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The American Sentinel

Vol. 5, No. 38

September 25, 1890

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  1. THE Christian Union is grieved because the sale of acids for removing ink stains is permitted in this country, and says: “A little bit of the thou-shalt-not policy of Russia might make a useful ingredient in the devil-take-the-hindmost policy of our democracy. Under a paternal form of government, the sale of such a mixture as this would probably be prohibited.” Of course, what the Christian Union has in view is the ease with which checks can be raised by means of this acid; but the idea of making this the occasion of a plea for a paternal government, would be decidedly funny, did it not show the growing feeling in this country to make the Government everything to everybody. The “acid” referred to, which is generally sold under the name of “ink eradicator,” is used by thousands of honest men in their every-day business, and is fast coming to be considered as indispensable in every counting room. The editor of the Christian Union should provide himself with a “check perforator,” and thank his stars that he doesn’t live in Russia.1 paragraphs
  2. State and Parochial Schools.Alonzo T. Jones8 paragraphs
  3. “THE voice of the people is the voice of God,” is as true to-day, as when spoken in a city of Greece two thousand years ago. —Clear Lake (Cal.) Press.2 paragraphs
  4. HE who seeks to transform the church of God into a political club-room, must ever be regarded as the enemy of our higher ideals of civil and religious liberty, and also guilty of a Pharisaism which has the effrontery to dictate methods to God himself. This paper believes that the race will be happiest when it takes God’s laws as they are, and enacts such laws for the regulation of human affairs as wisdom, tempered with justice, suggests.—Central City, Nebraska, Republican.1 paragraphs
  5. Churchianity vs. Christianity.Carlos Martyn, D. D.8 paragraphs
  6. The Bible Is Religious Only.Alonzo T. Jones11 paragraphs
  7. Talk Is Talk.R. F. COTTRELL.5 paragraphs
  8. A Good Utterance.5 paragraphs
  9. Christianity and the State.Rev. W. B. Judd5 paragraphs
  10. An Opportunity.C. P. B.3 paragraphs
  11. They Seek Executive Authority Also.Chas. F. Parmele8 paragraphs
  12. Strange Reasons.S. O. LANE14 paragraphs
  13. Letter From New Hampshire.Ira W. Russell8 paragraphs
  14. CHRISTIANITY and Churchism are two very different things. Christianity is a scheme of virtue and benevolence for the elevation of mankind. Churchism is a scheme of churchmen for power, plunder, and persecution. Our fathers utterly repudiated Churchism, refusing it either power or money; but said nothing of religion proper. The Churches of Rome, Russia, England, Turkey, and Mormondom are as far from Christ as day from night. In the United States is the only true Church with power to persuade; but none to tax, persecute, curse, or injure. Our fathers placed it just where it should be.—Political Record, San Francisco, Cal.1 paragraphs
  15. “Has civil government,” inquires the Orleans Herald, “any right to administer divine law?” Certainly not; for civil government to attempt such a thing would be to put itself in the place of God, and destroy individual responsibility to God.1 paragraphs
  16. N. R. L. A. Statistics.4 paragraphs
  17. Public Schools.A. F. Ballenger7 paragraphs
  18. NATIONAL RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ASSOCIATION.15 paragraphs
  19. DO YOU USE A FOUNTAIN PEN?6 paragraphs
  20. THE SENTINEL LIBRARY44 paragraphs
  21. TEN LECTURESJohn Harvey Kellogg9 paragraphs
  22. GOOD FOR ALL TIME!16 paragraphs
  23. NEW EDITIONSA. T. Jones22 paragraphs
  24. HEALTH FOOD CRACKERS9 paragraphs
  25. IS THE PAPACY IN PROPHECY?Rev. Thomas W. Haskins13 paragraphs
  26. THE BEST12 paragraphs
  27. SAFETY PENCIL POCKET7 paragraphs
