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About Pacific Christian messenger. (Monmouth, Or.) 1877-1881 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1880)
m PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FlilDAV, MH, Hi, ISM). i ■ _ ’ •I * • * ! been credibly informed .1 } in necessaries inscribes such a motto on his banner thickets to be pn -essed through, and with new temptatioiis, and, what i» The Sin of Paying Preachers, aud aims to shape his life accordingly. mobntains to be «cambervl over, be- i still 'worse, -with old ones that seen» and money, amounting to sorn.e 81*>. -Judging from the writings of some L i And again, not many months ago^a L_What : dliyj; I »ack to his .Maker fore the place <>f ease can possibly be for H-e'- ^¡stehcy f ifTs hard "to"Le souietitnes i<r ■ those rich gifts, the proper rise <>t | leached by us. It oÏTiurrgray headed fathers in Israel certain very good and able preaching n .1 mt qpr j worsted in the struggle—-for it is a m ¡i: . rat! r i . i Home would come to the conclusion bi other was called d away from his which raises him in tho scale of being- i chiblren take so much of out time just rare campaign that knows never a- that it is exceedingly sinful for the family to a distance ol >f abodt fifty and fits hid) to be the recipient of temporary disaster or check to the 1 now, that our housekeeping cares.are G. spel preacheV to receive anything miles to preach a funeral sermon. still greater benefits ’ Will he seek soldiers who willhave final victory; . ; so absorbing, that we have so much a- a remuneration lor time and labor Being without funds at the time he to slay time, each moment of which * ° t trouble with the servants, that our “ lint noble souls, through dust .and heat, Hpentjn preaching. Since a Loy we wa. necessitated to borrow enough is a priceless gem infthe circling years. IliBe from disaster and defeat ybnsiness interests are so perplexing, Lull to slumber those faculties, which, have heard the cry from those of oui money to pay his fair on the" train to Tho stronger,. i that our personal health is so , ire- ¡«reaching brethren against paying the said place. ' He was theirchoice, ami quickened nnd expanded, sway the And.conscious «till of tho Divine carious, and Chat one or anothfr-id^lui, Within them, lie ou earth supine p. ■ .ucht-r. andpreacher that re did his duty, was absent from home mighty -cepter of intellect over the is always - :... .sick, It. * No longer.” < ceived a suiitll competence fi labor several days ; but those brethren had path of Luman progresk. Banish re family « Oil’ll i i •' V. ' I* flection, tiro hand-maid of conscience, I For our temptations, anil our strug—' and time thus spent was anathama- been taught that at wa> wrong to pay i better, if we did ndt hav’e quite so gles with them, we have reason to be tized and denounced as a "hireling." preachers, find acted upon it, conse whose mission it is to hold the mirror many diffiètrli res in. th®-Way , grateful to God. The very things The preacher is reminded that the, quently said preacher was compelled of truth to the soul, that, seeing her fuiW~«ji<,i>fo«n <in farm, or our ingjifi itTP-eiioe xor ‘ our that seem at this hour to be the great pioneers “ went forth on their own ! to get home the.best he could, which blemishes, she may seek cleansing in factory, or our ucaspapv-t’, wr' our barriers to our progress in the Chris- resources, at' their own expenses, he die! by walking some 25 miles' the “ Fountain’of Life.” Pitiful indeed is the - condition of pariah. The trnthJx, we sL<”^Jd not -tian life are designed of God as means '■ trusting in God for their support,1 Why ? because it was wrong to pay n- w<- to our Christian progribs. If they one who has no higher aspiration than ■ iI?Tso wi ll in L-tyv« V w- : k while they lefTtlieir dear companions | preachers. now have, thest^froubles, if we were were removed, w»e should lose the llow often are appeals made in be- to sip the cup of pleasure; who will • at borne to labor and toil to support withouFtJjeie troubles. If a minister, i struggle with them; and losing that i half of our superannuated preachers in the end drink to .the dregs the wine their family,” etc. „ for example, seeks a new charge be i we wo should lose the victory .overdjiem» .overtjiem» If it is the »'Lord’s order that the [that have preached for nothing and of folly, and exclaim, as Byron did in cause 1;e thinks .that fie cau thereby bitterness of heart : with its spiritual uplifting to our- preacher should go at “ his oWn taught the brethren that it was wrong g«4 hurt time for reading and study, i selves. Those barriers are, under God? Charges’1 à&d* •w at his own, expenses, to pay the preacher, and have come to “ While