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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1881.
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PACIFIC
C hristian M essenger .
T. F, CAMPBELL, E ditor .
| look for a paper yet damp from the
i press, in which they may learn
whether a nations folly is yet focalized
in “ a dead lock ” in Washington,
whether the Christian statesmanship
of Gladstone has terminated the un­
righteous war in the Transvaal, what
Fiance was doing yesterday in Tunis,
I and Russia in Central Asia.
To wield ap influence for good and
impress pure, primitive Christianity
upon our age and country we must
command the means and bring them
fully abreast of the times.
Next to the living Gospel, warm
from a loving heart/ a zealous mind
and a tongue of fire, amongst the
means of progress is a good paper full
of the purest literature, soundest
principles and latest news of the hour.
We have a broad and approved
foundation on which to establish and
maintain such a paper. Up to this
day, and we are in the midst of the
eleventh annual volume, we are sure
the P. C. M essenger has never given
just cause of complaint to any man ;
and we are very happy to think that
there is no one who would not, so far
foreign lands is meeting with favor.
They cannot insist upon Chris­
tian uuion abroad without feeling the
inconsistency of seisms and divisions
at home. * It is not less important to
the successful working of missions
that all Christians should be united,
since this is the condition upon which
“ the world may believe.”
In view of the vast fields now occu­
pied and to be occupied, how appro­
priate the language of Jesus to his
disciples : “ The harvest is truly plen-
teou^ Lut the laborers are few ; Pray
yè therefore the Lord, of the harvest,
that he will send forth laborers unto
his harvest^ Matt. ix. 37, 38.
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Suggestions in Reference to the rays, appears bright and beautiful a*
Future of the Pacific Christian the diamond or pearl—" a gem. of
Messenger.
purest ray seremjand lifts to the
clouds the rocky precipice where the
We are pleased to see that the fu­
ture of the P. C. M essenger is not a eagle builds her eyrie,.and against
M iss MARY STUMP,
whose base the waves of ocean rage in
matter wholly indifferent to all the
office editor A nd publisheil -
vain.
It is not strange, then that the
brethren of the coast.
same Divine Mechanician should in
Bro. Bruce Wolverton suggests a
FRIDAY, MAY G, 1881.
the religious and moral world endow
joint-stock company with a capital of
five thousand dollars, that the stock­ the simplest means with power to ac­
Will Subscribers please notice the
holders elect their Board of Directors complish the greatest ends, and to act
date following their names on the
with the same facility upon individ­
and officers, and that they locate, pro­
paper ? It tells the time when your
vide for, and manage a Book Deposi­ uals and upon nations—upon one and
upon all.
subscription expires ; thus, if .the date
tory and Publishing house.
But again : it will be evident that
reads 1’82, your subscription will ex­
This plan seems to us practical. We
the
gospel must be of necessity some­
pire Jan. 1, 1882. If the date alter
like it better than another suggestion
thing
very simple, when it is recollec­
to this effect: that the office, press, en­
your name is a time past, you are in
ted
that
it is to be preached to every
gine and alltheirappointmentsbe made
arrears. Please remit a little be/ore
Of What Spirit are Ye ?
creature.
The great majority of the
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a present to a competent editor who
your time is out, if possible.
human
race
are ignorant and debased,
The spirit of Pagan Rome—The will do with it as he may think best.
slov
apprehension,
and feeble in
But we shall wait for further sug-
man for the nation. The spirit of
The Pacific Slope.
their
capacity.
Their
capacity.
The
tions.
England—The nation for the man.
Gospel
is
designed
to
open
their
There never was perhaps a finer
Corrupt -Christianity, like Pagan
Polk County Annual Meeting. blinded eyes, to turn them from dark­
field for evangelical work than that
Rome, makes the church everything—
ness to light, to inform the under­
now opening yp on this coast.
would torture, burn, sacrifice thou­
The time is near at hand for our standing and to move the h^art. That
In tl/e past the population was
sands to save the church.
annual meeting. We know not who l it has accomplished this purpose
• small, sparcely scattered over a vast
Pure Christianity, like the Anglo- compose the committee of arrange­
wherever it has "been faithfully exhib­
area, so that a single effort could reach
Saxon, exalts the man and makes the ment; but we trust they may be
ited, and that the present civilization
itnviuuais. »ww
me
,
only a few individuals.
