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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 22, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 10.

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By F. A. Buzzell

THE following resolutions relating to the observance of Sunday, were passed at the recent New England Methodist Conference held at Roxbury Mass. We add the italics.
“Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to the support of the New England theory of the Christian Sabbath, by the influence of a positive example, by Christian influence of public prayer and preaching, by petition, and by the political influence of citizenship in the caucus, at the polls, and in the Legislatures.”
“Resolved, That we have a right to the Lord’s day as a religious institution, fundamental in a Christian State, and to legislative and police protection from any and all practices which would disturb our sanctuary worship or our quiet on that day.”
“Resolved, That it is a sin against God and man for us to oblige, ask, invite, or allow, a fellow-creature to secularize the Lord’s day for our pleasure or profit, etc.”
Readers of the REVIEW, and those who have heard the third angel’s message proclaimed, we think, cannot help seeing in these resolutions, sentiments that tend rapidly to the completion of the “image to the beast.” Rev. 13:14.
The Rev. Dr. Ewer says, “I still point to the patent fact that every Roman Catholic nation in the world, and that every Protestant nation in the world has become riddled through and through with skepticism, and he is a bold man who will deny this fact. I still point to the fact, therefore, that Christianity as a doctrinal system, is, under both the Roman Catholic and Protestant presentiments of it, a patent failure—that it has lost its hold upon the enlightened world. It is no use to close our eyes to this enormous wreck.”
The condition of the religious world does not prove Christianity a failure, but rather attests the truth of the Saviour’s words that the way to life is narrow, and few find it, and of Paul that the form of godliness will supplant the power in the last days. The failure is on the part of the learned ministry who have cried, “Peace and safety,” when destruction is impending for the abounding iniquity.
The Congregationalist says that Alexander Dumas, was the author of twelve hundred volumes and not one of them pure!
Butler, in his speech on the bill to suppress lawlessness in the South, says of the K. K. Klan, of North Carolina, “from the testimony before the Committee, of James E. Boyd, that the strength of the K. K. of that State was 40,000, that its object was to overthrow the reconstruction policy and disfranchise the negroes.”

WHY MARRIAGES ARE DECLINING.

“A. T. Stewart has sold twenty shawls this season [last] worth $3,000 each, and one worth $4,600. One woman ran up a bill for $20,000 at his store in a couple of months. At the recent ‘Charity Ball’ in this city (New York), a lady paid $10,000 for diamonds to shine in on the occasion.”
F. A. BUZZELL.