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“GO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS.”
MONMOUTH, OREGON ; FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1880.
VOL. X.
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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.
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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
<o T. F. Campbell, Editor, or Mary two dr three inches, partially went
I of alm? giving.” TheTe is a great There are those who, bytheir giving,
who look upon themselves as excep-
Btump, Publisher, Monmouth, Oregon,
off, then snowed again. It was some
I deal of almsgiving instead of aid-giv- deceive others as to their character;
Advertisers will find this one of the best times clear and cold, sometimes snow tianally generous, and who are even
because-of the selfishness of the giy- and there are many more who deceive
mediums on the Pacifio Coast for making
so counted by their fellows, who are
ing until it got to be about fourteen
ers.
Would the giver make just as themselves in the thought that they
their business known.
unmistakable selfish, lhis is a truth
e
inches deep. The fifth day of Decem
liberal donations in this and that di ' are generous l>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
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evening
there
came
a
mild
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known as a giver ? Would he want wh<> have little to give, and who in-
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tics of ourselves, or of those whom we
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have a right to judge —because of our
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of what his right hand was doing anti who are so generous and so unselfish
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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
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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
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|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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.<rl knew of any one tirely suit the old folks, he would take
meeting. There were some fears en
giving is a very poor test and measure ment has decided to place restrictions
who would be willing to labor in the another of a different sort, rather than
on the admission of French monks
tertained that we could not make a
of unselfishness.
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enterprise. Bro. Phillips says they have trouble in the family. \ ou
Christinas time is a season of giv into Spain, and that the minister of
success of it, but it was finally agreed,
arc organizing the whole United don’t hear of Esau’s toiling away sev ing ; but it is by no means the season justice has had •»■«inference with the
upon that we should make an effort,
States by stated, and sub-districts, en years to win a woman who had his that shows whether or not one is tru Papal Nuncio on the subject. It is
-«nd we met for the "first time on the
with the view of reaching every heart, while all these years Beemed ly selfish. Almost everybody gives reported that the government's course
seib. A Lord’s day in August. The
brother and sister in the whole unto him but a few days, for the love gifts at Christmas time. One is asham has received the -q^fôval of high
attendance was small, but we had a
country.
he had to her. Esau was too much ed not to give «.then. Most persons, episcopal authority.”
..good meeting. Since that time we
Now brethren, let us not be behind taken up with »elf, too much absorb indeed—especially in “good society,”
—The clergymen in Brattleb-lro,
have failed to meet on Sunday twice.
in this good work. Let us remember ed in his own personal enjoyment for have to give more holiday presents Vt., take turns in preaching to the in
Bro. Stouder had an appointment to
when Jesus was on the earth, he sent the hour, to let love or spite have con than they want to give. They eive
mates ®f the asylum for the insane,
preach for us the first-Sunday in this
his disciples out to preach in all the trol of him for any great length of to keep up their good name—their and one afternoon one of tuem preach
month, but it was so stormy and the
cities of Judea, saying, “ The kingdom time. But what did Esau ever do in iiaiuv
name ivi
for generosity ----
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among VllVU
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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
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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
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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.”
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