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About Pacific Christian messenger. (Monmouth, Or.) 1877-1881 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1880)
« "GO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATION8." VOL X. MONMOUTH, OREGON! FRIDAY, FEB. 13, 1880. CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, Devoted to the oeuee o( Primitive Chriati- •nity, and the diAktaou of general te- formation. Price Per Tear, in Advance, SS.&O All business letton «hould be addressed fo T. F. OampbeH, Editor, or Mary Stamp, Publisher, Menmouth, Oregon. Advertisers will find thia one of the best assdiums on the Psotte Coast for making their business known. rates or ARvnTMnre : Spice------ 1 fW 1 Inch H Col........... M Col........... u Col........... 1 Col............ »1 2 4 7 12 311! «H 00 «2 50 »4 00 7 00 50 « 00 00 V 00 12 00 tt in 00 20 00 00 20 00 85 00 »7 12 20 35 65 00 »12 00 20<00 00 00 00 65.00 04 00 U0 00 Hotices in local ootumna 10 cento per line for each insertion. Yearly advertinemeato on liberal terms. Professional Cards <1 square) »13 per annoai. Letter from Wellesley College. W ellesley , M ass ., Jan. 21, 1880. Jfy dear Girls! Last night I was saddened by let ters from home »telling me that the heart of Monmonth had been made a holocaust by fire. What a strange experience it aoust have been for you, who watched the desperate endeavor of the flames that so soon conquered every human strategum. You have, no doubt, no ticed in the telegrams that a fire in Boston several weeks ago destroyed nearly a million dollars worth of <property on Franklin St, including same of that city's magnificent pub lishing houses. The day after, when Miss Beattie and myself were in Boston, we saw the great empty shells of what were sup posed to be fireproof buildings, while the fire engines were still throwing streams of water »upon the smoking ruins. Two blocks away no erne could have told there had ever been a fire, for as the girls say, the streets of Boston “ wind round and round and round, and at last run up a tree.” That is only a Wellesley rhyme, but the more I am in the city the more I believe in the story that Boston streets follow the ‘paths where the ■“ cows camo slowly up the misty ways when the summer sun was slipping down ” from the wilds where they had been feeding- knee deep in the fragrant grasses through the day; as the country older grew, wagon roads took the same direction, which at last.made the streets of this great Puritan city. It seems strange that when two streets run into each other sJt, an indescribable angle it is known by one name on one side and a differ ent one on the other, till they take a mutual tum and receive a common name. I have heard Joseph Cook several timea since I last wrote, and the more I hear him the more intensely inter esting I find his lectures; I wish you would read them as they appear in the Independent, for I know you would enjoy them. The lectures bqgin on Monday’s at 12 M., and last one hour. They are always opened by ringing one of the dear old hymns, and jirayer; the prelude, which lasts half an hour, is given by the lecturer while sitting on the platform, and is a sound sensible talk to the people on some current subject of national importance. This manner ef speaking dees not detract ,-n the least from his forcible arguments g« you might suppose it would. Another song and prayer follow the preluda, after which he stands to de liver the lecture proper. I have never told you how Joseph Cook looks, have I, »nd that, to be sure, is what you want to know first. Ho is rather below medium height, of a stout appearance, light eyes and hair, and smooth face except a short beard. Not en Appollo, by any means, but be snakes the world listen, and a nation de him honor. Day before yesterday we were ten minutes early, so we had a chance to take a good look at the audience and you may be a little surprised to know that it was composed of all sorts and classes, old, young, and middle aged, but an intelligent one throughout. The room was better filled than I had noticed it before, owing perhaps to the subject, “ Spiritualism.” The prelude concerning the present troubles* in Ireland received rapt at tention and I was glad that I had read a few days before a long article on the subject, as it helped me to un derstand what the lecturer was talk ing about. The Old Soerth Church, is, you knaw, carefully preserved for its many his torical associations and we tarried the other day after the crowd had gone, to get near and reverently touch some of the curious aid things that borrow their glory, from the vanished touch ef the illustrious <dead. First, there are large portraits of Washington and a score of others;; an old-fashioned fire place is built in one end of the church and in it are large heavy tongs and andirons^ while swung above the fire place Ire several old old muskets used during the revolution. There are seme easy chairs of early colonial days, which would not be uncomfort able now, but would scarcely compare with our modem luxurious ones ex cept in durability. One I noticed was brought to America in 1763. There is an old spinning wheel, similar enough to be'twin sister to Grandma’«, a baby cradle, and lets of funny old dishes, seme of them used by digni taries as far back as 1690; I imagined myself covered with cobwebs, and burdened with the deeay of flying .centuries, as we turned from the Bos ton of the revolution, giving a familiar, endearing pat, before we