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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY. AUG. 1, 1879.
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Reports from the Field.
statements. But he says that he ing face in our sanctum a few days
Correspondence.
help these men ? Shall we heed th»
knows that nearly all the church here ago. He looks as though he had seen
cries of the multitudes for the bread
S alem , July 21, 1879.
D amascus , C lackamas C o ., O r . had stock. Now that is nearly as far considerable hard work.
of life ? Are you willing and ready
Dear
Bro:
Campbell
:
Dear Bro. Campbell: ,
from the mark as the others.
—Bro. J. B. Allen succeeds Bro. S.
to do your part ? If you are a preach­
I received the ^enclosed off’Bro. er or, an elder of the Church, will yoa
I held a meeting in June for the
Now Bro, Campbell, it grieves us M. Atwater at Sprinfield, Ill., Bro.
Green, and have been so busy I have ask your congregation to contribute
brethren at Rock Creek, in this to thus have to speak so plainly, and Atwater’s address is Oberlin, Ohio.
forgotten
to send it o.ver. He wants to our treasury ? No matter if your
county; the result was, seven made We leave Argus here. We do not ex­
—Bro. Shackleford, of Lexington,
you
to
publish
in M essenger .
that good confession, and were buried' pect to notice him further; we can Ky., is preaching at Jacksonville, Ill.,
collection is small, send it on ! We
The
“
returns
” to me have come in do not ask large amounts from any,
in baptism and arose to walk in a bear his misrepresentation, we have» temporarily.
new life.
, .
borne much, and we can bear more ’ —Bro. Geo. E. Flower, we are glad very slowly. I don’t care to publish individual, or congregation, but siqall
• There were others who were almost for the cause. We have too much to'learn, is improving in health, bo any little batch, and -if the brethren amounts from the multitude.
persuaded to be Christians.
May pulling down and contention amongst that, he thinks he will be able to re­ are so indifferent about it that they
We are also making as much use of
wont .send the information, I can’t good'tracts as our means will allow.
God in his infinite mercy grant to us, especially through our papers. We sume his work soon.
them time, space and opportunity of do not show forth the fruits of the
—Prof. S. P. Lucy, of the. Orphan help it, neither can I publish it
.but our..“ Tract. Fund" is nearly - ex.------
In great love your Bro^ . ~
, J making iiieir peace with God.
spirit, which is love, joy, peace, long- School, at Midway Ky., has done a
hausteff. We ask contributions to
S. C. A dams . ’ enable us to circulate more tracts.
Yours in the one hope,
suffering, Ac. Neither are we laying good work in his field of labor, during
G. P. R ich .
up treasure in heaven when we have the past year. He is proving to be a
I submit these considerations to you
C incinnati , O., June 18, 1879.
the opposite spirit, which is envy, Very successful educator.
with the fervent desire that you will
B rownsville , O r , July 26, 1879. surmising, evil speaking, Ac. Let us
—Bro. W. B. Young is in the roman­ Dear Bro. Adams:
do gll you can for this work, which i*
I enclose some papers having re­ the Lord's work, through our treasu­
Bro. Campbell:
forget those things
that
are tic regions of Loveland, Col., and al­
The church at this flace numbers behind and press on toward the mark most going into ecstacies over the ference to statistics. I wish you would ry of the church. The anniversary of
about fifty-five members.
of the prize of the high calling that is many good and beautiful things he is help me from Oregon. It might be the General Convention will be held
Bros. McCorkle and Whitney closed in Christ Jesus. If anything is love­ Seeing there. He invites tired preach­ well to have the blank and accom­ this year, the Lord willing, in the city
panying circular inserted in the P. C. of Bloomington, Ill, beginning on
a meeting here on the 13th inst, of ly, if anything is pure, if anything ip- ers, no>t loafers, to call on him.
M essenger . If you think so please Thursday, October 23, 1879.
nine days duration, with fourteen ad­ true think on these things.
(From the Record and Evangelist,)
send
it to the editor with ypur en­
ditions to the church.