maddening pleasures round us aiu^ for religious visiting, by using thrift, a source of our hope for a higher and " leaving" his dear companion at extremity and an object of poverty» Tho heart, the head-is lonely still.” histoid sermons without having to ■ home to redouble her labor and tur We are not an ad voeate—for-exhor truer Christian manhood and woman; “ But,” some one may mentally in- write new ones, it is commonly found hood. Let. us rejoice in them- now, moil, to clothe, feed and educate her bitant salaries, nor for making preach “ What is all this to me ? that he gives no more time to either because wc shall rejoice over them by and his children, we certainly will be ers rich, but 1 verily believe it is the study or visiting than before, and., Surely, I am in no such danger !" willing as soon as.fully apprised of it,T Lord’s order that their precious time and by. . . that Intsiipply ceases to grow in in- i to cease to receive contributions from / 1 be employed in laboring for the salva- ■ True, my friend, the safe shelter of " Beloved, think it not strange con tefiect oStin spirituality. By the re- ! . tlm brethren that are cognizant of the ' tion of the multitudes that are posting a Christian home may guard you cerning the fiery trial which is [still J moval of the. demand for his Constant necessities of the poôr preacher as die broad road to eternal ruin, and if from such excess, but if we profess to to try j'ou, as thoitgh some strange struggle to keep up, with his work, but few of them are otherwise), who he is compelled to employ Jiimself in belong to the great army of helpers, thing happened unto you; but re are striving with their means to hold secular pursuits for a support his surely - it" becomes us to' consider there has been an interruption of his joice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of progress in his work, ar.d a lessening up bis hands and enable him to preach work of usefulness, is very materially- whether we cannot, by our example Christ’s sufferings, that when his - of his power to work. And it is not do something to point out to our the word to the■ multitudes that ale retarded. It is easy for the good old glory shall be revealed, ye [as con i thq housekeeper, or the teacher, of the perishing for the bread of life. It is I 1 brother that has n;o family, with follow beings a surer way to the querors through his grace over this business man, who has • least to con- temple of peace. quitean easy work --for the preacher ' plenty of money and surrounded by trial] may be glad also with exceeding, In this“ wrrrk-a-day ” EWorld of tend with, who fills his or her place to travel among the brethren and-i friends to look after his material joy."—A.A. Times. preach, faring sumptOusly, " receiv wants ^0 lift up his voice against ours,- where constant drains' are being -best, or who gets on most successfully, “Men and their Children. ing souls for their hire,” and his affording the preacher the wherewith made upon our strength—physical, Can you say that it is ? moral and mental—there is urgent T Looking ’’ at- * this *’• silfo- ’> o£ <■ •> the - * truth, ’family suffering for the neeessary to keep his little ones' from suffering need that some means be employed to I what have you m< - t rea- .n 'to fie Just at an age when a .man begins while he is spending and being spent comforts of life. ' .. grateful for, when you awake in the to get himself well in hand, to grow replace that which is dcstrqyeifin tl - But what • says the great apostle. in preaching Christ, warning sinners morning, and think of the duties be- broader in hi« views, sweeter in his “ But if any provide not for his own and -pointing them to the blessed great «battle of life. f< I« V • I th , that Vfl temper, to lose the acridity, the posi We need rest for the toilworn body, and especiahy for, those of his own Savior. . , have so much to contend .with ; that tiveness, the inability of' youth to support for the over-tasked mind, In love to all, liou.se, he hath denied thé faith ami is») • ¡»eaob .for the .troubled heart. Can there are so many difficulties in yofir : T.M. Moyas. ■ —wrn'si. than-an .infideT._ 1- Iiui__XA~t>., » - ■ * - . has gained — to be tit, in a word,, to mere amusement supply these want's ! brethren want no Certainly Amusement. If we turn to her will she not feed us l b. hind and on eith. r hand, and that ■ accomplish the work he had planned ♦ a uA.n that . • wtii.se move in any direction upon husks? j you cannot , to do in the world — »ho begins, if he is ble, in the ' short is not ,poi It ilaeA'>7ithuiix..a.±lrii. \1e. Esam. your very -a.