Religious News and Counsel
By Editor
WE call the special attention of all our readers to the article of Sister White, entitled "My People Have Committed Two Evils." It should be read and reread. THE article in the Editorial department on "The Sunday Closing of the Midwinter Fair," will be followed by another in the same line, either next week or the week following. THE two leading articles in our Doctrinal department are both instructive and helpful. This present article by Elder Corliss will be followed by another from his pen, on the "Mystery of Iniquity in Our Own Country." GENERAL BOOTH has issued orders to the Salvation Army in regard to the cholera. In addition to advice in regard to food, etc., he says: "As far as possible keep a restful mind and a conscience void of offense to God and man. Be ready at all hours of the day and night, as you have opportunity, to minister to the sick and dying. Prove yourselves to be that which you profess to be,—the servants of Jesus Christ and of all men." IN view of the soul-stirring and solemn events taking place in the physical, religious, and political world, and in view of the fact that Divine Inspiration has predicted these very things as evidences of the last days, as precursors of the coming King, does it not behoove every Christian to awake and give himself soul and body to God and his service as never before? "Awake, arise, or be forever fallen." God calls all to "awake," and to "arise and shine." Are you doing it? A PRESS dispatch announces that petitions are pouring in upon the Senate and House in vast numbers praying for the repeal of the Chinese exclusion law. Without prejudice to the right of petition, or to the righteousness of the cause espoused, there is danger in the precedent of "petitions signed by 8,000 ministers" being counted as "representing more than 125,000 members," as stated in the dispatch. A minister's petition cannot legitimately represent anybody but himself. There has been so much of this representative phase of petitioning Congress in the last half dozen years, and the evil tendency is so marked, that this mode of expression is coming to be regarded as somewhat suspicious. It is decidedly unreliable.