, 1878.
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never
«n»k«
D.»--
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aa
man
spake.
Fear
God
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and
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prejudice
and
determined
to
re.isk
revived, and ready to do and die
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w
rt*i
to look like gold. Wbon I enquire
the pressure
«rich moral
again.
.
. his
. commands,
. and , then we will | , tne
of ilowing
Mich
an ­
keep
B fo
Wllh precepts
great ro
where these are made, I leam that it
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demand
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be able to destroy the greatest of evil. , ward, or punishment foe hlsoluto
Jk great hardship—an iron steamer.{is not in Parw or Lyons, but in staid
j ward, or
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