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A Distinction in Name Not in Fact.
A writer in the Catholic Mirror tells us that we must take great care not to confound the Roman Inquisition and the Spanish Inquisition. “One is purely ecclesiastical and the other is purely secular. The one was undertaken and must be defended from a religious standpoint; the other was established and perpetrated by the civil government, and must have for its justification national rights and privileges.” This is a distinction without a difference. The end was the same in each—the extirpation of heresy. It might be called in one case a crime against God and the church, and in the other case against the state, but the inquisitions were of the same class, inspired by the same motive, with the same object in view, let the name be what it will. This attempt to justify by making distinctions is hiding counsel by words without knowledge, or blinding minds by sophistry.
Hard Questions
The great viceroy of China, Li Hung Chang, is upon our shores and learning all he can about American life. He has more questions to ask than the proverbial Yankee. In fact, it is said that some of the questions he has been asking the rich men of England and America are quite embarrassing. He often presses home such questions as, “How did you get so much wealth?” and “How much more do you want?” All wealth has not been gotten by the most honorable means. The combines, trusts, cornered wheat and corn, watered stock, and wholesale gambling can not bear an over amount of questioning. Li Hung Chang can hardly leave England or America with the same satisfaction that the Queen of Sheba left Solomon after proving him with hard questions. We presume the Jewish king answered more wisely and frankly. But there will come a time when the Judge of all the earth will ask questions more searching than those asked by the great man of the Orient, and his questions will elicit truth. If the rich men will not answer, the books of God, kept by angelic scribes, will. What will the record be?
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.
Editorial.
Our Rest (notes) E. J. W. 1
God Requires Impossibilities 1
Is the “Old Guard” Dead? 2
Confirming the Promises (Romans concluded), E. J. W. 2–4
The Sabbath and the Sunday (Historical Facts) 4
Poetry.
Fear Not 5
“Too Many of We” 9
Like Father Like Children, J. E. RANKIN 11
General Articles.
Saving Faith, etc., No. 6, D. T. BOURDEAU 5
Are We Ready for Turkey to Fall? W. N. GLENN 6
The Test at Rephidim, MRS. E. G. WHITE 7
Hoping in the Mercy of God, E. HILLIARD 8
Answers to Questions.—No. 415, Mine Hour—No. 416, Pronoun “He” of Rev. 13:15, 16—No. 417, Discerning of Spirits—No. 418, Christ’s Coming to Earth 8
The Outlook.—Imperiled—Heaping Up Treasure—Religious Riot in Melbourne 8, 9
The Fireside.—A Peep into a Packing House, J. H. KELLOGG, M.D.—When Coal Was First Used—Love vs. Fear—Three Good Business Hints—Wonders of Ancient Glass Blowing—Nostrils of the Horse 9, 10
Missions.—An Expansive Gospel, J. C. HIDEN, D.D.—Missionaries Filled with the Spirit—Slavery in Africa—Our Work and Workers 11, 12
International Sabbath School Lesson.—Review (Lesson 13, Sabbath, September 26, 1896) 13
International Sunday School Lesson.—Review (Lesson 13, Sunday, September 27, 1896) 13
News and Notes. 14
Publishers. 15
Walla Walla College Opening
We call attention to the notice of the opening of Walla Walla College in another column. It reached us rather late, having come around by the way of Battle Creek, Mich., a mistake having been made in directing it. We hope the school may have a most successful year.
A State Sunday Law Symposium.
The editor of the Pacific Christian has the boldness to ask his brethren for “a voluntary symposium on the benefits to be secured and the hindrances to be endured by having a ‘state Sunday law.’ . . .” We select this subject because here in California several of the leading denominations are making a united effort for a ‘sabbath law.’” We shall “watch for this symposium with interest.
Spain Seeks European Support Over Cuba
THE Review of Reviews declares that Spain is deliberately and carefully preparing to appeal to all the governments of Europe for moral support against the United States concerning Cuba. Concerning the war in Cuba the Review says: “The Spanish soldiers have had a frightful summer in the distressed islands, owing to the excessive heat and the ravages of disease. Little news of fighting has been received, and there is no reason to think that Spain is making any headway toward the suppression of the rebellion.”
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Cheering Indications
We have them all along the way. The other day the mail brought two new publications from far-off India, the first published in the Bengali language. The titles of these tracts are, Englished, “All Can Be Saved!,” and “The Coming King.” They are published by the International Tract Society, 154 Bow Bazaar Street, Calcutta. May God make them abundant seed sowers in the great Indian field. It will not be long ere the everlasting Gospel will be given unto every nation and people and kindred and tongue. God’s long-suffering now is salvation.
Right Is Might
Right is Might is the motto of the Christian. He can therefore afford to wait. He knows right will triumph, if not in this world, in the world to come. Like truth, with which right is inseparably connected, the eternal years of God belong to right. When the Christian sees wrong triumph therefore, while righteously indignant, and beyond his power to help, he can leave it all with God, knowing that it will be well and rightly adjusted at last. “The Judge of all the earth” will do just and right. “Might is right” is doomed to eternal defeat. “Right is might” is reserved unto eternal triumph. Reader, which principle is molding your life?
A Good Suggestion.
The Advance of September 3 mentions that in a week more the majority of pastors will again be in their pulpits after their summer vacation, and in beginning their year's work it offers the suggestion “that the ministry should hold close to its special mission.” It thus continues:—
“There is no time for a scatteration of strength. There are many subjects which are interesting, but they are not profitable to the pulpit or the church in a time like this. The strong hold of the ministry on human nature is to be found in its distinctly religious element. Upon this element the minister must work. In the discussion of social, economic, and political themes, he has many rivals, often superiors. But as a religious teacher, bringing the great truths of repentance and forgiveness to the sinful, and the reality of the divine government and of spiritual life to the worldly, he has no rival. Here he has a mission with which the world can not dispense, a calling which makes his work of infinite importance to his people.”
The suggestion is a good one, but there should have been no need of its being given. “Preach the Gospel,” “preach the Word,” are the orders of God. Every pulpit ought to know it, and the religious press too. The work of the minister of the Gospel is the greatest work ever committed to man; and faith will not leave it for a lesser work. Politics have no place in the work of the ministry.
Calling Names.
When men have no arguments with which to meet their opponents, calling names and misrepresenting the other side are often the next resort. We have a great deal of that in this present political campaign. “Anarchists” and “Anarchy” are just now common expressions afloat. The same thing is sometimes, tho not often, seen in the commercial and business world. It is most manifest perhaps among unions of various sorts, the members of which seem to derive great speakable satisfaction in calling those places of business that will not submit to union rule “ratteries,” and those who work in them “rats.” Sometimes they call them by a milder term, “unfair offices,” when, in fact, they are of the fairest sort, open to all men, without regard to previous or present condition of servitude to some particular cult or guild. The same thing is, sad to say, often seen in the religious world. Christians who observe the same Sabbath that Christ did are called contemptuously “Saturdarians” and “Jews,” yes, and “Anarchists.” Christ was called “glutton and winebibber,” and it was said that he had a demon. And so it has gone, and so it goes, and so it will go to the end. And yet it may be well to remind those who indulge in name-calling that resorts to such practices are and should be to all fair-minded persons the best evidence of lack of argument. A man who knows a better argument will always use it; he may have heard of better, but that he knows no better is evidenced by his calling names.
