PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, OCT. 3. 1879.
And led off from the path of true charity.
The Two Ways.
In the broad road many pitfatls do lay
plaining at my lot in life, although it with the minds of men, that ultimate
Perplexities of This Life,
To ensuare the traveler on each day.
Enter ys in at the straight gate; for wide is .
is hard and rough, and as a good old and supremest law of the universe, tbe “ gale,
and broad u the way that leadath to des­ Bat the strait gate and the narrow way
keep,
and many there be which go in thereat;
nruuna’is or sons or my own urr.
father in Israel that in like manner the law of righteousness, for which i traction
I
because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way And bis word will be a light to yoar feet :
“ .
*
became broken up, remarked, that the planets and the stars were build- i that leadeth unto life, and few there be that dud A pillbr by day and light by night.
J ’
_
,
I was born in Buchanan county, when _____
While in the great " warfa.e" we valiant­
man's means was gone he ed ; she glorifies herself and she it."
B kbxon on tbe M oist .
Mo., in the year of 1842. When .’
ly fight.
glorifies
God
in
that
sublime
minis
­
On
a
mountain's
summit
in
Capernaum
’
s
was both without friends and influ­
Many will some from this broad Sinful
fifteen years old my father settled in ence for doing good.” His words
plain,
u
roa«l,
try
Where the Galilee heaves her surging And claim
a seat at the right band of God.
Kansas, and it being newly settled sounded liko folly, but by experience
Sympathy in woman comes nearest
main,
That they have done wonders in time of
there were no schools there until after
to the heart of Christ ; sympathy for The Savior set in His wisdom profound.
I find it too true.
And taught the multitudes that stood When need.
in truth and fact ’twae a hellish
I was of age, consequently my educa­
Our Savior had not the where­ the erring, for the sick and suffering,
around.
deed.
.
,
tional advantages were very poor. abouts to lay his head, and*precious for the down-trodden ; sympathy His disciples first were called to his side, Bill they
who enter that glorious abode.
To
learn
their
duty
and
to
hear
him
obide.
My father was poor, and it Required a few stood by him in his deep poverty. even for the sinful, if they be penitent. Z nd he opened His mouth «nd these things Are not every one who aayeth Lord 1 Lord !’
But he who shall do his misters will,
number of years of hard labor to make Heaven is propitious and our struggle That is the power which she needs to
„
taught
Shall triumphantly stAud on ** Zion’»
As
the
Master
can
teach,
with
wisdom
a farm and accumulate property.. .
hill.”
in this world will soon be ended, contribute to human society. Her
fraught ; ’
The sound of the Gospel after the when the poor preacher that is cen­ sympathy is the heart-ray combined Gems of truth, of greater value than gold Then my yonng friends, if yon’d be truly
wise,
primitive order was not heard among sured, and distrusted, and held in with the light-ray in the perfect sun­ From a mine of wealth—of treasures un­ And dwell in the world far beyond the*
told.
skies
us; but fortunately ai the age of disrepute on account of poverty, will beam, and wherever it goes, their 'Twas a sermon of truth with wisdom fill­
I beg yon be not like that “ foolish man,*'"
ed,
eighteen I began to faithfully and be clothed in immortality. Then his flower charities, asylums, and all in­
More learned than that in which Grecians “ Who bnilt his house on the uncertain
sand."
prayerfully study the New Testa­ aching heart will be at peace forever. stitutions of human benevolence
were (killed.
For winds and floods will come, and yonTH
Not
man's
wisdom
which
is
a
foolish
ment, and being so enamored by the No more of the cold realities of this spring naturally from it, as the flowers
lose all
thing,
simplicity of its leaching in its un- world to contend with nor the un­ from the sod which the sun has Compared with wisdom that Jesus did Wit^i an awful crush in a terrible fall.
Then to-day be ye wise and bnild on the
bring,
contanimating. purity as the hum­ godly frowns of the persecuting warmed, and as the blooms of the
rock,
May this sermon grand be onr constant 1
\V here neither floods or flames can ever-
ming bird feasts upon the sweet
orchard on the distant hillside. More
gnide,
world.
shock.
To direct onr barks o'er tbe heaving tide ;
honey from the new blown flower, so
Winds of adversity will ever blow,
Until I get me a home, though a and more this is needed, as material It comforts the afflicted wipes the tear,
I richly feasted my soul putting in poor one it may be, and my family in interests attract man’s thoughts and And soothes in the trials that linger here. And tides of temptation will ebb and flow;;
But may you be firm in truth atd in right.. -
all my spare time until there was en­ comfortable quarters where I can pro­ absorb to themselves the active affairs It teaches the Christian a light to be
And our God will strengthen you in hie
That all the world His glory may see.
might.
gendered within my bosom an ardent vide for them a living, though it may of society.
