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Pacific it does in this climate. Their crops they were no longer able to profit by When a big preacher comes along I Safety of Boys at College. C hristian messenger ripen quickly, and it is almost a cer their labors, er to sustain them. they attend, and sit on front seats, tainty that they have fine weather for Why these failures ? They are not fcc They cannot afford to attend It is always a time of deep concern Devoted to the ceeee of Primitive Christi harvesting. 'Bad weather beats even necessary or inavoidable. They are without a preacher. anity, and the diffusion of «eneral in Worshiping with thoughtful parents when boys energy and good judgement. Mr. not because we have not the truth. God is not enough. The few earnest must leave home in order that their formation. Osborne, I ‘think, greatly overrates They are not owing to inability on workers can attend just to worship education may be carried on at a dis Price Per Tear, in Advance, 92.59 All business letters should be addressed the average wheat produced per acre the part of the preachers. Nor are Not so with die masses. They must I I tant school. to T. F. Campbell, Editor, or Mary in the United Kingdom even in the they owing to penuriousness in the Fathers and mothers are filled with have their ears tickled by a fine ser Stump, Publisher, Monmouth, Oregon. favorable seasons, when he puts it at people. They are as liberal and in mon, or they will not attend. , grave misgivings, lest the removal Advertiser's will find this one of the best thirty bushels. I believe twenty telligent as any people. Not to allow 2. « Besides non-attendance, they ' ’ of restraints should develop depravity, mediums on the Pacific Coast for making bushels to be much nearer the mark. this would be grievously to wrong talk discouragingly. They say to J I lest the son who goes out untrained ’ their business known. He is wrong also, in saying that it them. It is true, also, that sectarians others, you can’t carry on a church i ' should return proficient in vice. But RATES OF ABVtATiBlNG : costs 9<1 per bushel railway freight to fail, in like manner,and even apostolic without a preacher. We must have a I is there, Indeed, so much ground for Space 1 Inch M oo $2 50 #4 00 $7 Ml $12 00 the coast, which would be £1 10s per churches faile I, as at Corinth, Ephe preacher, though they know the Bible painful apprehension ? There is no 7 CO 12 00 20 00 ton. H Col. 4 00 2 50 I believe it to be an error also sus, five out of seven in Asia, Ac. does not spy so, and the best churches reason to doubt that the influences of U Col. 7 00 12 00 20 00 35 00 4 00 7 Ot 12 00 20 00 35 00 65 0( to say that the railways are carrying Still, this dues not answer the ques U Col. a Christian College are more whole have not preachers’ regularly. I Col.. 12 00 20 OO 25 (XI 65 00 120 00 at a loss. There is not sufficient com- tion—why ? 3. These non workers, and preach some than those of many homes, and Notice» in local eolumus 10 cents per line for each insertion. petion to cause them to do that. Perhaps we cannot answer this er members favor chuich sociables, compare favorably with the influences Yearly advertiwiaenU on liberal terms. The result of my consideration of question very satisfactorily, and still fairs, and other things which tend to j of such as are best regulated. That l*tv>few<ional Carda (1 square) *12 per annum. the subject is this—-that climate, the facts remain. We cannot very worldly ize the eLurch, and render dis ' young men do sometimes return from Correspondence steam transport by sea or land, to clearly explain why the existence of cipline both necessary and difficult. ! college without honors which poorly gether with the labor question on physical and moral evil; but we London Letter. 4. If the church has a big meeting, i compensate for their corrupted morals both sides df the ocean, has made it know very well the evil exists. and receives many additions, they are no one can gainsay. But do not (KEaULlB COBKEMPOVDKNCE). out of the power of our agriculturists -It is encouraging to know that not apt to remain, or honor and pro young men who re i ain at home be to 'compete with the growers of manj’ have not failed. I find a num-1 L ondon , Oct 10, 1879. mote the cause. Brought in by come sometimes v.le in their affec The Duke of Beaufort has written wheat on the American continent, and ber of congregations equal, I think, in ■ i preacher’s ^influence, when that influ- tions and life, and embitter the days the following letter to Mr. Daniel that they must turn their attention to all Christian graces and virtues, to | I ence is gone, they lapse back to the and the years of the lives of their Owen who recently published a pam cheaper and better modes of growing to the best churches in the days of, world, or only nominally maintain parents ? The best that can be done phlet in which be sought to show beef and mutton, so as not to be driv- the apostles. Hence, failures are not their places in the church ; so that, if f<>r sons is to labor for their early con thatAiie AL4(A^ia<wa English r<*r farmer urvi would nvuru be aye autu able . .en out of the market r I ho by the necessary ; and eve should push the. the