Christian Messenger (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 4, 1879 Page: 4 of 8
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CHRISTIAN MESSENGER.
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THE MESSENGER.
T. R. BURNETT,
Editor.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
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ChasC\rlton, C. Kendrick,
J M. BlARD, R. C.IIorn,
G. \V. Williams.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4. 1879.
t Mr. Cato, the Mormon, has
returned to Red River county,
Texas.
lo the Field.
good audience came out to
meeting at night,and the writer
We made a short trip to I preached to the best of his skill
Grayson county last week,jand ability on the “form of
reaching Howe station, on the | doctrine.” Bro.A. Lackey leads
Central railroad, a short while; the music at the Mound, and it
is about as good as can be
found in northern Texas. They
before sun-down Saturday eve-
ning. Bro. Robertson thought
he could get out the people for)cio not use organ and have
preaching at night, and a very j no nee<^ it* ^he music is
good congregation assembled. ©00(^ enough without it. e
'There is no church at this's»id to one old brother once,
v - ——- i place. It is a sort of mission i who w*s venting his righteous
Mrs. Blocker, of Harrison j poin^ midway betweeil Farm- j indignation against the organ
The Church at Bonham.
To the Holj Land.
count}7, Texas, has a Bible 321
years old.
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Dr. Zealy, of the Baptist
church, immersed eight of the
deaf mutes of the asylum at
Austin, Texas, a few days ago.
The Tennessee legislature has
passed a law against importing
or selling within the state any
kind of pocket or belt pistol.
The penalty is severe.
Moses E. Lard has resigned
his position as fire-insurance
agent. It is not stated that his
discovery of “endable” pun-
ishment had anything to do
with it.
ington, Helvey’s School-house
and White Mcmnd, and Bro.
Reynolds preaches once per
month for the people, along
with the Baptists and Meth-
odists. We have a few mem-
bers there. Bro. Robertson
keeps hotel in town, and says
his latch-string is always on
the outside for any gospel
preacher that may come along.
On Sunday morning, in a
buggy with Bro. Helvey, we
set out for Farmington, four
miles west of Howe. The pos-
tal card announcing our visit
was late arriving, and no ap-
pointment for preaching had
been made. A few assembled
foi; Sunday-school. As the
In view of the aid rendered
the famine-stricken Chinese by | Baptists had a meeting in to*n,
Christian missionaries, one 'twas thought best not to at-
community has presented* ai tempt preaching before night,
.magnificent heathen temple to! 80 we concludedito go over
the “Jesus people.” jand hear Bro-‘ McComb. His
- I text was, “Go teach all na-
Rev. R. Abbey and Dr.John- j tions.” He said he did not see
son, both of the Methodist | how any man with that passage | town. A subscriber or two was
church, are debating the ques- before him could be other than picked up on the route, but all
folks < “ Do not say anything
against the organ people until
you get better music in your
church house—it is the poorest
now that we ever heard.” God
can not be any more displeased
with an organ than lie is with
a church that allows two or
three old brethren with cracked
and discordant voices to do all
the singiDg, while the balance
of the congregation sit idly by
and take no interest in the
worship. Utilize your forces.
Put all your members to sing-
ing—buy them books—and im-
press the idea that it as much
the duty of a disciple of Christ
to sipg as it is for him to be
baptized.. Then we will have
less quarrel over the organ,and
less use for that instrument in
the house of God.
Tuesday7 morning Bro. An-
drews put his mule in Bro.
Lackey’s buggy,and we started
for Pilot Grove, via Kentucky-
tion as to when Christ built his a missionary man. It was a
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church. Dr. Johnson thinks it missionary text, and the
was a new church that Christ preacher’s duty- under it is to
said he would build,but Abbey g0 and teach or “disciple” the
holds that it was the old A])ra
hamic church that had been
.standing for hundreds of years
that was to be bhilt, or rebuilt,
or something. Tbis reminds
us of Bro. John Sweeney’s il-
lustration of Dr. Ditzler’s ex-
position of the passage, “ I will
build my church.” He illus-
nations. That sounded pretty
i?
well, and the preacher
was making good headway
with a gospel sermon, “begin-
ning at Jerusalem,” when he
happened to bethink him of his
old hardshell notions, and out
came the paradoxical an-
nouncement— “While God
our old ones did
“•Tim.es are hard
trated it by an Arkansaw anee- sends his preachers to teach or
dote. A new jail was to be disciple the nations, and it is
the counties,
built in oue of
and the* people
meeting and passed resolutions.
