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M essenger . “GO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS.” — - ... MONMOUTH, OREGON; FRIDAY, SEPT. 19, 1879. VOL. IX. Pacific C hristian messenger , Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi anity, and the diffusion of general in formation. . Price Per Year, in Advance, 82.59 All business letters should be addfuased to T. F. Campbell, Editor, or Mary Htump, Publisher, Monmouth, Oregon. Advertisers will find this one of the best mediums on the Pacific Coast for making their business known. KAFKA Oí ABVEBriaUI&: 1 itti rip«» 1 Inch.......... H Col........... X Col........... HCol........... 1 Col............. $1 2 4 7 12 m I 9 M 00 $2 50 »4 7 4 00 50 7 00 12 00 20 oe 12 Oo 00 20 00 35 ( 0 eo 00 ov (0 0.M TYr $7 12 20 35 65 $12 20 35 65 120 00 00 00 0« 00 00 00 00 00 00 Notices in local column! 10 cents per line for each insertion. Yearlv advertisements on liberal terms. ProfeMional Cards (1 square) $12 per annum. Correspondence Paris Letter. (KEGCLAB COBBESPONDrXCE). P aris , Aug. 22, 1879. The Palais de l’lndustrie, in the Champs Elysees, enjoys very little peace. No sooner has one class of ob jects filled its walls to the satisfaction of viators than these are hurridly re moved to make way for another show. At the present movement an exhibi tion of what is styled science applied to-works of' industry occupies the greater portion of the space. If theo retically the title of the exhibition means something practically it means nothing at all, for specimens of every imaginable manufactured article are duly arranged side by side. The uni versal nature of the exhibition has been to distribute whatever interests it may possess over a great number of ____ _ various objects. Success under these circumstances can only be attained where the show is gigantic—such as the Champ de Mars last year. * As this, the Palais de l’lndusttie is merely an omnium gatherum— a bazaar with a band playing in the middle of it, and containing many refreshment bars, where drinks and eatables are sold et higher prices than those which obtain outside. There are many visitors nev ertheless, and some of the exhibits at- ■■ - - tract the usual crowd of loungers. The f praxinoscope, amongst others, is never deserted. This scientific toy has add- representes a little girl, dressed cap-a pie “a la Niniche,” is seen swimming in a lake. Every movement is gone through accurately and evenly, and ahe is far more graceful than the swimming dolls which attracted such attention at the Exhibition. The ef fect produced by a reflecting glass is very pretty. Then there is no lack of electric pens for writing and drawing, whilst spectacle and watch makers abound. One man sells watches that <lo not keep time, indeed, he has taken out all the works, and, convinced that time is money, he has so arranged his case that Napoleons, tsn-franc pieces, and sovereigns find their own proper places in three little heaps, the top most pieces ready for instant with drawal. I must warn your readers, however, that the gold pieces are not supplied by the ingenious inventor. In the tropical weather which is rag ing it is pleasant to watch the pro cess by which bottles of water are • frappe ”—that is to say, their con tents turned into ice. The proceed ing is simple, consequently iced water is common in Paris. The next stall contains bottles also, but filled with a popular liquor styled " Le Club.” It is difficult to imagine how science was applied to indust* y here unless it was in corking the bottles. Carriages, pottery, bedsteads, mirrors aud ladies dresses fill however, the greater part of the building; but a small space is reserved for life saving apparatus ex hibited by a French company, and two stalls are occupied by Chinamen set ting tea—on scientific principles no doubt. Just at the exit a clever in dustrial shows how science has been successfully invoked for producing soap bubbles. This exhibition can, however, hardly be considered as for warding to any great extent the in terest*. of industry. The Philosophy of a Giri’s Life. BY MBS. KU* MCSA1B WEIGHT. There is hardly a prettier girl than James Frederick’s sister Arabella; Bhe has lovely blue eyes, and flufly yellow hair, pink (jheeks, and little white hands. I confess to a great softness and spirit of toleration for Arabella, she has such a taking way- with her, especially when she seats herself on a hassock, and looks up in one’s face as if ready to receive, yea, imploring, all good council. How can I reconcile this softness with the hard manner of remark made by me this very day to dearest Arabella: “Arabella, Sir Wil liam Hamilton says that philosophy is the science of sufficient reason why you are existing ?” " Why,” remonstrates Arabella, " I was made and here I am. I had no thing to do with it, and the Ten Com mandments and the Catechism forbid my making away with myself, even if I inclined to dp so.” The girl has a certain quickness. . “ But who made you, my beloved Arabella ?” “ God," says Arabella, with great meekeess. “ And does God do anything aim less ? Has he not a good purpose in all his works ? Does he not make every thing for some use, the very best use of which its kind is capable ? He ma kes the flower in its beauty to charm his eye, and charm and instruct the human being who shall gaze upon it; he made it to live a perfect and use- ful flower. Tbe bird flies, sings, builds its nest, lives out its instincts, and- completes the whole duty of a bird. All these lesser-creations