church is not weaker for its in version, and to ground them in the a_ in ____ •_ it T? __ 1 il • Americans. The distance difficulty, question—why ? to compete the A_ English market crease of numbers, it is less able to law of the Lord. • They cannot al with tlie American wheat producer, and expense of transport of live and If we were blind to the successes run a good race, or fight a good fight. ways remain at home. They must providing the soil in tins epuntry dead meat give us an advantage we and excellences before and around us, But here, too, I must^pause. I engage in business or prosecute their were properly tilled. Inacknowledg- -shall be wise to improve, instead of us, it might be argued that the failure mean only to »tiggent tome reasons for studies; they must have contact with ing the receipt of a copy of this pam waitingdime and capital in trying was in our vision. Not so now. And our failures and our successes. | the world and undergo their proba the impossible task of competing the difference in the course pursued phlet the duke says: To guard against being misunder tion. Ifithe decision is, My son must “ I have to thank you 4br the re with them in growing wheat.” where the failures are and where the stood, I may say, I do not mean that enter College, send him w ith the self print of,your paper, read at a meetin; successes are may give some clue to it is necessarily wrong for a church-to assuring thoughts; perils will be in June of the Cowbridge Farmer the—why. California Letter. have the constant labors of an evan scarcely greater away than at home ; Club. . . . There are those of And here the statement of the case gelist—even under specific contract. he will have opportunities for de others, with which I do not Agree, and Bro. Camjtbell : would be diflkrent by different per But I do mean that it is unscriptural velopment of character which the which toriny mind are not/ in accord-4 > It may not ■ be very pleaeant, or sons. I mean no reflection on others and ruinous to look to a mere evan narrower circle cannot give ; and, best ance with the present state of things easy to confess, but it is true, that when I give the facts as I see them. gelist, however good and able, as a of all, this thought: even at home he in Ameriaa, and m far asI cau see, almost all persons, times and places 1. The successful churches were bishop or pastor. is kept only in so far as God keeps are still further from the ptdbable fu have their imperfections, their sins and are, as a mass, workers. They him, and God is his guard in every Persons not qualified cannot run ture of the wheat-growing, zone or and their sorrow«; their shadows, al all work ; or ait least the masses. And place : "Am I a God at hand, saith the State government well, or schools, district of (fie Continent, both in Can ternating with their sunshine. And if there are some drones they do not the Lord, and not a God afar oft ?”— colleges, railroad trains, boats, or any besides being true, there is some good pull the other way. ada and inithe United States. Richmond Advocate. thing else. And many of the ablest On page 112, in eammenti<v upon in looking at evils. The view makes 2. They have Scripturally qualified evangelists are even the poorest th9 unpreecd snted crop of wheat us 8»1; and “ by the sadness of the bishops and deacons, and they fill , To a Young Lady. grown there da st year, you state that countenance the heart is made bitter.” their offices. This goes far to explain governors—even of their own famil it is exceptional, aid may not lappen We are wearied from earth and «in their success. These bishops, though ies. Scripturally qualified men can You think you love the yoijng man again for yeats to come. As »matter we learn to look higher, and to forever not evangelist«, or preachers, in the rule the church, feed it, care for it who is coming this Sunday night to and make it av happy success. Let of fact, the emp is much larger this sources for enjoyments. common sense df the word, still teach evangelists keep to their work. The visit you. Suppose he “ declares him year than it mas last, and, though the A SAINAASE. the churches, exhort, administer the bishops will call for their aid; for self,” and asks you to become bis wife. weather was unusually bad and Thtek of a respectable house of ordinance, look after the erring, and they will often need it. But let all Are you prepared to say to him " I changeable fur America, the harvest worship, bell, and every convenience the interests of the churches generally love you and will trust you through was well got. As there are now rail for Lord’s day school and church —even when an evangelist is pre things be done Scripturally and in life with my happiness, and the lives roads working others making, and meetings ; a fine community, a good, sent—permanently or transiently. order; then may we all prosper and weal of our children C. K. again more contemplated, I believe membership as to numbers, and as to They do not forget that they are He is jolly, gay and handsome, and Oct. 24, 1879. <he surplus of wheat produced beyond intelligence, standing, and controlling, the rul«te> and that the preaclwrs are ^all the-dans oT XMpid are twinkling the quantity wanted for home con