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Its object is to assure the sinner that the plan of salvation is for him. It abounds with new and beautiful truths concerning the redemption of man, and will leave with the reader an inspiration for a higher and nobler life.
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Alarm of War in German and Danish
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Workers’ Record.
Bible Students’ Library Nos. 151 and 152 have been combined and enlarged in a ten-cent pamphlet entitled “The Arming of the Nations.” This is an especially timely publication, as the heading indicates. In harmony with the mind of our State agent, we suggest that our canvassers use this pamphlet in connection with their other helps.
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THE SABBATH SCHOOL LESSONS for the next six months will be on the book of Genesis. The new lesson pamphlet, which is now ready, contains a carefully selected series of notes and suggestions on these lessons, and no student should be without a copy. Price, 5c.
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MEN VERSUS INSTITUTIONS.
WHEN this government was founded, its fathers prized the value of men. Many of them were religious, deeply so. But the great charters of our liberty were framed for the protection of men, not “for the promotion” of religion, or “for the protection” of religious institutions. The government was ordained by the consent of the governed, to secure the protection of man in the exercise of his God-given rights. The religious institution was left with its author and devotee.
Believing as our fathers did in the equality of man, they could decide to do no otherwise. If they protected man alone, the law would bear equally upon all. But all men do not equally regard religious institutions. The religious institution is always the institution of a class; and if that institution be upheld, promoted, protected, by law, the law discriminates necessarily between classes, for the class who regard the institution, and correspondingly against the class who do not regard the institution. It makes one class appear to favor the government and sets the other in opposition to it, simply because of religious belief or opinion.
These are among the sure results of elevating institutions above men. And yet there are thousands who are working, heart and soul, might and main, to elevate the institution to the degradation of the man. Many of these are Christians, the professed followers of Him who died for men.
It is time for both Americans and Christians to return to first principles, to elevate men and let God by His mighty providence care for His own institutions. If religious institutions will not live, they are not of God, and are worthy to die.
“O my brothers, O my people,
Let us choose the righteous side!”
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Articles Deferred Until Next Week
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There are two or three articles crowded out of this issue which will appear next week. Those who read this issue will wish to read the next. Other articles also were put over till next issue.
Good Health for June
Among the instructive articles of Good Health for June are “The Hygiene of Beauty,” by J. H. Kellogg; “Vegetarian Boys and Girls” (illustrated), intensely practical, and many other articles beside. Only $1.00 a year. Battle Creek, Mich. It ought to be for sale at every news stand.
Sunday Laws Unite Church and State
“Keep the State and the Church forever separate.”—U. S. Grant. But Sunday is a church institution. To enforce it by law is, at the demand of the church, a union of Church and State. It is supporting a church dogma by law. It is to discriminate between those who believe in Sunday and those who do not. It is to bind the Church and State together by a law.
Christian Hope Amid Turmoil
Notwithstanding all the strife, turmoil, unrest, and uncertainty, the Christian has no cause for discouragement. His ship is anchored above. His King rules supreme. Out of all the trouble God will bring peace and rest and eternal joy to His children. And none ought to be more joyful here. He has all the promise of the life that now is that others have, and the added promise of the life to come. And God wishes all to be Christians.
Not God's Law
Not God's Law.—Human government never enforced God's Word, or law, or Sabbath; it only enforced men's conception of what God demanded. Men of old, professing to be teachers of God, believed that Jesus Christ ought to die, because He did not keep the Sabbath in the same way that they did. There are teachers now who think that men who keep the same Sabbath that Jesus did ought to die because they do not keep a day which He never kept. Should such teachers ever be intrusted with the power of Cæsar?
And Now Ann Arbor.
The Voice is still waging its earnest and brave warfare against the great institutions of learning which are manufacturing drunkards. It should have the sympathy of all parents who are educating their sons in any of these great centers of influence. The Voice of June 9 tells us (1) that there is a healthy temperance sentiment in Ann Arbor, there being an anti-saloon league numbering more than 500 undergraduate students, with a number of the younger members of the faculty; and (2) that in the secret fraternities unblushing iniquity is carried on. In the words of the report: “All that is foul in the dark side of college life here is represented in the secret fraternities. All but two or three of the chapter houses bear a most disreputable reputation. Some are commonly classed as houses of assignation, pure and simple. Many of them have telephones, which are used in making appointments with loose women around the city. The chapter houses are located in various parts of the city, off university property, and are completely ignored by the faculty, unless the boys are caught by the police in some of their drunken scrapes.” Many of the professors, especially the leading ones, are indifferent. And yet it is said that Ann Arbor is superior to Yale, Princeton, and Cornell. These are big, sad blots on our boasted civilization, to say nothing of Christianity.
The Cosmopolitan
“The Cosmopolitan.”—The leading and most interesting article in the June Cosmopolitan to many readers will be the first, “Liquid Air—Newest Wonder of Science,” by Charles E. Trifler. It is splendidly illustrated, and is alone worth the price of the magazine. It contains, besides other articles of interest, seven relating to war and kindred subjects. Price, 10 cents. For sale at all news stands.
The Power to Create and Redeem
The power of God to create is the power of God to redeem. It takes creative power, the power of Deity, in either case. The believer in creation as set forth in Genesis, will exercise faith in God’s recreative power over the moral character. In Genesis I he will read the Gospel, “the power of God unto salvation.” And in the Sabbath he will see not only the memorial of God’s creative work, but the pledge and sign of His power to sanctify. Eze. 20:12.
The Christian Educator
The “Christian Educator” (Battle Creek, Mich.) has entered upon a new era with its May issue. It appears as an illustrated monthly magazine, with a splendid corps of practical educators as contributors, and a broad scope, as shown in the following departments: General Articles, Industrial Education, The Farm, The School-room, The Home School, Physiology and Hygiene, Professional Study, Nature’s Laboratory, Current Interests, etc. It is only 50 cents a year, printed on fine paper, and well illustrated. Every student should have it.
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McClure’s Magazine
McClure’s Magazine.—Those who desire to keep abreast of war statistics should read McClure’s Magazine for June. Specially interesting articles are: (1) “Cuba under Spanish Rule. Personal Impressions of the Island, the People; of the Government, and the War for Freedom,” by Major-General Fitzhugh Lee. Mr. Lee’s long residence in Cuba enables him to write with the authority of an eye-witness. This article is copiously illustrated with photo reproductions of leading Spanish and Cuban characters, and characteristic Cuban scenes. (2) “Military Europe. A Narrative of Personal Observations and Experiences,” by Major-General Nelson A. Miles, with many illustrations of scenes and persons. There are other war articles and poems. Price, 10 cents; of any news dealer.
