The Oklahoma Christian. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1899 Page: 3 of 8
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The Oklahoma Christian
Buy your BINDER TWINE F 1 Hirer hi
--and MACHINE OIL of... E. L. III! Mkl
The Hardware and Implement Man,
S ^AGuthrie, Okla.X
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Quite a number of our active
ministers are taking part in the
Christian Endeavor I nion Con-
vention at Enid this week.
Get some member of your con-
gregation to make an active
canvass for the Oklahoma
Christian. See clubingrates.
that that preacher has since
moved.
Brethren,if these initials
are a little confusing to
you, take warning. Better
come to the convention and
learn not only what they
mean but catch their spirit as
well.
A Message to Preachers,
Bear Brother: You have been
receiving several copies of the
Oklahoma Christian for the
past six months. The object in
sending them to you has been
two-fold. First that you might
This is a good time to show j j£QOW ()[ the work in our new
your friendship for "the Okla- and intei.estmg territory. Sec-
homa Christian and indirectly ond) that yQU mi{rht i,andcopies
the cause of missions in Okla- to others that they might know
lioma. How? By sending in a , Qf the WQrk
few subscriptions at fifty cents N(JW thg publishers are ask.
each. inu- whether you are enough iu-
The excursion over the popu- i terested in this important and
Frisco Line to Eureka Springs, necessary work to do something
June 15th. affords an opportun-1 to make possible its continuance
ity to all to see a generous por- and improvement. You will no-
tion of our country at a small tice the subscription price is
cost. Only $3.00 from Okla- fifty per year. To make our
publishing department a real
success we must have one thous-
and .subscribers by November 1st.
Are you willing to join hands
with us in securing them?
If you will kindly secure fouc
subscribers at fifty cents each
the uoik. local an(j send in the two dollars, you
homa City
The month of .June and prob-
able the month of July will be
spent in a tour of churches.
Some interests are being per-
mitted to lag a little. All de-
partments of
and general, should receheoui wj^]_ receive the paper one year
attention all the time. for your'trouble. Please read
Not long since two preachers this and act at once !
were engaged in conversation. As far as we know we have
One deplored the fact that he was the only paper published by a
making no converts, that not state or territorial board. We
a single person had been moved : can if we will, make itsearnings
to obedience by his preaching, support an evangelist in the
lield. Will you. help?
In the same conversation the
other brother, who is quite suc-
cessful, spoke of the Ladies'
Aid Society; "The Ladies' Aid
Society," said the ineffective
preacher, "What is that?" The
successful preacher said, "If
i ,4. iriver, on section 24, township It),
you don't know you ought to > ' «
range 1;j, in Dewey county,Okla-
Notice «f a Religious Meeting
All the Disciples of Christ are
invited to a mass meeting to be
held on June 24-25, at the mouth
of Smith Creek on the Canadian
homa. This call is to all Chris-
Preparing for a Meeting,
McIvinlky, June 5.—1 have
just returued from preaching
appointments at Deavenport,
and Linden. We have in con-
templation a protracted meet-
ing to begin at Deavenport, July
5th. Lord's day the elder of the
church, Brother W. M. Harper,
wrote to Dallas, Texas, for a
preacher to come and assist,
also Brother L. J. Guest, of
Springvale, Oklahoma. We
hope to have a good time and
cordially invite all who could
meet us on that day to come
and join us in the work for tlie
Master. The meeting will be
located about three times south
east of the post office, near
Brother W. M. Harper's claim.
I will preach Sunday at Spring-
vale, I have second Lord's day
there. "I am the true vine and
my Father is the husbandman,
every branch in me that beareth
not fruit he taketh away and
every branch that beareth fruit
he puryeth it th.tl it may bring
forth more fruit, "John 15: 1-2.
,J. M. Samuels.
fail. This is A. D. 1899."'
Our Convention, tians everywhere and especially
Our convention at Oklahoma to preachers. Come everybody.
