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CHRISTIAN MESSENGER,
carnal and the other spiritual, the reason why wy should not vote for books, papers, and scholars-K is diffi­ *20 a year per capita on her school
one is construeted solely oftlte wor.ks one for any civil psition. For the cult for us to form a proper concep population, has 74 935 persons who-
of man, ar.d is matter of legislation, sake of arguntenl I grant all his lion of the ignorance which was a cannot read. And more numerous
Messenger Publishing Co.,
Extending only to the out ward .con.,
charges, and yet how
progress
few little
centuries
ago. /
still are those who cannot write.
MONMOUTH, POLjv CO., ORÉGON,
duct of the citizen ; whi’e the other has that church made in the world . Historians ted us but few lay-men
These facts show the great work
la devoteel to the cauw of Primitive
id not constructed by. mao, not a, within the last hundred years. Any­ in Europe know how to sign their yet to bedohe in the cau«e of educa-
fchrt«tluntly nnd the diflT um I om ot Gtucr-
RuT>jeet~of legislation, and pertains one'al-all acquainted with the sub­ names. Charters wero subscribed lion. It is frightful to think of the
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to the inward man, the spiritual ject,knows that the Pope has no by thp mark of the cross. Contract» number of children who are never
Price Per Tear, in Advance, $2.o0
Hence a thousand statutes on civil power worthy of notice, and were made verbally because wo body reached bjr the common schools.
All eomintmieatinns rela.iup to the paper in man.
any Way; xlyotilH be a<l<lrpw«e«l to the Publisher, the subject of temperance, theft,etc., also. th«A his pgetence to infidelity is knew
write them.
What can be done t? remedy this
above, fiend money by Bank Draft, Reps- ceuld not of themselves make one only nominal.
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, -Tho proudest nobles, in the dark •State of things ? I hardly know. I
t ml Letter, or Money order ou Dalla»,- at ont’
Christian. lii-hgion is not a subject
Freedom of re.'ig:on is now almost ages were destitute of the rudiments think I know some of, the difficulties
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Advertisers will find tliyi one ef-the beat me of legislation. Education and I eg is
universal. Thera are Protestant of education. But we., thanks to in the way—povertyiiand absentee­
din ms on tho Pacific Cosat for making their
Jation.might make a man likq the churches now within a stone's throw common I'Chools, live in better, times ism. We want motjdy to ImiM good
Liisiiiyss know».
Pharisee, clean on the outside, but of the Vatican.! J^hePopte may now —times in which.millions have been two and three story seh'bot houses
on
the insi le he will still be like the fulminate his bulls" and anathemas lifted to the level of .an intellectual «nd furnish them well, and then,
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whited ^epnlcher, lull of dead men’s at “ the heretics” till his lungs grow life. So wonderful is this great fact -above all we want money that we
“ J. F. A’s. Articles.”
bones. Without the aid wf the Savior, weiry, and yet it would effect about -it any one had predicted it a few may be ab|e to put into these houses ♦
men were nqver made Christian^_by_- as much'as Mohamed’s call to the oenturies ago the. predictor w/wdd * * teachers who are t wo and three xto
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“enactment of laws,, however moral. mountain effected it. The Pope loo have been looked upon as was be ries in brain and ealtiiro/
Uudm ibis Wad Bro’s. W,irren
That depends mainly upon holding lids made very poor
*
headway in who said the world turns round.
AndAhen afyer we have till these
und MaiCl'ure in reply-t« No. 8-of a
I
up to the world ’a crucified Re-_ opposing Ilepiibtfeflnisjn in the
Wi'are not to' suppose however it seems to me that experience has
fi-ries uf.articles wxiUeu-by m e s ome
deemer.
world. I cannot now call to mind that all ignor-ance is conquered! No taught us-that it is not enough! to
lime si'ice, make some sraleaienis
The brother objects to nly saying but a single desjiotm government, indeed I -»ense masses of ignorance say to the children, " Come for all
M Idch I deaire to notice. ■
“ it will ens’avc o.ur religion to make that of Austria, where the Catholic are yet found-all over our country. ifiiergs now ready';
mifiiy
**
will make
I regret ihat these -bretbrep did
it an element iu politics,” apd says religion prevails, white on tit© other Il i» a mistake to say onr education is excuses; we must go out into the.
