» t t « / X •s K “GO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS.” MONMOUTH, OREGON ; FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1880. VOL. X. no . there. I want the brethren and Selfishness not Always Stingy. son. Would he deny himself enough holiday jjivlfig ; ?P»t- Upon hit giving to pray for us that we may to stop and look into this case to see at any time of the year. C hristian messenger , sisters There is a great deal oi open-heart­ hold out faithful and persevere in the if it is a worthy charity? At a re­ Giving- may or may not be com­ Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi­ good work already begun in this ed and opendianded selfishness in the cent public meeting in Philadelphia in mendable and beautiful I 'lttelfish- anity, and the diffuaion of general in-s world.» Some of the most liberal giv­ neighborhood. ' behalf of the Society for Organizing ness an)! generosity are always adnri- y- formation. Our winter set in on the ninth day | ers in the community are thorougly Charity, the Rev. Dr. Goodwin made ' rable There are selfish giver»—giv­ Price Per Year, la Advance, 92.M1 selfish. Selfish prodigality is by no an address on “ The uncharitableness ers who are not stingy but selfish. All business letters should be addressed of November, snowed to the depth of | means uncommon. There- are those Jcause they give freely that ought to be borne in mind when RATES OF ADVERTISING ber was the worst day of all, but in rection, if his name were never to be and tfladly- There are others, again we are passing upon the characteris­ 3 M 1 «ÍM 1 1 Yr «P*»' 1 1 W i 1 M tho evening there came a mild Chinook : known as a giver ? Would he want wh<> have little to give, and who in- 1 Inch.......... »1 00 »2 50 h »4 00 $7 00 «12 00 tics of ourselves, or of those whom we 20 00 wind and it gradually grew warmer 4 00 7 CO 12 00 H Col........... 2 50 his left hand to be entirely ignorant | l deed have little thought of giving, 35 00 4 00 7 00 12 00 20 00 C»1........... have a right to judge —because of our 65 00 aud the wind stronger for a week H Col........... 7 00 12 00 20 00 35 00 of what his right hand was doing anti who are so generous and so unselfish ; responsibility for their training. Sel- i am......... 12-00 20 4» 85 00 65 t» 120 00 when the snow was about all .gone. giving ? Would he be ready to take that they hardly have a aeparat: ex- - i fishness is not always.conjoined with Notions in local column* 10 cent* per line for It is now warm, seems like spring, a gift from another without tender- ............ e*<-li insertion. istence -either in t getting or giving, stinginess. Yearly advertisement* on liberal terms. the grass is growing nicely, stock did "ing an equivalent and thereby lose the They absoTiitely liv< e for each other— * Professional Card* (I square) *12 per annum. Esau was a good illustration of the very well for the wind blew the snow proud sense of independence and su- and that is I letter far than giving to Mr.1. Ct. Da.tdwil »•our Advert taina I thoroughly selfish «.man, who was 1—»X •• |othen, off the hillsides so they could get periority his giving . now securwhim; Agent in Portland. open-hearted, open-hfinded, apd prodi­ plenty of grass most of the time. I if he were sure that the one to whom I “ The nature of such soul* is to be blind Entered st the Post Ofioe st Monmouth n gally liberal. He was ready to spend think this is by far the prettiest place second class matter. he has been giving, and whose inter 1 To self, aud to self-seeking, let them I have seen on this side of the a fortune for one square meal. There ests he professes to have at heart blend . ‘ ___ Letter from Butter Greek. was nothing stingy about that. Men mountains. Have written much would mote enjoy that way of doing/ Their life as harmony p.nj atmosphere would be a great deal inoie likely to With other lives ; let them but have a longer a letter than I anticipated Is his giving in'any event at a cost of BC tter C'RKEK.Dec. 4, 1SH0? All his brother Jacob, close-fisted and . friend when I began. self-denial to hituself, either in funds Whose merit they may set off or endear. Dear Bro. Campbell: niggardly. But Esau was really more <• Your sister,' I have many friends who are or in feeding ? It was said of a good And they are gladder than in any gusss selfish than Jacob. Esau lived for P olly B owman . reader^ of ¿he M essenger who would man in a certain church that it was Or dream of their own separate happiness ” self. His parting with his fortune so * likeTo hear frpm me as well as my harder for