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*i- Peace on Earth—Good Will among Men. VOL. L MONMOUTH, .OREGON: SATURDAY’, AUGUST 1-2. T871 1 ■ —■■■ - — ■ — NO. ,44 '4 UOtSKllOI,» GOU. to the soundness of the 'doctrine, that evening all hands was raised with the A little boy, three years old, whoso Letter £rom Bro. PiaalayaMMa. MEMORIES Off TWt PAST. exception of McClure. I thought the I __ father was irreligious, sjient several evening discourse very good I had ,no wbtttxn roa not iomsenok . months in the dwelling of a godly fam E d . M rssbwobu .— I see letter No: 3 fault to find with it,' but if -you had ily, where he.was taught the simple el in the MA s S encier of June 17tli, to Far back from the misty twilight, token a show of hands With regard to Of ib<- dim uncertain past. which I send Bro. Murphy a few re soundness of ' the morning discourse ements of divine truth,.__ Aero«* my weary, care-woru mind. The good seed fell into a good and marks. Letters No. 1 and 2, as they you would have found a number of The shades are flitting past; tender soil, and the child learned to had no refrence to the subject between hands raised against you. Permit, me Backward, they teed my saddened noni. note the difference betwee-* a prayer nf, {took no notice of them. I am To days replote with foy: here to remind you that I did not that less and a Christian duelling, -One • sorry to learn that Murphy has been ao Again, I’m with the friend* of yore, evening know that you and McClure Again I am a boy. severely afflicted, but he will remember had a secre^ organization about asking day, as some one , was ccnwersibg with Im. 1 r- that the Lord hath done it. “Man that I treed once more the gas-lit street, ito • 9 questions. McClure told me afterward the little fellow about the great and Card. •S. 1« 1» is born of woman is of few days and full The “’Bus"goes rattflng by, H oa ■ . s. that you gave him authority to get up good Lord, the child said: K 'a.cohtma 38 I greet each kind famlMnr hue, of trouble. The ~ Lord killeth and “We haven’t got any God at my pa-' U M H m i l —a tljat evening and ask any questions he No stranger Imre,—J. _2 711 4 «du— maketh alive, he bringeth down to the pa's house.” had a mind to. If I hail known this M to The nan At I mmuo with foands what Joys I find. graveandlinngeUiup, the Lordmaketh Ihing I wonld have let yon- fight it- out. Alas! how njany^ sntfh houses there Agents on above rate». None, ootie but him can tell, pdor and maketh rich, he byingeth low - Who aleeiit from a mother loved. THAflHIKNT AOVKKTIHHMKNTS: “Now, Bro. - jfintayaon db 7°“ not are iq our world and \ tend ' and lifteth np. Although affliction For year* waa doomed to dwell. Irshat It Lad sufficient where there is no prayer, no peuisa. no Per Rqnare, (13-lino», or less), Uf ’ honestly thinF _ first inaartiou.......................... F. ’ •« .W cometh not forth of the dust neither | reason to be asonlHlioil 1 bXvond measure worship, no God! Anil what lidmesi A father * »mile with foudm»« greeta, For each aatMequeut insertion........... 1 oo doth trouble spring out of the ground, . when about eleven mo Hi* buoyant gloesome *'11: iiagìks after all they are for children; aye, and for men . Adverfiaink, and all other liusine»» in this of yet man is born ,nnto trouble as the A loving mother »mile* to Lear, this, you trumpeted uy-Unme in our and women,, too! How much 'better i.ii fice. will bedone on the Cots la*:*. Currency Of College honors won; sparks fly upwards." will be taken st the uwual ihm-ount. own paper and wished to warn ami en the pure atmosphere of -Chrisliaq lovo, \ And as from out tho well packed trunk Advertising must 1« |»id for in advance, un “Behold, happy is the*man whom God lighten »11 Oregon and the rest.. of than the cold, selfish worldlineSs of a leas credit ia given by »pecial agreement. The prizi-s come in view, ’ • correcteth, therefore despile not thou mankind with regard to certain dungor- godless-home! A baaven-boru pleasure light* the eyes * . Said an ungodly man; “I never was the chastening of the Almighty, for he ous doctrines set forth ‘ by me on the Of pareuta fowl and true. maketh sore and bindeth np, he wonnd- above occasion, that I had’ ’ thrown the SO near heaven, and probably, never And slaters climb the well known knee, shall be again, as when I spgnt a day eth and his hands make whole. The Old Testament over-board?” And strive with kiss'to a|no|()ei, x. Psalmist says, “before I was afflicted I in the house of Ebenezer Brown”—u Him whom they love aa sister* love Now, Bro. Murphy, I think -yon had Agents for Christian Messenger. Their darling youngest brother; went astray, but now have I kept thy godly Scotchman, who guided his - sufficient reason to die ’ , astonished be ■ A brother» brew with gladsome