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4 PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, SATURDAY. NOV. 30, 187« and laid away for extraordinary use, evening seMions, each of which was with social exercises _____ . ; and hristian essenger lthec use The foiiy of such, course Through vision we receive the All the leaves of the forest are con- commenced den-, rs which refceive on th.ir ex- mi Thui>»day morobigWe vm highly is seen in the past work of our great T. F. CAMPBELL, | evangelizers gtmerally. Any brother greater part of our knowledge of the panded surface the light and heat, favored by a most excellent and D. T. STANLEY, ) fcDrroR»- who haft giverythe subject thought material universe. The range of the render them latent, trantfer• them to cheering discourse by Bro. T. F. WOody fiber, and thus hold them Campbell, who» had arrived on the j can see that this has been our greatest other senses is limited. , ASSOCIATES: Hearing, through spoken language, in reserve for future use. This stor previous eveniwg. His »abject w*» weakness as preachers. V L. L. R owland . T hus . P orter . How may these disastrous results gives us many ideas which had their ing up light and heat for'|man’s use the New Jerusalem, and but once be G. O. B urnett . be avoided for the future ? is an im origin ip the past, as well as the has been a favorite process in nature. fore in our lives had the scenes of SATURDAY; NOV. 30, 1878* portant question. The only solution, character and quality of vibration I Tlie coal masores, so abuwdant in the that beautiful city of our God been so we think that can be given, is to send produced in the atmosphere by sonor earth, and chiefly useful for the light vividly brought before our imagina Will Subscribers please notice the a man to a point to preach’ Christ to ous bodies. Besides these, it contri and heat which they yield Were thus tion Aa we listened, we «ould al date following their names on the the people and [»erfect them in all I butes but little to óurstock of knowl formed, and are indeed but light and most see it descending from “ God out paper? It tells the time when your the duties and, ordinances of the edge. Touch serves to correct many heat from the sun spherically and per of heaven.’’ ’ The beautifully gar false impressions received through the fectly polarized and carbonized in the nished1 foundation, supporting the subscription expires ; thus, if the date Lord’s house,'till they are able to live sense of sight and to localize objects j leaf, transferred to the stem., purified jasper wall, the pearly gates, the reads 1.379, your subscription will ex alone. Then lie may . be sent to immediately about us. Sight' takes [ from foreign matter by heat and gold paved streets, ared the beautiful another place to proceed in a' similar pire Jan. 1, 1879. ' If the date after cognizance alike of objects far and pressure, stored away in aaeessable tree of life, .growing upon the, banks manner. The work thus done will-be your name is a time past, you are in well done, and every year will add near, great and small, Color, figure j place* and preserved through ages, a of the River of Life, which was gush arrears.. Please remit a little before permanent strength to the cause in and distance all come within its cold black mass ready to give forth ing'from' beneath the "Great White scope. Aided by the microscope and light and heat when needed. throne,” before which stood that in the State. your time is out, if possible. ' " . ‘ T..EC, numerable nultitude^ad in robes of With Bro. Wigle, we think the past telescope it reaches almost the infinite The M essenger till Jan. 1, 1880, year’s work ... white and wearing crowns of gold, has been far from a fail- in minutia a« well as in magnitude Linn County Annual Meeting. bearing in their hands yalms of vic ■for- 92.5O. Send 4n the-names and ure. Many souls hs ave been gathered , and distance. Light is the instrument of vision money. tory; all seemed to come before uS into the fold, and the churches genef- H alsey , C r ., Nov. 21,18»8. like some beautiful dream, and it ! ally strengthened. But then we look without which progress would be Bro, Stanley: We learn from private source that I to see what will be the permanent simply impossible. Withdraw light was truly contorting to'feel that this The annual meeting of the Chris* the attendance in the Christian Sun results of this work. Bro. Morgan frohi our earth, and life itself would was no imaginary thing, but that in tian church in Linn county, Oregon, day school at McMinnville on the did a good work in Coos county, but become extinct. Our familiarity with reality it stay in our power to reaoh will be held on the 4 'alapouia river, 17 th inst. was 207. Our brethren for want of continned support has ; it causes us to enjoy the blessings of tliat glorious land of the blest. It near Blevins bridge, in Lirin county, which it is the prime cause without there are at work. was with deep regret that we «aw been compelled to abandon that field Oregon, commencing on Friday before a thought. Many of the most sub- Bro. Campbell take hi»- departure, 1 and leave the young churches to their the third Lord» day in June, 1879» The Minutes of the Christian Co- I 1 inevitable fate—spiritual death, unless J i lime phenomena in nature have lost after giving' *4s only ono discourse; — Mr. Blevins gives us the use of five . . operation are about ready for distri- I ; some one can be sent and maintained 1 their power to charm and delight us Bro. R. H. I but on Thursday „ evening _ acres of nice land, situated near the M om arrived» and our» prospects bution. I there long enough to make -them self- j by their constant recurrence. The ■ O. C. R. It , near the center fof the seemed to brighten. — I