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About Pacific Christian messenger. (Monmouth, Or.) 1877-1881 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1879)
111 ■ HI fäs W PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1879. I ' ii ; into each day and brought her crocheting. She we meet with a man or a ponton i V crocheting,|he deaf lit) btwy . wonder in •ailed _ it ____ _ ___ | almost never disappoints us, yvhc Me>y, in.i^eadipg against Judg- ' Th¡"0rel¡{ __________ « I,|l ten to a its are still.,,tfive-year-old, :;but ' <he thd it with a always Abounding in the worljjsf- of knti'aml more than one ment, haa always hall dm« eloqaene? A new ‘gdvry ki#il(* ground the spool and foar pins. Straightway LooL who is uiore anxiou^to bexi, temper has been permanently soured in her tears than on her tongiie. The (,^rone> 8UCh as archangels had never every little girl in our jneighborhood than to be rich, and who can ask Qod’s throne, auch divine attributes are perfect. Binis Heen before. Mercv and Justice are caught the contagion. Yards of rain blessing on the bitterest cup of trial— soured by the process. The parents - a violation of God’s law, and penalty reconciled; they clasp hands, and bow-looking strings hung from the when we meet such a disciple, we al tease the children and the children is inevitable. But Mercy, tender and bow together before the throne. The tables and work-baskets, or lay in ways know that he or she is fed from tease each other, till the passionate are --------patient, forever—pfoada for sinners. multitudes of the heavenly host fall I meshe* upon the floor. This epidemic the unfailing well. Their roots pene made furious, the meek tearful, the She finds argument to urge in reply “ down ifi adoration before the; wond was a short duration. This was not trate to the well, and, therefore leaves humble craven, the insensitive callous,, and the quiet morose. If one child to all ths stern' declarations of Jus rous Deliverer. Is it possible 7 Yes, variety enough to please or entertain. never wither... tice. In manifold ways will this inward has a certain ungainly habit—conse Justice herself, vyhile holding Mercy’s A lamp-mat or two was the result of Mercy magnifies the grace of God hand, and looking into the Savior’s l this ; then the card- board fever set in. fountain of conscious religion make quent, perhaps, on a physical defect— in human redemption. Mercy smiles face, weeps for the first time. This raged for a long time, say ten or itself visible. We detect it in the as tlxe peering of short sight, or the ’ • in the face of an offended Sovereign, Then, suddenly, while both worlds’ twelve days. At any time during the merchant or the banker, who gives limp of lameness; if it is absent or because the heart has found an ad advocates were bowed in exultant ; day one might see the victim with Christ the key of his iron safe, and dreamy or clumsy; those ►who are vocate, an inteicessor, and a Savior. tears, suddenly, bursting iron/ the > their little boxes going to “ visit.’’ never puts, there a dishonest dollar. given to the bad habit of teasing, Justice demands that penalty shall lips of a great multitude,' there lang ; More’ card-receivers and photograph- We see it in the legislator, who holds neyer let it alone. No callaw cygnet be enforced against sin ; for sin is a through heaven a song, like the i holders sprang into existence; while that one upright man with God on his was ever more cruelly pecked at by wilful violation of the law of life and vsice of many’ w’ateis, like many match-boxes with scratch-my-back side is always in the majority. We the full-fledged ducks than is the poor ' order. Sin is open defianee of an in thunderings and harpers harping on dangling to their sides hung in every recognize it in the minister who cares u<jly duckling of the nursery ; and un finitely perfect and glorious God— their harps. "Hallelujah! O the room. Air-castles, and fairy pagodas more for souls than salary—more about less that cruel play is stopped by the against goodness and love. 