beams, ( UWUOV.AAV/ACS S1M5_ fear svtei V/4 vsgvr 4JX7AX4. word. It is good for me that I have household All in the of the Lord. yond measure when you did not know To greet me "nOS igsUT, . ----- r Would .that there were more such beau afflicted, that I might .learn thy I yMi k^i a greatportion.of Alas that Might this worldeau de,......... >.T v the Bible to be not inspired and that Ttni B Wi, tl ia i Ui lll irii a nf ahieli might ohod- Coukl over break that chain. pleasure we shall ever remember the statutes. I know, -O Lord, that a holyjMvor over many a wanderer's judgements are right and that thou in W. K. Roberta, Helena, Montana Territory. happy days of student life spent witbin the balance of it was like ihe bld cdn- But vain such hopes; even now die veil Sam Frwmelrew. — these “old (College halls,” which, tho’ faithfulness hast afflicted me. My son stitntion of the State of Illinois, thrown hpayt, and lead the sail and TonelyTibnS" Of tints is rent in twain. C. V iscxst , Broker, MO California gt, is our - A stranger in a stranger* land marred and defaced by time and rough despise not the chastening of the Lord, overboard, when you only intended to of sorrow and of tears, to look forward only authorized Agent in flan Frauctaeo. I lind myself again; usage, yet shall always be held dear liy- neither be weary of his correction. It I say that the dll^ceriinoniai law of Moses to'the gladness of the eternal gather Owffow. No father near to praise or cinds, us.for tlie many- pleasant associations may be that God hath foreordained .Was destroyed'ip Christ Jesus.’ I am ing,* beyond the toil and tears and tri J. S'. Churchill .... i...... Independence No mothers loving tone. whatsoever comes to pass." “ I als of this weary pilgrimage! of the past year. ^perfectly satisfied that you did not mean John Bounds .... Starr'* Point, Lane County _ No brothers’ sisters’ kindly voice— To such homes the weary, come for Query—Is not this a most wholesome . to teach that dangerous doctrine, and. E. Williams........ '...... Amity, Yamhill County With' those of our number who will I feel myself—alone. rest anil the tronbled for consojption. UUVkllUQ »UU ’ C*J AUAX WA VK/AM^AWl V. OCV doctrine and very full of comfort. Oharle» Woods............ Salem, Marion “ Montotrra, August 6th,’ 1871. that you receive and'hold to t«e whole now leave these “cherising walls,” to Wm. Datoma McMinvilta. Yamhill Mothodtat Discipline, 9th article. You [ Scripture, both*of the Old anil New The Son of Peace is there. Bieased bo dwell 'mid the busy haunts pf men, we Mothodist T.B. Newman ................. Dallas, Polk have astofiftlied me again, Bro. Murphy, -Testament, w]»Jeh I think is a very safe such homes’ and muv ours ever be of (4 Home Contributions. will part with regret; and should their ’ ' in W. A. Whitman ...’7^!.... Umatilla ' ■» '' ' . leaving the Bible and going to tLe I foundation to build upon. I remain ’ this number! — after lives be burdened with sorrows Wii. Murphy....... ................ Jack»« Methodi«t book of discipline for com «« yonrs, hoping the Spirit will gnide you DE ARMO PHSTKHITO BT PmHO. anti trials of earth, may they look back Dr. Z. Davi* Buena Viata. Polk S pexd Wistijr.—Look well .to your it v ... Lewisville, ; spending. No matter what comes in, . David Lewi* through the mist of years, to the joy fort. I would prefer the Bible, but as into all truth. ' J ames F inlaysox . ................ TillanW^^ OaxnvATiNo E mat , wn sy Mow Maar i. D. Powell.. ous period of tlieir life’s history spent you. have gone to the Methodist book of ; < N uts '—R w itl mr Murphy * repjj: to the. above j if more goes out you will always ¡si R tvmt , J ims 14, 1871. • The Dalle*, Oregon. Troy »belly, in Monmouth, 'twill lighten their har discipline will you please turn to tho will »ppesr next week. «« poor. Tlife art iqrnot in makiilgTilrineyr'“" ,.. Corvallis H. P. Briggs, Thrice three times thirty suns have den of mortal cares, and if they*shall. Oth article and read it • ' but in keeping it; little expenses,'like * Harrisburg, J. M. Smith,...... risen and set since we, at the beginning I am glad to hear you say that yon have pursued their way flrihly add Dr. W. H. Rowland.......... Brownsville, " Selected Iieading. I mice in a barn, when they are many, of the present session entered the por J. W. Rbelton ............. North Yamhill, , z makq great waste. Hair by hair Leads tals of ilhriataan College, to tread the steadfastly, within the narrow path in did preach a discourse in this neighlior- which they have been taught to trehd, hood cm the proper diviaion of Ute ’* All Christian Preacher» in Oregon, California • a ewciuxa a-rouv. I get bald; straw by ut<aw tHbtliuteh y > > rough/and rugged rood, which leads to and Washington Territory are requested to act off