“ Resolved first, that we will
build a new jail. Resolved
second, that the new jail shall
be built out of the material of
the old jail. Resolved third,
that the prisoners shall be kept
in the old jail until the new jail
is completed!”
the preachers’ duty to go as
not renew,
and money
scarce.” That is whac some of
them said. But cotton crops
are promising, and corn crops
are promising, and the promise
is that in the fall nearly all the
old ones will come back again.
Hundreds of names could be
added to our list, if the people
had money. The Messenger
never seemed so popular asr
now; but then we are compelled
to stick to the cash system. It
was high noon when we reached
Bro. Reynolds’, one mile from
The church of Christ at Bon-
ham, Texas, has just finished
paying for its new house of
worship. The whole cost, of
ground and building, was $4,-
300. Of this amount, one
thousand dollars was be-
queathed to the church by Bro.
Paxton and wife, leaving the
balance to be paid by the mem-
bers, most of whom are in
moderate circumstances. % It is
one of the best buildings oyned
by our brethren in the state—
solid, substantial and elegant.
It has comfortable seats, high
and broad pulpit, (bay window
in the rear,) carpeted floors,
three fine chandeliers, commun-
ion table on rollers, silver com-
munion service, fine regulator
clock, ‘spire one hundred feet
high, and a loud-sounding bell,
that calls out in magnificent
tones every Lord's day morn-
ing, “D-o r-e-l-i-g-i-o-n!” The
church is perhaps in better con-
dition than it has been at any
previous time. The members
manifest much interest in the
worship,and are generally pres-
ent at the breaking of bread
on each Lord’s day.’ Better
music can not perhaps be found
in the state. The Christian
Hymnal is used by the congre-
gation, and all the parts are
sung. The Sunday school is
well attended. Bro. Carlton
gives his entire time to 'the
church and Sunday school,hav-
ing no appointment at any oth-
er place the present year. The
outlook is good. No church in
the city has so large congre-
gat^ns, so systematic worship,
and so fruitful an increase oi
members.
TIIE PYRAMIDS AND OTHER
TOMBS.
met in mass; commanded, yet the preachers Pilot Grove. He was lying on
never make any disciples, or
convert any sinner s—God
makes Christians!” A queer
outcome for a missionary be-
ginning, surely, but just such
as our hardshell, totally-de-
praved Baptist friends make
all the time. “Go disciple the
nations—go turn them from
darkness to light—but bear in
rnrind that preachers can’t disci-
Fourteen letters were pre
sented by candidates for mem
bership, which were received I pie nations nor turn them from
and recognized by the presby- darkness to light!” Arminian
tery and by each other. A premise and Calvinian conclu-
church covenant was read, re- sion Bllt Bro. McComb is an
reived and adopted. Articles , , , TT
of faith.derived and condensed ^onol’able man. He was at our
fromErtcyclopedirof Religious! meeting Sunday night, and
Knowledge, were read and nearly all his Baptist brethren.
adopted. A solemn charge was J Every one of our Farmington 0
given to the church b) Eld**r subscribers renewed for anotli-i love lie
Mitchell and the hand of fel-
his back reading the life of
Walter Scott, and dinner was
nearly ready. He and Bro.
Sullenger are the bishops of
the little band in this commu-
nity, and they have hard work
to hold the fort. No meeting-
house, no preaching, and little
success. The outlook is not
promising. But a better day
will dawn. Our cause always
succeeds when it has equal
chances with others. Bro. An-
drews left us to preach to the
people at Pilot Grove, and
turned his course homeward.
His disinterested kindness, in
quitting his business and help-
We do not take the position
that any New Testament writer
used the word Christian to des-
ignate the church, for that is
not our position. You are very
liberal to raise the lock and
key to have us affirm something
we do not believe.—Christian
Messenger.
We hope to hear no more
from you or. the name “Chris-
tian” after the above. We raise
the lock enough to lee our peo-
ple see your position as stated
above.—Texas Baptist Herald.
You let them know that we
do not use the word Christian
as the name for the church, but
you do not let them know what
name we do use. Iu this you
are very liberal. It convinces
us that you like the “running
fire” best. We hoped to have
a chance to show the good Bap-
tists of Texas that they are
wearing a man-made title, in-
stead of a Bible name, both as
a church and people, and are
living beneath their privilege
From the Christian.
Our work with the passages
and chambers of the pyramid
of Cheops was very fatiguing.