went to the old cannon that helped buy our free dom by pouring out the warm red life blood of the haughty British cavaliers; but which stands now guarding in rusty grimness the front entrance of the eld South church. We only glanced hastily at the little beat that crossed the Atlantic with such rash hardihood ia 1878,1 think, and came out into the crowded Boston of to-day, blinking our eyos and pinching oursolves to be sure of our identity as Wellesley College girls. We spent Monday forenoon visiting the Boston Normal School and the preparatory rooms adjoining. A sweet little boy of perhaps five sum mers answered the bell of the first preparatory room we entered, and very politely showed us into his room where thore were 48 little girls and boys of his own age. It was sur prising to see how well they had ad vanced in this their first six months of school. Miss Williams, their teacher, kept them busy, and they were very proud of their writing, which indeed was very good. Their copy was on the blackboard before them, as also were their reading lessons, whieh they read with delicate shades of emphasis. In the next room they were just finishing their first year, and the exercises were much ths same. It was wonderful to see the self-posses sion with which each little fellow mounted the platform to take his turn, leading the others through their gymnastic exercises. Wo remained there until recess and watched the 350 march from their rooms to the play ground. There were none, I think, over ten years old. We then returned to the Normal department, where Mr. Dunean, president ef the school, talked to us pleasantly of schools in general, and we saw the young ladies go through their Calis- thenic drill. The remainder of the time we spent in Miss Moses’ room, where a class of about 20 young ladies were going through the motions of teaching geography to children. We wanted to stay longer, but had just time to take a street car and reach the old South church in time for the lecture. From what I have heard of the severe winter ia Oregon I- feel as if we were not having any winter at all. A big sleigh has taken the place of the College coach part of the time, and there have been cold snaps more than onoe, but it is not the Massachusetts I expected to endurt. School days I do not notice so much, but last Monday was ¡a day of sun shine and perfect beauty. The air was not too cold and was full of spring-time sparkle; as we were going 'to the train we could distinctly hear the school bells ringing at Grantville, the first station east ef here. Massachusetts is rich in history, rich in the untold wealth of her citizens; rich in learning, as its litera ture and heavily endowed colleges, which furnish at a nominal price everything but capacity, attest, bnt nature in recompense has given the west broad waters “ calmly sweeping to the sea ” forests ef gloom, and far- reaching meadows, breezy uplands and fertile lowlands, while here everything but art is pinched and email. It is trite enough, that “ com parisons are odious," but how can one help it when he looks from the fifth story window of the college (the highest place I have yet found/ and sees an undulating highly cultivated surface dotted with villages, as far as the eye can reach, and nothing more; who that has been bom and reared under the shadow of Mt. Hood could help remembering the broad rich farming acres, the distant picture everywhere of mountains robed in purple mist, with »new peaks looming up magnificently grand, more en nobling, though a hundred miles away, than any lfty:theusand dollar painting done in oil, and think what ene would hardly dare to whisper here, that if New England would longer keep ahead ef the land of the sunset, in culture or wealth, her vaca tion days must be few and far be tween. Parties Among Christians. Our brethren need no arguments to prove to them that their children should not dance; but it seems diffi cult for them to see the tendency of night parties countenanced and en couraged among us. Wo can see the impropriety of our children meeting with and mingling with the ungodly and unconverted, yet we will have parties in which our young people mingle with the ungod ly, engage in sports and mirthful per formances, which are found to be a good substitute for a dance, in which jeatiDg and hiliarity is the .main at traction and chief stimulant. But says one, “ What harm is there in the party ! where does 'the Bible condemn it ?” With equal propriety, let me ask, “ What harm is there in the dance ?” But says one, “ Dancing is reveling.” Then parties tend to the same thing. The object of the one is the object of the other. What is it that causes young people to gather together on Christmas and New Year’s nights and carouse with jests and plays until midnight, and return home between midnight and day with the brain full of unfruitful levity, and upend the following day with a headache from loss of sleep ? The same that leads young people to the ball room. The performances may be different, but the object and principle and sin is the same. The Devil willing to no longer contend for the ball room if he can accomplish his object by convincing Christian parents that it is right to allow their children to frequent “ play parties,” “candy pulling,” " bussing bees,” “ oyster supper,” etc. But says one, What harm is there in an oyster sup per ? I suppose if the young “ folks ” are so exceedingly fond of oysters, and that is the all important object, it would be well enough