Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 29, 1882 Page: 1 of 8
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TAKING THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH IS THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT.
[In Advance.
Vol. VIII.
BONHAM, TEXAS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1882.
No. 40.
£|)e Christian Messenger
Is published weekly by
THOS. R BURNETT,
BON BAH, - - - TEXAS
Terms—per annum, - - - - $2.00
six months, - - - $1.2o
Obituaries exceeding ten lines in length
mill be charged for at the rate of two dol-
lars and fifty cents cuth.
N. R—Entered at the Post-office at
Bonham, Texas, as second class matter.
Office of publication. North Timber St.
Is it right to stop saving souls
in the winter?
We will continue fihe debate as
fast as Dr. Ray’s articles are re-
ceived.
Prof. H. Turner has become one
of the editors of the Apostolic
Times.
One grand-daughter of Alex.
Campbell is a member of the
Episcopal church.
Midway orphan school has about
eighty students this session, and
is in a prosperous condition.
Some one has observed that
poverty,idlenessAnd honesty rare-
ly travel together.
C. C. Cline <fe Co. promise to
have the note edition of Popular
Hymns ready for the public by
the JL5th of December.
Ben tacky university has two
hundred students the present
session. The Bible college has
sixty students.
John A. Sidener, in describing
BroJF. D. Srygley, whom he met
at Louisville, says he is a “deep
brunette, but comely.”
Bro. John T. Poe says he has
yet to hear of the first preacher
whose preaching has been to him a
financial success. Yet some par-
simonious people object to paying
preachers.
We second Bro. Srygley’s sug-
gestion, that every Sunday-school
in Texas send a Christmas gift to
Thos. Moore, of Waco, for the
orphan home at Thorp Springs.
What would be more befitting or
praise-worthy ?
“Is not the gospel free? Is not
the water of life free?” asked a
miserly man who was called on
for money to defray a minister’s ex-
penses. “Yes, the water of life is
free, but (be pitcher that brings it
must be paid for!”
Now is the time for the friends
of the Messenger to take hold and
extend its circulation in all parts
of the state. Let every reader
consider himself a called-and-sent
agent to raise a club. We want
one thousand new subscribers the
present winter.
There are, on the Messenger’s
delinquent list, of several years
ago, several hundred names of
subscribers who received the pa-
per from six months to two years,
but never paid for it. We have
dnnntd on these accounts until
we are tired, and do not
know what else to do with them
nnless we publish the list iu the
paper. Possibly such a proceed-
ing as this will bring answers to
ouj: postal card dons.
Maj. Penn is going to spend the
winter in California.
Christians should not be wise
above what is written, but they
should strive to be wise up to
what is written. Many fall short
of this.
Pennsylvania has more Presby-
terians than any other state in the
union.
The Apostolic Times is drnped
in mourning for the death of Mrs.
Emma V. Cozine, wife of the pro-
prietor of that paper, and daugh-
ter of J. W. Cox. She died of
consumption on the 9th, in the 36th
year of her age.
Twenty-three thousand British
soldiers were punished last year
for drunkenness.
The newspapers state that the
“Christian church” in TerreHaute,
Ind.. has a new pipe organ, and
that it “begins a new era in the
history of the church.” Yery
likely. Organs sometimes begin
an era of strife, contention and
ruin.
A brother in Arkansas says
there are some brethren in his con-
gregation who can not spare the
money to pay for a religious pa-
per, but they can spare it foi a po-
litical one, and then they stay at
home on Sunday to read it. Til ere
are brethren of the same kind in
Texas.
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Bro. Srygley has located
sanctum in an upper room on a
high hill in Savannah, Tenn.,
where he can see the broad-rolling
Tennessee river for six miles up
and down. We shall according-
ly look for some stately editorials
iu the Guide from that high perch.
A writer in the Old-Path Guide
parses a lazy, no-working Chris-
tian as follows: He is in the sub-
junctive mood, because his work-
ing is doubtful; first person, for
his main object is self; plural
number, for he has plenty of com-
pany; objective, case for he gener-
ally objects to the work that others
do.
