Significant Items by F. A. B.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 16, 1871

Significant Items.

By F. A. B.

PROTESTANTISM AND CATHOLICISM JOINING HANDS.

The Congregationalist says that the following queries have a “local suggestion, but a general application.” How many hundreds of dollars have been given by Congregational church members (and also Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, etc., Protestants not church members) to help build the costly Catholic church in this village? (Name not given).

How many will leave their Protestant places of worship on the —th inst. to witness the consecration ceremonies of said Catholic church? How many Congregational, Baptist, and Methodist church members have their names “immortalized” by being cut in prominent stones in or about said church, or pressed in the glass of its windows, etc., in return for gifts to help build said church?

In an article “Duty to Self,” the orthodox organ says, “Is it possible that while attending to other parts of the vineyard, we are in danger of neglecting our own? * Consider the exigency for a moment; the ignorant millions of our present population, old and young; the threatening attitude of Romanism, the insidious advance of infidelity; the demoralizing character of a large portion of popular literature; the fearful condition of our great cities and the contamination spreading therefrom to the rural districts; the prevalent political and commercial corruption of the day. Add to this the constant opening of new territory by the extension of great routes of travel; the immense influx of foreigners, both at the east and the west, and all the possibilities of annexation of neighboring States, held out by the coming fifty years and we have a

PICTURE WHICH IS ACTUALLY ALARMING.

And when in addition to all this we recall our belief that in Christian America lie the means which may be used to the saving of the world, we have a combination of features which make the moral necessities of this country second to those of none others under heaven.

EVIL DOES WRAP THE GLOBE AS A CONFLAGRATION,

but is it for us to be so busy fighting the flames abroad as to let the flames gain upon us at home?”

“The Missouri Democrats have a secret organization called the ‘Order of the Crusaders.’ Its name would signify that its object is to restore the South to slavery.”—New Hampshire Telegraph.

The Boston Journal says, “The Congregationalist has a very sensible article on the substitution of the ‘Bible service’ for one of the usual sermons. In our view the change would be a great improvement. People are ‘preached’ almost to death, and after all they have not much added to their stock of Bible truth.”

CAN THE “HEATHEN OF BROOKLYN” OR “BOSTON” BE REACHED BY THE GOSPEL?

“A correspondent of the Reflector writing from Brooklyn, estimates that 37,000 people in that city go to church every Sunday and 75,000 go to the 1635 grog shops every day in the week. Truly, a sad picture. Is there no power in the gospel to reach these 75,000 and lead them to a better life? The Brooklyn churches raise thousands of dollars a year to send the gospel to the heathen. They believe they can be converted. Can the Brooklyn heathen be converted by the same means? or the Boston heathen?”—Boston Journal.

THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES.

“The Turkish Government has just ordered 32,000 Winchester repeating rifles of the company at New Haven, and 500 breech loading mountain and field pieces of the system of L. W. Broadwell.”—Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. F. A. B. New Ipswich, N. H.