We urge our readers to more than glance at the article of Mr. Price on "The Evidence of Archeology." The facts presented and the argument itself are conclusive. Reading this, you will wish to read them all.
It is no matter of surprise to us that Dr. R. Heber Newton has announced himself a Spiritualist. It is the logical result of a belief in the soul's inherent immortality. All who continue to hold that belief, and live long enough, will be believers in Spiritualism, one of the marked delusions of the centuries, and especially of the last days.
A Good Day in Oakland.—For the first time in over four months the writer had the privilege and pleasure of meeting with the church in Oakland, January 7. While the Sabbath-school was smaller, the general congregation was not greatly diminished. Between the Sabbath-school and the service which followed one dear soul was buried in baptism. The celebration of the ordinances followed, and it was a good meeting indeed. May God bless our brethren in Oakland.
A Blessing, if True.—A news despatch from Buffalo, N. Y., reports that the Gratwick Pathological Laboratory of the University of Buffalo, which has for some years been investigating cancerous diseases, and has demonstrated "cancer to be a parasitic disease, infectious in type; that it has been transplanted and reproduced in perfectly healthy animals; that the reproduction has been true cancer, as it exists in the human, and that the disease in animals has been cured by the administration of a serum prepared in the Buffalo laboratory." All the cures thus far have been wrought upon mice. It is to be hoped that this is much more than Koch's reported cure of consumption.
A Good Day in Mountain View.—After a well-attended morning service in the forenoon, in the Pacific Press chapel, a large number repaired at 2.30 P.M. to the Baptist Church, where eleven—four brethren and seven sisters—were baptized by Pastor W. T. Knox. We are glad for this the first-fruits in our church here, and pray that there will be many more to follow. Our thanks are due to our Baptist friends for the use of their church and baptistry. May the blessing of God be with them.
A child of one and one-half years was recently brought to a New York infirmary for treatment. It had been compelled by its mother to labor day after day rolling little balls in paste to be used in certain millinery trimmings. After a few days' treatment the infant was taken back by its mother to continue its labors. The mother saved fifty cents a week by this kind of child labor. Think of the outrageous punishments required to "educate" such an infant to stick at such work day after day. It seems beyond belief in its inhuman conceptions.
Japan's rapid rise to a prominent place among progressive nations seems to have inspired new hopes in the heretofore sluggish yellow and brown races. China is being aroused to the possibilities that have so long lain dormant before the fast-encroaching white man. The people of India, too, are wondering why they, with all their millions of people, have so long been held subservient to a foreign power so greatly inferior in numbers. But it is not only Japan's unaided progress that has led them to ponder the situation, and to bestir themselves; there is the example of the Filipinos whose upward lift, under the tutelage of the United States, is leading the people of India to an unfavorable comparison of their condition under a British rule of a century and a half. For three hundred years the government of Spain held the Philippines under absolute sway, theoretically. That is, the people had no rights politically. Yet in five years' time, under the dominion of the United States, the Filipinos are enjoying political privileges far beyond those of the natives of India—with the promise and prospect of further rapid political recognition. While the government of a provincial territory by a republic at all may be subject to criticism from an American standpoint, the improvement of the Filipino situation is, from the standpoint of the British Indian subject, a matter for emulation, and it is causing no little unrest. Indian papers are calling attention to the fact that already three Filipinos are placed in the governor's council, while, in all of England's rule, not a native of India has been in the viceroy's council. The Indians are also quoting President McKinley's declaration of policy: "The Philippines are ours, not to exploit, but to develop, to civilize, to educate, to train, in the science of self-government." Yet it must not be forgotten that Japan's progress is mostly noted for her development as a military power; and this, more than anything else, has fired the ambition of the brown and yellow races. So that it is not far to see that a like development in China, India, and perhaps in the Philippines, would mean a preparation for a tremendous struggle for the mastery of Asia. The enemy of souls is endeavoring to pervert every line of human progress into the channel of war. And no wonder he is succeeding so well, when the so-called "Christian nations" pride themselves on being the great military and naval powers of earth.
Hazing and Its Results.—Of all the foolish, unmanly, cowardly customs of this present day, "hazing" in our great schools ranks A1. Pugilism is almost a virtue compared to it. How young bipeds, calling themselves men, can indulge in such cowardly pranks and have no respect left for themselves, is a mystery. A news despatch from Lyons, Mich., dated Jan. 12, 1905, runs as follows:
Frantically waving his hands before his face, as if vainly trying to beat off an imaginary foe, Henry Johnson, the nineteen-year-old son of Daniel S. Johnson, a well-to-do farmer, living near this village, died. The young man was brought home from the State Agricultural College a few days ago, a raving maniac, and his parents attribute his death to hazing.
Pugilism is regulated by the will of the pugilists. Each man has a fair chance. The victim of hazing is given absolutely no show for himself; for hazing is regulated by the caprice of ninnies. Let it be suppressed. It is below decency.
Might versus Right.—The motto upon which the warriors and nations of earth have almost always acted, whatever their profession, is that "Might is Right." God's motto, and the motto of all His true, wise followers is that "Right is Might." The first works out quicker results, tho never permanent. The working out of the latter seems slow to poor, impatient man. He wants to see present results to please him, and is unwilling to wait God's time. But let every soul know that iniquitous might is never right; for thus saith the Lord: "Their course is evil, and their might is not right." And this principle will ever prove true. God's right will ever in the end prove to be everlasting might.
That the Church of England is being permeated with Roman Catholicism has been further declared by the testimony of a titled witness. Lady Wimborne, it is said, has been visiting the schools which are dominated by the Anglican clergy in Dorsetshire, and testifies that she found the Roman mass imitated, transubstantiation plainly taught; in fact a Romanistic propaganda in the public schools.
The people of the United States pay to the school teachers of the whole country, annually, $148,173,487 for educating the children. It seems an anomaly that they should pay into the coffers of the saloonkeepers during the same time $1,200,000,000 to ruin these same children. That is the amount paid for liquor each year in this country, and there is no factor so potent in child ruin as this.