WE AGREE AND DISAGREE by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 14, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 28.

WE AGREE AND DISAGREE.

By Editor

The American Statesman states the national situation in this way:—

"And whatever may be the immediate cause of our national troubles, the real cause, that which lies back of all others, is the reckless disregard of God, his law, and the institution of the sabbath, which to-day has become characteristic of both the government and the people of this land."

We like to agree with others when it is possible, and we agree that this is a fair statement of the case. From the same source comes this question:—

"Is not this nation setting itself in open and bold rebellion against God and his law?"

Yes, it certainly is doing that very thing. We are agreed again; and the Statesman is (perhaps unwittingly, but none the less certainly) one of the principal agents employed in the rebellion. Again it asks:—

"And is not the recent refusal even to consider the bill for a Christian amendment to the Constitution, in the same direction?"

No, it is not. Here we do not agree. That refusal was a very proper check on the unChristian movement to stamp out a prominent safeguard of the religious liberty of the people at large. But the introduction of that bill in Congress was in the direction of the "rebellion" specifically mentioned in the Statesman's complaint.