Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 26, 1882 Page: 1 of 8
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C|it Christian Htessengcr
IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
Tints* it. Barnett,
BONBAM, - - - TEXAS
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Terms—per armum, _ _ - - $2.00
v/^T^ ^months, - - - - $1.25
exceeding ten lines in length
for at the rate of two dol-
ls each.
at the Post-ofSce at
m, aS second class matter,
ion. North Timber St. •
T. E. Stirmun is preparing
of sermons for publica-
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s says we have so
g preachers, because
light.
ristian Herald has a
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f* who is close kin to
Jas. L. Thornberry says
received twenty dollais
year's labor.
Bros. Carlton and* Gra-
at the state meeting,
embraced and kissed.
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Robt. Graham and John
the only bald-headed
at the ettfte meeting.
it is said,
where he
preacher
mett, another
rry, another named
Jas. L. Thornberry is in
year, and still
letters, headquarters
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Bro. Howell, of the Christian
“sun-burnt evangelist,”
the D. D. to a preacher's
a poet-script.
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k Carlton and Bro. Odeneal
the biggest preachers at the
the state meeting-. The, weigh
each.
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itor of the Messenger the
, and said, Tour paper
me out of the Baptist
Garrison says the most in-
etndent he saw at Ox-
university, England, was a
colored man. The odor line dees
not prevail there
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‘The doctors are haring a lively
<i—rrel over Guiteaas brain.
^mwj can not agree as to whether
it is a crazy brain or a devilish
brain. Their diagnosis is too Into
Prof. Baldwin, who deliver* the
of lectures to the normal
of Texas the present
in a member ef the
of Christ. He. was raised
Bethany college, and slept
alter.ScdM;>;
of the Messixoer
the state meeting
prepared the matter
issue, and on Sat-
THT'
datings in
The prohibition feeling is un-
doubtedly growing in Texas.
One man. said at the state
meeting that he had never seen
but one Caskey and one Carlton.
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From the Disciple we learn
that Bro. F. W. Pattie's work in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, is success-
ful.
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Andrew Prather, a pioneer
preacher of the ancient gospel,
died recently in. Bandera county,
Texas.
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The Christian Preacher has
been compelled to miss several
issues recentlv, on account of
scarcity of funds. These be hard
times^on poor editors.
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Bro. Drennan calls these revi-
vals, at which there is a great deal
of noise, and very little else,
“goose revivals.” He says geese
maka more' noise over nothing
than anything in the world.
Dr. Broadus, of the Southern
Theological seminary, recently
said: “lP?t young men read old
books and old men read new
books, and things will not so
readily lose their equilibrium.”
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James A. Garfield said he never
met a ragged boy in the street
but he felt like giving him a sa-
lute, for he did not know what
possibilities might be buttoned
up in that old coat.
A cargo of 927 Mormonq^ar-
rived in New .York a few days
ago, from Norway. They depart-
ed for the promised land of Utah,
under the charge of a “mission-
ary” of the Latter Day Saints'
church. t
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Mr. Ingersoll bought mining
stock to the amount of $50,000,
which is now worth only $2,000.
This is considered one of the
mistakes of Ingersoll. Moses
never made a mistake on mining
stock.
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Bro. G. (i. Wooten, one of the
elders of the church at Walker
Station,*Red River county, Texas,
and who is also a preacher of the
gospel and a docto* of medicine,
has announced himself a candi-
date for state senator on the inde-
pendent ticket.
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• Geo. O. Barnes, the mountain
evangelist, and faith-cure doctor
of Kentucky, recently had over
one thousand confessions at
Frankfort, and anointed over four
hundred persons. Among his con-
verts were the governor, supreme
judge, the assistant secretary of
state, register of the land office,
assistant auditor, and the editor
of the Yeoman.
Edward Fulflem, who was hung
at Fort Smith, Ark., on the 30th
of Jane for the double murder of
Stewart and Maesengele, was a
son of Judge Fulsora, a promi-
nent citizen ef the Indian territo-
ry. He began his career of crime
in his youth—gambling, drinking
and, fighting—and had killed five
or six men. He sewed the wind
and reaped the whirlwind. It is
ssid he bung for more than an
hour by the mock before he was
dW.
Remember, that the larger cir-
culation you give the Messenger,
the better it will be.
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Our brethren of Canada have
sent a missionary to the far-off
province of Manitoba.
According to the Canadian cen-
sus, there are 21,000 disciples of
Christ iu the province of Ontario.
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The ability to preach, and the
opportunity to preach, is your call
to preach. Preachers do not al-
ways stand in the pulpit. Are you
a preacher, reader?
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Preaching twice % day, and
editing a newspaper at the dis-
tance of one hundred miles from
the office, is very good work Tor
this hot weather.
“Behold, a sower went forth to
sow.” We all are sowers. We
are sowing seed every day in
somebody’s heart, that will pro-
duce either happiness or misery.
Instead of going to Eureka
Springs for a vacation, the editor
of the* Messenger has gone to
the post-oaks of eastern Texas to
hold four or five protracted meet-
ings.
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During tha late war there was/a
class of soldiers called “feather-
bed militia.” Bro. Jones says he
has found some “feather-bed mi-
litia” in the Lord's army. They
stay close to home, and do very
little fighting.
Our Methodist friends some-
times say they are the most liber-
al people in the world on the
subject of baptism, as they allow
every person to have it in the way
he prefers it. This is hardly cor-
rect. The infants are not con-
sulted us to the mode of baptism.
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The Old-Path Guide and other
Christian papers express the de-
cision to quit advertising patent
medicines when the brethren give
them patronage enough to live
without it. Now you know the
remedy, brethren. When you feel
like scolding your editor for pub-
lishing advertisements, just get
out and raise fifty new subscri-
bers.
