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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, OCT. 2*. 1879 th® Field. brethren and return to my heme in Idaho. In conclusion permit me to say to any young preaching brother who wishes to find a place to labor, that he would do well to address Bro. M. Baly, at Indian Valley, Union county, Oregon. • Fraternally yours, D. B. M atheny . I suggest that the preachers and brethren over the State interested in the cause in Portland make special effort to complete either one or both lists. Fraternally, R. H. Mwes. It is far easier to propagate truth C’ arlton , O r ., Oct. 13,1879. in this Western world, where parties are broken oft’ from old associations, Editor Messenger: T. F CAMPBELL, E ditor . The church at this place sends as than it is in the East, where nearly messengers to the State Cooperation, Mias MARY STUMP, all are chained to their altars and Bros. G. L. Rowland, J. R. Caldwell, OFFICE EDITOR ARD PUBLISHER. blinded by tradition. --------------- < < .....—...... . Sister Celia Caldwell and A. J. Hem Never was there a finer field for General Church News. FRIDAY, OCT. 24, 1879 labor nor better prospects of success. bree. The collection for the Mission (ihm <te Sunday Chronicle) Will we respond with an effort equal ary Board amounted td $5.00. Will Subscribers please notice the At our regular meeting yeaterday to the demand ? Portland Church. —The largest Swedenborgia® church date following their nasties on the From Sitka to San Diego, and from there were two additions to the con or society in the world is in Boston, gregation; one by baptism and one paper ? It tells the time when your the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, P ortland , O r ., Oct. 21,187U with G4O members. by commendation. One baptism last subscription expiree; thus, if the date the whole broad area lies fallow and Editor E. C. Messenger : — J. C. R. Ewing has been ordained month. At the last regular meeting af the reads 1’80, your rabseription will ex ready for the ssed. by the Presbytery of Kittaning for A bright future is opening for the Christian Church at Portland, Bros., Noxious weeds are springing spon pire Jan. 1, 1880. If the date after missionary work in India taneously, and tares are being sown Carlton congregation. They deserve Dickinson and Blaney and Sisters your name is a time pant, you are in —The Moravian Theological ¡Semi success. Adams and Blaney were elected dele by the enemy. nary at Bethlehem, Penn, opens with arrears. Please remit a little before Fraternally, Shall we, who have the word of gates te the State Cooperation to be W olverton . 28 students, of whom 6 are in the Se your time is out, if possible. ■ G©d, withhold our hand or refuse to held at Monmouth, commencing Nov. nior Class, which graduates in 1880. sow the good seed ? 4th ; and Bros. Davidson and Adams, Special Premium. E mpire C ity , Oct 13,1879. — Forty-two new students have en Now is the time for action. There and Sisters Davidson and Lee were Editor Messenger : tered Yale Divinity School. The lec To every one who will send us two is work for all. Each in his proper chosen as alternates. It is hoped we I have been thinking for some time tures on preaching will be delivered shall be able to be represented by a dollars and sixty oenta we will send sphere may advance the good cause. that I would write you a short letter in December by Dr. Howard Crosby, the M essrngrr and Household for one Some with pen, some with tongue, full quoto of delegates. No work of from this place, but my other -duties Chancellor of the U niversity of the year, or to anyoee sending five new othejs with counsel or money—all the church, certainly, is of more im have prevented me until the present City of New York. portance than the assembling together names we will send a copy of the may find much to do and ample re time, and even this, is only to break —The four largest Presbyterian • M essenger and Household free. The ward. of representatives of different bands the ice, for all I wish to say is in re HouseAoldisa monthly journal devoted While each is acting for himself he of disciples at these State meetings. churches in this country are •: Dr. gard to our gloom and isolation. I to the interests of the American house can provoke hN neigbor also to love Much is learned by contact, and all go Cuyler’s with 1685 members; Dr. presume it would be no use to ask wife, and contains 20 pages of original and good works. away strengthened and renewed in Talmage’s, with 1658 ; Dr. Tuckers, why some of our good preaching breth (Madison Square), with 1600; and reading matter, in which are dis zeal for the coming year. ren do not sometimes visit this place. Dr. Hall’s with 1570. The Cemetery Needs a New cussed everything that pertains to Let every church in the State send I do not believe the Gospel was ever — The Free Church in Scotland will Fence. ' heme life by some of our best writers its quota of delegates (one for each proclaimed at Coos Bay. There have hold a missionary jubilee this year. on such subjects. Subscriptions may It has been said that the civiliza been some preachers of the Episcopal, church officer), and appoint such as Dr. Alexander Duff having been or begin at any time desired. Do not tion of any community may be fairly Methodist, and Universalist orders can attend, and we shall see an awak dained as a missjonary to India fifty fail to enclose the 10 cts. extra, other estimated from the state of their high here, all of whom, I have heard, but