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'OO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATION'S.# MONMOUTH, OREGON; FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1880. VOL X. NO. 14. V Pacific institution and this, each of which in its own way has never been surpass C hristian messenger , ed. Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi Washington’s birthday passed quiet anity, and the diffusion of general in ly, but it is understood that our vaca formation. tion will be one day longer on account Price Per Year, in Advance, $2.50 All business letters should be addressed of our having to work on that day. to T. F. Campbell, 1 Editor, or Mary If I hear much more of snow in Or 8tump, Publisher, Monmouth, Oregon. egon, I’ll have to be careful how I talk Advertisers will find this one of the best of thè West in general,.and Oregon in mediums on the Pacific Coast for making particular, as I did while down in their business known. the kitchen a few evenings ago to the RATES OF ADVERTISING : man who does the pumping for us. TTVTTTM r 3 M ' I ~ tf > I 1 Yr~ He said he had been as far West as «1 00 «2 50 $400 $7 00 $12 00 1 Inch.. 20 00 the middle of New York and as he is 7 OO 12 00 4 00 Ì 50 H Col... 35 00 7 00 12 00 20 00 4 00 1» Col... 65 00 a great talker I don’t know how long 7 OS 12 00 20 00 35 00 U Col... 120 00 35 00 00 65 20 00 12 00 1 Col.... we might have kept on with the cook Notices in local columns 10 cents per line for for audience, if one of the laundry each insertion. Yearlv advertisements on liberal terms. girls and her sweetheart had not come Professional Cards (1 square) $12 per annum. in to spend the evening with the cooks Entered at the Poet Office at Monmouth as and interrupted the conversation. second class matter. Last Wednesday evening we went Letter from Wellesley College. to hear Miss Willard lecture on tem perance at the college. Though the NUMBER IX. subject was temperance, she preached us a sermon full of Gospèl truth. She W ellesley , M ass ., is finely educated and perhaps forty- March *|Q, 18,80. My Dear Girls -. . five years of age. She speaks in an This term will close for spring vaca easy, natural way, her language bor tion two weeks from to-morrow, when dering on the florid style, and has a we will have a breathing time before genial, kindly face, not strikingly tumbling headlong again into the handsome, but with a true genuine why’s and wherefores of French prep womanly soul shining from her eyes. ositions and the reasons for unmanage She taught in or near Chicago, till the able German verbs. If is well that great move for temperance in 1874, we are allowed a resting spell, for I . and must be seen and heard to be ap am in a continual muddle over the preciated. mysteries of language and I could nev-. Some of the girls have just come er come to the surface again if the home from Boston, where they have struggle was much more urolonged. been to see the Cat show. It is amus Little is done at translating, but ing to hear them tell of the hundreds " construction ” is ding-donged into us of cats, more or less, little, big, old and till the sentence stands out in scarlet young. It was a great treat to letters before our tired eyes. Drill is children, and to some grown up what we came here for, and drill we people as well. The cats (poor things) are getting to our hearts content. We have been on exhibition all this week, have a valuable library of both Ger and crowds have been to see' them. man and French books for reference One of our girls is a special for cats and the teachers in these branches and has a scrap-book devoted entirely could hardly be excelled, but I find it to pussies. It is unique, and I hardly tough work nevertheless, and shall think the real show itself could equal gladly welcome the two weeks vaca her scrap-book in the beauty of cat tion, which I will spend with Miss pictures. Speaking of pussies reminds Cahill in Boston. We will try and me of the time we have had searching prove the old Spanish proverb true, for pussy willows on our walks. I " There is no time lost in stopping to found a handful of nice ones the other pray and feed your horse,” and will day and made a pretty little easel of come back ready for another term of them for a Christmas card. They thirteen weeks study before the sum look very spring like and may stay mer vacation. fresh a week, but I never heard so There was an organ recital at the much fuss made over them not even College Monday afternoon, and I had when we were little folk and found the privilege of seeing Prof. Morse’s such nice ones along the slough back " proof ” while he was _correcting it of the old house at home. As it was entirely unlike newspaper The other day Mr. Dana was kind proof and altogether something new enough to take some of us for an air in my eyes, I will tell you how it ing in his carriage. We followed fer looked. The whole paper was stamp ed with dark green ink except the some distance the turnpike that forty notes, lines, bars, etc., which were left years ago was the famous stage road -white and raised as letters in books leading from New York to Boston. It for the blind. It was a lovely after now looks quite deserted and grass- noon and Miss Cloudman and myself grown, though we passed close by some made a visit to the college green-house fine summer residences of city people. on our way home; it. is now filled No more is Keard, even the echo of the •with beautiful