The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-07-13

Prntecost"
saa rnn,isco. july !. Speaking of
Ta Teaih Legion Mr Wells had t4Is
90 say
Some men rray ror tho millenlIm
and don't give a mill toward ~ coming.
Eudevor.rr. 10. charo, wheels 5r the
millennium are mad Of consecralci dol-
lars We take an Interest In missions.
hut $40 keep Our money or iaterc,t Why
Endetyorers every year tho United
States pays twice hs much for cofscts
ta rqur.s. tn. ute out of folks as can
hc squeezed out Tor foreign missions.
And now what depends upoa ,h, Lords
tenth" Th, church depends upon q.
Christian Eudrayor wotk depends unon
"I.ogk 90 the burden or thu niaC-ten,hs
lud OF tbc oue-jcuth g. ihc ;en,h toe
much for you 20 giyre have read OF q
man with soul 30 small that yoa could
p,ko The little end o. nothing and w!i'ple
it down To fine point and with It
push on, m, p.th Of the invisible hair
and draw that mans soul through the
boil, such man mignt call tenth
too much. bu, surely no Christian En-
tcayour"
Row John Davies, OF New York,
Mechanics pavilion:
"sysicmauc and proporuountc si"ing
70 God" was ,hc subjec. OF Mr Davis,
who said, In part;
"immcnsc eSertions are made every
year In the community that / represent
TO raise the money necessary to support
our foreign missions. all sorts OF leg!t-
innate cxpcdicnts are resortcd 10. and
then we frequently fail Now. II each
one OF our 10000 members could be In
duccd to give TWO cents per week IS
this cause for which Jesus Christ gave
himself We have at the end OF ne fiscal
year "a handsome surplus In our treasury.
And our church authorities P-c beginning
to realize tho immense possibilities which
ARE embodied this systematic iiea, aid
in our dcnominational papers, our eccle-
slastical courts. our religious services.
the subject Is being preseated with grow
ing frequency and increasing fervor. and
these are signs OF hope not only because
oC the financial power It must give the
church. but also because It brings as
back to the scrlp,urol method OF Civ
ing
The Rev Thomas O Grouse, Of Balt-
more. at woodwards pavilion, spoke Of
Missionary Investments" as follows:
This uimtarian age is likely to ask
concerning any enterprise In which il
Is invited 10 invest, Does It pay?' This
question is sometimes asked concerning
missionary policy To this it may De
sufficient TO reply as Or Picraon sug-
gcs,s. 1t always pays to obey author
ity, especially when authority is su-
prone want to lead the minds of
young people to think Of the spiritual
returns that shall come to them as they
give thought sympathy, prayer, money,
personal service and sacrifice to the d.
vine work o; worldwide evungclisn. II
will be- found t~uy in the highest and
most blessed sense Give ana it shall
bc given unto you.
Rev j. Wilbur Chapman, Of Philddel-
phia. at Woodwards pavilion, spoke as
follows:
1--WE are living In the dispensation OF
the spirit He Is the vicar OF Christ aad
the life Of the body, which is the church,
Tn, lesson may be taught in contrast.
That which does not grieve the spirit
dccpens the spiritual life. That which
IL to I've avoided is the cause Of his being
grltved or all the cpistles that ever
carnb from the heart of the great Apostle
Paul. this letter to the Ephesians seems
to me about the sweetest and best.
IL is the epstle in which we md the
heavenly places mentioned so many
times: il is the spistle in which We find
so many different names applied TO our
Father in heaven, and | suppose 1t is the
letter In which we find the very highest
spiritiaI truth presented in all the Bible,
But while we find the very highest idea
Of spiritual things, We also md the
Apostle Paul turning to give us nstruc-
tons concerning the most ordinary af-
fairs OF daily life.
The spirit OF God is grieved whenever
we allow our old nature to triumph over
our spiritual nature. For God has prom
is,,l In his word to set us free from the
law OF sin and death"
MRS MAVERICKS RELEASE