Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 44, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 21, 1881 Page: 1 of 8
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PEE ANNUM]
TAKING THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH IS THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT.
fIN ADVANCE
Yol. VII. :
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BONHAM, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1881.
No. 44
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/BONHAM, - - - TEXAS
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Obituaries exceeding ten lines in length
Will be charged forst the rate of two
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dollars
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N. B.—Entered at the Post-ofllee at
Botlfaui. Texas, *es second class natter.
Office of publication, North Timber 8L
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Bro. Jag. M. Biard is now <cit-
iaen of Bonham.
The Messenger has a larger
!kfc of cash subscribers at present
tkf* atony time in its history.
There are over three hundred
students at Add-Ban College this
tension.
An elegant new year’s gift—the
Christian Messenger for a year
to some friend.
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How many preachers will can-
rass for the Christian Messenger
the coming year, and send reports
% of their meetings?
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It is said that not half a dozen
Christian men in Fannin county
voted for whisky in the late elec-
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After you have read the Mes-
senger, hand it to your neighbor.
He may conclude to subscribe for
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T. W. Caskey recently held a
debate with W. A. Jorrel, a Bap-
tist, at New Hope, Parker comity,
Texas.
Bro. Laurence W. Scott was
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recently at the town of Campbell,
Hunt county, Texas, and preached
for the Campbell-itee.
Btol X. ,W. Caskey has been ad-
vised to quit “pastorating,” and
start out lecturing against infidel-
ity and Catholicism.
An additional * inducement to
send your sous and daughters to
Bonham to be educated—there is
now no whisky sold in the place.
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Bro. Polly has been engaged to
preach at four places in Collin
county, Texas, the coming year,
and will remote to Plano at an
early day.
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The prohibition of the liquor
traffic in Fannin county, Texas,
will give Several able-bodied men
an opportunity to follow some
frbnest galling.
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The brethren on South Sulphur,
fifteen miles south of Bonham,
sore erecting a meeting-house the
present week. They will have it
ready for occupancy by new year.
While filling the stockings of
the little ones with dainties for
Christmas, do not forget that there
are many children about you who
have no friends to fill tbeir stock-
ings. Remember the poor.
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Are the readers of the Messen-
<!£Bgoodat calculations? What
is the product of one multiplied
by two? How many will give a
practical solution of the problem,
te o$r sew. year’s issue, by rais-
ing new subscribers?
How many readers of the Mes-
senger will send us one new sub-
scriber for 1882 ?
Bro- Wm. E. Hall is going to
make New Orleans his future
home.
The republican caucus has
nominated Bro. F. D. Power for
chaplain to congress.
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Bishop Kavanaugh, who presi-
ded over the late Methodist con-
ference at Greenville, Texas, is
eighty-one years of age.
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Maj. Penn, the Baptist evangel-
ist, has held nine camp-meetings
the past year, and had two thou-
sand conversions.
Bro. Skiles and Bro Wilmeth
are discussing in the Christian
Preacher whether Garfield was a
sinner for becoming president of
the United States.
The business men of Bonham
did not think the loss of the whis-
ky traffic would injure the trade
of the town. Many of the best
merchants of the place worked for
prohibition with a will. We are
proud of them.
Bro. Carlton worked hard all
day at the election in Bonham, for
local option, and when he heard
the question was carried,liejshout-
ed “glory” on the public square
loud enough to be heard three
blocks away.
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The Apostolic Times tells of a
church that not only uses the organ
in worship, but during the week
rentB it out to balls and parties at
one dollar a night. That is a pro-
gressive church, surely, and the
deaoons have an eye to business.
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The Messexgeb is under very
great obligations to Bro. Jag. C.
Arledge, who furnished a span of
mules for the trip out west. If
there were a few thousand such
brethren in Texas, papers could be
published and the gospel could be
preached.
