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FEB. 2b W79
PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY,
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General Church News.
there are few if any of the small towns
in this State where better behavior is
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ULvlOll-xlV JI I a WLI.I U lau
He is looking for a model in life
afc AsljW Ohm , buTTd--
portions highly satisfactory to the the entire community seem more in-•'J
> T. F. CAMPBELL, E ditor .
after which he shall fashion his life;
terested in the cause of Religion, than Iln« cort S1OO-Ot)(’ «ndowment fund
friends of the institution.
I and deoeived by appearances, he feels i
The classes are falling into line and the inhabitants of Coquille City and ^'-eady subscribed $180,000. Tins is
Miss MARY STUMP, »» '
that he would prefer to wear the fine
the or>ly Hunkard college in this
moving
forward in the course with a vicinity
OFFICI EDITOR AND PUBI.ISHIR.
I qlothes rather than ply the hammer
degree Of zeal and energy which is
We closed our meeting last Wednes- ‘b°unL,y^ •
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| —A Parsee lady joined the Metho-
the best guarantee of success.
FRIDAY, FEB. ¿1.-1879.
day
the
4th
instant,
after
having
It is a first lesson and has made
Special mention should be made of i enjoyed good meetingsand after realiz­ i dist church in Bombay, June 16, the
Will Subscribers, please notice the about as much impression as a child's
the teachers’ class, in which there is ing that in truth it is not a vain thing first of tli#**faith that has publicly
date following their names on the ' first lesson in the alphabet. ’
professed Christianity.
the most profound interest manifested. to serve God.
paper ? -It tells the time when your I \ But it is to be repeated from day The „.introductory lessons, by l’rof.
—It is said that over-30,000 Hindoos
We are looking forward and with
subscription expires; thus, if the date i to day through a college course, and Stanley, on entering a new district one accord expecting to see “ the good have within a year professed Christ­
’Tike the lessons in literature which
reads 1^80, your subscription will ex­
and taking charge of a school, the seed ” (already sown) springing up in ianity.
mould and fashion the mind by repe­
—Op the 7th of Ncveinbet seven
pire Jan. 1, 1880. If the date after tition. This contrast between honest preliminaries, organization, <kc., have our midst and bringing in the promised
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Chinese
converts were baptized in the
commanded
the
concentrated
atten
measure of increase, and for a great in­
your name is a time past, you are in industry and gilded idleness impresses
■I tion of the large class of teachers in gathering to the fold of Christ, those Wesleyan church, Creswich, Australia,
arrears. Please remit a little before the mind of the student by repetition
i attendance.
loved ones now out as wanderers from j. •—A movement in New York is con-
until he passes completely under its
your time is out, if possible.
tern plated to make all Episcopal
We anticipate the finest results , their home,
influence, feels that work is degrad­
from this work.
I The church seems to be encouraged churches free seated, alike for the
take N otice .
ing, and that the gentle^nau must live
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and ready to redouble their efforts in poor and rich.
without labor.
Our-^egular
bi-monthly
meeting
at
—Plymouth church Brooklyn, ad­
Parties who are glow receiving the
This lesson perfected is sufficient to i Independence, last Lord’s day, was i the cause they have espoused.
mitted
72 new members last year, and
P acific C hristian M essenger , and overcome and render worthless every
We want to know and do our duty 1
well
attended,
morning
and
evening.
dismissed
by death or by letter 76.
are in arrears for the same, will please ; vestige of practical training the stu-
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Good
orqer
and
respectful
The
membership
is 2,515.
send the amount to Miss Mary Stump,
who doe th all things well.
dent may have received in a college- c^.acteiiZed the audience,
—The will of the late Thomas
at Monmouth, who is our authorized
Owing to the extreme bad roads we
course.
Powers,
of Philadelphia, leaves $4,000
agent to receive and receipt for the
are not doing any work out of Coquille
• The whole thought for the future Reports from the Field.
to
the
Reformed
Episcopal church an­
same.