Let the light of truth be your g uide each
“ In six troubles he will deliver thee,”
day,
desire and full determination to be by hard manual labor (which I am
The reckless rapture of self-forget­
“ And in seventh no evil shall touch thee.r
you wander along life’« dusty way.
“ obey from the heart the form of not ashamed of) my voice will be fulness, that which dominates and in­ As
As salt in the earth, the Christian’s pure Fight on, fight on, through thia pain and
strife,
-doctrine ” delivered unto me, and con­ heard but little in public, and my spires persons and nations, that which
state,
To preserve this world from Sodom's fate. And in heaven yon will " wear the crown-
sequently rode twelve miles to a name will be seen but few times more is sovereign over obstacle and diffi­ Before He spoke of the different roads,
of life.”
meeting among strangers, and “ before in print. I have a family consisting culty and peril and resistance, it has Named blessings that follow the Christians And as yon are journeying let your song
be,
;
- «
men ” made the good confession, and of eight, my wife and seven children belonged to woman’s heart from the ** The loads
Nearer to Thee, my God, nearer to-
poor in spirit—a heaven above,”
Thee.”
was buried in the liquid grave, and (mostly small) to feed and clothe, beginning. -
And comfort the mourning with change­
J. D.
less
love:
arose to walk in newness of life.
Man bunts after God with bis un­ The meek with an earthly inheritanoe
“ He that will not provide for his
Entering the Church.
In this there was no excitement, own and especially they of his own derstanding and fails to find him ;
bless
Fill
hungering
and
thirsting
for
righteosr-'
the war was in full blast, and I met household has denied the faith, and is science searches after him with its
ness.
Te us enter a motley crowd, drawn
with many opportunities to forsake worse than an infidel.” Of all lenses, and its force seems like a blind They who wish mercy must merciful be,
of God, self-impelled, pushed by acul­
Also
the
pure
in
heart,
their
**
God
shall
my first love, being seldom associated earthly treasures one’s family is most man trying to help his sight by using
see.”
eus friends, the pressure of current,
with religious people.
dear and lay near his heart, and his a glass eye ; logic tries to soar toward He blessed peace-maker« as ** children of opinion and the day’s excitement.
God."
Although my religious course has happiness and usefulness here de- God, and waves its wooden crutches
And those who are soourged with Perse­ Hand in hand come the fitful child
been attended by many imperfections pends on their comfort and condition in mimicry to witness ; woman sees
cution’s rod
He blessed. When you reviled—persecu­ who “ feels better,” and the venerabl»
I can conscientiously say I never have
him,
feels
him
within,
discerns
him
,
I in life.
man who from infancy has known
ted strong,
during the eighteen years of my re­
above, sees him in Christ ; she who When all for His sake as you move along.
T. M. M oru À x .
the Scriptures of salvation and the
ligious life entertained a desire to
was last at the cross and first at the Rejoice, oh. Saints I be exceedingly glad ;
Your reward is great though your way is leadings of a covenant-keeping God;
forsake the good cause.
Woman.
sepulchre has seen the Lord ever
sad.
the rake and the drunkard, whose
I married when twenty-one, and!
since in his sympathy and in his sover­ The prophets before you were sorely tried
life-long lust has 'become, in the
But
in
joy
triumph
have
orossed
the
tide.
The following extracta are from eignty, in his power and in his won­
soon commenced family worship and
Of all the sins that are in the broad way. twinkling of an eye, their loathing,
reading, praying, and exhorting at the eloquent address delivered by drous parable; she feels him in the Of tbe wicked things that men do each
social meetings. In a few years I Rev. R. S. Storrs, D. D., at the cele­ deepest experience ef her heart, and And always strive to keep the straght way stand shoulder to shoulder with th»
Nathanaels, who were under the fig­
began my ministerial labors by visit­ bration of the semi-centennial of the then she sees him in all the provi­ How to do alma we are told, and to pray
tree
before that Philip called them;.
If
we
would
sucoeed
aad
keep
the
right
Abbott
Academy.