the cottage; an<fj^ra|k by drop the. \will send a cheerful ray of hope to Scriptures, and that you intended to Fresh from rev The Hon. Alexander H. Stevens, of aa Agents for tho Ctaumv.x JfneimoEB. to re- knowledge infinite. pierce tlie “vail of their afflictions," show that the law given by Moses, for . rain copies into tlie cnaud«i[t^A barrel < m * w and receipt for aulivcriptioiu and forward eling amid the beauties of Nature's- that when their probation here is ended, the government of- Israel, was taken Georgia, in a recent address, at a meet I is sootTempty, if the tip YwHvi'tihte* summer time, and bouyant with joy and they may the easier behold “the shin out of the way- by Jesus Clirist, and ing at Alexandria, for the Orphan Asy drops minute. Wlieu. you uwian to hope, we began the toilsome march, un ing boatman” who will come to bear that yon did most emphatically use the lum and Free-School of that city, rela- ' save, being with your mouth; tWrb-are der the guidance of teachers kind and Business Cards. them o’er death's dark and silent river illustration of the old constitution of f ted the following incident: many thieves down theired land. Tipi true, who led ns on step be step up the “A poor.little boy, on a cifld night, . to bright Elysian fields beyond. With the State of Illinois, or intended to do alp-jug is a great waste* In ull other lofty bights of differential Calculus, un the remainder we hope at the beginning so. And you-did aim to teach that with no home or roof to shelter his I things keep within com;>oss. Never til a glance backward made ns faint and of next session, to re-enter, not this old Christ incorporated into his law every head, no paternal guardian or guide stretch your legs further than the blan Notary Publie & Attorney at Law dizzy; then from ofr elevated position, building, tottering 'npatli its weight of thing euitsd to bis people, under the to protect or direct him on his , way, kets will reach, or you will soon lie brought us back to earth by the mysti UT" Busine** from » distance, pror years; but to cross the threshold of the Christian dispensation, to be observed; reachted at nightfall, the home of a cold. In clothes, choose suitable ami cal formulas for integration. Through landed to.’ Ornes-In tlie Court spacious brick edifice, which the and the routine of rites and ceremonies wealthy farmer, who took him in, and 1 lasting stuff, and not tawdry fineries. Dallas, Oremm. ltf the instrumentality of Prof. Agasis’» Trustees and friends of Christian Col* was no longer adapted to the end for fed him, and sent him on his way with To be warm is the main thing; never researches, they have been able to teach bis blessing. These kind attentions , lege have kindly proposed to build for which it was given. mind the looks. A fool may make mon ns concerning jiuge monsters of the our accommodation. May success at qlfiow, Bro. Murphy, .1 understand cheered his heart, and inspired • him ey, but ij needs a wise man to spend it. mighty deep; gigantic quadrupeds of tend their efforts, and may wo look with you exactly,- and will agree with yon with fresh courage to battle with the 'Remember, it is easier' to build two the tropics, and the hardy animals in Physician and Surgeon, pride upon the imposing structure to here that the ceremonial Isw of Moses obstacles of life. Years rolled round. chimneys, than to keep one going. If Ben* Vmx : : : r : t t Oaaaojt habiting the icy regions of the North. be raised at Monmouth, by those who was taken out of the way by -Jesus Providence led him on, and he reached you give all to Bock and bo.ird, there is Formerly practiced with R. C. Hill, M. D., So plainly have they laid the mysteries feel the necessity of educating the Christ and that those rites and ceremo ti(e legal profession. His host had nothiug left for the savings bank. Fare Albany. JUC of the vegetable kingdom open I «fore died. The cormorants that prey on the youth of Oregon. nies are no longer to be observed, but hard and work hard while you are us, “that he who ran might have read;'* substance of man had farmed a conspir After our summer's vacation; re the moral law of Moses was not taken young, and you have askance of rest and each student has been benefltted acy to get from the widow her estates. when voa are old.' freshed and inrigek-ated by ten weeks’ out of the way nor never will be until thereby in accordance with the attention She sent for the nearest counsel, to J50. J. DALY, the end of time. Do yon believe this ? communing with Nature, may we, if it given to the subject under discussion. -commit her cause to him, and that Tlie true news[>a|>er — that which "Now, whether this misunderstanding ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and notary public be the "will of Him who rules the counsel proved