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t P acific C hristian M e “ go Y e , therefore , , VOL. XI. » teach all nation «." MONMOUTH, OREGON; FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1881. NO. 8. > » rebukes severely and justly, the Texts with a History. good works.” i and her baby ashore last week from a churches pf our day; He lays much Would it not be a profitable exer 'liipwi'eck N >w ; > 'i looked again, C hristian M essenger , of the blame of the skeptical condi Therer are TWo ways of reading the cise, — it certainly would be ari inter ; of C<-»ii*'- ; \i-y you Went ami cut a Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi tion of the people at the feet of minis Bible. One way is to go through it esting one,—to gather together the place o'! from the beam t> carry anity, and the diffusion* of general in ters, and the chief men in the churches, blindly and unintelligent!.}', in obedi parts of the word of God which have 1 hom>*. 5 on could n^ver make that formation. all of which is true. Rut coupling ence to the fueling that it is our duty been helpful and dear to individual i stick commonpiacE. or insignificant' Price Per Year, in Advance, $2.59 to read it daily. The other, ami bet Christians along the ages ? How- hereafter, it'voil tried. ' The lives it All business letters should be addressed this with the entire absence of teach ter way, is to read it from the love of to T. F. Campbell, Editor, or Mary ing upon the subject of the duty of many histories, for instance, have saved w«-nt i’- hi-* Vy, Stump, Publisher, Monmonth, Oregon. new converts toward the churches, it, with a heartfelt appreciation of its been poured into the Fifty-first Psalm! Just so with man ■ pasAgca of Advertisers.will find this one of the best except to advise them to join some truth and beauty. In this latter w'ay John Rogers recited it to himself all God ’ s inspi red word. They may seem mediums on the Pacifio Coast for making church, the impression is made-that Bible truth becomes a part of our be the way down to^the stake. Oeco- all alike to p- in on:* dullness and in their business known. joining church is not at all necessary. ing and our history. A friend told the writer of this ar lampadius, “the reformer, panting for difference, tin'.:, suddenly we discover KATES UK AUVEKT181NÜ : A great many who have professed ticle that lie once saw (i Bible checked his breath, yet persisted in saying what they have dime. Then many a 3M 1 6M 1 1 Yr 1 M Spam 1 Ì W a change, have not, and perhaps will f7 (HI I $12 00 so $4 ISO SI (HI like a tourist's guide-book, the owner verse'after verse of it, till he died verse springs out into a marvelous 7 CO 12 00 1 20 00 riot, fake membership in any church. 4 00 2 50 H Col............ i and l-auty. It has 35 00 4 00 of which vcalled his attention to with the words still on his lips. ' The impressivent-s 7 00 12 00 20 00 M Col............ 55 00. The whole- chapter of duties, taught 7 <M» 12 0» 20 00 85 00 H Col........ Lady Jane Grey asked the headsman i brought some tired <'hr' t an ashore two pencil-marks in Solomon’s Song, 1 Col........ 12 IHI 20 00 .35 <«0 65 00 { 120 00 in God’s word, a's to loyalty to, the showing that he had got so far on in to wait for her a decorous moment in from the deep waters of trouble, or Notice* fa local columns 10 cents per line fur church, is left out. Baptism is treated each insertion. _ ■ : reading the volume twice through. He which to say her Miserere / then she' delivered him from the wreck 'of a Yearly advertisements on liberal terms. as non essential as a matter of course. Pro feus ional Cards (1 square) $12 per aqnnm. t admitted that often he found it dull, bound her eyes calmly, and laid her ■ shattered hope. What did good once The logical consequence is followed Mr. I. U. is our AdVertisiMg i but he continued because he knew it head on the block. So this same dear will do the sime sort of good again.— more openly than I have ever seen it, Agent in Port land. was his duty. He was doing lîis task Psalm was read at his request to Dr. £ S. Ti mes. in that the*.whole of that class of Enured at die Poat Office at Monmouth a« of* persistent perusal with not the Arnold of Rugby on his death-bed. | second matter. duties which may be' grouped under Dress at Church. taut possible interest in the chapters Thus it seems instinct with a life of' • the head of " loyalty to the church ” its own. Moody and Sankey in San Fran is left untaught. I say “ untaught,” over which his eyes were roaming, Thfj-e are proper dresses for proper Here would be a fresh and quite and apparently with no sense-of the cisco. times —we do not go to a funeral ip far if you-ask these men privately, or safe use to make of Christian biogra These eminent evangelists have been even publicly, whether one must join connection between truth and life. phy. Many a volume might be read cheerful garments, nor to a wedding in San Francisco about three months. some church, you will be told to do so. This mayjbe an extreme case ; at any pront just WTtn tire purpose oi ks - I in crape and hat-bands. However “ They have succeeded in organizing a But the practical effect of not teachirig rate, most Christians who feel listless certaining favorite [»assages of Scrip we may talk about the indifference of good work, for their success is largely it, is to educate the people one sided. while studying the word of God are ture which have proved helpful un the manner in which we arc dressed, to be attributed to the thorough and We have been accused of educating, not quite so frank in confessing it. der peculiar exigencies to any believ a sure instinct telle us that it is not a effective organization of all the in our preaching, overmuch on bap- Meantime it is soberly asserted that matter ef indifference, and that it is the more advanced believers among er.