that man to give a dollar Though w.e bestow all our goods to recklessly was merely because -just Washington Church Fund. highly esteemed friends of Monmouth i than for any other church member, but feed the poor—ror to please the rich— then he wanted something more ¿han * ■ - wha perhaps would like to know that he gave more dollars in propor­ and have not unselfish, generous love, To the Brethren of California he wanted a fortune. So with his what we are doing in this secluded tion to his means than any other man it profile th us nothing—.S. &. Timet. Bro. T. W. Phillip», general“ agent marrying, and so with his failing to spot of earth, as we deemed it, and as in the church. He might have been for the Washington, D. C. church cherish and retain his anger against it seemed when I firs tea n^e here. There called a stingy man who gave unsel­ | —The Spanish papers of all shades building fund, has made the under­ Jacob. If he wanted a wife or two were then only four families within fishly. And there are other men of of politics profess alarm at the estab­ from the heathen nations about him, signed general agent for California. six miles of us and no religious, meet­ his sort. They deserve more credit lishment in Spain or expelled religious He requests me to district the he took them. What did he care for ings except occasionally down the than those, who when they are asked order* from France. A cable diipatch State and appoint agents. I have the Lord’s or his parent»’ opinion» on ti creek seven or eight miles from here. to give cannot refuse without an ex­ from Madrid says : ' It is reported in done so, appointing an agent for each that point ? If hi» wives didn’t en­ We talked about getting up a prayer ercise of positive self-denial. Free ministerial circles that the govern­ county, se far a.X snow drifted so we bad no meeting. about the alabaster box 01 of Oint- oint- of heaven is at hand.” He sent them the line of self-denying or self-forset- friends and neighbors ; or they give , mant which was poured upon the We have met twiee on Sunday, with into the cities, the centers of intelli­ ;ful good to others? When did he to get a new held on some whom they one or two exceptions, since the Master’s feet. As he came out of the gence. When the disciples began the ever seem to give others the first have selfishly neglected all the rest of second Sunday in October ; have met chapet, one of the patient* came to work of preaching the Gospel* to all place in his affections or in his plans ? the year. There is. therefore, a dan­ at other times to make more than him and said: “ You have got us pret­ the world, they began at Jerusalem, In what did he ever show real unsel­ ger to be guarded against, of putting average of twice on, Sunday. The ty well annointed gow-,” and in expla­ and from thence into the capital fishness of character or conduct ? the enforced or customary giving of nation added that for two preetding meeUa|$» >have been well attended. cities of the various surrounding From Esau down to Jim 1‘isk, this Christmas time into the place of un­ Suudays different clergymen had Six were reclaimed. Bro. l’ruett, a provinces. Shall we all help this kind of an ojten-handed, generous selfish feeling and doing ; just as we preached bn the same subject. This Baptist minister who lives near grand movement of our brotherhood seeming, thoroughly selfish man has too often put Sunday religious obser­ Weston, came to the neighborhood to story brings to mind another told of a which looks to planting the cause been a prominent and a popular char­ vances into the place of personal reli clergyman in Jacksonville, III. This marry acouple November ninth, the • • • —1— -II < ginn for ait the week through The |m*m*4w was out of a field, enel h t- a r- neighbors nearly all being __ present, of this country. Now that the United side attractiveness has blinded the giving is all right just as far as it .he preached for them ia the evening. ing that there waj no preaching in the States is taking rank among the lead* eyes of many to the sharp distinction goes ; but it doesn’t go far enough ; On the following day he preached two asylum in that city, sought the oppor­ ing nations of the earth; now when between selfishness and stinginess, so and it is neither a proof of nor a sub­ ciscourses. On Wednesday be went tunity to dispense the Gospel there. God in his providence has laised up that those who are known to give stitute for real unselfishness and true At the first service he was very much to Pine creek, immersed two persons one of our brethren