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The Methodis conference has
removed its “fighting preachers”
from Fannin county, Texas, the
present year. The fruitless effort
to extirpate “Campbellism,” so-
called, has convinced them that
they must attack a territory where
the heresy has not taken such
deep root.
The Messenger had a call from
Bro. J. U. Smithers yesterday,
who is traveling in the interest of
the orphan school at Thorp’s
Springs, Texas. This is a g >«>d
work, and we commend it to the
Christian brotherhood of Texas.
Let the orphan be clothed and fed
and educated.
California has nine temperance
lecturers constantly in the field.
There are over one hundred
prohibition papers published in
the United States.
alone is an unwholesome doctrine
and very full of delusion.” So
some one reads it of late.
Spurgeon’s health continues
poor, and he will Bpend most of
the winter at Mentone.
Rumor says that the ruins of
the temple at Jerusalem are to be
restored, byforder of the sultan.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Says
many people mortgage a house to
get mahogany to pnt into it
The preachers of England have
an average congregation of two
hundred and seventy-seven per-
sons. That beatB American
preachers.
A Fredericktown minister re-
fnsecLto have his salary raised one
hundred dollars higher, because
he could not collect it as it
was.
The Messenger has missed sev-
erel issues this fall, in consequence
of the absence of the editor and
a lack.of mechanical force in the
office. A debt was pressing us,
and money had to be raised to pay
it off. We are now in easier cir-
cumstances, and expect to give
more attention to the paper. Let
friends and patrons all take hold
with fresh zeal to extend the cir-
culation. Our prospects were
never so bright as at present.
Guiteau says that the editors
who want him executed are wick-
ed, and need a change of heart.
He sAys those assassins who tried
to kill him ought to be punished,
unless they can show that they
were led by Deity to do the deed.
A physician once told a sick
man to “do something for some-
body,” and he would be better.
That would be a good prescription
for many sick Christians. They
need exercise in the Lord’s vine-
yard.
In the Nevada legislature, a
minister, in the opening exercise,
prayed the Lord’s prayer. At the
close one member nudged another
and said: “He stole that; I heard
it almost word for word ten years
ago at a funeral.” This is the
latest phase of plagiarism.
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A Connecticut minister had a
birth-day pie sent him, and when
he went to eat it his teeth struck
something hard. On investiga-
tion the pie was found to be stuff-
ed with fifty gold dollars. The
preacher did not eat the stuffing.
Horace Greeley said there was
nothing easier than editing a
blackguard paper, and nothing
more difficult than editing a decent
paper. Another old journalist
said it required more wisdom to
know what to keep out of a paper
than what to put in it.
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The young men who recently
robbed the train in Arkansas, and
were sent to the penitentiary, con-
fessed that it was reading sensa-
tional novels and newspaper de-
tails of crime that led them into
the robbery business. Parents
can not be too careful what their
boys read.
The International Monthly es-
timates that more men are killed
in Kentucky in six days than are
killed in six years in Vermont.
The difference grows out of the
fact tha^ whisky reigns trium-
! phant iu Kentucky. Forty thou-
sand deaths have occurred in the
south since the war from yellow
fever, yet more men have been
killed by whisky than by yellow
fever.
Hamilton county, Texas, recent-
ly carried prohibition by a large
majority. The people of this
state are growing desperate on the
whisky question. The liquor sel-
lers must go!
The appellate court affirmed the
decision in the case of Mrs.
Knowles Shaw vs. Central rail-
road, giving that lady $11,000
damages for the killing of her
husband. .
Battle Flag Ray says for twen-
ty-five years he has “fought a good
fight.” And yet he has been one
of the most violent persecutors of
the church of God on the American
continent.
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How many of our preachers
will continue in the evangelistic
field in Texas during the winter?
It is said that converts baptized
in winter, when the water is cold,
make better Christians than those
baptized in summer.
The Texas Methodist affirms
that a baptized infant is a mem-
ber of the church. The Texas
Baptist Herald wishes to know
why then are these members of
the church excluded from the
Lord’s table ? The Methodist will
never answer that question.