^ Oliver Cromwell once read aloud most in accordance with the dictates • earnest Christian workers in this city ___ I am quite sure there is a lack Philippians iv. 11-13, and then re and Oakland. We would, by no of it in the work of theso men. Still the churches are found beyond power marked : “ There, in the day when of sound judgement to comply with of words to express, in their affection means, intimate that the preaching is I presume it would be impossible for those rules which custom Las sanc my poor child died, this Scripture did without power, for Mr. Moody does them to hold the union meetings they for favorite divisions of the Scripture. go nigh to save my life.” The vener tioned. Now, what is the dress suit preach the Word with great force. do, if they discussed «11 these ques Their private Bibfos would o,»en of able Augustine was converted by Ro ed to the public worship of God ? and Mr. Sankey sings with beauty tions. The proceed ®n the basis of *a themselves at their favorite chapters. mans xiii. 11-14. One biographer “ All of you be clothed with humilitv,” and pathos. The work has been few -of the great facte and promises of There is a quaint story told of a pas is a very good general answer. This tells us that the poet Cowper was greatly assisted by Mr. Stebbins and God’s word, and do effect a union of tor who went in to see his old bed points out the general tone and color brought to Christ by reading Romans his wife, also from the East. They God’s people on th^je^,„JLu this I see ridden parishoner, found in her Testa of the garment of praise, which befits iii. 24. Matthew Henry wrote a re are very fine singers. A young man a promise of a church in the future ment some marks along the page, a Christian in God's house ; but more cord of himself in a dairy he kept at came with them from Chicago, a re taking in a larger scope of truth, and asked what they could mean. Here particularly study neatness and es about thirteen years of age ; “ I think formed drunkard, now an evangelist. thus the greatly desired union of the was a capital P : " oh ' that means chew finery. Do this, both for your it was three years ago that I began to He ia very earnest, and tells his ex disciples of Christ may be brought precious,” she said. There was a let f be convinced, hearing a sermon by own sake and the sake of others ; for perience in the meetings held in the about, on the word, and the word ter T with the P : " That means tried your own sake, because what yqy my father, on Psalm xli. 17. I think and proved" she continued. . various parts of the cities. By this alone. must aim at is, to .forget yourself and Such experience is far beyond mere it was that by which I was melted; think only of God ; and how-can you means he is enabled te reach a class But while I rejoice in this work, I story-telling. In the Terhple Church afterwards I began to inquire after forget yourself, if you have just been which could not be reached by the feei more than ever, that we haw a of London, in a shadowed aisle to the Christ,"_____ _________________ _ 'studiously getting yourself up to be ordinary ministry. Such as, like he w<(Ik t<> <],, [n the journey across left of the great altar, is a white mar I Even this matter of texts preached admired, and if your own appearance formerly was, are in the depths of de- the wilderness, the Lord’s people, who ble monument erected to the memory from with remarkable results would has been haunting your brain all the grading from strong drink. A great arc carrying the tabernacle forward to of one whom John Milton called “ the give the verses interest, if we would ¡morning before the church-bell rang? number of this class, and they are pitch it where the cloud shall hover chief of learned men reputed in Eng look them up. As for example, Deu , For the sake of others, because if your ver that spot of union ; . the lav», /, numerous in all our large cities, and | ¿ over> of union land.” John Selden was one of the teronomy xxxii. 35, “ Their foot shall appearance is half as striking as you especially in San Francisco, have been an(1 Mvera[ other things have l)een most extraordinary scholars that Brit- slide in due time.” which was the | think it, you cannot but interfere .. at least temporarily reclaimed. ' Let (left behind, and the great Captain has t ain has produced. The volumes text for one of Johnathan Edwards’ » w ith the dev.jt,ion of your neighbor», us hope they may be saved. I 1 ' have ■ detailed to bring them up. Let us ____ _____ | which he poured forth _ in ___ an ______ endless most famous discourses. In the midst by attracting their attention to you. attended many of these meetings, - - and '1 organize - our forces and push on. stream were filled and - ly* words that day the people act- ' with research re participated in the work where op-1 There is » glorious day for the church discrimination Of ono of these—a 4»ally rose up from, their pews, so aw- Oh, how utterably pitiable and shock discrimination. ing is any parade of finery in the portunity offered. There is very little just ahead of us. She will soon work on the Law of nature and of j f«! was the impression produced by of human systems taught The aim emerge from the wilderness, God is on presence of God' To think that the ' them. Whitefield was once [»reaching