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City this winter but expect with the
is how to procure fine clothes and
nually
for
twenty
years.
B
rownsville
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retfirn of fair weather and good roads,
! live without the degradation of work;
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A
United
Presbyterian
church
Feb. 14,1879*
Jan. 1, 1879.
to open a spring summer and fall
But it is in town where these well
building
costing
between
$3,000
and
Deai' Bro. Campbell:
campaign as extensive as we can sup­
The City Not Favorable to a ’ dressed gentlemen of elegant leisure
We are engaged in a good meeting ply with each a monthly Appointment. $4,000 has jnst been completed in
were seen and admired in contrast
Practical Education.
at this place. Bro. J. P. McCorkle is
We need more laborers here, there Orleans precinct in Linn county.
with the shabby garb of honest in-
—There are nearly a hundred
doing the preachirig; he is a good is in this County alone woik enough
What singular and strange blunders , dustry.
Protestant
churches ill Asia Minor.
workman.
for two or three good able men, oh
in ^natters of education are oft<n
Hence the disposition of students .
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The
Free
church of Scotland has
The meeting is well attended, the that we had them. Pray for Us.
made by those who, in‘other matters, 1 so trained to leave the rural home i
raised
the
aggregate
amount of $53,-
interest good and increasing.
Your brother in the Lord,
are noted for sound judgment and where labor secures health and in- '
600,<*00 in thirty-one yeers.
Eleven additions up to this writing
O. C. H untington
shrewdness I
dustry a competence, and go to the
—The Church Missionary Society
Don’t know when the meeting will
Every parent; however humble in cities in search of some mode of i
has just assumed the care of a new .'
Church
News.
close. Seven immersed to-day and
circumstances financially, desires to “making a living without hard work.
mission »tat ion at Gaza, Palestine, and
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two more to be immersed.
educate his son or daughter, and fit
If the parent would avoid such a
(From Richmotul ■Ckrixtian Examiner.) d has appointed Rev. A. Schapira, a
We will write you again when the
him or her.for the practical duties of f result let him be careftrl how lie i
—Sister Goodwin, editress of the a Christian -Jew, to the charge.. This
meeting is ccncluded.
life.
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places his child under influences the
Christian
Monitor, is sick.
society also proposes to send outsborf-
To the Lord-be all the praise.
After the full course in the dis­ direct tendency of which is to destroy
,
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About
fifteen members of the ' ly an expedition to the south-western
Your brother,
trict school has been mastered, a in tlie mind all idea of the practical,
Missouri Legislature are members of end of Albert-Nyanza.
J. E. R oberts .
higher school is sought, where facili- j and to establish a false estimate of
the Christian churdr, and brother
—A movement is on foot in Ger­
ties may be had for a fuller training ; the dignity and importance of labor.
Matthews,
once
located
in
Norfolk,
has
many
to increase the number of Ger-
P ini C heek , W hitman C o ., W. T.,
in the higher x
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been
elected
chaplain
of
the
House
of
T
man
colonists,
in the HolVf LamL An
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tion.
, a stream at its source ; in likfc—man-1 .
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Representatives.
| Ultramontane paper publishes an ap-
The original’ thought of a thorough?, nor, a thousand influences, prevalent J
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—Brother G. W. Odgen is in a meet­ |>eal for funds, to promote the interets
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The good cau»e is still gaining here
ly practical education is too often lost in a citv and apparently insignificant, _
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at Rock Enon Springs, Frederick of the scheme. There are numerous
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sight of in the desire to put on those may throw the mind ot the student
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, county. He reported five additions German colonies in Palestine, chiefly
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, ; the first Lord s day m Jan. ne had
accomplishments which a perverted into a channel unexpected to the
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of Romanists.
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one addition from the baptist—a up to the 25th instant.
taste and a vitiated public opinion I parent and ruinous to the best inter-
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—Brother W. L. Butler, of Mayfield,
—A weekly newspaper is projected
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preacher; and on the i lght of the
point out as necessary.