to sit in the freely, and to have no taint of penu­ generosity. formerly Methodists, and preached gratified to observe the close attention Presidential chair ; when, during the riousness are generally looked upon If you were always receiving and that one of the patients gave to his here Thursday evening again. The next four years we can )>ave access to as free from the objectional trait of never giving gifts, you would admit people were well pleased with him sermon, and he went away and told the representative minds, not only of selfishness. Yet many a free giver is that you were stingy ; you would even • and he with the people. Said he was some of bis irieuds that he had found our own country, but of foreign wretchedly selfish ; and many an un­ call yourself mean. So it would be thankful his lot was cast among the a very hopeful field- of labor in the countries, let us build a house worthy selfish man is sadly prone to penuri­ in your estimate of your children. people of this . neighborhood. We asylum, which hnd been neglected too of the great plea we are making. ousness. Yoti would be shocked if -they found long TÜe next Sunday he noticed hope he.will visit us again. Come brethren, let us all help. One man gives freely because of his no enjoyment in giving to others. But the samé Intent expression on the face - The. church members here,,are <;om- poseof of Baptists, Methodists, Pres Those who may not have an agent reckless enjoyment in prodigality; both for yourself and for your children of his hopeful listener, and thought visit them can send,their contribution another because of the reputation his you should bear in mind that one may byterians and United Brethren ; all the man would soon be converted. to me, No. 2 Bowles Place, San Fran­ 'giving brings him ; another because give freely and heartily and yet be work together in perfect harmony; Again the next Sunday the same man — of the sense of power that comes with grossly seitisb. Generosity is literal­ Hope you will excuse this poorly cisco, Cal. ' v .gave eager attention, convincing the J. H. M c C ollough . the bestowal of gifts on others—the ly ‘ nobleness of birth or of soul.” He written letter when I tell you Inever clergyman that he was not fa from creating thereby of a circle <4 grateful who is really generous will show his wrote a letter till I was about forty the kingdom of heaven. In the ser­ —The aged Emperor of Germany is de­ recipients, if hot of conscious pension­ generosity twelve months in the year, yean old. Would have written sooner mon the old story was related about scribed as looking very imposing when with but thought I could hardly write his wife on his arm, he emerged from the ers ; another because it is easier for will show it in uniform courtesy of Hfibloo women casting their children anything tit to appear in the paper, venerable cathedral at Cologne followed by him to give than to refrain from giv­ manner; in tender considerateness for into the Ganges. The minister sought but having waited over a month for a long train of princes and generals. He ing—with his tender heart and sensi­ the feelings of others ; in self-forget­ an opportunity at the close of'service .to. write concluded to, took his place in a pavilion prepared on tive conscience, Jn neither of these ful or self denying deference to the for a personal conversation with his the plats, and signed a record whioh, after instances is it unselfishness ^ghich.L wants or interests or. tastes, othis rio the best I could. eager listener: The patient grasped having been also signed by sixty-Myen It was with much reluctance I left I German prineee and nobilities, was placed prompts the giving; self is in each comj»anions, in the ordinary inter­ hiaJxand warmly, and slid : “ I could­ -— home k.tma and anH friend* fi ienria of Monmouth, Monmouth . in a long silver tube and given over to the case at the bottom of the apparent course of life—whether in the ¡»arlor, n’t help thinking while you were tell­ my but J did it prayerfully believing it to workmen to be deposited in the principal generosity. Another t»»t than that of on the play-ground, or in the place of ing that story that it was a great-pity be for the beat; I yet behave it and J .ton. oro.. * the fop pf tbe 0,thndral giving, would prove cither of these public gathering or conveyance, His your mother didn't chuck you into open-handed ones to be a selfish per- unselfishness will not hinge upon his think I can do more good bare than I ,rire> WO f*t above. river when you were a baby.” * Pacific X > i :á. » • • * _ ' ..... 9