seems to be bent on the one purpose our side, if we are on the side of truth Nations—Hallam said it was among poor giddy creature, who is setting , at Exeter, on Psalm xli. 17, ‘ a broken of making men and women feel that and righteousness. Don’t get dis the greatest achievements in erudition off her face and figure with ribbons and a contrite heart.” He says that they are lost without Christ; and that heartened if God, in his providence, any Englishman has performed. This and silk must soon appear before God, after the service a man came up to most excellent man comes down to sin is very sinful; and the danger of has called you to fight in the thickest naked and bare ' Dear young friends our times4>y his " Table-Talk.” Col him with a pocket full of stones, and a when you stand at the looking-glass, being lost is great. These men are of the battle. eridge once remarked about this, as big one in hfo-hond, and told him in think for one moment, of death and not afraid to warn men of damnation. J. H. M c C ollough . he laid it aside after a thoughtful pe tears : “ Sir I came here to hear you i judgment.-— Ex. They speak of the devil as a real rusal : “ There is more weighty bul this day with the view to break your being, and a very great and powerful ■—Mr. Joseph N. Prescott, the father lion sense in this book than 1 ever head, but by the grace of God you —"William, do you knowfwhy you enemy. They talk about hell, as a of Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford and have broken my heart.” found in the same number of pages of are like a donkey ?” “ Like a don place, as real as heaven. They magnify Miss Mary N. Prescott, died January any uninspired Writer. ” To Arch I But possibly the best exercise of all key ?” echoed William, opening his the word of God, and tell men to obey 22, at the residence of his son-in-law, bishop Usher, who preached his funer both for the sake of aw-aking our in-1 eyes wide. No, I don't.” “ I)o you it, and trust God’s promises, rather Hon. Richard S. Spofford, in New al sermon in the church where he lies terest in particular passages, and of give it up ?" “ I do.” “ Because your than to trust to moods of feeling, buryport, Massachusetts, in his now, this learned man „Selden said gathering a list of effective verses for I better half is stubbornness itself.” dreams, etc. They follow the prac seventy-fourth year. He was a native just before he died : “ I have surveyed actual use, would be that of setting “ That ’ s not bad. Ha 1 Ha ' I’ll give tices common among what is usually of New Hampshire, and was the most of the learning that is among the down in, a written record all texts i that to my wife when I get home.” termed "Orthodox Churches,” as to grandson of Judge Newmarch, and sons of men, but I cannot recoilect which we have found to accomplish “ My dear, ” he asked as he sat down praying for sinners, and having those grandnephew of Sir William Pepperell. any [»assage out of all my books and ' permanent good, and do real service to supper, “ do^you know' why I am who claim to be converted, to relate He was among the Pacific coast papers whereon I can fest my soul, I for souls. For men and women are like a donkey ?” He waited a mo their experience, which they call pioneers of 1849, and was one of the. " bearing testimony.” I observe that founders of Oregon City, of which he save this from the sacred Scriptures : very nearly alike, and what has help- ment expecting his wife to give it up. - when any one gives testimony that was thrice elected Mayor. In the " For the grace of God that bringeth ed one will be likeliest to help anoth But she didn't. She looked at him they believe and trust in Jeaua aa prime of life he was stricken down by salvation, salvation hath appeared to er in the same mood or the same exi somewhat commiseratingly as she an their Savior, and declare their deter paralysis, which wrecked his useful all men, teaching us that, denying gency. Some of us have been down swered, " I suppose because you were mination to follow him, their testi ness without destroying the courteous, ungqcjjiness and worldly lusts, we by the seashore, perhaps, and have born so.” —Laying fowls need bone con mony is received aa genuine. While genial nature that survived during a should live soberly, righteously, and naticed the great mass of what seems godly in this present world, looking mere mbbish cast upon the shore. It stantly, as it ia largely made up of there is much practiced that we do twilight of life lasting over twenty for that blessed hope, and the glorious was all nothing to you, this heaj> of material which enters into the com not think warranted by the Word of years. appearing of the great God and our refuse remnants of ships. But along position of eggs and sheila. Give your God, we rejoice, nevertheleee, that tho —** Lufe God abùfe «II, and yi Savior Jesus Christ, who gave him came an old sailor, and asked you, fowls plenty of bone-meal if you want fear of the Lord, and the love of the nychtbour aa yisclf,” ia the inscription self for ua that he might redeem us " Do you see that spar over yonder good layers; besides, it contains Savior ia spreading among the people. Jet to be seen upon the front of the from «11 iniquity, and purify unto with a knot of nq»e around the mid animal matter of great value to Ajrl* We regret* however, to see one ten ouae in Edinburgh in which John himself a peculiar people, zealous of dle of it I That brought a mother when freshly ground. dency, in Mr. Moody’s preaching, he Knox lived and died. Pacific I N 4 /> / » #-v ■ „«taAa. ■ ?