After
speaking
of
ing appointments and preaching in
dential history of the world, in all the
way.
the
collegian
whose churn watches for
the
movement
for
the
education
of
my imperfect manner. 1 never ex­
creation round about, from the golden Let prayer be your guard body and soul,
his
fall,
having
at the beginning bet
women
as
a
part
of
the
wide,
vital,
When
waves
of
temptation
and
adversity
pected to got above mediocrity, but
spots on the butterfly’s wings to the
roll.
two
to
one
upon
his conversion as-
pervading
force
ef
civilization,
he
was zealously anxious to do some
'supreme splendor of the triple suns Neithei on the streets or oorners renown­
upon
the
next
ball-match,
follows the
ed.
good in tay Redeemers cause while said:
above. The universe to her is full ot
Nor
long
or
short,
or
in
learning
profound
happy
soul
about
whom
the
angel of*
Where genius is valued, and intel­
sojourning in this earthly tabernacle-
God, and that thought of God, that But turn from the busy and opulent mart,
the
Lord
encamps
continually.
Babes
My father died in 1873, after be­ lectual attainments for their brilliancy revelation of God, it is hers to make Go with humble and contrite heart.
t
Better
be
humble
and
lowly
and
meek,
and
strong
men,
the
learned
and
un­
queathing the «nail farm and pro­ and variety are honored and applaud­ the world.
’Than worldly honor and glory to seek.
learned, and the unteachable alike-
tbe Savior says in your closet hide,
perty to me ; my mother making her ed, she may have her place, an excep­
One of the most foolish questions So
And God there your humble spirit will present themselves, and by indis­
tional
place
like
tliat
of
Aspasia
at
home with sue.
ever asked is : " What is going to be
guide.
soluble oath bind themselves to the-
Having a desire from boyhood to Athens, or Hypasia at Alexandria. the sphere of woman when she is so Go quickly and then shut to the door.
On bended knees in the dnst of the floor, same creed of indefinite ramifications,,
Where
scientific
instruction,
she
may
■come to Oregon, and being in receipt
educated ?”
The sphere !
If she Pour out thy wauls and thy wishes alone,
of letters from Coos county, Or., in Lave an opportunity, like the noble don’t make her own we may stop pro­ Confess all the faults to whioh thou art and to one covenant of absolute de­
votion. x"-
which the country was extravagantly women who have for -centuries, at in­ phesying. For six centuries women Always prune.
be ready to secretly, pray,
We know some of these new­
tervals,
taught
in
the
University
of
God 11 openly reward ia tile great dty.
eugolized, I, at a ruinoue sacrafice,
taught at Bologna, 'taught mathema­ Tho*
homely thy words and trembling thy comers personally, more by hear-say,.
Bologna
;
where
religion
is
the
para
­
disposed of land, and property, and in
tic«, the classics, natural science,
voice,
(December, 1874, took the cans for mount interest in sight, and she philosophy, the civil and the canoni­ The Father will make the faint heart re­ the majority (I speak of city parishes,
joice ;
only by name as they are “ propound­
San Francisco, where I took passage shows the devout temper and the cal law, anatomy and surgery and Like hia
disciples be ready to say,
on the steamer and tailed for Coos high intel'ectual intuition of truth medicine: taught when sometimes l At every moment, " Lord teach us topray" ed” from the pulpit. We receive'
out in the morning’s refreshing sir,
them with acclaim; rising in our
Ray, and on the 12th day of January which religion inspires and demands, they must veil their faces lest the | Go
And Gol and his spirit will meet you
places we solemnly promise every one
arrived at Coquille City, where I she may again have her eminence, thought of the students should be dis­
there.
of them “ all helpfulness, brotherly
resided with my family for nearly like Catharine of Sienna, like Eliza­ tracted from the beauty of the sub­ Go at noon when the sun is bright.
Go in tbe evening or hash of night,
beth
of
Hungary,
like
Hildegrade
in
love and watchfulness.” And this
four years. Having spent considerable
ject to the beauty of the speaker. Go when the mouutaius are all tipped
Germany,
like
the
Spanish
Theresa.
vow is not for a few days only, while
with
gold.
in traveling, and having but a few
Authorship is all open to women in To the tbroue of grace says the apostle
Yau
do
not
want
to
make
a
woman
the fervor of the tabernacle and the-
hundred dollars left I invested in
•• bold,”
every department. Mrs. Browning,
like
another
man
in
her
moral
nature,
ring
of the rink yet thrills them antf
When
tbe
stars
are
out
in
their
teinkle
property aid real estate at said place.
Mrs. Jamison, Mrs. Hernans, Mrs.
bright,
but
to
unfold
that
which
is
peculiar
us,
but
for the year after next, and
Finding excellent people for neigh­
Lewis, Mrs. Stowe, Mrs. Howe, and And wheu the moon rolls on in her silverx
to
itself,
aad
give
it
its
royal
place
for
A.
D.
1900 if we are still of the-
light.
bors, and liking Coquille City, I
many others in this country illustrate And when
thou hast bowed down before church militant, and for any day of'
and
power
in
the
world.
