p. 253 | And still Another by Dudley Marvin Canright

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1875

And still Another.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

HERE is another item showing from which way the wind is blowing and what the storm is to be:—

“A Methodist clergyman proposes the formation of an “American League,” embracing three objects: “First, Universal Education; second, the Preservation of the Sabbath; third, Prohibition of the Traffic in Intoxicating Drinks.”

Yes, this Sabbath question comes out in the front of all the late plans of reform. The different religious sects are falling into line. They are beginning to blow the trumpet and beat up for volunteers. Let the conflict come, the sooner the better.

The Rev. Dr. Joseph Cummings, President of the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn., is reported in the Boston Transcript as saying at the recent Convention there to secure the religious amendment of the United States Constitution:—

“The essential law of nations is not founded upon conceded rights but upon God’s law. Some infidels, relying upon the negative character of the Constitution of this country, have set up a claim to the right of protection in their belief. He emphatically denied this. No man has any right to be an infidel, and no infidel has a right to any protection in the expression of his sentiments. If he attempted to propagate any ideas tending to subvert society—that is, Christian society—he ought to be crushed like a viper! We must recognize God in the spirit of our laws or else they will not stand, and he saw no objection to recognizing him in their letter.”

The real spirit of religious bigotry and persecution is very prominent in the above. It shows what that party will do when it obtains the power.

D. M. C.