'Crime is depth of the riches, both of the wis swung in every comer, and there were his prayer meeting than Kis popularity- authorities, the mischief of a life is proportional to the Being offended; dom and knowledge of tlod ! How more watch-cases then there were We see it in the fearless young man wrought. Nothing, indeed, in a house and punishment must bear correspon unsearchable are His judgments, and watches to put into them. How the who would rather endure his comrade’s demands more careful overlooking and dence to the transgression. There is His ways past finding out.” A just little fingers worked, and how the sneers than his Savior’s frown ; in the more vigorous and judicious suppress no other rule by which to maintain God and yet a .Savior! Jehovah and bright eyes sparkled over their labors young maiden who obey« Jesus rath ing than this habit of teasing indulg harmony in the government of the Jesus ! " Righteousness and Peace of love .' Do not think that these epi er than fashion. I sometimes detect ed in by the members of a family one universe. “ The wages of sin is have kissed each other.” “ Mercy re- demics followed each other in very this well spring of cheerful piety in the with the other ; for the sport of one is )» death.” Man’s punishment grows joiceth against Judgment.” quick succession. Theie were inter faithful mother whose dailt walk here again emphatically death to the out of the very sin he has committed- And thence came the glad news as vals of weeks when they were free to with God is a perennial poweifin her other ; and when you have broken the It is the extinction of the good within an angel song to the shepherds and to clamber up the grape-arbor, or swing household. There are poverty strick finer nature that lies in every soul, him, the confusion of faculties and the world. The Great Messenger from the apple-boughs, or chase butter en homes in this city where grows the how will you mend it ? But—it* does affections, and the destruction of hope leaves His glory benind and all His flies by the day fire-flies by evening’s plant of contentment as sweet and not answer to be too sensitive and to itself. Sin knows no limitation of wealth, and liegins His redemptive twilight. Sometimes the poor, neglect green as the geranium, which catches make >_njartydoom out of a little - reign. It ruins even to the end, and work as a Babe of Bethlehem. ed dollies would be taken up and tend the morning sun in the window case harmless play that means to do no one mortgages the immortality to the Now Mercy has found a new ed while their mamma’s played ,‘lady” ment. There are all Christians who any hurt. The only way in which to second death. It is the kindling of voice. Now Mercy prevails. Every with their pin-backs and trails. never blockade, never disgrace their meet those who make teasing in a evil passions, and the rush and waste where she speaks soothingly to humai? Oh, haj>py, careless days I And oh, profession, never run dry. They are manner a profession, is with perfect • . good humor and serenity. To be cross of every virtue. < woe. Everywhere she calls men to mothers, what rich times are these for fed from the well. Every angel knows the jienalty of seek salvation. She visits loathsome creeping right into your little girls’ Hence comes a practical hint for all or tearful is to lay yourself open to sin. The righteous declaration of law places, she seeks the outcast, the hearts. Let us get our card-board those churches which are thirsting for worse assaults; for the teaser only has gone forth to all created worlds. l>oor, the lowest down and furthest and Worsted, or splints, or whatever revival -blessings. Are you suffering wants to know which place is most It has rolled as thunder-music through out, and most miserable of the human it may be, ard nurse them right from a parching drought ? Then fill up vulnerable, and where he can best all of heaven’s arches; " the soul that race, and she. eveimcre speaks in through these epidemics. How tender* your souls afresh from the fulness of wound you. Give him bis vantaga- sinneth it shall die.” Man pardoned, tender tones and looks through tears ly w e would care for them if it weré 'Christ. As sdon as you begin to draw gfound, and he will use it to your dis his sin unpunished, even favored and of pity. Blessed Mercy! Blessed measles or any other disease peculiar up the living waters from the well comfiture ; mask your weak places and pitied for violating law, the founda Jesus!— Methodist Recorder. to childhood. Why not care for them there will be an overflow of converting he is powerless. This is a lesson which tions of the divine government are through these bursts of childish fan influences among the congregations the young find it difficult to learn, but G-irls’- Epidemics. ~ utterly destroyed ; the eternal throne cies ? Why not work with them, sug and ‘the community.