Bro. Taylor was called, by sickness
—There is talk of starting a new
Please answer this letter and oblige
o
Bro. McCorkle will preach in the in his family, to Texas. He writes paper at St. Joseph, Mo., intended es­ dorsement. I see that you are mak­ me. Address neat 180 Elm Street,
grbve heTe on the second Sunday in that he will return to Santa Rosa as pecially for the brethren of Kansas, ing an effort in the same direction. Cincinnati, Ohio.
next month, two sermons, and in the soon as possible.
For the Board of Managers,
and upper Missouri valley.
# ij.- Uniformity is desirable in this matter,
E. M.-G reen ,
• /
Bro. Wm. Briggs has been preach­
church house on Saturday evening
—Bro. Wm. Winters, lately immer­ hence I send blank such as I am
Corresponding
Secretary.
using.
ing at Guernevile, in this county, with sed two persons at Carman school
before.
t
Yours truly,
good success ; a large number of ad­ house Johnson Co. Bro. Winters is
Yours, ;
OFFICE OF THE GENERAL CHRISTIAN
F. M. G reen .
ditions ; he has organized a church doing a good work.
J. W. C ole .
MISSIONARY CONVENTION.
there.
—The Christian Woman’s Board of OFFICE OF THE GENERAL CHRISTIAN
C incinnati , O., June 16, 1879.
MISSIONARY CONVENTION. *
- In hope,
A rroyo G randa , C al ., -—3="
Missions has decided to send a mis­
Dear Brother :
C incinnati , O., June 16,1879.
J ames F ulton .
July 13, 1879.
sionary to Paris to aid the De Lau-
It is very desirable that the Church
Dear
Brother
:
Bro. Camdbell:
nays. This is wise. Far better to do
statistics of the Christian (Disciple)
Ths California State Meeting.
I address you in behalf of the home
JL Since my last report. I have moved
work in a center of nations than in
brotherhood in the United State*
missionary work, as it is represented should be accurately and fully ob­
to the Arroyo Granda, San Luis Obispo * The Annual State Meeting of the an out of the way island.
by the General Christian Missionary
county, Cal. This will be my address Disciples in California will be held at
tained. It is desirable—
General
Church
News.
Convention.
for the future instead of Paso Robles. Yountville, • Napa county, and will
1. Because we have never yet had
I believe that you are in favor of anything like an accurate showing of
—Rev. Francis Cooke died at the
On the fourth Lord’s day of June commence on Friday, September 19,
five were added to the Arroyo Granda 1879, at 11 o'clock. Reports received Sisters’ Hospital, Buffalo, N. H, June the cooperation of individuals and df our memliership, either in its numbers
churches for missionary work; The I
congregation; four by letter and one from various sources, warrants the 2.
or strength. For al^out twenty year*
—The Catholics of Amsterdam, General Convention is founded upon we have guessed that we were about
by confession and baptism.
committee of arrangements in saying
On the first Lord’s day in July two to the brethren, that there will be a Holland, have nineteen churches, six­ this idea, and is the only agency five hundred thousand.
were added to the Estrella congrega­ large attendance, perhaps larger than ty-nine priests, and are themselves among the Disciples of Christ prepar­
2. That we may be correctly repre­
ed to do missionary work in the “re­
65,000 in number.
has been for years.
tion.
sented, both in name and number, in
Yours in Christ,
—The Sunday school convention of gions beyond” the limits of oua largest the United States Census of 1880.
Ample camping arrangements will
D. G. W right .
be provided as usual, and brethren Adams county, Iowa, was held in Cor­ membership; i. e., in Ohio, Indiana,
There are other reasons, but these
need have no fears of any extraor­ ning, June 17, 18. The attendance Illinois, Kentucky vnd Missouri. 'Its are the principal. At the General
B rownsville , O r ., July 25,1879. dinary expense, because of the “new was large, and 53 schools reported,— organization is simple, and its expen-
pl*
Bro. Campbell: '
ses
are
not
great.
The
only
person
an
increase
of
18
over
last
year.
There
departure ” taken last year, to estab­
ber 23-26, 1878, a committee of five
The annual meeting of the Church lish a pay table. We can assure the is but one school in the county that who receives anything for his services
was appointed “ to collect the statis­
•f Christ in this county closed on the brethren who desire to attend that does not use the International les­ is the Corresponding Secretary, who,
tics of our people, and prepare a
22nd ult.
in aedition to a correspondence of statement of them, to be inserted in
they can live as cheap there as at sons.