-father., .u»_*e t him»- <i wde-Jly on «»He — ■r onte told, me, "Bro. space a -signed us, to view- the subject | Pleasure is not Lajquir s, 1 pains and aches'ought to 1 j a comfort / . ,r ■ d. < : ’.! ftitu -r? t: nor to I former is obtained through the s< ; on every side ; live even i ■ir.'uketi hum- of our thème to you. And what ----- „ I vo y ou. nuu wuav <v hatisiaction men «nd women aboqt. his table. His | the latter springs from within. enter- ? many sources of J mv family-fur tin' sake consider the ' great picture is never painted, his “ As onr higher nature is developed, I th er e may be in the thought of that refine- persons of of preaching the Gospel, ” But what tainment open to stupid servant, and that disagreeable , epic is never written, the b» st work we are nq longer satisfied with the j be in , which may says the great apostle, “ Who g< tu ment and culture I or, and that 4bnfair bu of which he is capable is never done ; bauble of earthly enjoyment, but the dulged in as a recreation , nor t» dis to warfaie any ’issio at his own rival ! Really, there arç obstacles j h >*« himself up to pot-boilers in thirsty soul reaches for the water of cuss the kinds of amusement — if any charges ? Who planteth a vineyard enough in your ¿lath to be very en order to bring up another man, who nndjiateth not of the fruit thereof,ur. —which arcyharinGaa. or otherwise* life, .and "stepping heavenward” couraging. Wl. * perhaps may be inferior to himself. sings as she journeys : ’ * Inthy pre but to glance for a moment at the _ who feedeth a Hock, and eateth not of thankfulness ' This is the work which has been go sence is fullness Of joy, and at thy evils resulting from making the grati the milk bl' the Hock. 'Say I these In the form at ¡.in,of personal charac ing on since the beginning of the right hand are pleasures forevermore: ” fication of the senses our aim in life. things as a man ? or saith not the law ter, even more than ip material in world. We mike, much of the pelican S. A. H utchinson . the same also. For it is written in That many do live almost entiiely in terests and in things extStnnl to one's who robs her breast of a fevr dropvof an atmosphere of frivolous excitement, the law of Moses, Thou shalt not self, progress is made only through blood for her ynuug. but the great Progress Through Struggle. we have not to go far to prove. ’ muzzle the mouth of the ox that struggle. It is what one has to con rule of humanity has l»een that one Whether the love << amusement is treadeth out the corn. • ♦ • ♦ It is a good thing for a young man/ tend with, rather than what is favor generation of middle-aged people-sac a natural propensity, implanted in our Do you know that they whisk minis or for an old one, to have a great deal ter about holy things, live of the being, or is the result of littfTt, certain to contend with. There is no real ing and helpful, that gives the oppor rificed their chances, their hopes, their things of the temple ? and they which it is that the desire is strong within progress in this life except through tunity of soul growth. When we see work for the world, for their children. ___ ___ wait at the altar are B partakers with I us. That which gratifies this ten- struggle. Unless th.ere were a ham one who commands respect and ad The great oak crumbles and dies that miration by the character in hja'very the ground may be richer for the sap the _____ altar ? 1 Even ____ so, , hath the Lord dency differs with the education of mer to swing and an anvil to strike, look and bearing, we are sure that ling. It is a just sequence. But it orc lained that they which preach the the individuals seeking diversion. the blacksmith would never have the that character represents struggle and may be carried too far, and is carried The little child, whose heart is Gospel should live of the Gospel. ___ ¡.fresh and sweet as the opening rose- brawny arm which marks his power. endurance—___________ further in America than in other 4 Cor. fab------ --------------- A_________ If there were no hills to climb and no “ As if the man had fixed his face, countries. Fathers and mothers have*” 7 Again, “ Let him that is taught in bud, is delighted with the simple toy ; storms to face, the sturdy mountaineer In many a solitary place, a right of development which they and well would it be_for his future if the word, communicate unto him that would show no such superior vigor as Against the wind and open sky.” themselves are bound to respect. A he were taught at this time of life to teacheth in all good things.” Gal. iv. 6. makes him another being from the Lines of character in the countenance man will be the better to elevate hi» How, in the face of the above plain seek enjoyment in the paths ot inno ease-loving dweller in the vine-em arc “ service chevrons,” showing the children if he stops his daily suicidal cence ; but, alas ! unguided, too