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The American Sentinel

Vol. 5, No. 42

October 23, 1890

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  1. Commenting upon Mr. Crafts’s proposed Sunday legislation, the Denver News says:—3 paragraphs
  2. Who Are the Traitors?A. T. J.11 paragraphs
  3. “The right arm of the American Sabbath Union,” says Mr. Crafts, “is the promotion of the religious Sabbath; its left arm the preservation of the civil Sabbath. Those two things—the Christian Sabbath on the one hand, and the American Sabbath on the other hand—are as distinct as my two arms, that resemble and co-operate, and yet are by no means the same.” And as it is usually the office of the left arm to assist the right, so the office of the “civil Sabbath” is to assist in forcing the observance of a religious institution upon the American people.1 paragraphs
  4. A CHURCH paper says: “There are ten million pupils in the Sunday-schools of the country. A better showing ought to be made in morals, but the fact is, thousands leave the Sunday-school for the saloon, and the downward path in other directions. There is certainly a failure somewhere.” Yes, there is a failure; and the reason is found in the fact that too many depend far too much upon the Sunday-school to give their children religious instruction. No school instruction can possibly take the place of the religious instruction that should be given in the home.1 paragraphs
  5. State Aid in Alaska.C. P. B.11 paragraphs
  6. The Purpose of Sunday Laws.A. T. Jones6 paragraphs
  7. NON-PARTISAN TEMPERANCE WORK.4 paragraphs
  8. Chicago Correspondence.5 paragraphs
  9. THE BIBLE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.A. F. BALLENGER16 paragraphs
  10. He Tries to Fix It Up.W. A. Colcord13 paragraphs
  11. May the State Rightfully Prohibit Polygamy?Frank William Howe17 paragraphs
  12. Paternal Tendencies.6 paragraphs
  13. The Young Men's Christian Association of Trenton, New Jersey, has committed itself to an open affiliation with the American Sabbath Union. The following item is published by the Pearl of Days:—3 paragraphs
  14. Important.Alonzo T. Jones4 paragraphs
  15. What constitutes a State?Sir William Jones2 paragraphs
  16. THE American Sabbath Union, of the United States, has its peer in the “Lord’s Day Alliance,” of Canada, in which most of the Protestant denominations of the Dominion are said to be represented. The Presbyterian Church seems, there, to take the initiative, as it does here. At a late meeting of the Presbyterian General Assembly the Committee of Sabbath observance presented a set of resolutions which were adopted. The following are the fourth and fifth resolutions in the series:—3 paragraphs
  17. NATIONAL RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ASSOCIATION.14 paragraphs
  18. “It is this ‘innocent recreation,’” says the New York Observer, “advocated by Cardinal Gibbons and Liberal Protestants, that destroys the idea of Sunday being a holy day.” The inference is that the State should forbid innocent recreation. It is this thought that inspires the demand for Sunday laws on the part of churches and church papers.1 paragraphs
  19. A Candid Prohibitionist.11 paragraphs
  20. The Hervey, or Cook, Islands are five hundred miles from Samoa. They are of volcanic origin, and the population numbers about 20,000. Although missionaries found them very ferocious, they are now nearly all Christianized, and have the Bible and other books translated into their language.5 paragraphs
  21. The Illustrations have been prepared with great care and at large expense, many of them being engraved especially for the work, or selected and imported from choice foreign collections.1 paragraphs
  22. FIRESIDE SKETCHES OF SCENERY AND TRAVEL3 paragraphs
  23. 192 Large Quarto Pages, Beautifully Illustrated With Nearly 200 Fine Engravings of Home and Foreign Scenery.1 paragraphs
  24. One of the BEST SELLING BOOKS out, and SOLD only by SUBSCRIPTION.7 paragraphs
  25. FIRESIDE SKETCHES1 paragraphs
  26. most handsome of the oceanic people. The higher classes of natives are well educated. Vices have come in with civilization. The drinking of rum, with its attendant evils and the former corruption, is fast diminishing the population.1 paragraphs
  27. At the semi-annual meeting of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in this city, in May, the Pearl of Days says the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:—4 paragraphs
  28. SOME time since, Mr. Crafts visited Denver, and delivered several discourses upon the Sunday-law question. In an editorial notice of his work, the News of that city says:—3 paragraphs
  29. TROUBLE over the reading of the Bible in the public schools is reported from the Western Reserve, in Ohio. A parent complains that the teacher to whom his children are sent, persists in devoting a portion of each day to scriptural reading, and, as his children are compelled to be present, according to the school-room rule, he demands to know whether he cannot legally withdraw his children during that hour.1 paragraphs
  30. In an article in the Evangel of Rest, Rev. J. M. Hamilton quotes Lev. 19:30: “Ye shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary,” and applies it to Sunday-keeping and attendance upon church services! Ps. 87:2, and 132:14, are wrested in like manner; while Isa. 66:23, is tortured into a command for everybody to go to meeting upon the first day of the week! And that he calls teaching divine truth!1 paragraphs
  31. COMMENTING upon the Tennessee Sunday-law cases, a London, England, paper says:—3 paragraphs
  32. ONE of our exchanges, the Loyal American, notes the fact that "the prisoners in the Stillwater prison, Minn., publish a weekly paper, the Prison Mirror, at one dollar per annum. It is edited and printed by the convicts." And yet like a great many other people, the editor of the American insists that the State should educate its citizens to prevent crime! Education is a good thing, a very good thing, but as a preventive of crime it is not much of a success. Thousands of men in the penitentiaries of the various States, and thousands more who ought to be "doing time," are educated men. If only the illiterate were dishonest and vicious, the amount of business transacted by our criminal courts would be very much less than it is.1 paragraphs
  33. It is stated that Secretary Dickinson of the World's Fair Commission, is deluged with letters and protests against Sunday opening. So numerous are they that he has been compelled to have circulars printed acknowledging their receipt. In the number of petitions the Christian Endeavor Society heads the list, half the petitions and remonstrances coming from branches of that organization; then comes individual churches, then the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. “Already,” says the Mail and Express, “it is evident that the opposition to Sunday opening will be the most formidable demonstration of its kind ever made in the country.” We wonder if in this, as in the matter of a national Sunday law, the petitioners are to be counted several times.1 paragraphs
  34. THE Sabbath Harbinger is the name of a new 24-column monthly, “religious family paper, devoted to missionary work and Sabbath reform in the South.” It is published by the Southern Sabbath Publishing Association, Beauregard, Miss. “It will be,” says the publishers, “uncompromisingly opposed to anything tending toward the encroachments, usurpations, and assumed authority of a hierarchy, either in name or in fact, let it come from whatever source it may.” If this promise is redeemed, the Harbinger will oppose the work of the American Sabbath Union, and the schemes of the National Reform Association.1 paragraphs
  35. A REPORT of a committee at a recent Sunday-law meeting in California, contains this statement: “The public ought to be thoroughly informed of the reasons for the Sunday closing of saloons.” Well the reason is not far to seek, nor hard to state; it is simply a desire on the part of one part of the community to honor the first day of the week because they regard it as the Sabbath by divine appointment. If the motive were purely or even primarily a temperance one they would demand the closing of saloons on all days.1 paragraphs
  36. Are there many people in this country who would be pleased to see the United States governed as Ecuador is? Perhaps not, but there are many thousands of people among us who are striving to bring about a union of Church and State, and if they are successful it will only be a question of time—a comparatively short time—when the only difference between the United States and Ecuador, will be in the number of population and the area of territory.—American Standard.1 paragraphs