sustaining. A good meeting was held 1 , rising of the sun, the bow upon the clouds, the blue vault of heaven as county. The churches are requested This week we have the pleasure of ; i in Wasco county by bretliren from During the remainder of the meet to send delegates to the meeting and putting Bro. T. F. Campbell’s name 1 this valley, and we have heard nothing viewed by night with its gems of i ingtwelve came forward for baptism- to attend the same as far as possible, at the head ^jf the column a« one of1 more from the church there indica sapphire and gold, if seen for the first one of these being the wife of Bro. arid we do hope and pray that we -time could not fad to excite enthusi the editors-ic-chief. Bro. Campbell tive of life. In fact there seems to Caleb Davis, who united with the may have a profitable meeting, and has* been taking a partial rest from be 1ml a small per cent of the work asm in the dullest intellect And yet, congregation at Trent, and another that we may be abundantly blessed. this work for nearly three years, but .done that is permanent, for want of ; the glow of thè worm, the phosphor who united with the church ato-Clear Don't forget the time and place. , escent scintillations on the bosom of owing to ..the fact that we are over following it up till sufficient strength Lake. Nine of the remainder were Yours in Christ, crowded With the multiplicity of iri the cause had beenreached to main- the ocean, or the spark from the fric from the Sunday school, ami some of _ J. E. R oberts , tion of flint and steel often excite duties that are pressing upon us, he ! tain itself. them very young; the youngest was Chairman of Committee. lias consented to take a place on the £ Now if all this work had been dene more wonder than these. the son of Bro. Win. McFlure, and While light with its ever varying ; regular editorial work again. As 1 in one place, either city or country, e’even yaars of age. We feel Reports from the Field. about phenomena, has revealed so many of everything that we can do to im the results would doubtless have been to thank God and take courage when I prove the paper and make it more fully as great, and the year s work the wonders and secrets of nature it Bro. H. B. Morgan, of Hillsboro/ we see the littleones coming, to Christ, acceptable to its readers and more would have .given the church or has reluctantly yielded to the efforts ' writtea us Nov. 21st, that there is a especially when we can feel that they useful to the cause, increases our churches labored with to Lave gone on of scientific investigation, and the’in-' protracted meeting in progress at that have watchful, Christian parent«; who happiness, this change gives us special increasing in strength and numbers i I teresting question, What is light : is place, and will give us the result at will endeavor to guide their tender to this hour, not well settled. A feet in the way»-of truth and holiness; [»leasure. instead of dwindling and dying. the close. such is the case with our young disci Our brother takes [»leasure in ,1 notion long prevailed that light was ple. Two of the dear young converts Bro. T. M. Morgan, now of Looking knowing that we are doing coififGIA,- an emination from the eye itself. The are very low with fever now, and glass, Douglas county, wants a loca tively not ling in the cities of Oregon. first theory of light worthy of the tion where he can reside and Lis time Now we are not specially adoneating i name was »that developed by Newton, Bro. Stanley: serious fears are entertained that we mainly to the ministry of the word. the cause of the cities. It makes no i called the corpuscular, based on the .Bro. Martin’s protracted meeting shall not keep them with us long. He wishes a [»lace that has good edu great difference where, so it is where 1 assumption that every luminous body closed here last night, with fifteen But Our living Father knows what is cational facilities. Any congregations, there are souls to be saved. But the sends off in strait lines in all direc additions ; eight by confession. The l»est ami does all things well. As we had so few brethren from from one to four, that could unite in reader ofthe work of the apostles of tions, eorpuscules, or infinitely small meeting was very profitable to all securing his services, and properly re- our Lord, can not fail to notice that particles of matter, which, falling upon church. Bro. Martin is an earnest abroad during our meeting, no busi mxipciate him for the same, should their work was almost wholly con- the retina, excite vision. This gave and faithful, worker. He is preach ness could be done for the county, but a committee of three was ap address 'him as above. fined to the cities, and their example place to the undulatory theory, which ing regularly at Colusa. --- — . - — - pointed to confer with the brethren is not be wholly ignored if we would assumes* an all pervading ether which - . Your brother, Bro. Wigle’s Objection. in different [»arts of the county, with be successful in reproclaiming what is thrown into waves by impulses of J. DURHAM. the luminous body. regard to making arrangements for they preached. It is not to be sup As will be socn from an article in This is 'the view taken of light in another county meeting M some future posed that under the direction of the another column, Bro. Wigle takes ex time. our day ; and upon this hypothesis, ceptions to the action of the brethren Spirit the apostles began at Jerusalem, I Bro. Burnett.has dosed his labors at McMinnville, favoring the concen and did nearly all their [»reaching in science has revealed the wonderful Bro. Stanley. facts, that more than sixty thousand here and gone to Soleui. We have tration of the missionary efforts upon ■ cities becatise the people there were Just