to be the orphan )>oy ! would represent the true mission of the Thus have we |«rused, and laid aside of yours and others, Was owing to preju : Talk County. Heavens above us,” again take our sta the various “ologies” enumerated in tions with those who are seeking the dice or some other canqe on your part long before welcomed and entertained press of this wonderful ago* of prog by her deceased husband. The stim- ' ress—must have a great heart in- it, and the catalogue of 8cienee. "But very Empvrian spring, and drink with them or whether the speaker was not suffic ulus now added to the ordinary motives a never-sleeping conscience. It mnst weary have we grown during the long deep draughts at the fountain of knowl iently explicit, I stop not noxy te en connected with the profession, he un be magnanimous and godly—“ with dreary hours of the pest Winter; while quire, bnt simply state what I aimed to edge, that the Commencement Week of dertook her cause with a will not to be charity tfWkrd all, anti malice toward onr tired and aching brain has tried in N. I. BUTLER. 1872 may find us better prepared to teach." Now, I will speak for myself attorney and counsellor at law . vain to rise 'mid the stars of heaven, meet the criticism of the public. May and state to you that I have no preju resisted; he gained it; the widow's es none,”—It must speal^ the truth bold and there view the countless millions of others, seeing our struggle to gain in dice attest you, or against any that tates were secured to her in perpetuity, ly for the truth’s sake, apd cherish jus worlds, designate the. position of each formation, and encouraged by our suc bear the name Christian; but when a and,’,' Mr. Stevens added, with an em tice as the apple of ths eye. It must phasis of emotion that sent an electric seek by the prosperity of right princi in the firmanent above us, or determine cess, join our ranks and move onward Christian minister will get np with the the links which bind together the num to the contest. Though the battle may intention of telling his congregation thrill throughout the house, “that boy ples and right thoughts—to be useful stands before you.”—Texas Adroca/e. berless systems of universes into one as well as popular— to build up. the MeBRIDE, be hard fought and many fall by the tliat tue oerempnial law of M osch was grand whole, revolving slowly about a truth and ennoble, as well as to enligh destroyed in Christ Jesus, and tell them wayside, yet a full reward ifl for those, Attorn ey-at- Law* Home of oor reader» who hove lived fifty ten mankind. * common oentre of gravity. Upable to who at last reach the goal, and they' that a great portion of the Scriptures year, may lie glad to know what they have ac- OFRCS IN a$K COURT HOURS, de. this, we have delved down deep in I was not inspired, this certainly would complished in that time. According to a may secure the “coveted jewel;” and LxrArxTTE, Oaaoos. How sweetly Moore sang of Ireland: mines of classical literature, where such we trust that each succeeding yfitr, be very far from being explicit. I French a'atiaeian, Uie average man liaa worked “ Dear harp ™y country ! in darkness aix thouaand five huixlred days, walked eight a confused assemblage of roots, declen many will take their place, and pass thought at the time it was a blunder, sions and transpositions of words have •from the lecture room, to the Alnmtti of and now I can see you did not intend to hundred daya, »mured himaelf four thoiitoml I found thee, the cold of silence had daya, «pent fifteen hundred daya in eating, and hung o’er’thee long,, when proudly, my W. CWAR1XXER, M. I>„ l«en arrayed against ns, that we have teach a false doctrine. ’ Christian College. l>een wk five bundled daya. He liaa eaten ow[i island harp, I unbound thee, and stood astoundedat the sight; but urged Physician and Surgeon, With regard to the questions that Mr. reven tren thouaand pound* of bread, sixteen May here many be led from the dark forward by tutors, whose patience with ness of midni^ht^to the bright light of McClure asked yon, I have no donbt thousand pounds of meat, ami forty aux bun- , gave all thy cords to love, freedom, and B.U m U Polk County, Oregon. onr weaknesses has never tired, have day, until the institution shall be known I that you understood the question cor I dred pound* of vegetaliloa. fish, Ac., drank aev- ! song ! the warm lay of love, and the 07" OFFICE At reokience near Seibel. 