The entrance passage is just 3
feet 9 inches wide, and 2
feet 11 inches high, measuring
at right angle to the floor. Of
course we had to descend in a
stooping posture, and the an-
gle of descent is 26 deg., 41 min.
Moreover, the floor is of white
marble smoothly polished, and
our only mode of descent was
to slide down, and butt our
brains out at the bottom, or
have a rope tied at the outside
to which we could hold as we
decended ; but for the fact that
notches had been chiseled in
the floor at irregular intervals
to furnish a foot rest. These
are so rudely cut, though,* that
our boots were constantly slip-
ping on them, and but for the
help of the Arabs, whose bare
feet seemed to stick to the
stone as if they were glued to
it, would at last have dropped
into the sliding method above
mentioned. With two Arabs
to help each of us and one
apiece to hold a candle before
us, we managed to get along
without breaks or bruises ; but
to take accurate measurements
under these circumstances re-
quired some patience and much
straining of our muscles. The
mouth of this entrance passage
is on the north side of the pyr-
amid, about midway between
its east and west corners and
48 feet perpendicular above the
base. Measuring from the be-
ginning of the marble floor, we
descended 88 feet 4 inches |to a
pile of sand, which has accu-
mulated at the point where this
passage meets with the upward
pasage, and which prevented
us from completing the meas-
urement with accuracy. Below
this pile of sand which has
been blown in by the winter
winds, the passage continues
in the same direction as before
until it reaches a chamber 101
feet below the natural surface
of the rock on which the pyra-
mid stands. This lower part
of the shaft is stopped up, and
covered with the pile of sand
just mentioned, so we could
not explore it. The pile of
sand not only prevented ns
from completing the measure-
ment of the entrance passage
with accuracy, but also came
so near choking up the passage
that we had to stoop our lowest
and snuff up a considerable
quantity of dust that smelt
like anything else than colo-
, and duty. But we can not get
ing us on our way, out of the j past the lock and key! It muse jg^e, in order to pass oier it. e
bears the cause for be comfortable to the membersj measured, however, its horizon-
of that denomination to know hal surface, and accoiding to
Jors^ Aht! rn/our'^«?srwas°rurnere^ [ Wo1rSotteial,°I’ ^ood TuAience ^at neither one of theirjthe best estimate we couH
then opened for1 ward. At Howe station the assembled in the B a p t i s t papers in Texas will divide - makefile length of thedescend-
AT - - 1 - - - - * * • ------ /i\----i-i • ing passage to the point where
church were
mem burs hip.
None received, buggy was exchanged for one j church in Pilot Grove, ( the only | Space to investigate^an import-
in the place,) and we \ scriptural question,
to them about the| -----------
the floor of the ascending pas-
sage begins, is 96 feet. It was
TheToregoing item is the re- of Bro. Starks’ horses, and in j church
port of the organization of a j company with Bro. S. and Bio. j talked
Baptist church at Valley Creek, I Ed. Andrews we journeyed on j “ straight and narrow way that j Newspapers sometimes give originally more than this , for
Fannin county, Texas. A toward White Mound. This is | leadetli unto life.” The night account of what are called j several feet,and perhaps yards,
“ church covenant” was read, j a good community, and thickly was spent with Bro. Hudspeth,; “ calico balls,” where the ladies j of the exterior face of the pvra-
received and adopted, and “ur- j settled, and the church is very i who next morning forwarded us wear calico dresses. Bro. Jones mid have been remo\ ed. Heie
tides of faith,” derived and strong. The people are di-ion a horse to Whitewright, the suggests that if we could start; I note the first serious inaccu-
condensed • from the Encyrlo-, vided between Baptistism and i terminus of the D. & S. rail- tile custom of having calicoiiacy of the measurements given
pediaof Religious Knowledge! Christianity, and the fight lias \ road, an 1 at 2 o’clock we were preachings it would work welli in tile little book of Mr. Seiss,
go
to He
gives
the length of tills
And yet Battle Flag Ray will j been long and hard. Our Bap- at home. The Messenger list j for the cause of Christianity. | called The Miracle in Stone,
flaunt liis black flag in all our ; tist friends have recently erect i was somewhat increased at j Many ladies will not
faces and assert that Baptists led a new' house, and seem to be {each point visited, and we trust; church because other
have no creed but the Bible ! trying to hold the fort. A j good was done. | dress too tine.
ladies chamber (p. 84) as 1.000 inches,
j which equal 83 feet 3 inches. . I
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Burnett, Thomas R. Christian Messenger (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 4, 1879, newspaper, June 4, 1879; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth912981/m1/4/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.