Pacific Christian messenger., August 13, 1880, Image 1

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VOL. X
MONMOUTH; OREGON; FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1880
Pacific
NO, 32.
applicable to him, and it is just possi­ pit all your lives at moral offenders
’r-» just graduated and
Gashmu, who >■ has
hristian
essenger , ble that the less devout of your number and yet never succeed in lodging a gotten home from Flimflam Female • Missionary Co-operation.
will be often tempted, before you are ball in Gashmu.
Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi­
Institute, you will find fewer flowers
Ndjmf P alouse , July 10, 1880.
You Would think, when you have
anity, and the diffusion of general in­ done with out-door life, to speak of
and
less
of
sunshine
in
the
coming
Missionary
Cooperation met at the
formation.
him with one or more pefixes which fired your heavy artillery at the every
years
thap
you
are
anticipating.
It
camp
ground
near
Chase’s Mill. Vice-
do not'properly belong in the theolog- day liar, gossip, mischief-maker, ine­
Price Per Year, in Advance, S2.50
-is
just
possible
that
the
day
you
ac
­
President
in
the
chair.
All business letters should be addressed . deal vocabulary.
briate’, law-breaker,, and skeptic,
A motion prevailed to enlarge the
Gashjmu lives in neârly all towns, you have shot down about all the cepted the call to Gash mu’s church
to T. F. Campbell, Editor, or Mary
your
June
of
bloom
and
song
began
to
8tamp, Publisher, Monmouth, Oregon.
cooperation,
taking in all-the territory
village^, and cities, and manages to dangerouif foes within pulpit range;
Advertisers will find this one of the best
'
lapse
into
a
December
of
leaden
clouds
north
of
Snake
river, and bound on
get into most positions and callings in but after the smoke clears away, yor
mediums on the Pacific Coast for making
and
melancholy
prospects
—
tr
»
Decern-
JU
the
west
by
the
Columbia river,"on
_
life. He is a lawyer, doctor, preacher, will find Gashmu right there as 1 b.«M
their business known.
bèr thal willjq.it - snow, and drizzle, lhe north
tbe
of tbe tW° ter’
author, merchant, editor, politician, fore, without even the smell of powder
BATES OF ADVERTISING :
mechanic, banker, stockdealer and so or brimstone on his garments. “Gash- and blow, ancTffeeze, and do the same ritories, on the east by the eastern
Space
I 1 W ! 1M
3 M 1 M
1 Yr
He is mu is not a common golsip at all. over again, and keep on at it all the boundary of Nez Perse county, I. T. .
*1 00 »2 50. *4 00 »7 00 »12 00' on and on, as the case may be.
2 so 4 00 7 00 12 00 20 00 a man who is perfectly self-poised, “ His sisters and cousins and his auijts” rest of your life* Gashmu may,get Up The name of the Cooperation changed
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35 00
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65 00 nevef off his guard never excited ; has maybe; but so, careful is he of the an mq>!easantness-of this kind for you to the Territorial Cooperation North
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whether you marry his daughter Noa- of Snake River.
a réputation for great wisdom ; is cau­ use of the tongue, so Sparing is he of
Notice« in local column« 10 cent« per line for
Decided to employ Bro. C. J. Wright
tious, level-headed, of good memory, of words, that when it can be said of a diah or not; and because you are in­
each innertioq,
,. Yearly advertisement« on liberal term«.
nocents
going
fibroad
in
life,
without
a
as
evangelist foFsaitl district.
fascinatin^nnmners, of lamb-like looks slanderous rumor "Gashmu saith i-t,”
Professional Card« (1 aqnare) >12 per annnm.
knowledge of Gashmu, who is some­
Board
aifjdnfrned to meet again
1
A
great,
noble,
kind,
loving,-good,
true
that carries conviction to most minds.
Mr. I. G. Davidson ia - our Advertising
where
around
lurking
in
wait
for
during
the
meeting.
Agent in Portland.
man, you, my callow friend, would say, Gashmu is qpt a common liar; so far
every
mother
’
s
son
of
you.
R.
M.