Now the
church an instrument for his welfare, active in securing preachers, giving
and
refinement of the nations is main-
Ä TÄÄmag Euifful,
“
waste places are
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Fuller
in i nrr lr
notice, and having all things in readi­ ly owing to its influence, is admitted
fully co-operate in
in QiitM
sustaining
it. Xll*n
Sueh
section claims are divided into farms,
a record is the best guarantee for its with Christ hath made us free.” It ness for the meeting, which will in­ by the best informed. Being then
and the population is becoming so
.is the province of the church, as an clude the third and fourth-Sundaya^in
course in the future.
suited to the comprehension of all—
compact that the preacher may have
-
The times and circumstances as well instrument of God to aid man in his June.
the European, the Indian, the Negro,
now as auditors hundreds where he
as the demands and ¡»rospects, all re­ weakness, assist him in the divine life
and the rude Barbarian, it cannot be
had formerly only tens. Immigrant}
quire that we put forth a unitedd co­ and make him happy. But if he re­ Raturn to Primitive Christianity. anything abstruse or remote, but
who were, in the East bound to their
operative effort to sustain the M es ­ ject her aid aiid refuse to be obedient • DISCUSSION or LBADIXa FBINCIPLB».
must necessarily be easily perceived,
altars, and harnessed to their creeds,
to the laws of Christ, the church can
senger .
understood
and felt. Could we in­
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so that they had neither time n'or dis­
only withdraw'from him.
Will we do it ?
THE GOSPEL.
deed
suppose
for -one. moment that
position to go elsewhere in search of
This is the limit of her legitimate
this
divine
and
glorious Gospel had
XV-M11KB THEKE.
truth, feel, whe.n they reach the free
power.' If she attempt to go farther
Missionary Prospects.
M.IH
, uivuiieu,
i I utvuuc
Uflio
you
llif
“
Moreover,
brethren,
declare
unto
you
the
transformed
itself
into those ponder
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• you
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M est, the shackles broken and the
than this, she becomes a tyrant. Go«l>eUwhich
you, ■—
which
ous
and
oomplicated
bodies of divinity
have received, aud wherein ve etaud ; by which ye
We gather from statistics published Jesus will have willing disciples. alto
harness laid aside, and they are ready
are saved, if ye keep in memory what I
which
life
will
scarce
afford time to
unto you, uni«»« ye have believed in
t® go in search of truth. If they find by the various churches and the Mis­ There is no greater folly than that preached
vain. For I delivered unto ypu drat of all that read, or eternity to understand, we
the better way they are ready to walk sionary societies working under them which would try to compel obedience- which I alao received, how that ChriM died for
<>Sr aina according to the Scripture« ; and that he might well despair of our own salva­
that the missionary spirit is at this by force under the law of love.
waa buried, and that he rone attain iha third dav
therein.
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according to the Horvpturea. ” 1 Cor. ». 1-4.
tion and the conversion of the world.
No peóple.are more accessible than time, more intense throughout all
The church is responsible for th®
And
is
it
then
the
Gospel
that
Alas ! how w< ak is man’s power, and
pioneers. The theological crust which Protestant countries than at any for­ individual only so far as her duty uo-
Christ
died
for
our
sins,
was
buried
how
foolish his wisdom, when com­
incased them at home has been brok­ mer period of the world’s history.
the great commission of “ preaching
and
rose
again
?
Have
these
few
pared 'With the omnipotence aud orn-
In the churches themselves, the the Gospel” and "teaching” what
en up, and they are ready for spiritual
simple
facts
constituted
the
hope
of
niscence of Jehovah. It in in his
cause
of
missions
has
a
deeper
and
expansion and religious development
Jesus commanded.
the
ancients
and
the
joy
of
the
mod
­
grasp that the simple and beautiful
more intelligent place in thè hearts
and growth.
