The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-23

greetings, nice dinner and cheerful sun
shine prepared Us for the lectures, which
began in the evening before large as
sembIy, and continued, with increased
attendance, until Wednesday night,
when there was much greater crowd
than on any former occasion. The
meetings were held In a neat, well
flushed hall, belonging to Homer &
Sears, who has fitted il up over his
hardware store for public use as
church, lecture room or theater, accord
ing TO demand.
The town of GOldeudale, OF which we
made mention in former letter, con-
tains six hundred Inhabitants, instead
Of four hundred, as then stated. The
Methodisis have well established
church, over which Brother KOOntz is
placed this year as pastor. The Presby
terians are also making foOthOld for
church, their meetings-Rev. Mr.. Boyd,
pastor-being held in the hall for the
present. Prominent among the active
men Of the town is Captain Wash, who
is not only a successful day school
teacher, but an experienced Sunday
School Superintendent and temperance
worker. He is happily devoid Of the
piOus cant which has crept into some
religious circles here, aud which has
thereby made Pharisees and hypocrites
Of few silly men aud women, who
have "distigured their faces that they
may appear unto men to fast" until
they are sadly afflicted with kind Of
lantern jawed religion which they mis-
take for "holiness." "God, l thank
Thee that / am not as other men OF
women - especially the latter - are"
speaks out 10 every sentence they ex-
press. Such people are mentally, aud
In consequences morally, diseased. II
you want TO become a victim Of unjust
suspicious, hard bargains aud SANDER
Gus reports, just try to innoculate
"hOly" persons with a new aud neces
sary humanitarian idea. And, If you
quote such Scripture to them as "NO
man liveth aud sinneth not, or '.If any
man thinketh he sinneth not, he has
deceived himself and the truth is not IN
him" you had better be prepared to
stand from under the vials OF their
wrath. Such persons are not numerous
in Goldendale, though they're awful
noisy But they did our mission no
harm, though they attempted to block
ade the gospel of Liberty with Bibles,
not knowing, probably, and certainly
not caring, that Jesus came to "break
every yoke aud let the oppressed GO
free" There are many large hearted
citizens here, both men aud women,
and it is IA genuine pleasure to meet aud
know them. The religion that "vaunt-
eth not itself'' is immensely i'm the ma
jority, and the spirit Of Liberty is con-
stantly on the increase. The one news
paper is owned and managed by Mrs.
Seitz, herself a first-class typo, aud n
woman Of much energy aud business
tact. Times are very dull, there being
almost no money in circulation. The
town is in the midst Of farming coun-
try, and the low price of produce bears
hard upon people who are struggling
TO make themselves homes aud other
necessary improvements for private and
public good. There are three hotels,
the one where we find a pleasant home
being exceedingly well kept by the
Chappell family, consisting Of husband,
wife aud four daughters, who work to-
gether in admirable concord, aud of
course believe in equal rights.
Our work completed for the present IN
this pretty little town, We take the stage
for The DAlles, the route lying through
country Of much the same character as
that behind us, except that the timber
is left in the rear, and sage-brush al
most disappears, the bunch grass re-
naming. The view, when one first
catches sight Of the Columbia River
from the Klickitat Mountains, is a
seemingly illimitable exPanse Of hazy,
undulating distance. The many valleys
in the foreground, that seem to lie be-
meath your very feet as you go bowling
down the zigZag roads, are cheerful with
cultivation. The many lesser noun
tains, covered to the very tops with
shaggy coats Of bunch-grass, the far-ofl f.
greater heights, adorned with snowy /.
peaks and guarded well 10y purple clouds I
Of tfmber-mouutainse everywhere that I
slope away from their mighty attitudes /.
toward the rock-ribbed river, upon /
whose either side great bluffs Of ashy /
gray basaltic rock rise up abruptly, as 4
though saying to the eternal hills, /
"Thus far shalt thou come, and no /
farther" and to the mighty stream,
''Here shall thy proud waves be stayed"
the lakelets cleaning here and there /
in the hilly openings like liquid crystal. /
and the lazy, milk-white clouds that |
float in listless abandon around old /
hoary Hood, which from here looks
higher, broader and incOnceivabIy more |
majestic than from any other of the 4
thousand spots from which you may .
elsewhere view him-there! we're out
Of breath, and haven't told you half Of it.
-Four p. N, and we reach the country
home of our old friends, the Gilmores.
with whom we stop over for the night,
to find them fairly reveling in the
midst Of such peaches, melons, grapes /
aud apples As seem almost Indigenous to .
this erewhile apparent waste Of sand .
"a .Fs., L.