5:tf on thousand gallon* of liquid*, anil alept aix , light note of gladness, have waken'd we again and again taken* nji our gram far and wide as the great radiating cen rectly for McClure said plainly Old thouaand daya. There are eighteen thouaand thy fondest, thy lovliest thrill; but, so mar, using it in the faint hope of un ter, dispelling tlie gloom of error, the Testament. I understand from' Mr. two hundred »nd fifty daya in a half century, J, E. DAVIDNON, M. D., ravelling a tough sentence of the ASne- darkness of ignorance, and irradiating McClure that he had forwarded, some ami from the above atatement it would reem- oft thou has echo’d the deep sigh of and - ness, that e’en in thy mirth it will Physician and Surgeon, id, as a woodsman does a keen edged and illuminating the future's horizon five or six weeks ago, a letter to the that a man alept just one-thinl at the time. steal from tliee still! ” . dependence, • Oregon. axe for felling the trees of the forest, Editor of tlie MBMF.xoai^n . this sub with the cheering beams of hope, until Education is a companion sihich no misfor and have l>orne the conquering palm, truth and love shall oulminate in an- ject. Why don’t the Editor publish it Oct. lAth, 1870. , Siti. They have a funn/ way of voting nt tune can depress no clime deatroy— no enemy so long as our energy has proved Ad you might get to learn something more | the elections in Roiimania. Tlie elec eternal day. „ . _____ alienate — no dospitism enslave. At home, a equate to the task. J. R. SITES, M. !>., \ about it f friend—abroad, an introduction in solitude, a tions last two days. On the first day Sympathizingly at all times have onr “You- will doubtless well remember solaoe—in society, an ornament. It checks only voters voting “aye” Are admitted, A mu will lite for want of air in five minutes, Physician and Surgeon, of water tliat after I had preached the discourse vice—is guides virtue—it gives at once grace to the polls. On the following day the nwllaa, Oregon. teachers pardoned onr faults and mis fo» wut of sleep in ten day»; for doing, and with a dilligenoe that knew in a week, for went of food at varying interval» to which yon refer, at your school and government to genius. Witbont it, what is “noes" are received. .. . 07“ OSes at hia reaidenoe. »Of. no flagging they have directed onr un- dependant oa constitution, habits of lite, aad house in the eyening,” etc. Bro. Mur man? A splendid slave I a reasoning savage! vaacilating lietweon tlie dignity of an iiitalli- “Swivel Sermons,” was the name a* deretandiug to tho contemplation..of tlie circumstance* oi the occasion. Instances phy you must have, like a good many * genoe derived from find and the degradation young minister"of lazy habits gave to a bare been given where person* have Iwen said high and holy themes, and have en io lire many weeks without eating a particle of of my neighbors that you speak of, for- i of brutal jmsuon. package of sermons which he “could deavored to impress upon our hearts, food; but when opportunities have offered for a gotten all about it. The discourse you 1 preach to any text.” i • that a gem far brighter, and'snrpassing Mr investigation of the case. it haa invariably preached in the evening was not the . There is a great deal of theology in the idea of the little girl who wished she could lie good in lustre the brilliancy of the Oriental been found that a week and widked fraud haa one you preached in the morning thoy A religion that does not control a ’ witbont obeying her grandmother. Rite said it - . were different entirely. When you was easy enough to read, books and pray, bof man's thought«, words actions aud hi^ Rohinoor; and, in value, the gold of been at the bottom of it. called for a show of hands, with regard pretty hard Io mind grand-mother. California, is tho knowedge contained SuBcicnt for the dgy is tlie evil thereof. imagination, is not-worth much. Poetry. within the volume of Divine inspira tion, men call Hie Bible. Profited have we been by their thoughtful counsel, grateful are we now fortheir ever ready assistance in removing obstacles from our pathway which otherwise we should never have surmounted. But we would not have yon think our whole time has has been thus engrossed by Btudy and care; for many Lours have been happily spent in the enjoyment of social intercourse, which have been to ns as the verdant oasis upon the great Sahara. The sweet rcmnisence^of'BJch hours has been placed within the depths of “memory’s casket,” from tLance,after tiie frórt aTmimy- - Wi nte rs haa p ara o1, over, and left our beads sijvered by its b touch, to she<l a ray of joy ami gladness upon the dark hours of our existence, or give to thè peacefulness a brighter cast. , ' In this manner have the days, weeks and months of the session,' which in another ’ day will have taken its place with “ages beyond the flood," escaped our grasp; and now appears liefore you tho class of 1871, as clmmpions for'the reputation nJ'Christian CoJlege. TBanti -one our number has received recom pense an hundred fold in return for dilligcncc exertod, an<r with feelings of Corresjjondençe. L. VINEYARD, • °ÏT“ X/