City, September 12-14, will rec- We have a splendid place well
ognize all departments of our suited for the purpose. Come
work. She Sunday school; the j and bring your baskets. Bas-
C. W. B. M.; and the O. C. M. S. ket dinner on Sunday. This
We heard of one of our preach call is made by Howell Smith
ers who not long ago was hand-j and others of the Christian
ed an announcement for the Y. faith and order.
P. S. C. E. He slowly spelled
.i • Go to Eureka Springs, June
the initials out, ana then witn . rm . ... . !, i ,
1 . rm loth. This will be the grandest
some embarassment. said, lie atTair of the season. $5.00 for
Y-l'-S-C-E, now what is that? the round trip, Frisco Line from
It may be no surprise to state Oklahoma City.
Depew's Confession.
Hon. Chauncy DePew, who
has been elected United States
Senator from New York, recent-
ly addressed the Nineteenth
Century club of New York.
Some of the speakers who pre-
ceeded him had given expression
to skeptical views concerning
the Bible and Christianity.
When the great after-dinner
orator arose, he said:
"I never felt so absolutely
out of place. I am a practical
man, overwhelmed by the cares
of business. It i« exceedingly
difficult for me to get on the
plane of philosophical thought.
I believe in the Old Testament
and in the New Testament pre-
cisely as they are presented by
Christianity. 1 am in antagon-
ism to Mr. Wakeman, who dis-
misses the matter entirely as a
mass of legend, and with Pro-
fessor Fiske, who accepts it
with an interpretation entirely
his own, It was the atheism of
France who taught license for
liberty, and led to the French
Revolution. Where are those
old philosophies and philoso-
phers? They are dead while
Christianity survives.The school
of atheism led to despair. Ma-
terialism soon found that every
violation of the moral law could
not go on consistently with its
teachings.
"So Pantheism and Positivism
have followed only to be des-
troyed, and now we have the
school of Humanity and the
Cosmic philosophy coming clos-
er to the borders of Christianity
as expounded by Jim Fiske.
They tell us there is no Creator,
only Cosmic dust. Who made
the dust? There is only proto-
plasm, indeed! Who made pro-
toplasm? They tell us of evo-
lution from dust to monkey,and
then to man, but all the scient-
ists have never found the miss-
ing link. The simple gospel of
the Son of God, preached by
twelve fishermen, has survived
the centuries, and outlives all
other philosophies of eighteen
hundred years. — Union Gospel
He irs.
Saying Grace.
Asking a blessing upon food
before meals was a universal
custom among the Jews, and
was practised both by Christ
and the apostles (Luke 22:17-19;
20: 30; Acts 27:35). It is a most
appropriate and helpful custom,
and should be universal. Its
spirit sanctities the act of eat-
ing, transfigures it, even more
than bright conversation ren-
ders it "the feast of reason,and
the How of soul." It is held by
the Jews that he who pertakes
of anything without giving
thanks, acts as if he were steal-
ing from God. Why especially
over food? Because food is the
basis of life, the source of sup-
lily over all other things, so
that all are included under it.
The formula' in such cases was
commonly short and simple, like
our own, such as "May God, the
ever blessed One, bless what he
has given us."—Ellicott.
Stewardship,
An old writer once said that
children, relations, friends, hon-
ors, houses, lands and endow-
ments. the goods of nature and
fortune,nay,even of grace itself,
are only lent. It is our misfor-
tune to fancy they are given.
We start, therefore, and are
angry when the loan is called
in. We think ourselves masters
when we are only stewards; and
forget that to each of us it will
one day be said, "Give an ac-
count of thy stewardship, for
thou mayest be no longer stew-
ard. —Missio nary Voice.
Arkansas Lumber Co,
Lumber, Sash, Doors, Shingles, Lath, Lime, Cement,
Vilas and Division, GUTHRIE, OKI
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Boen, J. B. The Oklahoma Christian. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1899, newspaper, June 8, 1899; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc305672/m1/3/?q=%22Guthrie+%28Okla.%29+--+Newspapers.%22: accessed July 2, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.