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preached a discourse Ky., expects to issue the first number at Rome, to be under the immediate
But, apart from the bad taste and
on baptism, by a request, and we had of his new monthly, The Apostolic inspiration of the Pope; It will be
worse economy of wasting time and Ignorance or Meanness : Which ?
Church, in a few days.
published -simultaneously in five
two to make the good confession.
spending money on a smattering of
—Out Foreign Missionary Society is languages, and will be edited by Con-
We
now
number
fifty-one
and
six
music and other superficial accom­ Editor Christian Messenger:
„wiv. is truth; to be immersed on the fourth Lord's continually enlarging its work. It nestabile, of Perugia, with Monsigneur
A gentleman whose word
plishments, parents do not know, or
nventou7tohe^a
MVtho- day iu this month‘ MaT the ,jOrJ now sustains three evangaliste in Pecci,' the Pope’s brother, as the
overlook the fact that they often I writes : " 1________ ______ , _
England, brother and sister DeLaunav power behind the throne.
ye3 ever be praised.
place their children under influences I dist brother preach last night.
in
France, brother Hoick in Denmark,
—The Christian Inion says: “The
Yours in (.'fo ist,
which completely neutralize or I went to chord». When people can
and
has just arranged to send a mis­ Woman’s church is the latest ecclesi­
J.
M.
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ropst .
counteract the instruction which I learn to much by going to church,
sionary to Mexico.
astical feature in this city. It is an
why don't they go oftener ? The | C ottage G rove , L ans C o ., O r
they receive in college.
—Bro. I. J. Spencer reports three offshoot of the Psychometric Society,
These influences are not always minister preached upon the subject of
Feb. 9, 1879. additions to the Paca street church, also a female organization, and based
understood by the parent, and can "The true t.'hurcb,” and this is what Editor P. C. Messenger :
Baltimore, last Lord's day.
on the assumed theory that women
not*be controlled by the teacher how­ I learned: He informed us that
D ear B rother ,-—We met to day,
—Bro. E. E. Orvis, formerly of Vir­ are peculiarly qualified to lead in
ever anxious and zealous he may be. emigration from this terrestrial sphere according to previous arrangement, at ginia, now of Bloomburg, Pa., has again
philanthropic and religious movements.
A single illustration will make to the celestial courts was suspended the Shortridge school house, and had entered the field as evangelist.
The
object of the Woman’s church, as
plain the n ture of these influences. from the time of the fall of the Ro­ a very interesting meeting with a
—Bro. Emmett Waldrop expects to set forth in its prospectus, is to embody
A boy of sixteen or eighteen sum­ man empire, to the days of John large attendance for this time of year. preach the firstJ^ord’s day in February
religion instead of theology, to ' put an
mers is placed at college in one of our Wesley; since which time, however,
The church at this place is in a for New Bridge Baptist church, end to discord and war, and unite all
cities. He has professors competent,, there has been an unceasing flew into very prosperous condition, both young Henrico Co.
under the divine banner of love.’ It
But, alas! and old members taking part in the
energetic and zealous in their labors, the New Jerusalem.
—Bro. M. M. Davis, a native of Vir­
has
no creed, but professes as its law
and every facility for progressing in among that white robed and countless social exercises of every alternate ginia, has entered upon his third year
of life, ‘Thou shajt love thy neighbor
his course. The student applies him­ blood washed throng—no Citholic, no Sunday. The church meets regularly with the church at Rocheport, Mo.
as thyself.’”
self diligently. He is a bright youth, Episcopal and no Campbellite had a ; on every Lord’s day, to attend to
—Bro. (’hallen was the first corre­
—A course of three lectures in aid
and he makes good progress. He is place! •”
j breaking the loaf and other Christian sponding secretary of the General So­ . of the M. E. church, West Oakland,
Is it any wonder, Mr. Editor, that I dutjes We have preaching on every ciety, having been chosen to the office
laying the foundation for a practical
has been arrangjd for by the pastor,
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men
of sense are so thoroughly dis­ other Sunday.
education.