being that which they were made to be, and do ing that which they were made to do, fulfill their lot, and show good reason why they exist. As a moral, reason able, immortal being, Arabella, are you making the best of yourself, and justi fying God, if we may say so, in your creation ? If it had happened, my Arabella, that you had been & picture not a sentient woman, I could find no fault with you, you look pretty, and do fulfill the objects of a picture. Had you been a puppet you would be liv ing up to your - light; there are cer tain motions prescribed for you by so ciety, and you go system aticaly through with them. Were you a lay figure in in a milliner's window, ordained only exhibit clothes, there would be no tause of complaint, you do that untir ingly. Instead of this, you are a hu man being, therefore created primari ly to glorify God; how are you glori fying him ? You are a woman, and in virtue of this, from you are due to the world certaih sympathies and kindly deeds, you are a member of a community, and owe the exercise of holy charities and good example; you are part of a family, aid from you cer tain homely duties are to be expected; you are a young member of the church, and the church has a claim on your services. In all these relations which you hold, are you, my Arabella, justi fying God in having made you a re sponsible member of society, family, and church ? Arre you, as you are bound to do, making humanity, the community, the family, the church, so much the better for you their mem ber ?” “ Indeed,” said Arabella, looking quite terrified, “ I have never thought of owing anything in all these direc tions. As for a philosophy of my life. I have never had any but to drift along and enjoy myself as w ell as 1 could, as other folks do.” “ I hope,” I said, “that there are some folks who have a higher object in life.” “ And I have no objectiou to a high er object, and to perfecting a very ad mirable philosophy of my life, exhib iting the best possible reasons for my creation, if I knew how to set about it,” protested Arabella. “ If that is so, let me offer you a few suggestions, mere outlines of the track of mental research which you ought tq follow, in exploring for yourself the intention of your being, and present ing to the world most splendid proof of the reason and needs be of your ex istence. God does all things on a wise and predetermined plan, he elucidates his plan for us in the Scripture« in general principals, and the circumstan ces of our lives afford their more espe cial explication. The question for you Arabella, is not a question of capacity, it is not how great things you can do but how thoroughly you do your own best. We need not ask, have w? mors or less ability than our neighbor ? but are we doingour best as ourselves ? And now as incentive to this doing the best, and making the most of our selves, let the glory of God be our ob ject, and doing good to humanity the means of its attainment. Now what are some of the ways of doing good to our fellows for God’s sake ? “ First, there is the way of teaching, 'fie are all constantly learning from each other, we are all teachers and all learners, often most thoroughly so when we think the least about it. The inure,.then, that_.our_iiWU. minds and hearts are cultivated thv better shall we be able to teach others. We are not bound to be walking yicyclope- dias, like Macaulay, but to leain all that we can faithfully, and put it into circulation by word and work; let this thought inspire you to use your time in acquiring knowledge. We are all, daily, teachers by example. Sight, my Arabella, goes farther than sound; there will be hundreds in this world either helped or hindered by your ex ample. Another thing is, we are bound to justify our place in the hu man line by our sympathy. Youth should be the age' of sympathy, and yeti have noticed in youth a great carelessness of other’s feelings. To sympathize is every Christian’a busi- nesa, he learns it from his Lord. To sympathize is especially every wo man’s, business, thus to grow like Him by whose cradle ¿nd whose grave she held lonely watch. If you never do any thing else to show a rea son why you were created, it will be reason amply sufficient that you were never an ungracious listener either to the joys or griefs of others. Use well your time, use it in God’s service and in men's service, in worship and in work. Gather up into your basom all the good that you may, and run glad ly to dispense it to otheis. We hide our talent in a napkin, when we keep it all for ourselves. And so 1 think, my dear girl, that your life will make « ~ clear its philosophy, dr its sufficient reason, if you learn all the good you can, and use it in one way or another in teaching others, if you watch your self, and set such an example that you shall cross other lives like sunshine,; and not like shadow, if, by your ten- j der sympathy, you have borne other people’s burdens and so fulfilled the law of Christ, and if you have used your time in growing up yourself in holiness and comfort, and going gladly on errands of mercy in the service of otheis.