I ot see tit to noi ice 1 lie matter at an
he, “dishes the Bible to'form a hand I know of many Republican universal/fur hundreds and thous­ slreetj_and lanes cf the cities, and
earlier day, while what I did say
part of the education of his children, governments where the Catholic ands of our children do not attend
was freeti iff the winds ot your
and asks it it would be wrong to religion prevails. J-France? Mexico, school. L »ok into the pagui'TflM.he country, and compel them to come
readers. .^As it if>, those who have
ei'act such a law ?” Now I venture and the South and Central American last census. I have just read a dis­ in that our hoyse be filled.
not filed the M kss BNOKB.- will be
to say in this plan, that the brother’s -republics may be named among cription of two charu u Inch repre­
likely to be misled bv wliat is said'
That Star.
desire to have the Bible form a part them. Turn the matter over and sent illiterary and wealth in the eas-
)»y those good broth yrs. I regret
of the education-of his children,~u~ you will find many Despotic govern' tern half of our union. As J under-
, .wwra i-
r xuvcdinglv that Bra». -W'aaren did
csupleil
with the . (^pJificsU o tt t b afr ■ metrt»4w• '-wfiirh th
* 1 PVofesUht' jre . StHiitl.il 7 in the tii st chart thoseiiis
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- erst-p«trstre -+iov arvnmerit Wn-h leaw
the Bible must be faagflt to his ligion prevails, England, Prussia «nd tricts where the illiterate persons are,
“N'»w when Jesus waa" born in
acrimony and cohffue lumseh within
children
according
as
he
construes
Bethlehem
of Judea in the days of *
Russia,"the
three
greatest
powers
in
less
than-five
per
cent
of
the
popula
­
Ute' bounds of dignified discussion,
it;
-otherwise
lie
would
not
desire
to
Herod
the
king,
behold,, there came *•
Europe,
foster
freedom
of
religion.
tion
are
marked
pore
white.
z\nd
wlrich the importance ot the subject
see it-taught to them. The beat way
wise
men
from
the
east to Jerusalem, ’
J. F. A mis .'
we *re surprised to learn that these
”tinder consideration . certainly de
saying,
Wbeae
-is
lie that 4a tborn
to
get
along
with
the
question
of
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Concluded,
next
week
)
'districts are relatively small and con.-.,
uiaiwlH. I have no. other object in
Bibles
in
schools,is
to
let
it
alone
by
-King
of
the
Jews
?
for we have seen
siderabty sc»tter»d. Th ey are north- I
view in what I have said on the mat­
Popular Educati«».
legislative
enactment.
The.rigbt
to
his
mar
in
the
east,
and are ceme to
ern
and
eastern
New
Etig
and,
pitch
­
ter, than the good of my country ,
worship him.”
Matt. ii. ], 2.
legislate it into the schools, carries
es
of
New
York
and
Pennsylvania',
BY
Z.
S.
H.
■end the advaiieemeut of the ciuse ol
with it the right also to prohibit it
almost all the Western reserve of Children are taught ini Sunday
Christianity. And whatever errors
by the same authority. Hence, in
Popular
education
in
this
country
Ohio with considerable portions of schools, and sing it in their songs,
I may have committed in the pre­
these
days
cd
infidelity
and
the
is
a
great
fact.
Nor
is
it
confined
the northwestern states. A slight that that star conducted the shep
mises, must be chaiged to thp bead,
general
weak
nee«
of
church
affairs,
to
our
country
alone.