C allison , Vice;I’resident,
Entered at the f*o«l Office it Monmouth u blit be careful. Gashmu Weahs a mask. from it that when Jbe attaches his
■eoond c U um matter.
v
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,
wjil
bc¡
prudent;
then,
for
you
to
.
T.
L.
C'HiLbERs,
Secretary.--
W’ere it presumable that theological ipse.dixit to almost any lie ft pisses
make
a
study
of
this,
character
at
students had ever read the works of for truth. Gashmu is not a rowdy,
July 16, 18807 lu4
Gashmu.
BoarJ. called to order by President.
Fielding, I would make myself under­ not an open foe in hostile.array ; not once, if you expect to accomplish
BEV« DARK A WAY «ROMO, D. D., BEFORE THE NTU DENTS
Motion prevailed that chair appoint
stood by saying to you that Gashmu a chronic objector even. Just a quiet anything in practical life ; otherwise
OF BABELMANDEB THEOLdOlCAL SEMINARY.
A8
he
wiíl
defeat
your
aims
and
plans
BEEN AND HEARD ,
a committee consisting of one member
is not Squire Western, who went bittar obstructionist, who always rath­
BY JAME8 M?MAYWELLJ
through life as boisterously and as tu­ er seems to favor the end which he is and purposes with a Waterloo or Bull from each congregatio'^ to ascertain
Run overwhelmingness. .
what each congregation can raise to
I am just at home from the Gateof multuously as 4iis hounds ; but he is at work, in disguise, every hour in
My parting charge to youu there­ support an evangelist, and report to
the
demure,
decorous,
hypocritical
the
day
every
day
in
the
week,
every
Tears, or Babelmandeb School of the
fore, is to lay aside for 'a time the the . President at an early a day as .,
Prophets, where I have been in at­ I Blifil, who seems most himself when week in thornonth, every month in
text-books of the schools,and open the poisible.
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tendance on the closing exercises pf burying Tom Jones’ Bible. I think the year, to defeat. Gashmu is a con­
.volumes^
of common sense (find of ' Names of committee:—Spangle,'
however,
Ldetect
Something
jùst
now
summate
mischief-maker,
but
nobody
, the year. >. - ■
human nature’, and read up on Gashmu Wm. Sandirs; Hangman’s.Creek, R
« countenance of these beloved suspects it. He'writes no letters’and
The chief interest of tbe occasion in the
in
all his unsanctified phases ot char­ H. Wimpy ; Farmington, G. W. Smith;,
centered In the address to the graduat­ theological preceptors around me posts no bidWin of his movements.
acter-;
for I speak only the words of Deep Creek, David Hayden; Eden •
ing class by the distinguished pastor which very emphatically says : Dr. He witt manage . to „ keep neighbors
truth
and
soberpess when I'assure you Valley, S. "P. Gilliland; Four Mile,
„ of the leading church of Blank City. Crojno, please do not turn ttye atten­ quarreling who have so good an opin­
that,
though
you have roamed all the David Royse; Moscow, John Rtissell
The evening was excessively warm tion of these dear young brethren who ion of him that both parties will se­
fields
of
language,
science, philosophyr- Colfax, C. G. Wflite ; Palouse City, F
and the crowd of eager listeners very are just entering ths ministry to such lect him as the arbitrator of their diffi-.
persons as the Foundling, Black I culties. When Gashmu is an unedu- ethics, and literature; though you L. Bell; Pine City, J. W. Richardson
great. *
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George,
or even Sophia Western ; for ' c.ated man and belongs to church, he have lingered with amazing interest Union Flat, W D. Craig.
7 The speaker, Dr. Cromo, has grown
Bro. W. A. Gibbins was appointed
corpulent during recent years, and with all her beauty, she was a dainty, is very liable to take a dislike to his and protracted delights over abiog­
from custom is Unable to appear on the frivilous young lady. But inasmuch pastor the first time he sees him. He, enesis or the incoming of life, and have general soliciting agent to solicit fund
rostrum without his gown, which ap- j a’ ' have the floor and am the largest doesn’t know w hy, but he just con­ step by step passed all along to the for the support of an evangelist.