As good a paper as the Chris-
tian-Evangelist speaks of “the
pastor” of a church. Does not
our contemporary know that there
is no such officer in the church of
Christ? • There are bishops or
pastors iu the church, but no
“pastor.” By inventing a thing
that is unknown to the Scriptures,
you obtain a language that is un-
known to the Scriptures.
The colored folks have caught
the contagion. A colored Baptist
by the name of Cook and a color-
ed Christian by the name of Elli-
son, both of Texas, are to engage
in debate. The propositions are
a little que^r. “ Getting religion
at the mourning bench is script
al,” and, “ The perfect latf^ of
liberty was abolished at the death
of Christ,” are the two Baptist af-
firmations.
Some one say3 that we should
not measure men by their Sunday
conduct, but by their every-day
life.
Mrs. Sarah E. Atkinson, of
Memphis, Tenn., has given fifty
thousand dollars to Vanderbilt
university.
Moody and Saukey are holding
two meetings a day in Paris, and
tfie Salvation Army is also laying
siege to the wicked place.
The German proverb, “If I rest
I rust,” applies to other things
besides the key. It applies to
Christians.
That was a good piece of advice
given to a son by his father:
“Have no friends that you are
ashamed to bring home with you.”
The library of Dr. Thos. O.
Summers, consisting of thirteen
hundred volumes, was sold a few
days ago for $350. Dr. Hay good
bought it.
At Peoria, the home of Mr. In-
gersoll, during the month of May
over three hundred thousand
bushels of grain were distilled in-
to spirits.
One of the apostles cautions us
against being “a busy-body in
other men’s matters.” Many
Christians forget this part of the
creed.
“Jesse James, the Bandit King,”
is a new play that has appeared
in the theaters. It drew oyer two
thousand people the first night in
St. Louis. This indicates the
taste of the mass of theater-goers.
John Bigelow says of the three
million people who inhabit Mexico,
that three-f onrths of them are In-
dians, and two-thirds of them can
not read and write, and never had
an ancestor who could, and never
slept in a bed or wore a shoe in
their lives.
Chas. Spurgeon, son of the Lon-
don preacher, stated at Boston the
other day that no one had set
wine before him since his arrival
in America. He expressed glad-
ness thereat. Preachers are fre-
quently excused from temptation—
because they are preachers.
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A Pittsburg man, it is said, has
discovered a process by which a
good article of whisky can be
The pyramid of pueblo in Mex-
8 said to be larger than the
^reat pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.
TheEgyptian pyramid covers four-
teen acres of ground, while the
Mexican covers forty-five, and
was originally six hundred feet
high. It is made of sun-dried
bricks.
Ireland’s drink bill is $50,000,-
made in two hours after the corn
has been put on to boil.. And
more than this, the liquor can he
hardened into a solid cake, so that
a man cau carry it around iu his
pocket! Only think of a man car-
rying delirium tremens around in
his vest pocket, and taking a pinch
when he feels like it!
Her rent bill is $25,-
year. Yet Ireland
000 a year.
000,000 a
groans under the rent bill, and de-
lights in her drink bill. She
loves her saloon keepers, and
abominates her landlords, yet the
saloon-keepers are the harder
masters of the twv>, and enslave
soul and body!
The Cincinnati Gazette esti-
mates that there is one murder
every three days in Hamilton
county, Ohio, and that whisky is
the cause of it.
There is still much superstition
in the'* world. The newspapers
say that Alex. H. Stephens refus-
ed to be inaugurated on Friday,
because it is an unlucky day.
The Mormons %have selected
Chattanooga, Tenn., as the head-
quarters of their operations in the
south.
It takes but a short time to sow
the seed, but a long time tofrenp
the harvest. An hour ofksinful
seed-sowing will sometime^ re-
quire a life of wretchedness in
gathering.
An editor out west took sick,
and his foreman inserts d a notice
in the paper, requesting all good
paying subscribers to mention
him in their prayers. The others
need not do so, since God“heareth
not sinners.”
A colored preacher did not go
far wrong when he read, “Judge
not the Lord by feeble mints."
And his congregation did not per-
haps miss it far when they sang,
“Return ye rancid sinners home.”