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When Solomon said there was
nothing new under the sun,he had
never seen the Texas Methodist’s
interpretations of Scripture. Here
is another gem from that journal:
“Whosoever shall not receive the
kingdom of heaven as a little child
(receives it) he shall not enter
therein.”
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Thos. Munnell, the working
evangelist of Kentucky, after
much observation and mature
study in regard to the whisky bus-
iness in that state and its results,
has come to the following conclu-
sion: No man who manufactures
or sells whisky, or drinks it as a
beverage, ia fit for membership in
the church of Christ.
A Baptist preacher, comment-
ing on Paul’s statement that he
might become a castaway after he
had preached# to others, said it
did noi refer to the loss of the
soul but the loss of the crown.
That is what a Presbyterian min-
ister said once—that there would
be crownless saints in heaven—
bare-headed Christians, as it were!
The Texan Baptist says that if
the Baptist church is a part of the
kingdom of God, (as the Messen-
ger admits,) then to invite people
to come out of the Baptist church
is to invite them to come out of
the kingdom of God. By no means.
move to Melissa, Texas.
There are over three hundred
gospel preachers in Indiana.
A modern philosopher puts it:
“Train up a child iq the way you
should have gone yourself.”
The North Texas Annual Con-
ference of the M. E. church met
at Greenville on the 30th nit.,
Bishop Kavanaugh presiding,
There were about one hundited
and thirty members present.
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1 hey tell it on a Baptist minis-
ter in Tennessee, that he explain-
ed the passage, “Drink ye all of
it,” to mean drink all the wine,
and so after communion he and
the deacon drank up all that was
left of the wine!
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Over two thousand of the liquor
dealers of New York city hare
served terms in different state
prisons. This is the class of men
that propose to run the laws and
ruin the morals of this country. -
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One Prof. Shively recently ap-
peared in Washington City, and
claimed that he was God, and bad-
come to cast the devils out of
Guiteau, that had caused him to
murder the president. The new
crank was arrested and confined.
On a train running into Louis-
ville, Ky., a gentleman pointed out
a group of buildings to a lady, and *
said: “There is the largest distill-
ery ii^tbe world.” Just beyond
was the poor-house, and just be-
yond that the grave-yard. The
lady said it was significant First
whisky, then the poor-house, then
the grave.
Christmas is coming, and many a
young disciple’s Christianity wilt
be tried. Have you any firmness?
Any solidity? Any moral back-
bone ? If so, the follies of the ap-
proaching gay season will not
make shipwreck of your faith. '
Many a professed follower of
Christ, for a few fleeting hours of
frivolity, will sacrifice heaven and
eternity! Such is man.
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As we expected, the editor of
the Texas Baptist failed to pub-
lish our review of his late criticism
on certain “admissions” in the
Christian Messenger, but criti-
cised us again. That is the way
with these Baptist editors. They
are afraid to publish what we say.
If we have not convinced them of
the truth of the Christian religion,
we have at least convinced them
that it will not do to let their read-
ers see what we write in defense
of our position.
The editor of the Messenger
has necessarily been absent a good
deni of late. As soon as he can
W e invite people to come out oft induce the brethren to wake up,
that portion of the kingdom . and do the canvassing for the pa-
where they wear human names | per, he will remain at home,
and human creeds and are fetter- i Somebody must talk up subscri-
ed liv party practices and close j bers in the field, and it is difficult
communions and have not the lib
erty enjoyed by those who take the
Bible alone. Baptists are a part
to find a man who can do it as
well as the editor himself. He
obtains subscribers where ell otb-
of the spiritual Israel, but they are j er agents fail. The late trip out
> as
still in Babylon—in captivity--and
must be exhorted to come up out
of bondage.
west brought three hundred dol-
lars into the treasury, which wee
very much needed.
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Burnett, Thomas R. Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 44, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 21, 1881, newspaper, December 21, 1881; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth904526/m1/1/?q=collin+co+tx: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.