Board, adjoui •-d to meet u; th<
{»ears to be of winter rather than of maU °n the platform, I propose to say cludes that he don’t like him, and that termini of those vast lines of specula­
that
t 1. eae
e r s he-won’t like him, and he never does. tive thought which eventually lead Wimpy school house, on Hangmans
summer texture ; hence, the sympathy * I jiut
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“ this
'* -eeHneiftion-.
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of the audience wps with him from of theology ought to manage in the Still he prays most fervently and per­ the thinker' to the melancholy con­ creek, on Thursday before the- first
the moment he stepped on the plat­ course of three years to instill into sistently in public that the Lord will templation ’of eschatology or last Lord's day in November, 1880.
S. P. G illiland , President.
form By perhaps the foresight of Mrs. their jffipil*a little more knowledge make bis " dear pastor a pillow ”— things ; thougiryou have carefully in­
the
cheinico-pliysical
Cromo, the Doctor had with him a of human nature and of practical life, that isu_a hpad-rest, which the audi­ vestigated
F. M. D avl 8,"Assist. Stc-
good supply of mostelegant Cantonsilk and not send out so many young tur­ tors tmdei stand to be of feathers or mathematics of atomic oscillations,
Germai ,1 Hancock’s Wife.
pocket-handkerchiefs, óf which fre­ key and gosling-like divines. Pardon eider-down, but which the offerer of and are thoroughly familiar with the 1
quent use was made, and on which me. As I see now seated on my left the prayer is secretly and resolutely schematism óf the categories of- Aris­
Mrs. Hancock, the wife’ ot the
could be distinctively, as well as dis­ (though I had overlooked him before) manufacturing of thorns, and with totle ; though you have scanned the ' General, is a few years his junior , in
tinctly seen by spectators usirfg the Dr. Hercules, the president of this'in- inexorable grip pressing his religious pages of the biographies and autobio­ ! age, and as a woman is as imposing ii .
stitution, a man who outweighs me in teachers' brow upon it.
opera-glass the initial “ C.” «
Gashmu, graphies of all men, from the mooted ^appearance as he is a« a man. Tall
every
way,
I,
therefore,
propose
to
A deeply interested young lady, a
when educated, acts precisely the savage,progenitor of Eden all the way and well proportioned, with a most
cease
digression,
and
.
proceed
to
tell
strangsr to me, who sat by my side,
same way, under similar circumstan­ down to the ear-punctured Cadet J ' winsome smile, a manner that puts
you
who
Gashmu
is.
asked if I would be to kind as to tell
ces, except that the phraseology of Jiis Whittaker, of West Point; though j j you at your ease at .one»*, and a ¡»air ■
at the I of eyes that animate every line of a
I
have
somehow,
heard
of
a
man
her whether that letter “ C ” stood for
prayer is that " our beloved pastor you have sat for three W years - ~~~~
feet
of
these
venerable
rabbis
of
this
who
had
pretty
much
everything
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-..IS handsome fac«“, she is still a beauty,
Cromo or Canton. Whereupon I po­
may be made a pillar in the house of
seminary
of
learning,
and
have
been
s' although ,her hair is streaked with
about
him
false
—
his
hair,
his
teeth,
litely replied that I was not a Chinese
the Lord.” My intimation that Gash­
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carefully
instructed
in
his
calves,
an
l
one
of
his
eyps
;
yet
scholar, and therefore, could not say.
mu belongs to a church may startle
didactic, gray. She was married when the
The orator’s words, however, were nobody ever suspected it until some you, my younger brethren of the min­ polemic, pastoral, anl _______
historical General was but a young Lieutenant
hotter than either the man or thè one happened to get into his room on istry; but mere churchmembership is theolosy^in biblical and ecclesiastical doing duty in the far West. Jt was
evening, and luminous as the great one occasion before ^ie was up and not all, He is at times and in places, history, in church government and entirely a love match, and neither of
glory-emblazoned reservoir which daz­ dressed, and saw the larger and better an officer in the church. He has been polity, in biblical literature and them has since regretted it ; in fact,
zles from day to day in the etherial part of him deposited round his bed known to be in the church session, exegesis, in sacred rhetoric and in their home is one of the happiest
blue of the summer skies. His sub-j on chairs, and tables, and stools, and and when once there, was never known homiletics, that you aie prepared to imaginable. Mrs. Hancock has always
ject was '* Gashmu.” and was suggested washstands. This young gentleman, to be rotated out by any power what­ speak and act with ajiodictic accuracy been opposed-to her husband’s becom­
as Professor Dogmatic, of the theolog­ is Gashmu ; and my aim is to get you ever, save that which “.changeth man’s in all these matters ; and though you ing a candidate for the Presidency.