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Preachers who are desirous of
going to the mineral springs or
sour wells, for health, should go
out in the country and hold a
dozen protracted meetings this
hot weather. It will beat all the
springs and wells, from Arkansas
to Jack county. There unn,well-
spring of health in,t£ Active
exercise under a brush arbor will
cure the most inveterate dyspep-
tic. Try it.
A lad in Minnesota, who had
been reading the exploits of Jesse
James and “Billy the Kid, *' and
other worthless scoundrels of this
type, concluded he would go into
business in the same line. He
alined himself with a shotgun,
waylaid two surveyors, murdered
and robbed them, and started fer
the plains. He was overtaken and
hanged to a telegraph pole.
This cornea of reading the vile
literature, that is flooding the
country.
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One A. M. Yeager writes to the
Texas feaptist Herald from Bur-
net, Texas, that a Carapbellite by
the name of Dimmett has been
holding a meeting there, and
preaching some very outlandish
doctrine. Now, this Baptist scribe
is surely in error. We know this
Mr. Dimmitt, and he is no Camp-
bellite. He opposes Campbellism
and Baptistism and all other un-
scriptural* isms. Nor. does he deny
the power of the Holy Spirit in
the conversion of the sinner, as
this scribe affirms, nor that the
sinner has the right to pray to
God. Mr. Yeager must have been
asleep when he heard Mr. Dim-
mett preaeh.
A lawyer named Walser has
founded a town called Liberal, in
Missouri, which he intends shall
be inhabited only by persons who
reject the Bible. No one who be-
lieves in Christianity can own
property in the place. This is a
test community. It has been
charged by Christians that infi-
dels would not live in a country
whore the Bible is rejected. If
they succeed in building up the
city ef Liberal, and maintaining
law and order and society each as
a decent infidel can endure, this
argument will be met We pre-
dict the earl/ downfall of Liber-
al. Either corruption and crime
will cause its overthrew or the
Bible will be introduced.
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Cooper, Texas, July 8,1882.
Bro. Burnett:
Bro. S. Whitney, who has been
reported as baptizing the milk-
and-water Baptists of Upshur
county, is low with us at Old
Union, and the impression is that
many Baptists here will turn
milk-and-water.
Respectfully,
J. C. White.
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Bro. Burnett:
Please announce the success
of our meeting at an arbor
near Robin's school-house, which
closed first Lord's day in July,
with seven additions—three from
the Baptists and four by confes*
sion. Seven others took member-
ship, and much good seed
sown in honest hearts,
meeting was conducted by
Rutledge and McAlister.
• ’ A.D. Bracelett.
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Pella, Wise County, Texas.
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Dear Bro. Burnett :
We closed last night a meeting
of nine days with the brethren
here. Two were baptized last .
night after preaching. Twenty-
six made the confession, several
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In a company of ministers on
a railroad train the other day, ji
presiding elder said to the editor
of the Messenger, tempting him,
“Can a surveyer run out a valid
line when line begins in the
water?” The editor modestly re-
plied: “I will answer your ques-
tion by relating a circumstance:
My religious career began when I
was eight days old, m the sprink-
ling of a few drops of .water on
my head by a Methodist preacher.
I then had no faith, n© repent-
ance, no knowledge, no will, no
nothing—but a little water. My
Methodist line commenced in the
water, and I do not think it was a
valid line! I have rubbed it out
and commenced anew. Is your
question answered?"
If mistakes occur in the Mes-
senger occasionally of late, the
circumstances of the case must
be offered in extennation. The
editor has necessarily been ab-
sent much of the time for a
month, and will continue to be
absent for a month or two to
come—and writing editorials in a
hurry, ©r on a railroad train, or
in a crowd at *a depot, or while
conducting a protracted meeting,
and sending copy a hundred
miles by mail, has its disadvanta-
ges. Oar printers are Sts faithful
and as expert as the average, in
fact they are abeve average, but
not being so well acquainted with
theological terms and scriptural
quotations as the editor himself,
some errors will creep in. We
offer these remarks in palliatien
of any deficiencies that may be
observable in the ooluwms the
present summer.
were added by. letter, and one or
two from the Baptists. The
9ause of Christ is progressing in
this county. There are several
active preachers in this part of
the county, among whom Bro.
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Castleman is one of: ^fche most
zealous; He is one of our most
successful preachers. The re-
sults of this meeting are due to
his labors, before and daring the <
meeting. Hie Warm exhortations
after each discourse persuaded
many to obey the gospel.
I shall not teach the institute
at Sulpher Springs. Have asked
to be relieved. A. Clark.
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Bro. Burnett:
The camp-meeting began at tlie
appointed time. Had a fine au-
dience on Lord’s day. Rain be-
gan to fall at night and kept As
from preaching. We endeavor-
ed to run the meeting against all
odds, but showers kept coming *
until the brethren who had camp-
ed concluded to go heme. Mauy
who intended coining did not got
to come at all. The prospect was
so bad we eoneluded to dismiss
the meeting Wednesday .night
and wait for fair weather and try
it again. We are not discour-
aged. Bro. Armstrong did good
preaching and left a geed im-
pression on the minds of many.
Good seed was sown, bat no visi-
ble resalts. Bro. A. expresses a
willingness to try it over.. “Try,
try again,” is a good motto.
W. L. Thurman.
July 17th, 1882.
A brother was asked how high
the religious mercury was in his
church. He replied, “40 in the
shade.”> That is a lukewarm*
church. ' But some churches get
down to freeze.
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The human ereed question is
giving trouble to the religious
professors of theology in
schools.
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Burnett, Thomas R. Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 26, 1882, newspaper, July 26, 1882; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth913078/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.