  28. THE Christian Statesman, of the 4th inst., has quite a lengthy criticism of Senator Blackburn’s eulogy upon the late Senator Beck, because in making that eulogy Senator Blackburn uttered sentiments which are not, in the opinion of the Statesman, in harmony with the teaching of the Christian religion. The Statesman does not question the right of Senator Blackburn to hold whatever religious views that may seem to him good, but it challenges his right to air them as a representative of a “people who are overwhelmingly Christian.” And yet this is just the authority that the National Reformers are proposing to give to Congress and to the courts. They propose to recognize Christianity as the religion of this Nation, and then in their own words they must either have a standard of Christianity or else admit anything which claims to be Christianity. But who will make this standard of religion? Evidently just such men as Senator Blackburn, a man who, though an honest man as the world goes, and an able legislator, knows little more of what Christianity really is, than a Hottentot does of calculus. The Statesman ought not to object to a little of its own medicine, as a foretaste of what may be in the future.1 paragraphs
  29. A CORRESPONDENT of the Voice, writing from Nebraska, says that he thinks that Prohibitionists are treading on dangerous ground when they “make an exception, in prohibitory laws, of wines used for ‘sacramental’ purposes.” He does not see “how any Christian Prohibitionist can propose or advocate alcoholic liquor for sacramental purposes.” To this the Voice replies that it does not advocate the use of alcoholic wine in the communion. “We simply say that it is not the province of legislators to decide whether or not the sacramental wine should be fermented. A law which prohibited the manufacture of fermented wines for sacramental purposes would go beyond the proper province of law, and cause many sincere Christians either to violate the law or to violate what they believe to be the injunction of Christ. There is no necessity for that.” This is a serious question, and should give pause to some of the ultra-Prohibitionists who want to enforce upon everybody their ideas not only of temperance, but of religion as well. Even the Voice should pause long enough to answer candidly, whether some of the legislation which it advocates would not interfere quite as seriously with religious liberty as would the prohibition of fermented wine in the communion.1 paragraphs
  30. THE statement comes from Winnipeg, that a serious charge has been brought against Lieutenant - Governor Royal, of Northwest Territory, who has been purchasing books for the Government library, and who confined his purchases to Roman Catholic works, only.1 paragraphs
  31. THE Red Bank, New Jersey, Register, in vigorously opposing the enforcement of Sunday laws, says that there should be no such laws, and boasts that while in Red Bank there is an utter disregard of Sunday laws, yet the “town has the reputation of being the quietest and best ordered in the State,” and, “unlike every other town in the county of Monmouth, there is no illegal liquor selling.”1 paragraphs
  32. MINISTER'S wife (Sunday morning)—“Is it possible, my dear, that after all you have said about Sunday newspapers, you are reading one?”3 paragraphs
  33. THE Churchman, of this city, closes a careful review of the debate upon the bill to enlarge the appropriation for the Roman Catholic Bureau of Education, by calling on all Protestant societies receiving Government aid, to purge themselves in this matter by refusing any longer to participate, and says: “As it is to-day, by reason of participation, eyes are blinded and lips are dumb in the presence of wrong, and a department of the National Government made subservient to the Roman hierarchy.” THE AMERICAN SENTINEL made the same suggestion some weeks ago, but, so far as we know, it has not been adopted, and we look for no better result from the good advice given by the Churchman.Editor1 paragraphs
  34. REV. J. D. GILLIAN, Secretary of the Utah Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, says:—3 paragraphs
  35. THE World publishes an interview with a clergyman, whose name it does not give, and prefaces it with this explanation:—3 paragraphs
  36. GERMANY is not only a “Christian country,” but it is a Protestant country, and religion is regularly taught in all the public schools, yet D. Adolf Harnack, one of the most prominent theologians of Germany, declares that if the Lutheran Church is not to fall in ruins altogether, she “must change her Confession, her style of sermons, and her teachings, not according to the wishes of the day, but according to the indisputable knowledge we have gained.” Infidelity seems to be rapidly on the increase, and the law is vainly invoked to stay the rising tide of unbelief. This proves nothing against Christianity, but it is another demonstration of the utter impotency of a State religion, either to give or to conserve a proper moral tone in a people.1 paragraphs
  37. THE AMERICAN SENTINEL.11 paragraphs