The
North
tinge
of black is laid upon tho-e por­ herds to the babe in the manger at
and not the heart. I make no pre
'V.
good
policy,
it
seems
tu
me,
would
be
German
States»
excel
us
in
their
pub
­
tions
where
the illiterate persons are Bethlehem; an^ the writer has
tensions to perfection. But sensible
heard
Christian
preachers
preach
it.
to
leave
the
Bible
to
be
taught
by
lic
.eheols,
both
in
the
instruction
from
five
to
eleven
per
cent
of
the
of my falibility, I hope? that naught
“And there were in the same coun­
but a due degree of humility, and good Christian preachers from the given and in numbers taught. Much whole population. A deeper change
try shepherds abiding »in the field,
pulpit,
and
by
Christian
parents
attention
is
now
paid
to
this
subject
marks
an
illiterary
from
twelve
to
respeet for the feelings of others, will
keeping watch over their
*
flock by
arouud
the
domestic
hearth.
■n
Austria,
Italy
and
France.
Scot
­
twenty
per
cent
;
a
still
deeper
from
always characterize my intercourse
night.
And,
lo,
the
angel
of the
land
has
long
lieen
noted
for
the
care
twenty
te
thirty
nine
per
cent
;
a
As
to
the
revolution
spoken
of
by
with all men, ant] more especially
L«rd
came
upon
them,
ami
the
glory
with my brothers in Christ. And the brother, in France al the close of with which she educates her chil­ still deeper from forty, to fitty-nine
•f
the
Lord
shone
round
about
them;
dren.
And
England,
though
late
in
per cent; while pure black desig­
while I propose to let thia spirit the last century, if I am not mistak­
coutrol and guide me along my path­ en, the school of infidels which over entering the lists, has been so awa nates those portions where the cen­ and they were »ore afraid. And the
way, however humble and dnpresum- run that country at that time canned keiu-d that e«liicalion cla ms from sers found an illiterary of sixty per angel said unto them, Fear not: for,
behold, I bring you good tidings of
ing it may make me, still I claim ie the law prohibiting the use of Bibles her law makers ss much attention as cent and over.
great
joy, which shall be to all
any
other
question.
Indeed
all
na
My
author
says,
the
black
color
lies
in
their
schools,
and
thus
produced
be the peer of my good Bro. Warren.
people.
For unto you is barn tbis-
tiontf,
that
are
al
all
keeping
up
with
in
thick
dense
masses,
like
thunder
the
revolution.
A
good
argument
Hence, if the brother desires me to
day
in
the
city of David a Stvior,
modern
progress
and
life,
are
becorn
clouds
in
a
stormy
summer
sky.
over
why
we
shoyld
handle
the
Bible
discuss any tn»' ter with hiui through
the'papqi, lie must not indnlge in Cautiously by legislation. Jhe ing more and more impressed with large areas of the southern set board which is Christ the Lord, And thi>
unnecessary harshness and personali- brother^'uotes Scripture to prove hia the necessity of educatin^zffae com­ and gulf states; Virginia North shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall
argument in favor of the ehurch in­ mon people.
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, find the babe wrapped-in swaddling
ty..
Hence
popular
education
is
one
of
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Lou- clothes, lying in a manger. And
The brother sets out by objecting terfering in politics. But if I had
the
tacts
of
modem
civilization;
a
esiana, Arkansas and Texas. Never, I. suddenly there was with the angel a
to my assertion, that “ politicians searched the whole book for Scrip­
fact
as
much
as
the
press,
the
church
he adds, have I been so strontrly im­ multitude of the heavenly host prais­
nre to be avoided when they propose ture to favor my position, I should
or
any
tiring
else.
But
it
is
compar
­
pressed by the amount of ignorance ing God, and saying, Glory to God
have
lakqn
the
very
Scriptures
cited
to make matters of rdtigious faith a
atively
a
new
fact,
a
recent
fact.
in
our country as when I first stud in the highest, and nn earth peace,
by
the.brolher
from
1
Peter
it
“
Sub
­
matter of political issneat the poles,”
good will toward men. And itcanre
What is the significance of thia ied this chart.
