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About Pacific Christian messenger. (Monmouth, Or.) 1877-1881 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1880)
M essenger . — - » “GO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS.” VOL X. . . MONMOUTH, OREGON; FRIDAY, JAN. 16, 1880. NO. 3. sionary strides, and for Portland es of yoty church. I know also that . overshoes, as they still stand in the I discovery has silenced considerable C hristian messenger , pecially. I am confident* there is these orders have well filled treasures, , corner, covered with regular Boston muttering about crowded quarters. enough of the precious metal used on and church members are coni polled to mud—the genuine article you under Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi If you hear of a new book printed your members is this State to buy a pay their, dues, and do so, and I know stand, but just as hardvto get rid of anity, and the difiusion of general in on the famous Rivereide Press with lot, build a house, and pay a preacher some don’t pay a half dollar per year as any other. formation. the suggestive title of “A House a year in Portland. .When I say to to their church, and J know where Price Per Year, in Advance, $2.5(4 We visited the soldiers’ monument Without a man, Man,” you may know it muiuuia ▲11 business letters should be addr-esed your members, Peter said, don’t wear you see lodges prosper you see. J-on the Commons, and tried to go back hails from liana Hall, and the twenty- to T. F. Campbell, Editor, or Mary gold, they say, yes, I know, but that churches languish, and I know you I to the day when the “ mutt! •<! bells of Stump, Publisher, Monmouth, Oregon. | means something else ; but when you may ga to any little t >wn or village Boston rang out a funeral peal over ■ six writers, one for each chapter, con- I fidently expect It will be the best ’ Advertisers will And this one of tbe best I are’urging “ be baptized,” the ortho in this State, where the people meet the Stamp Act,” but the day was too mediums on the Pacific Coast for making 1 selling lx>ok of the seafon in the dox will say, that don’t mean that, in one, two or three buildings, for all disagreeable for building, romance their business known. market. Political opinions in our ; you tu.rn on him with, we speak the purposes of the town, and you will upon historic landmarks of the Re little wrorld are just as decided as ' haie » or aUVzxnsiNG : where the Bible speaks, the Bible see just such state of affairs. volution. -TYfŸl they are on religious subjects; Miss 3 * SpHCo 6M[ 1 1 ■ I You teach that the Jewish church The Boston girls don’t much lik* C>mst-»ck, a democrat from New #1 00 $2 so $4 (0 .S7 (0 SI 2 00 ¡ means just what it says, Ac. 1 Inch.. '¡2 « 0 00 I 7 co 20 2 60 4 H Col.,, simply conclude if your Bible teaches wits typical of the Christian. Is such Chicago's reason for Boston being 35 co 4 (M* 7 on 12 00 20 00 k Col... York, and Miss Pivscot.t, a republican 65 oo ¡ anything, you are \jeing conformed in the case ? 7 (4 12 O' 20 00 35 00 M Col... Certainly the Jews who called the Hub Tney say it’s not the from Maine, occupy seats at opposite 12 00 20 tAI 35 (0 65 CO 120 (X) 1 1 Col.... this to an alarming extent in all de suffered the, frowns and curses o! slow est port of creation, but there are l ends of the table, and the way they Notices in local columns 10 cents per line for nominations. etch inKcrfidn. heaven for being conformed to the too many Western girls here for them dish up each other’s Congressm n be Yearly edrertiiement« on literal term*. •'-I will leave tbe gold, and as briefly world around in their ¡Wigan and idol to always carry the.day. l*rofeM»ional Card« (1 square) $12 per aiKinm. tween the courses, would soon con as possible, name a goodly number of atrous practices, ought to be warning Mrs Shelton, our housekeeper, was I vince the multitude that Blaine and Your Troubles. practices of the world that many enough to keep your church out of so suddenly called to Oakland, Cal., a Tilden were bull) abused and under church members conform to. Mr. Campbell: many conformities. few «lays ago, by the severe illness of rated. The -house is mostly republi We of the world have our theaters, Being quite familiar with the-work- I have, as hastily a-* possible, laid her «laughter, but we get along with can however, though in the war of ings of your church, and having a we like to attend, at the same time. I before you a few of the things your the cook firstrate. words the contestants are not far from high appreciation of the members know we help support about, the members conform in,and shall mention Miss Parker and Miss Denis, both equal. thereof, both with respect to their I lowest down class of persons, both as only one other thing before I close, t. ach.