— Rev. Theo. L. the sooner it is learned, and the more thoroughly practiced, the better for is dishonored; the confidence of angels Some one in the “ Homo Circle ” gesting, teaching and guiding ? Let Cuyler, in Evangelist. them and the worse for their assailants is shattered ; the veracity’ of the In once wrote about boys’ epidemics. the new dress, or the baking, or the The duty of communing with one’s It is, in fact, a lesson on desirability finite is broken, and all the moral Not mumps, or measles, or scarlet iorning wait. It will be all the same universe, as the tidings shail extend, fever; but marbles, tops, kites the next year. But it will not be the own heart, we fear, is sadly neglected for good temper, which we all find must be confused; and rebellion begin and ball epidemics. Observation same with these little girls. Every in thia busy, bustling', restless age. We about the best friend and the most in every world. If one sinner may has shown me that epidemics are year lessens their interest and enthus- do not stop long enough to hear our satisfactory defender to be had on our escape, then may another, and an not confined to boy’s, but are very iasnd in these little fancies, and also own heart beat in the solemn hush of way through life. other, until the human race would common among the little girls also, essens our chances for catching the solitude. We frequently know as little A Valuable Table. become a reckless mob, and all heaven Not developing themselves under any ittle bursts of confidences, and tender of ourselves as our neighbors. In some ' stand appalled. The throne would be of the above-named diseases, but at nesses, and endearments. Then when noted institution of which we have To aid farmers in arriving at accu undermined ; the intelligent creation tacking the victim in the same man the years'»hall have transformed these read, the students were required to be racy in estimating the amount of land would be blinded into infernal chaos ner. We have had them at our house our little daughters into women, they alone one hour each day for meditation in different fields under cultivation,the forever. this year. First it was painting. Every will seek for no better confidante than and self-examination. To talk with following table is given :— Yes, there is a law. And as long spare penny went for the little, long that mother, who shared their childish one’s self and question our own heart Five yards wide by 9G8 long con as law is law, disloyalty must be boxes containing the necessary articles joys, and was herself interested in all is very profitable. That we have the tains an acre. punished as a crime. for daubing. Boxes of paints were on that pertained to their happiness.— power to look at ourselves, criticise Ten yards wide by 481 long con The sinner cannot be released. every window-sill, every table and A rthur's Maqazi nc. our own acts, pry into the deepest tains an-acre. Divine penalties spring from principles everywhere. Wood-cuts in the old secrets of our own consciousness, is a Twenty yards wide by 242 long con Fed From the Well. that underlie the very foundations of superanuated school-books were freely wonderful endowment. Are we not tains an acre. the universe and all it holds. The only reason wliyXany true conscious at times of a certain degree embellished; and, I regret to say, Forty yards wide by 121 long con This is the argument of Justice. < istian of indignation towards ourselves on tains an acre. some of the more modern ones w’ere Christian continues to be t Chi Mercy hears and is silent in her similarly adorned. The neighbor’s is that the well-spring of Ins soul does account of certain acts ? Who is it that Seventy yards wide by 69 1-2 long tears. Even Mercy is convinced that girls caught the disease too, and for not run dry. Jesus is within him ‘ a ia indignant? Who is it that gave con tai ng an acre. favor to the sinner would be cruelty awhile it seemed as though a new or well of water springing up into ever cause for the indignation ? Herein is a Eighty yards wide by 62 1-2 long to the entire creation besides. Justice der of artists was about to be given to lasting life.” People, could always mystery. Is it conscience finding contains an acre. is firm ; and Mercy bows and weeps. the world. Animals, birds and flowers predict how Paul would act in any fault with the will for some of its de Sixty feet wide by ,726 long contains At this juncture, anather scene were grouped indiscriminately together emergency, because the reigning princi cisions ? Certain it is that the plead an acre. arrests our imagination. Out fronf and stared at you from every direc ple with’n was always the same. " The ings of conscience are often unheeded One hundred and ten feet wide by the inaccessible light. which girdles tion. But just as they were reaching love of Christ constraineth me.” “ His amid the clamor and tumult of the 297 long contains an acre. the- throne and stretches far back a degree of jierfection in rfwxart, here glorious soul was always fod from the passions. It is in the still hour that Two hundred and twenty feet wide into mysterious