Having deme these she leaves with
A new country, a new climate and and minds of individual members him the entire responsibility of his erns ; the inspiration of the prophet creations of God perish, and he would
and the fortitude of the martyr ? Are fain substitute his own awkward and
new circumstances excite the mind to than ever before.
destiny.
The
societies
having
missions
as
new activities which find expression
The man cannot, if he would, avoid these of the theme of se^pphic and complicated contrivances. It is in hia
cherubic song, and the power of God impure vessel that the waters of the
their
special
work,
are
more
numer
­
in all the channels of thought.
this responsibility. Hence, the church
ous,
better
organized
and
more
efficient
The habit of comparing the present
should be to him a tender loving mo­ himself to the salvation of the world f sparkling fountain lose their clear­
in
collecting
and
disbursing
funds,
and
with the past, the new with the old,
ther, training him aiight in thq incip- Can it be that an annunciation so ness and refreshing coolness, but all
all
the
external
equipments
are
well
leads to an investigation of new forms
iency of his divine life, and using ev­ brief, and apparently simple, has al­ his art is insufficient to parify and re­
ready wrought such important changes store them 1
appointed
for
spreading
the
gospel
to
of religion as compared with the old.
ery legitimate means in his maturity
How different might have-been the
the
uttermost
paits
of
the
earth.
They will hear patiently .and with
to cause hitA to walk in wisdom’s in the affairs of men, and is yet to ex­
ert
so
piedominant
an
influence
in
the
sta
te of the worldLit the Gospel in ita
The
supply
of
missionaries
is
fully
favor here what they would not have
ways r but if he turn prodigal and re­
accomplishment
of
human
destiny
?
—
simplicity
had been exhibited to man­
equal
to
the
demand,
and
much
great
­
listened to while incrusted with or­
fuse obedience, she must not turn ty­
that
the
same
truth
which
is
the
sol
­
kind
since
the days of the Apostlest
er
than
the
available
means
te
sus
­
rant and pursue him with wrath.
thodoxy.
ace
of
the
solitary
wanderer,
is
to
op
­
And
to
what
a speedy teimination it
Neither in nature nor in grace can
Not only will the preacher find tain them.
erate
upon
the
entire
mass
of
the
hu
­
would
bring
the
discords, feuds and
This is one of the most hopeful the mother employ any other means
willing hearers and anxious inquirers,
man
family
?
So
Paul
affirms,
and
both
party
jealousies
df
< 'hristendom, if all
but 'the truth will be sought in signs of the times. As new fields are thah those of love to restrain the
history
and
prophecy
confirm
his
de
­
would
confine
themselves
to the joy­
whatever literature is brought within opened zealous workers are found wayward and to proclaim the prodi­
claration.
ful
tidings
that
Christ
has
died for
ready to enter, leaving home and gal.
their reach.
Nor
need
we
be
surprised
that
so
our
sins
according
to
the
Scriptures,
Coercion beyond withdrawal from a
Hence, the importance to us, as a friends, and surrendering the dearest
great effect« are to be produced by that he was buried, and that he rose
people, of keeping before the rapidly ties from love to Christ and the salva­ disorderly member finds no sanction
in the New Testament. The limit means so simple. This only proves the third day accordin« to the Scrip­
increasing population of the coast, the tion of men.
The fruits of missionary efforts in rests heavily on those puffed with the perfection of the instrument, and tures ' Thsse-are facts, not opinions
very best literature we can command,
is perfectly in accordance with the or speculations. These are easily
and in the most attractive and acces­ heathen lands are very hopeful. Com­ pride and exalted by their own vani­
divine
procedure in other cases. To proved, readily understood, and quick­
sible força possible. We can not ’per­ pared with the results of home labor ty to the position of infallible censors.
combine
simplicity and power is re­ ly felt. " And by these also we are
Many a church, and many over
mit the M essenger to go down. From > they are in many cases most encour­
garded
as
a manifestation of consum­ saved,” says out Apostle, “ if we keep
this point of view it becomes a necessi­ aging. Statistics show that in any of zealous members of the church, might
mate
skill.