Gen. Booth, the commander of
the “Salvation Army,” has dis-
missed three of his captains be
cause they accepted gold watches
as tes’imonials of appreciation by
admiring audiences.
Goeth says, “Man is not born to
solve the problem of the universe,
but to find out what he has to do.”
Some men never solve this prob-
lem—never find out what they
have to do—and never do any-
thing.
A newspaper editor, referring
to the recent victory of the party
which espoused anti-prohibition
in several of the northern states,
says: “Whisky is on top, and don’t
you forget it.” Indeed. But the
people are on the bottom, and will
continue to be there until they
learn to love principle more than
party.
The Texas Baptist continues-
to call the first day of the week
“the Sabbath.” The first day of
the week is not the Sabbath, and
is not so called in the Scriptures.
But the Texas Baptist does not go
by the Scriptures. Calling the
church of Christ the “Baptist
church,” and the first day of the
week the Sabbath day, are speci-
mens of its departures.
A Brooklyn Sunday-school was
singing, “I want to be an angel,
and with the angels stand,” when
the teacher noticed a little boy of
six summers that was not singing.
“Don’t you want to be an angel
too, Willie?” “No, I wants to be
a circus-rider!”
The entire Presbvterian church
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only averages three and a hair in-
fant baptisms per annum to each
minister. This is a poor showing
for the babies, but the same
church only averages half this
number of adult baptisms to each
minister.
At the recent Methodist confer-
ence at Bentonville, Ark., the re-
ports showed that a number of
preachers with families had re-
ceived less than one hundred dol-
lars each for the year’s labor.
That is bad for Arkansas—and for
the preachers.
A.*J. Holt, iu the Texas Bap-
tist, says* “ There is a constant
tendency, and I think, a danger-
ous one, among us to literalize
the Scriptures!” In other words,
it is dangerous to allow the Scrip-
tures to mean what they say!
The tendency of Baptists to spir-
itualize the Scriptures, or figure
them all away, is what is the mat-
ter with that people. But it would
be dangerous to some pet theo-
ries to put a literal construction
on some texts of Scripture.
Prof. Whitsitt, who has been
lecturing on Campbellism and
Mormonism for the benefit of the
young Baptist preachers in the
college at Louisville, Ky., has de-
clined to debate with G. W. Yan-
cey, editor of the Old-Path Guide.
The professor can debate better
when he has no opponent.
A writer in the Texas Baptist
says that people who have only a
head religion can be easily chang-
ed by an argument. If that be
true, these folks called “Camp-
bellites ” ought to he changed
easily, for they are accused of
having nothing but head religion.
Yet they rarely change. But
Baptists, who have never been ac-
cused of having much head relig-
ion, change by thousands every
year. It is estimated that 6ix
thousand annually join the ranks
of the reformation in the United
States.
At a Baptist meeting in Hunt
county, Texas, at the close of a
sermon a prominent brother aioee
and inquired if there was no way
by which the Baptists coaid get rid
of their unscriptural name. He
said that he was “surrounded by
a set of the followers of A. Camp-
bell,’’and they were “always ding-
dong-ing him about his name,” and
he “would rather be afflicted with
the seven year itch than bothered by
them,” and if it would be no trans-
gression of Baptist principles to
return to the Bible name, he
would suggest that this church do
so without delay! The preacher
gave the suffering brother a hard
look, and told him he had better
go join the Campbellites. Anoth-
er brother proposed to prefer char-
ges of heresy against him. What
with his seven-year-itch affliction,
and the charges of heresy, and
the torturings of his conscience,
the brother has a hard time of it.
Possibly he may finally persevere.
The Christian Quarterly Re-
view has completed its first vol-
ume, and on the first day of J an.,
1883, will commence a new year.
It will be printed on fine book pa-
per, and contain 160 pages of orig-
inal matter from our best writers.
It has been a success, and will con-
tinue to be a success, under the
management of Dr. Herndon. Price
$2.00 per year, in advance; single
copy, 50 cents. .Address E. >V.
Herndon, Columbia, Mo.
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Burnett, Thomas R. Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 29, 1882, newspaper, November 29, 1882; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth913644/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.