intensity of bright another disease breaks out. -This time well, Jld ;he well was very deep. we can best hear the plaints and up- by 1S1 12 long contains an acre. ness, a Light of lights, before which it was making picture frames ofsplints, It was the Christ in Edward Pay- braidings of conscience for this disre Four hundred and forty feet wide suns grow dim and cease to shine— straw or shavings. Every decent son that gave him his pulpit power ; gard of its chartered rights and prero by 99 long contains an acre. out from die perspectives of eternity almanac cut, every prize-package it was Christ within them which sent gatives. —from the Beginning, comes a Per- chromo, every illuminated advertise stout old Livingstone to die amid the He that is wise will imitate the ex- A S olemn C harge .—" Before God ___ .«Qnpge, jj Jm-Ww. beautifo.1. ment waa adorned with a frame- of junglet» of- dark Africa; arid • Wnr. ample of the Master, who and man, befofe the churcY and the than Mercy in her white robes and some sort, and was soon dangling on Burns to preach salvation to the solitude. He will listen, attentively, world, I impeach Intemperance. 1 her unselfish tears, more majestic the wall. Baskets, card-racks, photo Chinamen. This is the secret of the at such times, to the voice of con charge it with the murder of innumera than invincible Justice indeed, with graph-holders, and dear knows what perseverance of genuine Christians. science, and t<? the testimony of his ble souls. In this country blessed a divine dignity which He seems to all, met the eye at every turn. One They hold out for the simple reason own consciousness, as to what he in with freedom and plenty, the Word of c: v wear as the highest crown of eternal was almost afraid to go to sleep for that Jesus (who dwells within them) tended to be, and to what he isr God and the liberties of true religion, royalty—He comes ! With the An fear of waking up with one's head in i holds out. The fountain -head of all ... A — ....... — I charge it as the cause—whatever be ■ «p cient of Days He had dwelt forever, a splint frame. It would be well if prayer and politics their source elsewhere—of almost all holy affections, and all benevolent more to do with each othor. If we as one brought up with Him—a Alter this came the scrap-book deeds, and all self denials and honest had prayed fovgood men, then, to rule over the poverty, and almost all the crime, bosom personality with Himself. mania ; and, oh, the ransacking among sacrifices for the right, is down in the- »•> we might sight be more careful that good and almost all the misery, and almost men are nomioated and voted for. Fath With inexpressible pity in His‘ old newspapers and magazines that very depths of the heart. Because er Taylor, the well-remembered seaman's all the ignorance, and almost all the face, He approaches the Father dfr all took place then ! And, oh, the paste Christ lives, they live also. You could preacher of boston, was, in bis day, very irreligion, that disgrace and afflict the as to bis preferences, It was land. ‘I am not mad most noble and says : " On me be the penalty. that lay in white lines over everything) no more exhaust the grace of a John outspoken oh the occasion of au exciting contest in Festus. I speak the words of truth * In the voluirfHof the Book it is writ- And, oh, the old blank-books that were Wesley or a John Newton, or (in our which temperance was an obaorbing and soberness. I do, in my conscience . ten of me, Lo, I cerne, and here I am. resurrected, only to be poked away, day) of a John Todd or a Johnny Vas question, sad be wrestled with the Lord' believe that these intoxicating stimu in prayer: "O Lord! give us good nien to I will die for sinners. 1 will drink half scrap-book and half blank-book, sar than you could pymp the Hudson rufi- over ua—pure meo who fear thee, re lants have sunk into perdition more the bitter oup prepared for man. to be called out when the fever should dry in the Highlands. What a pro ligious men, men whom we can trust, men men and women than found a grave who—Pabaw I O Lord! what the use of The law shall be honored, and man rage again ! I think this mania would digious idea that is in the apostles veering and hauling and boxing round the in that deluge which swept over the have lasted longer only a little girl I prayer—" that we might be filled with compas»?- give ris Geo. N. Briggs for highest hill-tops; engulfirig a world, of shall be redeemed !’’ govner. Amen'' And the player was whieh but eight were saved.'*—Z>r. Now see: "Justice and Mercy from another neighborhood came one I the fullness of God F When, therefore, answered. Guthrie. Mercy’s Victory t r I 4 r r X