Five churches were represented, home.
—The recent Georgia state Sunday over two thousand letters a year, is in the United States Census in 1880.”
viz.: Harrisburg, Halsey, Browns­
Napa valley is one of the most school convention, at Macon, May 30, the field almost constantly, preaching That committee consists of F. M.
ville, Oak Creek and Central, with an beautiful and picturesque vallies in 31, was the fifth state convention. on an average four sermons a week.
Green, J. B. Briney, R. Moffett, Elias
aggregate membership of 253. Scio, California, it abounds with all The previous conventions were at His work is to encourage brethren,
Sias, and L. L. Carpenter.
Mt. Pleasant and Calipoia not heard varieties of the most delicious fruits, Union Point, May 1875; De­ and to inspire churches to better and
The committee is anxious to make
from.
the climate is unsurpassed and the catur, if ay, 1876 ; Athens, August, nobler efforts in behalf of the kingdom a report that will be creditable and of
Bros. H. M. Waller, McCorkle, Ro­ water most excellent, so that brethren 1877; and La Grange, August, 1878. of God.
permanent value.
berts, and others were present, and who have been in the habit of taking
I am glad to say to you that our
•—At the fourteeiifth Iowa state
Yours truly,
wielded the sword of the spirit with an annual “ camping trip ” for their Sunday school convention, held at missionary work is prospering this
F. M. G reen , Cor. Sec’y.
mighty power and effect. Twenty- health will find this a most excellent Mason city, June 10-12. 53 counties, year; but, as “ money is the sinews of
C incinnati , O., June 13,1879.
two additions was the visible result, opportunity to recuperate spiritually out of 99, were reported to be organ­ war,” and as our work can not be
Dear
Brother:
but the brethren were strengthened as well as physically^
ized ; 10 were reported as not organ­ prosecuted without money, I make
I
desire
your aid in obtaining the
and encouraged, and many more re­
ized; and 36 were not reported. It this appeal for help for our treasury.
E. B. W are ,
statistics
of the churches in your
joiced to hear the Gospel in its sim­
was recommende<l that district organ­
The following brethren are working
Com. on Cor.
county
or
district, according to the
plicity and purity.
izations be continued. and encouraged in our present mission field, more or
Church
News.
blank
I
enc
’ose. If you can, I am
The next annual meeting will be
by both state and county organiza­ less of their time, viz: Wm. Ilerring-
sure
that
you
will help me. There
held at Brownsville, commencing on
tonand J. M. Wood, in Dakota ; R. C.
tions.
(From the Christian.y
are
two
ways
in
which you can help
Friday before the third Sunday in
Barrow, in Nebraska ; J. F. Berry, in
—Last Lord’s day Bro. T. P. Haley
• A rroyo G randa , C al ,
June next, at which time it is sin­ filled the pulpit at Central Church,
Kansas ; D. A. Quick, jn Minnesota ; me. (1) You can send me a list of the
.
July 13, 1879.
cerely hoped that all the churches in this city. The first Church brethren
J. R. Biggs, in Tennessee; H. J. Bray­ churches in your county or district
Bro. Campbell:
with the name of the church clerk,
the county will be represented.
had been cleaning and repairing their
The drouth prevailing on the Es­ boy, in Florida; J. A. Perdue, in elder ®r preacher, And I will send
Your brother,
house and did not get it ready for trella Plains caused me to leave my Georgia; and J. L. Bums, in South
blanks to them : or, (2) I will send to
J. W. C ole .
meeting.
home. I return once per month to Carolina. These are good men, and you a package of blanks which you
—The church at Monmouth, Ill, preach to the faithful few. I am doing all they can with the limited
The Church at Santa Rosa.
can mail to the proper persons. Will
has given their pastor, Bro. Cory, a broken up, and have a large family to means that we can appropriate them.
you help me ! If so, in which of the
unanimous call to remain with them support. I have to work with my Each of them could" do more than he
Bro. Campbell :
above
wsji .