ening in Christian effort of which we years ago. A jubilee fund of $100,- wise you will not receive the House ways and bridges, and the condition not one of whom pi eached the Gospel. may well feel proud. hold, as we are obliged to have it to The Portland band is constantly 000 is to be raised for missionary pur of their grave yards. If the former I understand that there are a few poses. pay postage. Please state distinctly are neglected and in a -dilapidated brethren fo and about Coquelle City, receiving accessions by letter, although —The Spanish Government has re the name, post-office, county and condition, it shows reckless disregard in this county, who meet and have some lose their interest to a certain pudiated the action of the Governor of State, of each one you send that no extent yet the regular attendance at of life; if the latter are unfenced and preaching by Bro. O. C. Huntington, mistake may be made. our meetings is quite as large as at the Island of Fernando P q in banish trampled by the stock it is evidence of but they are few in number even ing a Primitive Methodist missionary, Subscribers that have already paid any time. want of respect for the dead. there. In this town I know of only for the M essenger may receive the A new-order of exercises has been the Rev. W. Holland, »nd has permit- We, as a community, are in danger four members of the Church of Christ, Mr. Holland to return and resume his Household by sending us 30 cents in of having a low estimate put upon our and they are thirsting for spiritual adopted which went into effect with labors. 1, 2 or 3 cents postage stamps. most pleasing results the two last civilization if it is to be estimated food. —The mouument to John Knox is. - Lord’s days. Bro. Dickinson occupies We have in this place, a church While making your arrangements from the condition of our cemetery. to be erected near St Giles’" Church, the entire time in teaching us the The old and dilapidated fence greatly building, which belongs to the Metho to come to the Cooperation Meeting, Word of God each alternate Sunday, Edinburg. The monument will bo ----- be thinking earnestly what you will needs replacing with a new and sub dists, but the trustees are liberal and while the congregation occupy the re surmounted by a statue of the reform stantial one. This can be done with open it to any and all denominotions. do for the church at Portland. er, and a figure of Hamilton, Wishart, a small tax on each one interested. A Union Sunday school meets in it maining Sundays with readings from Buchanan and Melville are te be plac Probably the one thing needed in this every Lord’s day at half past one the Scriptures and general remarks. ed on the four corners of the pedes The Time For(Action. matter is for some one to take the o’clock. The attendance varies1 from The subject of faith was interestingly tal. '* There is a tide in the affaire ” of lead. Who will assume the responsi twenty to forty—mostly grown per discussed last Lord’s day, and repen —It is said that the Pope is greatly communities and States, as well as bility of calling a meeting to devise sons. We have a Bibfoclass which is tance follows as our next lesson from annoyed at the extreme hostility of God’s Word. " of men which, taken at its flood, ways and means and to agree upon quite interesting ; the writer hereof is We all feel that we have in our ex the Belgian Bishops to the new Bel leads on to fortune.” the style ©f fence appropriate and trying to teach them, and I feel a lit cellent Bro. Dickinson, an interesting gian Education Act, that he has in That tide, in matters of religion, is necessary ? Why hot meet on Satur tle flattered at the interest which now rising on this Pacific Coast. Its day, Nov. 2d, at 6:30 P. M., to consider and wise teacher, and he has contrib formed them that their resolution to seems to be manifested. heavings are felt in the increased de these matters. No good reason can uted more than largely toward keep excommunicate all who have anything ’Do you think it possible for some the State schools must not mand for Christian union. Its in be given to the contrary. We will ing up the interest in our meetings, ' to do with _ • ■* ‘ one of our preaching brethren to pen be carried out. fluences are appreciated in the grow then of our own motion and at the but business cares on his part made etrate our seclusion ? I will state —A great Charistian Convention is ing demand for a purer Gospel. The request of several parties interested it necessary for us to relieve him some that his audience, should any one to be held in Dublin, Ireland, next folly and the fearful consequences of call this meeting to be held in the what, hence the change. come, will be composed of persons month. Bishop Hillery, Lord K intore discord and division among Christians, church-house in Monmouth at the We are greatly pleased at the suc who are critics in a literary sense, but I and other celebrites are to be present. so contrary to the spirit of the Gospel, time above specified. A special ser cess which has crowned your efforts in that they are almost total strangers to There will be sectional meetings, as in are so apparent that the lovers of mon prepared for the occasion will be California, in behalf of the M essenger . the real story of the Cross. Jesus everywhere are awaking to the preached. Let all attend. Every member of the Church in our . the British Association, and nearly all 4 Hoping that you will accept this as X necessity of an inquiry into the cause own