say half a million of money ; and yet servants. Paul made himself the ser Weather^eport for Oct., 1879. and sparkling in his eyes; but will sumption in-Canajfii and America will not able to keep up a ¿Sunday school, vant of,all the churches—not their those eyes always find expression increase every year for sometime to or the weekly meetings, ercept in a diishop. During October, 1879, there were from the love of a true soul ? Tonight come. AI bo , as'they get money from very poor way; occasional preaching ; 3. Bad or unfaithful members are eight days during which rain fell, and he sava many pleasant things and selling their wheat, they will invest no prayer,meeting ; their children in not allowad long to afflict" the body. an aggregate of 176 in. of water, draws pretty pictures for the future. tome of it in saanure, and, instead af sectarian Sunday schools, or on the Therefore ireformed, or excluded be seven clear and 16 cloudy and foggy Does he go to morrow to a work having eleven bushels per acre .to sell, streets! This would be bad ; but if fore their leaven haa »time to leaven days other than those on which rain which gives promise to the fulfillment grown on their now unmanured land you think of lukewarmness even to the whole lump. If some of the fell. One day, the 27th, was foggy, of your desire in life ? Do his ambi they will raise the productive powers nausea, of personal difficulties, of one sheep stray -from the fold they go and obscuring the sky all day. Frosta tion? and achievements satisfy you? of their land. Besides this, the wheat ■continual stretch after mare money— hunt them up. If some do not come occurred on the 13th, 16th, 23rd, and Does hu every-day life shine with the zone .is c -ormous and as the fined of especially on .the part of the most to be fed, they look after them. 31st noble endeavor of a trustworthy man. emigration has again set westward wealthy and controlling—their work 4. If they have preaching, regularly The mean temperature for the If you think and desire a companion more acres will be cleaned and culti ing day and night, as if they and or otherwise, they have it understood month was 49 73’. Highest daily in your thinking—one who can un vated. As to the expense, I think their families were on starnation, or that the preaehera are not the pas mean temperature 55’, on the 3rd and lock the depths of your mind, to what that the gentlemen quoted in your to be imprisoned for debt«; but few tors, unless, indeed, they have the 23rd. Lowest daily mean 44", on the strata of humanity does he belong paper are in error, for I have no doubt religious books or papers in their projter qualifications, ,and have been 31st in the scale of excellence and morality? that, though fiom the very farthest families; and a general despondency, appointed to the work. That is, they Is he doing all he can to build future Highest record of thermometer for part of the wheat-producing districts attended with the remark, “ We can’t are not pastors because they are evan usefulness and happiness in which the month 69°, at 2 o’clock j »•> on it may be wore, yet wheat can be do any thing,” every iime you' talk gelists. These bishops feel that the 17th. Lowest thermometer 38°, you can share and feel blessed ? These landed at Liverpool from the average to them ; exceedingly sorry, so sorry “ they watch for sainta, as they that are questions which th» experience of at 9 o’clock P. M., on the 31st. of the distance from the coast at a they could weep tears of blood had must give account •" and hence they ofcer years make many women weep The prevailing winds for the month cost of 4s per bushel, 22s per quarter. they not forgot how to weep; and do not readily yield to preachers or in the bitterness of soul that they Can you compete with this in Eng then you may be lead to enquire others, when the best interests of were from the 8. W. during eight were not thought of before they an land ? I say certainly not. their people are involved. And days, South 11 days, North 12 days. swered “ Yes.”— Ex. WHY ALL TH» ? > You have had great experience and October, 1878, gave nine rainy having a plurality of such men, they I have not overdrawn the picture ; have grown cro|>s that sound almost days and 3.30 in. of water, 11 clear can rule. -One tablespotnful of kerosene fabulous in quantity, but I see that, and I have no special p la ce in mind, Apd this is only a part—but as and 11 cloudy days. Mean tempera put into two quarts of starch will im- with all that science and capital could for I know a number of cases that much as I can put down here. ture for the month 49 32°. High.-st prove the gloss and prevent the would not be slandered by this were do for tbrae years, you had crops for daily, 59°, on the 5th. Lowest daily, starch from slicking to the iron, THE FAILURE.? ARE NOT 80. a r^.n • • —- * -" So leas to the acre than for the seven pre it applied personally to them. Most, 42°, on the 24th. says a correspondent. if not all these places, have had able 1. A few do nsarly «very thing. vious years. The fact is that in T. P earce . Eob, N ot . ], 1879. . .America the sun never fails them as preachers to their help (?) also, till The reel are drones and dead weights Send us « new subscriber. ,