Home Life, Music, and Temperance
By Editor
We trust that Sister White's article, "Sacred Duties of Home Life," will receive the careful reading which the importance of the subject and the excellence of the article demand. It is thought that when quotations are formally introduced and set in different type from the article in which they are quoted, it will not be necessary to use quotation marks. We shall be just as careful, however, to quote as accurately as we have in the past. It is hoped that our musical readers will peruse and take home the lesson designed to be conveyed by the story in our Home Circle, entitled "A Consecrated Choir." God wishes to use singing for the conversion and upbuilding of souls. It is well for our singers to ask: "For whose glory do I sing? For whose pleasure do I sing? What is the object to be sought?" FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance worker, has joined interests with Keeley, of bichloride-of-gold-cure fame, the gold in question coming out of the pockets of his patients, and entering into that of the said Keeley. Mr. Murphy is quoted as saying: "I feel stronger in my work than I ever did before; Dr. Keeley is to assist me; I am to assist him." Mr. Murphy has been called the "gospel temperance worker." Now the gospel is glad tidings of a free salvation. The good things in it are freely given by God's grace, but Dr. Keeley's cure seems to be a secret cure for revenue only. It will be interesting to note how gospel temperance work and "temperance" work for revenue only will harmonize. We believe Mr. Murphy's zeal to be better than his judgment. REV. J. B. DALY, a minister of the Baptist denomination, a former priest of Rome, said recently, in the First Baptist Church in this city, that in Protestant America we can exercise our freedom in religion "with none to interfere." This we presume was once thought to be the case, but that day is past when the words are true as a present fact. Just a little before the words were uttered four Christian men, whom the prosecuting attorney called "good citizens," were working in a chain gang in the streets of Paris, Tenn., for no other offense than obedience to the command of God in Ex. 20:8-11, after the example of prophet, apostle, and our Lord Jesus Christ. They worked in their fields to the disturbance of no one on Sunday. In fact, the conviction of some of them could only be secured by their own testimony and the testimony of their brethren. And now word comes that fourteen others have been indicted for the same "crime." Is this "free" America? ONE of the prominent religious movements in connection with the World's Fair at Chicago is the erection of an international Sunday-school building. The enterprise was somewhat delayed during discussion of the Sunday-closing question, but that proposition is now deemed to be settled in favor of closing, and the work has received a new impetus. It is now too late to secure a site inside the inclosure, but some of the leaders of the movement claim that an outside location, adjacent to the grounds, would be better. It is proposed to raise $50,000 by contributions from Sunday schools, young people's societies, churches, and individuals, to carry out the project. The principal design is to illustrate methods of teaching, and other features of Sunday school work that may be suggested.