No one is rewarded for them in remembrance.’’
ty to the progress of the Church of ■ the leading Protestant denominations, do well to give heed to the rebuke of!
making
a
machine
more complicated.
Christ on this coast. To abandon it now occupying missionary fields, the the Savior to the disciples, James and
Lot Fund.
Every
improver
aims
to produce the
would be almost equivalent to giving rate per cent, of increase has been John, when they said, ” Lord, wilt
same
or
a
greeter
effect
by
a
more
P ortland , O b , May 2, 1881.
up Christian College by converting it about as four to one against home thou that we command fire to come
simple mechanism. The very simpli­ Editor Messenger:
down from heaven, and consume them,
into a second class academy ; and this work.
Whatever rebate ought to be made even as Elias did ? But he turned, and city, then, of the gospel, is but an ad­
Please say through the M essenger
would be little less than literary stag­
ditional evidence of its divine origin.
that it is most earnestly desired by
nation and spiritual death to primi­ in this estimate for the novelty of the rebuked them, and said, Ye know not
It is also in harmony with other
tive Christianity west of the Rocky Gospel on uncultured minds and the what manner of spirit ye are of: For
Lot Fund Committee to finish collec­
exhibitions
of the wisdom and power
exaggeration of results through the the Son of man is not come the de­
tion of subscriptions for the same by
Mountains.
of God. In the economy of nature,
the first of July.
The spirit of the age demands the zeal ahd hope of missionaries should stroy men’s lives, but to save them.” 1
for instance, there is nothing more
latest and freshest news on all sub­ be more than compensated by the su- i The Spirit of aggregate or corporate
To this end it is requested that all
perior faculties of Christian civilian? I responsibility is ever the spirit of ty-1 common than the accomplishment of who have lists will collect all they
jects.
the greatest purposes by the simplest
ranny and leads to oppression in poli-!
Our neighbors have not time and tion at home.
can by the first week of June, and
An encouraging feature in mission- i tic* and persecution in religion ; while i means ; nor is there anything more with the list, send the same to the
our children will not read the discus­
familiar than the ready applicability
sions of half a century ago. Litera­ ary work' in foreign lands, is the co-! the spirit of individual responsibility
chairman of the committee at that
to particular and minor things of prin­
ture bound in a volume is- old. No­ operation of different churches labor-1 is the spirit of liberty and lead* to
time. As the county meetings will be
ciples and powers which are capable
thing is new unless it is in advance of ing in the same field. The folly and freedom in politics and toleration in
in progress about that time, it is
of exercising supreme and universal
hoped that some one agent in each
the railroad. In the press ef business, the sin of division are more apparent religion. No republic can long sur-1
control, it is the same pervading in­
they have little more time for liter­ to those engaged in propagating the vive which does not rest on this
county may reach all other partita
fluence, the attraction of gravitation,
spirit of individual responsibility, and
ature than suffices to read the tele­ Gospel in foreign lands.
who have not been called upon.
When trials and pursecutions press no church ought to survive which which brings to the- ground a sere
The committee desire after July
grams.
and yellow leaf from.the oak, or the
They are intensely alive and they upon them they are drawn together does not regard the man as the ulti­
1st to make a report in full of all col­
blazing meteor from heaven, and sus­
lections received.
must have the present, living news. by sympathy and encouraged by the mate end and grand object for which
tains in their orbits the immense
A paper published in Cincinnati or common end in view to unite their ef­ it exists as an instrument to exalt
B ruce W olverton ,
planetary bodies, with their satellites.
Lexington is old before it reaches us. forts and make common cauie for the him to the heavens and install him in
—■ Chairman.
It is the same power, the attraction of
I everlasting life.
Old people may read it to revive establishment of th® Gospel.
cohesion, which moulds the dew-drop,
The reflex influence of this wisdom '
—Life's evening will take its char­
sweet memories of the past ; but our
which, poised upon a slender blade of acter from the day,which has preced­
may
result
in
good
to
the
heme
—
A
kind
word
spoken
in
time
is
worth
children see the date; it is a week
; grass, and touched by the sun’s first ed it.
behind time; they throw it aside,and churches where this co-operation in a million of intention«.
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