often, declarations from heaven, our good old bowered valley. It is not the uniform campaigns of the veteran in the war grind long enough to consider that he brethren in the Lord continue to lift by over-indulgence, as his years in- and the parade which bring out the fare of actual life. They cannot be also is a human being, whoso charac up their voices against the brethrenj crease, new desires awaken as past courage, and develop the highest man won except through soldierly daring ter and work in the world will proba in possession of the abundance of this ; pleasures pall upon the sense, until, at hood, of the enlisted soldier; but it is and doing. Tho bravest soldier shrinks bly be quite as helpful as the boy’» world’s goods, lending a helping hand ! length, he becomes the inert votary of the march, the privation, and the from battle before he enters it ; but to forward the glorious Gospel by - i the fickle a . _ goddess, who lines him from battle, which transform^ him. into the whetuidkui upon him, all his energies for whom he is sacrificing all his time and opportunities. One is sometimes helping the pooj^preacher, —1 li furnish-1 in I - - flower - to ... Hower — with -iL the * delusive ’-i—.— bronzed and ennobled Veteran. Not are aroused to fight it through to the tempted to wonder whether in the is passingly j hojre that pleasure brings happiness ing him a meagTe suj pport _ ■ last, ■ • • years and « strength »i------ i-j the receiving of riches by inheritance, encL and he knows, when that battle lives to come there will not be some» his wasted, strange. The earnest God fearing 1 1 At but the securing of them by uninter is oveF with, that fie is mote of a man place where the ambitions and hopes \ preacher that has preached for nothing | wearied and disappointed, bankrupt mitted struggle, gives a capitalist the than he could have been without/the makes life valuable, he and thwarted possibilities of tho mid until he is driven to poverty in a in all to that the end of his allotted timrn^iLUy t<> be • “ the world of struggle it involved to him. So it is dle-aged may have the chances which - great measure is denounced as a comes t_______ wealth. It is rather the barriers of that we are to pfay continually, ” hireling ” because he receives a small on earth, bereft of the hope of a better knowledge than the helps to them, “ Lead us not into temptation ”—or here, fitly enough, are reserved for the young.—Air. pittance for time and labor spent in life beyond. Thus, we see, that even should it be that give the scholar his final pre trial ; for trial and temptation are the cause lying nearest his heart. claimed in behalf of amusement that eminence in the field of letters. And synonymous : and, at the same time, —Dr. Talmage says : " In most of Not many years ago the writer was it is part of that " good ” of which we the man of character is always the that we are to “ count it all joy ” the churches we have throe prayers-:— laboring for a small pittance some may “ partake with moderation,” it. man who has made progress through when we ” fall into divers tempta the invocation, the long prayer and forty-five miles from his family, and cannot be denied that the pursuit of struggle, who has had a great deal to tions ’’—into many and strange trials the closing prayer. Some people often traveled without dinner in order pleasure is disastrous in consequences. contend with, and has contended suc which are upon us without our spend the invocation in arranging to spare a little pocket change to buy choice—“ knowing this, that the trial How could it be otherwise when we cessfully. their apparel after coinin' to church, a feed of oats for his horse at noon, It is very natural for ns to long for of our faith worketh patience,”—or look at the meaning attached to it by the long prayer in wishing it weje and during said time a good Old the philologist Crabb: "That which ease ; but it i*» very well- for its that endurance ; and that by the struggles over, and the closing prayer in getting brother visited and taught those amuses, serves to kill time, to lull the we do not have eisc. Ease is a good and endurances of that trial we can ready to start homeward.” . brethren that it was wrong to pay thing to look forward to; but we be advanced in personal character. • ---- faculties, and to banish reflection.” "■ preachers, and as he was about leaving It is hard to be tempted ; hard to " Whether we look, or whether «• listen. What an array is here ' We stand ought to thank God that there, are so said brethren, very willingly received aghast at the presumption of one who many streams to be crossed, and be compelled to struggle day by day We hear life murmur, it see it glisten.” from them a contribution (as I have