closed a meeting on the Coast of these undulation» are contained in no preaching- here mow excepting one point, and to our article upon the any better or any more willing to Fork, above this, where old Bro» John from our brethren at home, and the hear and obey the Gospel, but ’ bccause Lone inch of space and that they ex- same subject. Harris lives. Seven immersed, two ceed in number six hundred trillions • prospect now Is that wo shall have more could be reached in the same We do not desire to discuss the : reclaimed, two added by relation. in a second of time. However incom- I but little in. the fntwre-, unless some of time, and when reached and converted right of the brethien to tak€ such Tho*e immersed;were all young and prehensible this number may be, it is 1 our brethren show more liberality they were so situated by being near action as they think will best pro- j the children of Disciples, except one, not more ’ wonderful than the velocity than they have do»e in the past. together, that they could the more mote the cause of the Redeemer’s the daughter of Methodists. of light, known to -be one hundred That we nu y be saved from, the easily be put in perfect order as active kingdom, regardless of their expres The question of women speaking in and ninetv-two thousand miles per horrible sin of covetousness aad be working churches. The same princi sion«, on the subject the previous the church and communing with un- second. Pure white light may readily willing to make sacrifices fcr the ples are true yet. One great reason year at Dallas; only we will say that I immersed persons had been a cause of be resolved by a prism into aspectrum cause which we profess to love is my there is no law in any of this action. why sectarianism in every form main trouble in the church. I think they sincere desire. containing the seven eolorp of the are both fully and perfectly settled It is only suggestive that the breth tains itself so well, is that it occupies rainbow ; and by mingling these all Your* in hope of eternal life, and that they will hereafter live in ren of the St^te may be able to all the places where the people are most the tints and shadings of all the A. H. B eckwith . peace and harmony, so far as those act in unison in spreading the Gospel. easily reached. Meeting at Independence. ' 'P fhj»-jexs. an,!l.#uw s of earth. aru pro --- iW.; subjects are concetned? ~~T+w» *»bjertww»-Bro. W4gfo nrakes to ■ Some time ago we received a letter duced. . concentrating our missionary work on . ....... - ¥ m*r*>, - —— The sun is the prim&y source of j signed George Miller, post mark Port J. J. MOss. a single point, is the weightiest con- 1 According to previous appointment i land. There was inclosed money to light and heat to our earth. Since it i «¡deration in its favor. He thinks it I spoke at Independence on last Bun - 7.T1 |»ay up arrearages with request to stop cannot be [»resent to all [»arts of the ' Lane County Meeting. will be leaving the lambs without a day week, at 11 A. M. on "Christian the paper. We found no» Gecurge globe at all times, and since life would ' shepherd to die. Such weuld be a 1 Union,” 7 P. m . on the " Element* of P t . hasant H ill , O r ., N ov . 7, 1878. Miller on our Portland'list. Wrote a became extinct if both light and heat: most undesirable result, but such most the Gospel,” and on Monday evening few lines to George Miller and ad 'c,7 ■ were wholly withdrawn by the sick ever follow the plan of spreading what on the-*' Power of Faith.” A#., you already know, out Lane dressed him at Portlxnd, but our ing of the sun beneath the horizon, ' The result—one confession ami im work we are able to do iti the mis infinite wisdom prompted bv infinite | County Meeting was held here, ac- letter Las been returned. If George mersion. sionary field, over the whole State behCvole’nce bas provided that these I coming to Appothtment, commencing Millei' sees this, please inform us By stfch a process nothing but the ‘ Th® Audience was large, the people Thursday evening, Get. 3d, and.clos where you receive jour mail, and to merest surface work can be done, orderly and attentive. An arrange shall be garnered ujp in qito Hi ties' whom addressed. ing Oct. 14th, at evening. meetings may be held and many ment was effected by which they will sufficient to meet the wants of living Bros.. J, J. Moss and P. R. Burnett brought to the obedience of faith, but have preaching by Bro. D. T. Stanley ! creatures. While the earth, theficean were here at the Commencement. Bro. , Don’t forget that we will send the another point wilh immediately call and myself two Sundays—the first and the atmosphere retain for immedi- Moss remaining through the meeting. ess exo er to new uubacriber» till for the labors of the evangelist, and and third in each month until June, 1 ate use through the night a large por. Bro. Burnett left on Tuesday nrf- ' tion of the light and heat absorbed Jan. 1, 1880, for 92.50. he must leave these l»al>es in Christ 1879. This becoming a prominent tng, much to our surprise, and the ' frpm the sun through the day, a more to care for themselves, to starve and [mint where dwell many good citizens, ' wonderful [»roefess is going on by disappointment of many. Mr. Spurgeon ’» ghurdi hasnofr i^H.'» die, while he reenacts the same thing and a strong congregationtought to be Our prospects seemed rather dis I which both are arrested and concen- members, beiip t>e ferjett soC^y at another |>lace. Not only is little i built up and maintained. couraging, yet we Lad tuerfoog, and ; trated and condensed into solid form under the care of one man in the wot id. T. F. C ampbell . permanent good accomplished by such . - * ■ ' ■ H» 111 t I.H C PACIFIC M a course, but reproach is brought upon . * Wonders of Light. i M