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In the M essenger of July 18th we another year. This is—the third year hands through the week at such work does if we were able to more complete­
Let
me
hear
from
you
soon,
as time
have some more items from Argus. for Bro. C. The church is at peace as 1 can get to do, and preach on Sun­ ly command his time. Since Novem­ is precious. If you cannot attend to
While he was writing these in rela­ and prosperous.
day ; ride my own horse to my ap­ ber 1, 1878, they have had in their this please write me who will.
—Kentucky has two Sunday school pointments. I have had to abandon vaoious fields of labor an aggregate of
tion to Santa Rosa he must have been
F. M. G reen , Cor. Sec’y.,,
laboring under something worse than evangelists in the persons of C. C. some of my appointments because of two hundred and fifty additions t* the
G. C. M. Convention.
nightmare. He says he has been in­ Cline and P. H. Duncan. This means distance, where good could be done Church. Some of them aie away
180 Elm St., Cincinnatti, Ohio.
from their homes nearly all their
formed so and so, and it is said so end success not only in the Sunday schools by a church missionary who could
time. They are sacrificing the com­
The True Way to Invigorate.
of
that
State,
but
in
the
churches
also.
so. Now, Bro. Argus, should you not
locate there.
forts
of
home,
the
pleasures
of
a
quiet
Yours,
be assured that these things are true Go on, brethren, in the right way, and
The true way to invigorate • feeble Sys­
life, etc, for the sake of the perishing tem
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ia to infuse activity into the operation*
before you publish them as facts ? may the Lord bless you.
multitudes.
of the stomach, that wondrous alemble ia
—Bro. D. R. Dungan is lecturing on
There is so many misstatements in
Obituary.
Every day, and from every quarter, which the food is transmitted.into the con­
stituents of blood, the chief element of our
your items we are forced to the con­ the following subjects:
Died, J udo 28, 1879, Bro. John Fowler, the cry cornua to uj, from some Mace­ vitality. Hoetetter's Stomach Bitters, be­
1.
Darwinism.
2.
God
in
Nature.
clusion that you will it so.
•gad 72 veers, 3 months and 16 days.
donian : " Come over and help us f cause it accomplishes this end, is greatly
be preferred to many so called tonic*,
I will notice but one or two items. 3. The Claims of Free Thought 4.
Bro. Fowler has bten a member of the One of our missionaries writes as fol­ to
nseful
indeed as apetizers, but inoperative
The
Claims
of
ChristiAnity.
5.
In
­
Neither. J. W. Fulton, who wrote
church nearly 50 years, and was one of lows ;
"February 4t 1870.—Came as aids to digestion and assimulation.
gersoll
’
s
Mistakes
of
Moses.
6.
Sev
­
the elders of the Arroyo Granda congre­
the other communication, nor myself,
This sterling cordial, while it invigorate*
gation. The loss to the eburoh is great; home to day and leave to-morrow. the stomach, healthfully stimulates th*
nor any of the Fultons here, own any eral Lectures on Temperance.
liver and bowels, ensuring the escap*
—Bro. J. H. Hamilton, formerly but osr loss is his gain. He breathed Lis Urgent appeals from many places through the regular channels of effete and
stock in the McMillen mines, or have
last
breath
in
prayer,
and
gave
thanks
to
rawaited
me
here.
Wish
I
were
six
nselees matter thrown off by the system,
owned any lately. Argus statement pastor of Park Christian Chuch, New God that the time of his departure had
men at least. Jaunary: thirty-one which is thus purified as well as invigor­
Albany,
Ind,
has
been
called
to
the
to the contrary, notwithstanding but
ated by it. Its tonic influences is soon
ooms. Cause, liver oomplaint and old discourses; sixteen additions.”
made more active and regular discharge of
he was informed so, and nearly all Church in Little Rock, Ark.
age. He leaves a large cirole of relations
every physical function, and it baa tho
This
is
only
a
sample
of
a
hundred
—
Our
Evangelist
for
S.
E.
Mo,
in California.
he has written about us, from first
» fleet of rendering the ayttem
letters in my possession. Shall we further
D. G. W sioht .
assailable by melari d epidemics.
fc ’asf, was founded on erroneous Bro. T E. Sh'j’hcrd showed his smil-
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