to allow our children a day occasionally for cook ing and eating oysters. But the trouble is, we find but few young people that are fond of oysters, so we conclude that" hankering ” for oysters is not the cause of all this ado. I used to be under the necessity ef giving pills to my children before I came to " healthy Oregon.” Some times those pills were bitter, and the children would protest against them, and C jnsoquently I was constrained to resort to strategy, in order to induce them to willingly swallow them, which was usually by concealing them in sugar or something sweet to the taste. Perhaps, fathers and mothers, you see the point. The love of the world is enmity against Ged, and the Devil is " sugar coating ” the principal that tends to ruin and destruction, which are the festivities and revellings and The third bell has rung, and that banquetings countenanced among means quick to breakfast, so I say Christians. a gain reluctantly, Good by. T. M. M organ . C assie S tump . —A Walnut street clerk was dis charged. He asked the reason. "You —One of the doings of the late Boston are so awfSl slow about everything,” fire was to burn about a thousand bound said his employer. " You do me an copies of “A Fool’s Errand,” and badly damage by water and smoke five thousand injustice,” responded the clerk; “ there more that were on the pram. This will be is one thing I am not slew about” " I but a brief cheek, however, to the rapid should be delighted to hear you name circulation wbioh the book is having, for it, ” sneered the proprietor. " Well,” a now edition will bo ready this week. The publisher* have never yet fairly said the clerk, slowly,“nobody can get caught up with their orders for the book, tired as quick as I can.” A motion for it started off with such suddenness and ra a reconsideration of his case has been pidity. A Washington correspondent in referred to the proper committee.—Des an exchange states that “ all Washington Moines Register. is at thia moment reading it. President NO. 7. From an Old Lady’s Diary. Many invitations are sent out in writing, some preach by precept and example, and their good works do testify of Jesus and some souls are saved thereby; some sow seed, early and late, and the Lord, in mercy, waters it, and it brings forth, some thirty, some sixty, and some one ' hundred fold. In this he sheweth his great love and sameetnesw for the salvation of these who, having gone astray, he draws with strong cords of everlasting love, and who can esti mate the height and depth of an redeeming love ? O, my Father, roll the wheel, and be thou the pilot, and let our barque be no more foundered at sea; but cause it to come into port laden with ad the necessary things of the life that is to come ; and now what shall I say mere, that thou, Lord, take all my kindred dust and breath upon it the breath of life, and say unto it live, yea live; and with that material make and rear a beautiful mansion without spot or wrinkle, er any such a thing. When done, will it not be a costly edifice, for Jesus hath paid a price ? O may it be a building built with all manner of precious stones, even the word of his truth, a glorious house and a temple for the Lord God to dwell in, and the Lamb to be the light thereof, and fountain» of living waters flowing from eut of it, which is the word of his truth; and may it be as a goodly city set upon a high hill, and may its beauties and glories be seen afar off, and its light lighten many nations, and the tree ef life grow there, and its leaves be for the healing of many nations. Surely the Isle shall await for them ; they shall spring up as grass, as willows by the water courses, and one shall say I am the Lord’s, and another shall call him self by the name of Jacob, and an other shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel. Fear not, for I am with thee, Ijvill bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west, and say to the north give up, an<T to the south keep not back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; even every one that is called by my name, for 1 have created him for my glory; I have formed him, I have made him. Yea, Lord, of thine ownself thou wilt do these things that the heathen may be given to thee, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. As a soul and spirit inhabit this body in this life so will the soul and spirit enter in and take possession of the immortal body in that other life on that other shore; they will be united in one the same as here below The soql that is filled with Christ in this life will be filled with Christ in the life that is to come, and in union with God ever more. God said ¿ Het us make man after our image and after our likeness,and in the similitude of God made he man; herein are we like unto him, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three in one, so it is with man, body, soul and spirit, three in one in this life, and the life to come, the life beyond the tomb. M rs . E. B race . ■ Leland, Or. Late reports from Mr. Spurgeon say he is in a state of great proetra tion, and that there is a little likeli hood of his being able to return home for a considerable time to come. To Hayes is said to have ordered ten copies of A doee of Yankee Cough Syrup taken at his congregation he writes that he "is it. Every member of the Cabinet has bed-time will insure you a good night’s altogether laid aside, without either one,” Ac.—As, 1 rest from coughing. brain to think or heart to write.”