October 23d, 1849. Among his illus­
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with Drs. Guard and Briggs, and Rev.
Exercise is necessary to bodily gusted, when the “ Oh fools ” of
At the close of the exercises to-day trious associates at that time were C. O. Strattou, President of the Uni­
health and relaxation to mental vigor. Christ’s displeasure—and the “carnal. B j p yVhite ftnd 8hter Stmn E Alexander Campbell, David S. Burnet, I
versity of the Pacific.
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The side-walk furnishes the best sensual, and develish,” of Paul’s dis­ Turpfcn presented themselves and Walter Scott, Thos. M. Allen, John T.
—Rev. C. F. Rei<i, recently appoint­
gust, arc put up to instruct ami lead were united in holy matrimony by Jones, John <». Kane, John T. Johnson,
means of recreation in the fresh air.
ed missiffijary to China faom Kentucky
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Talbot Fanning, J. J. Moss, W. K.
As lie passes along the street, his the people.
myself.
Conference, cannot, as contemplated,
This ", brother • was surely a.
Pendleton and James L. Barclay, the
attention is arrested by the man at
Your brother in Christ,
sad for China, February 1. Cause.
most of them dead, some of them still I
the forge, all covered with dust and Ci etan, whose portrait was drawn by i
J. M. H arris .
Failure to secure the requisite amount
living. Since the organization of the
soot, wielding the sledge oi shoeing Paul in Titus xii. I would advise |
of money. •
to study that verse C oquille C itv C oos C o ., O r .,
American Christian M issionary Society
ahorse; or, looking into the -<abinet that “ brother
—Governor Zebulon B. Vance, of
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Feb.
0,
1879.
long
and
well,
and
then
not
be
like
in 1849, there have been he’d twenty-
shop, he sees the man with browny
North
Carolina, recently united with
nine annual conventions. Of these,
arm pushing the plane. His face is the foolish man that “ beholdcth his Elder T. FCamjdiell:
a
Presbyterian
church in Raleigh.
We
have
just
closed
a
mealing
at
Bro. Challen attended twenty-one.
covered with perspiration and he looks natural face in a gloss, and then goeth t
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The
Religious
lieraid says there
Bro. Troy Shelley is preaching
wearied with labor. Ju it then he his way, and forgetteth what manner ' this ..place, continuing six days. Bro.
are
over
17,00(7
Baptists
in the city of
i
T.
M.
Morgan,of
Douglas
county,
kind
­
for the people at Princsville ; his wife
must step aside and give place to a of person he is.”
Richmond,
Va.
ly returning among us once more to ■ frequently takes his place in the pul­
B rother W ahcopum .
dandy who is passing. He sports a
—The Baptist (¡leaner, of North
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.^ftljcourage
us with his Godly counsels pit, and preaches good sermons. •
cane, a gold watch, a pair of kid
Carolina,
is dead The gleaning was
While other countries are suffering and cheer us with his genial smile,
gloves and wears a plug.
—The Shakers claim to have been thin, and the editor starved out.
The unsophisticated youth receives from famine, war and plagues, we of Once more, ready as in days «A yore
the inventors of metal ]>ens, and to
—Five Thousand dollars have been
orious
Oregon,
are
the
highly
favored
of
the
to
do
and
dare
for
the
glorious
Gospel
a lesson. He makes a comparison,
have first made them of brass in 1816. raised by subscription for the Sailor’s
Lord,
blessed
with
health,
peace
and
of
the
Kingdom.
unconsciously, it may be, yet surfely ;
—The First Presbyterian Church in
Our meetings were well attended . QainCy jy , ju8t completed at a coçt Home and church to be erected in
for in the simplicity of his mind he plenty. Do we cultivate the spirit of
Portland, Oregon
feejs that the man in fine clothes is gratitude, and ever offer thanks for by ordely and attentive hearers the of $60.000 was burned on the second
entire time, and just here let me say ( instant.
the gentleman ; while the men at the our mercies and blessings ?
forge and the bench are the black-
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