— S.S. Time*. Mental Effects Resulting From Physical Injuries. Many instructive examples of the pervading mental effects of physical ; injury of the brain might be quoted,; but two or three, recently recorded,I will suffice. An American medical man was called one day to see a youth, aged eighteen, who had been struck down insensiilb by the kick of a horse There was a depressed fracture of the skull a little above the left temple. The skull was trephined; and the loose fragments of bone that pressed upon the brain were removed, where upon the jmtient came to his senses. The doctor thought it a good oppor tunity to make an experiment, as there was a hole in the skull through which he could easily make pressure nponthe brain. He asked the boy a question, and before there was time to1 answer it he pressed firmly with his finger upon the exposed brain. As long as the pressure was kept up the boy was mute, but the instant it was removed he made a reply, never sus pecting that he had not answered at once. Th(* experiment was repeated several times with precisely the same result, the boy’s thoughts being stop ped and started again on each occasion as easily and certainly as the engineer stops and starts his locomotive. On another occasion the same doc tor was called to see a groom who had been kicked on the head by a mare called Dolly, and whom he found quite insensible. There was a fracture of the skull, with depression of bone at the upper part of the fore head. As soon as the portion of bone which was pressing upon the brain was removed the patient called out with great energy, “ Whoa, Dolly! ’’ and then stared about him in blank amazement, asking: " Where is the mare ? M here am 1 1" Three hours had passed since the accident, during which the words which he was just going to utter when it happened had remained locked up, as they might have been locked up in the phono graph, to be let co the moment the obstructing pressure was removed. The patient did not remember, when he came to himself, that the mare had kicked him ; the last thing before he was insensible which he did remember was, that she wheeled her heels round and laid back her ears viciously.— D r . H enry M audsley , in Popular Science Monthly for September. —Robert Collegian American mis sionary institution in Constantinople, has graduated a large class. Ten young men delivered orations in Eng lish, French, Turkish and Bulgarian. Pres. Waahburne stated that, de-pite the disturbed- condition of the country the past two or three years, the col lege had a larger nuuiber of students than in the previous years. Send us a new subscriber. NO. 38. Weather Report for August, 1879 Daring August, 1879, there were 6 days during which rain fell with an aggregate of 1.79 in. of water, 21 clear and 4 cloudy days, other than those on which rain fell. The mean temperature for the month was 66.21°. Highest daily mean temperature for the month 74”, on the 9th. Lowest daily mean 55°, on the 27th. Mean temperature for the month at 2 o’clock p. m . 78 09’- Highest record of thermometer during the month 89°, at 2 o’clock p. m ., on the 15th. Lowest thermometer 54°, at 7 o’clock A. M , on the 24th. The prevailing winds for the month were from the North during 22 days, South 4 days, S. W. 5 days. On the 20th we were visited with rain which with succeeding rains and misty weather in a large measure suspended harvesting operations until the 29th. The rainfall was as fol lows. On the 20th, .70 in.; 21st, .06 in.; 23rd, .13 in.; 26th, .28 in.; 27th, .62 in.; 28th, .02 in. The greater part of that falling on the 27th fell during a heavy shower which passed , over here about 6 P. M., lasting about 15 minutes. During August, 1878, there were 3 days during which rain fell, with an aggregate of .19 in. of water, 24 clear and 4 cloudy days. Mean temperature for the month 65.43”. Highest daily 72°, on 27th. Lowest daily, 59°, on 21st. In August, 1877, there were 4 rainy days and .82 in of water. T. P earce . Eola, Sept. 1, 1879. The Power of Example. The history of the world is full of crimes and follies committed under the influence of the imitative instinct. In many cases so devoid of thought are the actors in these scenes as scarcely to bring them under the judgmentof responsible human beings. It is in fact no easy task to draw with any degree of accuracy the di viding line between folly and crime, especially when the exalted senti ments of patriotism or the fanaticism induced by the misapplication of religious dogma, or fervent appeals to the emotions, are the basis of certain wild proceedings; engaged in by as semblies of the intensely nervous, led by knaves or the self-deceived victim* of their own illusions. Under what category, for instance, should we place the "biting nuns” who ap peared in rapid succession in the con vents of Germany, Holland, and Rome ? This extended mania arose simply from the spontaneous act of one nun attempting to bite a com panion—immediately the whole sister hood fell to biting each other. The news of this extraordinary occurrence was told from place to place, and "biting nuns ” became a terror and a nuisance, over large portion^ of Eu rope in the fifteenth century; this mania proved irrepressible until ex haustion and reaction set in, termi nating its abnormal absurdities. In Fiance another foolish epidemic of imitation seized upon many of the conventual houses. A nun one day commenced to imitate the mewing of a cat, and incontinently the otht r sisters present fell to mewing. Finally the nuns took to mewing in Concert for hours at a time; persuasions and commands for once failed to produce ooerlience. The mewing nuisance continued unabated, until the whole sisterhood were threatened with the entrance of the military, who it was announced were ‘‘coining to whip them with iron rods.” Tbe fear of these rough chastisers finally effected a cure.—E. V ale B lake , in Popular . Science Monthly for September. i