ical chair of the Seminary, thinks, by into his dormitory before he gets up, countenance and sendeth him away.” have hjd the advantages of European She is even above the weakness of
thé penman of the book of Nehemiah> and have you look around a little. Gashmu more commonly holds the travel—stood on her renowned battle­ wishing tô lié mistress'of the White
who ha3 words to this effect : " It is Gashmu in ^dishabille is a .narrow­ office of deacon, steward, class-leader, fields, lingered under the shadows of House. She dreads the worry of the
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reported • * * and Gashmu minded, extremely selfish man; gov­ trustee, and so forth. He is ordinarily her magnificent architectural stiuc- canvass,
andJfhcr husband is elected
erned by his prejudices, unprincipled, prominent in vacant chuiches at such tures, sauntered through her libraries she* thinks that the honor which the
sai th it.’’
Young gentlemen of the graduating adroit, shrewd, skulking, sneaking, times as they meet together to call an and galleries of art, witnessed the position brings will be dearly purchas­
class of the Babelmandeb Seminary, treacherous. Gashmu in full dress is under shepherd to go in and out be­ Gberamme.rgau Passion, Play, climbed ed by the renunciation of all domestic
began Dr. Cromo, I am here to hold ordinarily gentlemanly, polite, respect­ fore th^m. Under certain social or to the summits of her crag piled life for four years to come and of his
up* before you, as a signal light of ful, discreet, patriotic, profound, pious, family conditions, be invariably, os­ mountain-cliffs, sat down to a fish-fry position-as senior Major General and
warning to the engineer, a type of affable, sympathetic and virtuous. He tensibly on financial grounds, advo­ on the shores of Galilee, and lighted his chances of soon becoming chief of ,
man whom you may have overlooked is a hypocrite that is generally re­ cates the calling of a young unmarried yoUr. cigars at the crater of Mount the army. While she prefers her own
in your widely-extendéd biographical garded as.a saint; a counterfeit that man, as best adapted to " build up ’’ Vesuvius; yet, .with all this, if you home existence, however, there is no
research ; a subject of study too sel­ so closely resembles the genuine as to their beloved Zion. Possibly some of *have taken no notice of Gashmu the one better qualified to play the hos­
dom found in the curriculum of the pass current in many circles.
you of this graduating class have let­ lamb-wolf, Gashmu the dove-serpent, tess on a grand scale than she. A so­
You my young friends, are leaving ters in your pockets now from Gash­ Gashmu the angel-devil, he will over­ ciety beile, even after her marriage, •
college and of the professional school ;
yet a man you will be sure to meet on these sacred walls» and going out into mu, and are going hence to be bis pas­ throw and defeat you. Yonder, when she has all the self confidence and re-
the lonely, rough roads of life's con­ the discdrdant.wocld topreach against tor. If so, I am sorry to say to you the chaff and the whirlwind meet, I sources needed to entertain the most
__ __ if in the course of future events, oh ! ye who go forth in life iterant I-varied company. There is noUiing
flict which you are now about to en­ sin and sinners, and Gashmu will be. t that,
of Gw»hmu, read your doom I Yonder,
ter. For the sake of directness of ad­ the wickedest hearer in your audien- it beco
. 'ines evident that your affec­ where the mastless, rudderless wreck in flie range of conversation about
dress, I will cail this man I am going ces. Yet so subtle is he, so evasive, so tions have no inclination whitever to meets the mountain-billow which lifts which she does not know something.
Her greatest charm, howçver, is the
to shoiVyou to-night Gashmu, though cunning and crafty, that it is possible intertwine and become enfolded and it far-to-the-skyward, and hurls it
art of making every ¡«dividual feel as
crashing
on
the
reef,
read
your
doom
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• great many other names are equally that yoqjnay canonado from the pul- unified with those of Miss Noadiah
if he were the one aole object of her
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