Notes on Current Topics
By Editor
THOSE who find the Sabbath day dragging heavily with their children may find some helpful suggestions in the article by Sister Adams in our Home department. ALL classes may find help in way of reproof for the past, perhaps, as well as suggestion for the future, in the article "Speaking the Truth in Love." There are other articles worthy of mention; in fact, all are. THOSE who fancy that so-called "sincerity" is all that is necessary to justify error may find some help by reading an article on that subject in another column. It treats upon a very important subject, and presents clearly the logical conclusions. WE present another contribution from our correspondent in Europe, Pastor H. P. Holser, who has excellent opportunity, keen observation, and good judgment to comprehend the drift of affairs, and to discern the things that differ. We hope to hear from him frequently. A NEW quarterly has been issued, entitled Sunday Reform Leaflets, edited by Rev. Edward Thomson, LL.D., published at Columbus, O. In a footnote the editor says, in regard to the spelling of Sunday, "We prefer the spelling Sonday, since it means day of the Son of God." It means nothing of the kind; and Dr. Thomson and every other scholar knows that it does not. Sunday means the day of the sun, and is pagan in origin and character. This is akin to the work of Roman Catholicism, which took the statues of the old Roman gods and named them after the apostles and holy men. ONE church in this city, the First Baptist, has dispensed with a paid choir. Three other churches, the most wealthy, are seriously contemplating doing likewise, on account of the hard times, but the paper states that "it would hardly do for one to abolish their paid choir unless the other two did." And why? Well, we have no trouble in that direction. We believe in congregational singing of scriptural hymns, led by those whose hearts have been washed in the blood of the Lamb; and, though not so finished at all times, it is, we believe, more pleasing to God. The professed church of Christ has yielded step by step to the principle of doing work by proxy, till she is now asking the State to do her work. In this is the evidence of her fall, but she does not know it.