>Qn
the
strove hard notwithstanding financial
'be throne.
this.
Father not my will, but thine be any conceivable variety of experience­
embarrassments to provide a living other hand, you do not want merely
Woman has been a physician since Say : ’* doe
."
.
what
are
called
sometimes
**
the
in all these coming years.
and put in my Sundays proaebing.
the days of the Iliad and the Odys As the Christian a way is narrow and
pasnive
virtues
’
’
—
gentleness
and
It the church’s welcome to new
straight,
I visited several important locali­
sey. In France and in Russia to-day, We must
all " learn to labor and to wait.”
ties, held many meetings. I labored meekness aad humility and forgive­ as in the medieval time, women are Must strive to keep onr feet from the path members means less than this, then in
the name of truth let it say less and'
of -in,
between times in clearing land, rais­ ness «nd psiieace. They are all ex­ freely received into the ranks of
without, and foes with­ do what it says.
ing vegetables, &e , hoping to p?ake cellent in their place, like " the low medical practitioners, and often in­ From temptation
in.
Better that our manuals be revised'
me a home with my own hands, sweet voice, ^that exoeilent thing in structors. In England and America The way to destruction is plain and broad,
thou-and* are going that murky road. until the Confession of Faith be re­
and bestow much labor in the cause of woman/' But it is by positive force it is going to be so. I don’t know And
You s*- them moving on every hand—
of character that this world is tc be
duced even to the childish formula.
Christ.
about the law, but they do say a Here ia u company and there is a band.
Arousing
gambling
and
dancing
along,
educated
and
carried
forward.
“ I feel betterf and the covenant of"
But ala6! tbe great financial
woman is one of the most skillful Drunkariii, revelers—an ungodly throng.
Society
needs
woman
’
s
conscien
­
the
church to,
pressure, costly goods and eatables
conveyancers in London. I don’t They will uk you to join their giddy band
With
wiuoing
smiles
and
friendship
’
s
tiousness,
sympathy,
courage,
self-
“
I am glad to hear it; good bye. P
for my family, no market, no income,
know about the ministry, though it
baud ;
devotion,
and
her
intuitive
discern
­
than
that we should forever lie to
and almost comparatively nothing for
is a scandal in parishes sometimes, Bewar- of temptation, they’re always
ment
of
God.
I
do
not
eare
what
bright.
God
and
man —M rs . E dward A shley
my time spent in preaching, sickness
that the minister’s wife writes the "Balau transformed to an angel of light-"
philosopher
is
expanding
his
vast
W
alker
;
in Good ComixiHi/, Num­
in my family, hiring money at exor­
most briUinnt passages in his dis­ Vo allure your fed from tbe narrow way. ber One.
system
of
philosophic
thought;
I
do
That
lead«
on
to
the
real
me
of
endless
day
bitant rates of interest, Ac., dis­
course. I stopped writing mine long iuru from the Tempter and bis Syreu
Christian Fellowship.
possessed me of property and home. not care wbat statesman is planning ago lest that should be said about me.
-
voi.e-.
He'll promise pleasure to make you re­
Secular business, in which I but for his country’s future; I do not care
—PadjLc.
joice.
,
“ J
to suppose »hat Christian
meagrely find a support for my family, what architect is lifting the edifice
Bnt lie. d uot hia words, nor his ounniog fellowship is the keepiug of certain seels
and Oau only ho bad by lh<>*- u> whom
wiles,
com pel la me to suspend the work that into the air, or is strewing the canvass
—A woman should never con-ent His proinie-M sweet nor hia conning smiles they diapenae it. The fsHhfnl and loving
«fall things my heart most delights with the splendor of his own spirit;
to be married secretly. She should He ilex He’s not your friend, but there’s disoiple of Christ will not fail of friend­
ship ; good mon will love him for his mu­
another
in. Prospects occasionally loom up there is no other office so' grand on distrust a man who has any reason to
Who "sti<-k»'h closer than even a brother” ter's »*ke, and tbe recognition of those ,
fir a time, but as the vapor before the earth as that committed to woman—
shroud in darkness the act which in Dost and fog -1-eply enshrouds the throng who can use no good u ess that does not
That thro-iah th,- wide gates are moving bear their own denominational trade mark
looming un soon vanish. Homeless Christianly culture, in fellowship with
his own estimation should be the
along,
an I with it means I am dependent God, of bringing up her* acute and
Keep far out u sight lestjpou encircled be
crowniug glory of his life.
dominant
moial
sense
into
contact
t>a uy
i hands. I am not ccm-