-rs, t„(,k dinner with usr trt-d*yf Miss Guernsey, the author of the intelligence and the hightninded in- actors and managers, yet we look that don’t come exactly under .tbe Miss, Parker reminds me very much I drama played in Salem a few weeks . tegrity of the masses, I have thought around and half the audience are pro head, but I know it does your church of Mrs. Blanche Pattefson when she a20, boards on.the same floor with for some time past, as a large number fessing Christians. much harm, and prevails in all the taught music in _ Monmouth, She t myself. She drew a $50 prize foT of articles have appeared in the P. C- We go into the dance, especially churches I have ever known. Your ; dresses exquisitely. writing it. She is quite an artist, and M essenger , on the subject of I the pa&or dance ; there’s the Christian Speakers and writers, whom I have Dr. Lord lectured last night-at thqk i is now here taking triple lessons in Oar Troubles, thereby conceding that mingling with the profane, the vul heard, say, trim the dead branches, . College on Napoleon Bonaparte, and I Botany. Her sketches of ferns and you have troubles, meaning, as I sup gar and the tipler. prune, discipline closely, put from you we all regret very much that it was j flowers are very beautiful. If on the steamer, the car, or all who walk disorderly; yet I have the last of the course. pose, hindrances to success and influ Being so near vacation we cannot private hall, the gambler or some one hardly known a person excluded for ence, that I would write an article Some of the Dana. Hall girls attend study all the time you know, and we with the above caption from my draws the pack of cards and begins even the blackest sins, but some mem- | Joseph Cook’s Monday lectures in tbe put in our spare niinut- s .on the shuffle, even if on Sunday, many bers would indulge in abuse against' standpoint of observation. Old South Church regularly,, but 1 “ Hypatia,” “ Sir Gibbio,” the *' Fool’s Christians walk up and take a hand. A large number of pieces setting forth the church, or its officers, and justify have only been once.; he then lectured your troubles were far from the, point. So at the billiard table, the horse the parties so excluded, thereby cast on the Mormons, and read several Errand,” and have a pile of tracts and assorted music put away for vacation, and I became tired of reading them, race, and other similar worldly insti ing an ndiuin on your church. letters from gentlemen in high j>osi- which begins to-morrow. tutions, ’ but the masses of professors .till Mr. Peterson had his say and Ail of which is respectfully submit tion at Washington, showing why All the girls are leaving or have named theoauae of your troubles jto refuse saying my piofession keeps me ted. Utah should not now be admitttd as already Lft, to enjoy the next two out of such practices. ’ be conformity to the world, which I ■ S keptic . a State. In another letter, after I weeks in recreation among their loved We now come to speak of a prac think is just the very name for it; but Lacreole, Jan. 7, 1880. have heard him again, I will tell you ones at home, exceptTive or six who ■when he commenced to make tbe ap tice, which looked upon, by many something more of what he says and Christians, as almost divine, is rob are too far away to think of doing Letter from Wellesley College. how he looks. plication of what you did that .was more than send loving messages, over bing your church of ’ more glory and oonformity.beran off the track andwas There has been a new $4,000 picture W ellesley , M ass ., Dec. 21, 1879. influence than all others in lalged in sea and land, to those whose hearts are as cotnpletelyangulfed as the train that hung in the College, near the south My dear Girls: full of love and ever thinking of the went into the Tay ; as though Paul did promiscuously by what you term the entrance, opposite the $5,(MX) one of absent ones. Yesterday morning 1 went with world and the church, and one which not teach that preachers should >be Mono Pass, that I told you of be ore. You need not be surprised to find -educated, telling one to study, to has to be handled very lightly, and Miss Reed to Boston, where we spent I would not dare to say what differ the day till five o ’ clock, when we this letter written in detached sen indeed I might say is not considered make himself a .workman that need- ence in merit makes the difference in separate«I up in the city about half a subject of discussion, even in the tences, for I, with all the rest, have eth not to be ashamed, (I have been price, for they both look very grand in way between our depot*, she going land of fracspeech. The orders of the caught the Christmas fever, and since ashamed of some as myself,) because he my eyes. The new picture is a view in home tor vacation, I to return ' to mystic tie, or more particularly those I began writing we have eaten dinner, , was educated. Ji'or many years .1 London. If the gentleman who pre- Wellesley. abbreviated A. F. &A.M. and I. O.O.F. received a dozen calls, and accepted have beard your preachers assay to (sented it is at all partial to feminine I have become some«bat familiar What say you, dare you attack those an invitation to dine with the minister preach on the subject “ Be not con attention, he must have been de on Christmas day. with the principal streets, so that I venerable societies ? Not by any formed to this world," and they often lighted, with the ovation the young What are the Vespertine« doing I iniiMad it just as .far by making it means, for we on the outside believe have no longer any fear of being lost, ladies gave him in the pdrlor after the but we yesterday found some trouble they are very good for the world, but wonder this Christmas tide ? I send apply to tbe latest -style of dressing 1 hanging of the picture in pushing our way through the very hazardous to the church. I aumiig die ladies -of the church, Of course being in New England to you, and all my Oregon friends, when, perhaps, it was as much an im .know that which tends to division in crowds who were doing their Christ we had a grand Thanksgiving dinner, wishes kind, that this may be the * provement as the present