fragrant flowers, and it rolling wheels and dashing hoof beats was a real pleasure to enjoy their of the coach and six, for the iron horse dissolves the lingering spell of brightness and perfume. A lady student at Smith college in forty brief years as it thunders round the western part of this State has a curve and we bow our heads as the lately made a visit to a friend at “ fast white mail ” and the car of pro Dana Hall, and I have discovered that gress flashes by. I have no doubt as Miss Bush, of Salem, is a student at Mr. Dana said “ this is a healthful that college, in the Freshman year. place,” but I saw only rock«, rocks, Smith College is different in rocks. I cannot imagine what it could many respects from Wellesley, the have been like before so much money public and recitation rooms being in and labor were expended upon it one building and the boarding houses Certainly it must have seemed a very I built to accommodate 25 and 50 stu desolate place to the pilgrims. begin to realize how this " stem and dents. They have no academic de partment and all specials must pass rock-bound " coast might have looked the freshman examination. There is " When a band of exiles moored their .something of a rivalry between that bark, on the wild New England shore.” Now it is hard to tell where Wel the means of turning thousands from lesley leaves off and Grant-ville be the errors of their ways to be servants gins, and it is the same with all the of the living and true God. towns in Eastern Massachusetts. Now, my dear bethren and sisters, Mrs. Shelton, (our housekeeper) has readers of the M essenger , let me say returned from San Francisco and does to you that it is about thirty years not seem to be so much an admirer of since I became acquainted with the California climate and wonders, as be Mulkeys’, and here I will say, all I fore she went. She has a great deal ever knew of them were members of to say of Chinese missions in San the Christian church. My beloved old Francisco, and is somewhat enthusias Bro. Phillip I have been personal ac tic on the subject. I have not fully quainted for eight years. Met him on made up my mind what to think, net McKenzie; our rejoicing on that that my belief would affect destiny in occasion, on the same day and at the in the least, but while Joseph Cook is same time I met Bros. Noah Powell, showing off his scholars, and.the ladies Keathly Bales and G. M. Whitney, grow enthusiastic over Chinese en and since that time Bros. Mulkey and lightenment, I see a chattering lot of Whitney and myself have battled railroad hands and “ Bret Harte’s ” side by side in the good cause ot our I couplet goes singing through my Master, while Bro. Powell crossed the brain. river very shortly after oui interview. ** For deeds that are dark, and for tricks Bro. K. Bales is stUl blowing the that are vain, Gospel trumpet, and may he be able The Heathen Chinee is peculiar,” to turn many souls to the Lord. C assie S tump . Now, I will say to my brethren and sisters in the Lord, be ye steadfast,un Another Pioneer and Octogen movable, always abounding in the arian. work of the Lord, for God so loved the world that he gave his only be M ohawk , L ane C o ., O r ., - < March 22, 1880. gotten Son that whosoever believeth , Dear Bro. Campbell : in him should not perish, but have In the M essenger of March 12th I everlasting life. Oh for that love let see two articles from the pen of two rocks and hills their lasting silence of my old brethren of the cross, and break/ and all harmonious human feel as though I wish to be placed tongues his glorious praises, Speak before the many readers of the. M es then, my brethren, let love be the senger so as my race may be known ruling principal of all our actions- as theirs is. Jesus said, “ If ye love me, keep my I was bom in Lee county, Virginia, commandments, and my command August 10, 1799, and confessed my ment is to love one another.” Yes, Master in October, -1829, in Monroe my brethren, let love be without dis county, Indiana. I was without edu simulation, abhor that which is evil cation, and set in to learn my Master’s and cleave to that which is good. Be will and to do it. In 1845 I com kindly, affectionate one to another, menced teaching it to others, and since with brotherly love. Dear brethren, that tipie I have preached from the it does not appear that there is same text, I know but one, that • is, enough of that brotherly love culti Jesus Christ, and him dead, buried, vated in the brotherhood as should be. resurrected and ascended ; and while If it was, the poor would not be for I am writing these lines I have an gotten. If our ministers would lay inward joy that I have been the cause the claim of the poor before the people in the cause of my Master of turning more than they do, the poor of the many thousands from darkness to church would be better cared for. The light and from the power of Satan Master said, “ I was hungry, and you unto God. I am only sorry that I did fed me; thirsty, and you gave me not keep a journal of my life. So it drink.” This would show their love is, I feel as though I have fought a for each other; love never plots evil ■good fight, and have kept the faith, against his brother; and I will close and with solemn delight view my in this little sketch by subscribing my heritance which the Lord has promised self your humble brother in one hope. to all who love and serve him. Bro. Campbell, I am able to saw Bro. Elledge says : “ Bro. Campbell, my own wood, and do so, and in I have continual sorrow, confined as usual health; my wife is in bad in a prison, and deprived of nearly all health. If I continue thus till May Christian privileges.” Well, this is or June, I hope to go out among my about my situation, all the difference brethren once more. Now say what is I meet with my brethren and may please you for me as one of your sisters about two or three times in the I brethren who is ready to lay his armor month and breaking the loaf. This is by and dwell in peace at home. Give when and where I rejoice with joy my Christian regard to Sister Camp the world knows nothing of. The bell, also to Bro. Luke Mulkey and cause of my Master has been my con wife, and portion for yourself. stant theme and shall be while I am D. D. W eddle . in this tabernacle, 'although I have H igher E ducation in -U nited been opposed by the world and Satan. S tates .—The last published report of I then look at the temptation my the Bureau of Education gives the Master underwent, look at him on the number of universities and colleges, of pinacle of the temple, where the devil all grades, in the United States is 351. offered him all the kingdoms of the Of these, 265 are given as having some denominational connection. world if he would worship him. But Forty-nine are Roman Catholic. Fifty nay, the MastdV says, " Get behind me are Methodist. Thirty-seven are Satan, it is written thou shalt worship Presbyterian. The Baptist, in their The the Lord thy God, and him only shalt divisions, have thirty-nine. Lutherans have sixteen ; the Congre- thou serve.” Now, Bro. Elledge, although I ?Rationalists, nineteen ; the Episcopa- never had a personal interview with ians, seven; the “ Christian«,” thirteen. The rest are in connection with the you, I became acquainted with you different smaller sects,. Ol the eighty - some through the Christian Record six that are marked “ non-sectarian,” and some through the M essenger , some are state institutions, others have and 1 can truly sympathize with you been founded, by private generosity, in your situation. The M essenger I s aud most of them sustain some rela tion of more or less distinct recognition a welcome visitor, I hope it may live of Christianity as a necessary element to see its fiftieth anniversary, and be | in true educational training. Prudence Papers. CALUNO AND BENDINO. What a perversion of the ministry. Are we all at sea ? Is it possible that no one has any knowledge upon this subject ? I would like to emulate the ex ample of the little band at Lexington who tired the “ shot heard rotfnd the world.” Surely, is there no knowledge in these things ? If a revolution is necessary, then, let us have a revolu tion, yes, a real-revolution. . > Two instances will suffice. A preacher (1J started out some years ago and accepted the “ divine call,” saying it was his duty to preach the Gospel, and whether hindered or prospered, he proposed to preach. He was ignorant of grammar or logic, and with more sound than sense, he proposed to open his meuth that therefrom might flow the incongruou y rhetoric and preposterous sentences, saying it was inspiration. A dis grace to even the heathen deities. Another starts out with a desire to' preach, and is “ set apart ” to the work of the ministry. Certainly, some church did the work. Some - church gave the credentials. Som§ names are signed to those credentials*. Those are signed officially. In after years, after the congregation is dis banded,or at least, the person is away from their jurisdiction, he presents his credentials, as authority, for his work as an evangelist. Which is right ? Neither. ' Why, come now, let us reason to gether? In the first instance, the person claims a position on the equal with the apostles« He claims to have received a divine call, and what are his credentials? a few, incongruous sentences ami no subjection to the church wherein God has lodged his authority for carrying on the work of advancing his cause. He destroys all order and all law. He neglects the very strict injunction of the apostle, “ Study to show thyself approved unto God.” (Italics are mine;. The other perpetual is the ‘ holy touch.” His reliance is not so much on the authority given him th 3 church as through the church. He forget« his responsibility to that church. He forgets his authority is good only so long as the author’s are good. He forgets those names are signed officially, and as such his claim to being sent, is good only so long as the senders to whom he is responsible remain a church body capable of exercising jurisdiction. Hts laying on of hands. It does ___ ____ not transmit any heavenly influence. It only signalizes, before the congrega- a ! .- 1 • -1 ’ ■ • - - tion which sends, the authoiity given him and the responsibility enjoined. And so long as he remains a member of that congregation, sunt out by that congregation, responsible to that con gregation, his authority to go forth and proclaim the Gospel with their support and encouragement is valid and should bo respected. S ilas , J r . —The missionaries of the American Sunday school Union in the North western Depart uent report, during the past year, 408 schools organized, with 1,559 teachers, 12,610 scholars; 1,556 schools visited and aided, hav ing 5,756 teachers and 52,045 scholars 3,047 Bibles and Testaments distribu ted ; 2,000 sermons and addresses de livered j 6,145 families visited; and 16,125 miles traveled. r-