and seems to infer that therefore I mit yourselves to every ordinance of
In the second chart pnre white to pass, as the angi-ls were gone
would debar them from speaking of man for thaLortl’a sake, whether it new and great fact? It is that all
moral crimes, such as intemperance, be to the King as Supreme, or uulo children may become educated—it is marks those parts of the country away trom them into heaven, lire
desecration of the Sabbath, theft, them that are sent by him for the not for the children of princes or where the aversge wealth is less shepherds said one to another, Lot
forgery, etc., at the poles. Nothing punishment of evil-doers,” etc. lords or the rich alobs, but for all— than 1300 per capita; a slight tinge ur now go even onto Bethlehem, and sau
coaid be more foreign to my mean­ Where is the room here for the ser­ it is the common school—the univesi of yellow an average wealth from see thia thing which is come |o pass,
750; a deeper tinge, from which the Lord hath made known
ing. In a general sense, I simply vant of God to enter the sin polluted ty of the great public, whose door is *300 to *
wide
open
for
all.
political
arena,
for
the
purpose
of
$750
to
1
*
260;, a deeper color from /unto ns, And they came with haste,
meant to say that, whenever a
While we find that popular ednea *1250 to *
2000; while pufe yellow and found Mary and Joseph, and the .
party, or a politician, made any mat­ trying to proscribe »'rival church ?
baba lying in a manger, - And when
ter of religious faith, a test for civil But the brother says the saints of tion in practical results is a new points out an aversge wealth of *20
they
had seen it, they made known
office, it, or he should be avoided. God shall possem the kingdoms of thing, yet in its erigin it goes back 00 and over per capita.
abroad
the saying which was told
By laying one chart on the other
In a restricted sense, I meant to say the earth. Vader this pies, many centuries. Not hoprtver to the old
meC
aud
churches
have
made
ship
­
them
oonoerning
this ohild. And all
heathen
world
for
that
never
produ­
we cannet fail to heve two sets of
that when any patty or politician
they
that
heard
it
wondered at those
ced
a
common
school.
Neither
can
wreck
of
their
faith.
The
Pope
him
­
facts
answering
each
other
—
riches
to
I
proposed to ostracise Catholios, or
things
which
were
told them by the
we
find
it
in
aneient
philosophy
er
self
can
claim
no
more.
Our
pro
­
„intelligence,povereyteignoranoe,yel
­
Methodists, or Baptists, or Chris­
tians, or any other sect that propose gressive preachers, like Beecher, and classic literature. We can trace it low rests upon while and white upon shepherds. But Mary kept all these
to take the inspired wor<^ of God as kindred spirits, man of thia idea"have no higher than the stable ot Bethle­ ‘black. Here is a relation of cause things, and pondered them in her
the man of their oouacil, he -should made their pulpits but little belter hem where was bout the greatest and effect. But which is cause and heart. And the shepherds returned, .
than
political
rostrums! ’ The- teacher that ever was or will be. which is effect f Are not their ac­ glorifying and praising Gpd for all
be avoided.
Now, can-Ahsse brethren see no saints share, possess and judge the That is tb say Christianity has given tion reciprocal? Doe« not ignor­ the things that they had ht ard and
differenoe baLwesn matters pertain­ world. But when ? Will it not be that tone of thought and feeling ance pro«loco poverty, poverty per­ seen, as it was told nnTo them.”
ing to the kingdoms of this world after the dawn of the inillenium ? which has produced popular educa­ petuate ignornoe? Is not wealth Luke it *—20. No star in that
'and those which belong to the king­ Besides, I am persuaded that the tion. This is seen from the fact the necessary to universal education ? story,
Where did that sjar take the wi»<
dom of Christ ? Or, in other words, sword of the spirit, and not the bal more Christian thé nation the more Certainly. Henoe money is a condi­
men ? Most perrons believe it was.
do the brethren ccAtceive no differ­ lot will be the weapon,used to, popular and common the education. tion of popular education.
.But universal edaoation has been ' But it must not be supposed that to Bethlehem, and that the '^isegicn
ence in the duties ot a cilizep of the oooquer the world. The brother
government and a follower of the here brings forward six. different slow in it« progress until recently., all the ignorance is found in the found the babe in the manger, |,he
meek and lowly Jesus? The one is charges agaiqpt the Catholic», as a Acouatoiued as we are to »0 many Sooth. Massachusetts that expends
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