plows are ■feeling, in numbers, in finances, in mas shopping. Boston streets are so which, I assure you, was h.art’ly en merriest Christmas you have ever any body, political, religious or social, narrow, and ao very crookeiL An<l joyed, we havimr been kept waiting known, and tlxat the dear old year over the old bar ahare. Yet J shall take theposition in this tends to the weakening of that body. withal so very dirty, that one must for it till three o’clock ; after which may die for you with all its rapturous paper khat being conformed to the I know there exists a feeling on thè keep a sharp lookout if he keeps the some of us started hap hazard for a plans fulfilled, and the glad new year world is the great hindrance to suc part of those in your church who are even tenor of his way. The windows walk, and before we knew it were begin with promises as fair as the cess and influence, and «hall make a opposed to the members joining in are filled with Christmas goods, and reading inscriptions on old moss dream of the poet in the heart of number of applications which I know such societies, that takes the utmost we could not help stopping before one grown tombstones that dated back as silverland. of the stores to admire a most beauti- i far as 1793. It was not a very en C assie S tump . are great hindrances to your suacess, stretch of forbearance to endure it. I will now state some of the effects ful seene from the wonderland where ticing place, and we hurried home to and will say that the ladies should T hk D omestic M'- sthly for January, It all be safely housed before the darkness jiot bear all the blame, yut when they it is having on the church. First, it Santa Claus holds court 1880—The Domestic Monthly tor Jan nary has made all outsiders, who belong3o looked so ieal that we could scarcely settled down around us. go beyond mediocrity in dress, and will be fonnd in every respect appropriate our alrees purely for show, where there is those orders, believe that said orders believe we had outgrown To the young gentlemen who to tbe season, and abreast with the latest no utility, then they violate tie are wing institutions, sttd when you trust in kriss kringle lore, There inquires in such a solicitous »ay how ideas of the best coatnmers. A sketch of fnrs ai d tbtir history, in teachings of what you claim is a preach to such to come to your church was the veritable Santa Claus many Xiairpin factories have been the current number, will bo foudd of they simply sneer at it, and say, this bundled in furs, who ’ ao „'often has rexelation of your God, «socially built on the College grounds to supply present interest, and poetry by (opular those who wear that veiy precious is good enough religion for me, and “ placed his finger alongside his nose, so many fussy girls, I must say that anthers, with the regular departments of metal called gold—Peter’s JKpistles even your preachers, in the order, gave a queer little nod as up the Boston draws that revenue at three editorial com aent and criticism, make up The temple was ornamented with ^end all who die to the grand lodge chimney he rose.” The sleigh, reindeer i cents a dozen. The ink is furnished an attractive, amusing, and instructivo gold, which, I Learyourpicacherssay, above. I even heard a learned speaker and all were as large as life, but we by the College, and is not of the l,est number. A revised list of premiums offered as in was typical of Christ’s church, not of the I. O. 0. F. say in closing an didn’t have time to bring up all the j quality. Matches we must buy for ducements to canvassers is published in address to his brethren at one of their poetry of our youth, for we were ourselves, and they must be safety this number. Among them are all the individual members, but a spiritual organization, and I am sure plenty of celebrations, “It will be said to all brought hurriedly back to mundane matches, some of which are so hard to books now in market, and Wra. Holl's su gold would make your organization good 0. F. in the last day, * well done things, by the struggle to keep our light they never light at all. They perb *ngra»ing of Washington as painted •'.line with a brilliancy that would good and faithful servants, enter into selves from being* pushed into the can very well be called safety matches; by John Faed, R 8.A. Tbe Domsstie Monthly is published by look better to an outsider, than seeing the joys of your Lord.’ ” I heard some fearful mud of that Boston street by little sticks from the fir woods at Blake A Company, corner Broadway and church members say immediately, *' A those more eager than ourselves to home c<>uldn’t is* safer. it dangle on tbe side of the faces of 14th Street. New York, at 91 50 per year, *' saving institution according to that. ” get near the Christmas fairy land. We have discoveieU that what we innluaive of pattern premium Specimen 1 the old and young, promiscuously be But that is not all. I learn at your Other places in the world have have believed ah this time was only copies 15 ?ents. decking both male and female, preach meetings, and through your paper, mud as well as Oregon, and surely an ornament at tbe bottom of our ers, elders and the big one« of the that you are much troubled to get the Boston has a generous share. You bureau's is in reality a big ■ice church. Behavior is a mirror in which every I learn you an making some mis-1 nocvwy means to carry on the work would be shocked if you could see my drawer, and designed for use. The one shows his image.— Goethe.