State ought to take upon himsell branches of Christian activity will be merely an introduction, I will prom discussed. ___ of these divisions and into the the self-imposed duty of agent, and Items From California. ise you more in the future. —The British Government has or possibility of " preserving the unity see to it that the efforts of our Cali Fraternally, dered an official inquiry io be made ” o^the spirit in the bond of peace.” Bro. Lane has been holding a meet fornia brethren be seconded by swell A. E. W. The inquiry can not be pushed ing at Sacramento. ing the subscription lists in our own into the act of the Rev. Mr. Brown, very far until the humiliating dis G rand R ound V alley , — Vacaville commenced a meeting on State. There should be at least Wesleyan missionary, in leading' an covery will be reached, that all our the 18th. U nion C o ., O r ., Oct. 17,1879, double the present number of subscri expedition against natives of New divisions spring directly from our Hollister wants a protracted meet Bro. Campbell : bers to the M essenger in Oregon. Britain and killing 60 or 80 of the ignorance. It might be of interest to some, to Now is the time to take hold of this | savages in retaliation for having feast- ing. Men can not differ about what they hear,» through the M essenger , that matter. " There is a tide Ac.—which ed on three or four Wesleyan mission- Danville wants a meeting. . tries. perfectly understand. Bro. Henry Thomas lies very low the gosd causé is growing in interest taken at the flood leads on to fortune.” —The Reformed Church (Dutch) is Sincere Christians, reaching such a at his place near Yountville, where in this part of the State. This should Agents, one and all, let us east In OUT conclusion, will seek to "grow in he went after the State Meeting. be credited to the assiduous labors of bucketful of subscriptions and swell i desirous of having a lecturship of grace and in the knowledge of our C. Kendrick is holding a meeting Bro. Baly, who has for several years, the tide of prosperity for our paper . missions established in its theological seminary at New Brunswick. The Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” until in Stockton. “against revolted multitudes main which is now setting in. synod expresses the hope that “ some they shall come to the knowledge of The Woman’s Christian Home tained the cause of truth.” Fraternally, liberal layman will establish and the truth. Bro. Elliott has recently come and Mission Society of California had a W. H. A. properly endow” such- a- lecturship^ — — In this frame of mind they will be great deal to say at the last State will locate here, and I trust his labors ready to reason together—to hear the Meeting about tobacco, but very little may conduce to the building up of P hilomath , O r ., Oct. 22,1879. but n° one has come forward as yet with th».’ offer of the money. .... . ■. .... ' truth, and to come nearer to the about home drinking. This looks the churches here. —------- —— Editor Messenger: Bible—the only bond of union. I make the following proposition I am now holding a protracted' strange when it is a well known fact —An Indian lady, who has been We, as a people, can present the that the church spends six times the meeting in Island City. I shall com in aid of the cause in Portland : Bible without any intervening amount for drinking that it does for mence another on the 22nd, at the I will be one of one hundred to pay keeping a book of colfege statistics for humanism to darken counsel or ob tobacco. It looked very much like Iowa school house, where I expect to one thousand dollars ($1,000) ($10 more than twenty years, Says that scure the light of truth. “ straining out the gnat and swallow meet Bro. Elliott, who will assist in each) for the purchase of a building thirty-seven per cent of sweet gid We are able to meet infidelity on ing the camel.” carrying on the meeting until about spot, or I will be one of ©ne -hundred graduates die within two years after its own chosen field, and silence it as T. F. Campbell’s visit to the State the 28th, when we shall close pre and fifty to pay three thousand dol they receive their diplomas. It may •Jesus silenced Satan, ly quoting Meeting of California will long be re paratory to commence another meet lars, th$ names to be sent to Bro A. be worth recording that the average Scripture. membered by all; his sermons were ing near Sommersville, which we will W. Lucas, Monmouth, and the money American girl graduate is somewhat We do not engage to sustain any of the highest order, and out of the hold over the first Lord’s day in No to be paid within one month after less than eighteen years of age, and “ pet theory ” vulnerable from every pulpit he was a true companion. We vember. There we expect to ‘ be notification by him that the list is that the French girl is twenty-five. side. hope to see him in out Golden State assisted by Bro. Baly, who, as all completed. I ntrammeled by human creeds, again. know, is a host of himself. I have made some effort to induce —Babylon was fifty miles within confessions and disciplines, we can go On the second Lord’s day I shall others to join me in this, and shall its walls, which were seventy-five forth clad in Gospel armor simple and preach for the brethren in the Cove. still do what I can to ad<| other feet thick, and one hundred feet hii h effective as that with which David There I shall take my leave of the names to the list. Send us a new subscriber. with one hundred brazen gates. CHRISTI^&^lESSENGER. i