The American Sentinel, Vol. 5, No. 34 (August 28, 1890) | AdventAI

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A Problem for Solution.5 paragraphs
A CALIFORNIA paper has the following note:— The Executive Committee of the American Sabbath Union has appointed the Rev. Edward Thomson, D. D., LL.D., the State secretary of the association for California, and district secretary for the Pacific Coast. He has appointed a district convention in San Francisco, for August 16, 17, 18. Bishop Fowler is expected to preside, and Bishop John P. Newman will assist. The California Christian Advocate says: “This will be the opening of what we trust may prove a successful campaign in the interests of Sunday reform. The American Sabbath Union has accomplished great things in other States, and we doubt not if the Christian people of every denomination will give Dr. Thomson and his co-workers a hearty welcome, that much may be done here.” We presume that this means the beginning of active work with reference to the coming State election.1 paragraphs
THE St. Paul Dispatch notes the fact that a new Russian war vessel is called The Twelve Apostles, and says: “Its presumable mission is to go abroad into all the world and preach the gospel of—fiendish despotism.” And that is about as near as any civil government can come to preaching the gospel. Civil government always smuts religion when it touches it.1 paragraphs
JUST as long as Protestants insist, against all their principles of separation of Church and State, that there shall be religious exercises in the public schools, they have no argument against the Catholics. The reading of the Bible, or prayer, in the public schools is a relic of a State church, such as we used to have; and the fear of dropping it lest religion should suffer, is the survival of the cowardice which used to make the Church think it would perish if it lost the support of the State.—Independent.1 paragraphs
It is of interest and profit further to inquire, what kind of an education it is that these Indians get, from the expenditure of so much public money through the churches? Children, whether Indian or white, are most forcibly and permanently taught by example. What examples have been set, in some things, by some of these churches, and in one thing by all of them?A. T. J.10 paragraphs
Senator Reagan on Church and State.Editor16 paragraphs
Prohibition Sunday Laws.Alonzo T. Jones8 paragraphs
How They Stand.F. A. LASHIER6 paragraphs
Church and State.6 paragraphs
The Civil Sabbath.A. F. Ballenger13 paragraphs
MANY of the good people of Burlington are urging on a movement, through mistaken zeal, to force the observance of Sunday as a day of rest and religious worship. Their motives, however pious, are sadly at fault—alike antagonistic to the spirit of our Constitution and the teaching of the divine Master. However right according to his conscience, it may be for the Christian to set aside the first day of the week for reflection on the goodness and mercy, and for praise and worship of the Creator, there can be nothing but harm arise from the effort to coerce others not thus inspired with the spirit of worship or veneration, or who prefer other days or methods of manifesting their religious beliefs and duties.3 paragraphs
THE Christian Index and Southern Baptist says:—2 paragraphs
Due to Religious Liberty Literature.W. H. M.32 paragraphs
Fined Again.5 paragraphs
A CIRCULAR letter has been issued by the Sunday Association of Illinois, to churches, trade and labor Unions and other associations, in which they ask all ecclesiastical and beneficial organizations to adopt a set of resolutions, asking Congress to pass the National Sunday-rest bill; the managers of the World's Fair to close its gates on Sunday; the pastors, church clerks, and secretaries of various ecclesiastical, ethical, or beneficial societies, to co-operate with the Sunday associations in the different States to secure Sunday legislation; and finally urging the Evangelical Alliance to give its influence especially to the furtherance of the enforcement of Sunday observance and in securing the united effort of all religious bodies to this end, with particular reference to the Sunday-rest bill and Sunday observance at the World's Fair.2 paragraphs
THE movement for the promotion and enforcement of the observance of Sunday as a day of rest, is making rapid strides in Europe, as is shown by the following Paris dispatch to the London Daily News:—2 paragraphs
NATIONAL RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ASSOCIATION.14 paragraphs
Freedom and grace of motion cannot be obtained by those wearing a stiff corset.6 paragraphs
THE SENTINEL LIBRARY44 paragraphs
TEN LECTURESJohn Harvey Kellogg11 paragraphs
NEW EDITIONSA. T. Jones17 paragraphs
GOOD FOR ALL TIME!14 paragraphs
HEALTH FOOD CRACKERS9 paragraphs
THE BEST9 paragraphs
SAFETY PENCIL POCKET5 paragraphs
DO YOU USE A FOUNTAIN PEN?6 paragraphs
THE Christian Advocate, of this city, has the following:—3 paragraphs
THE papers of Finland have received notice from the Russian authorities that advocating the people's rights, even in the most sober manner, must stop. The Czar is determined to be a “father” to his people, even if he has to banish half of them to compel the other half to adopt the “true religion” and correct political views. The Government of Russia is thoroughly paternal.1 paragraphs
THE World asks: “How long will the anachronism and injustice continue which compel New Yorkers to violate some statute in order to get needed and innocent recreation on Sunday?” It will continue as long as the State attempts to compel people who have not a religious regard for Sunday to act as though they had. As it stands, the law is utterly useless; and serves only to breed contempt for all law.1 paragraphs
A RECENT London dispatch says:—Editor3 paragraphs
COMMENTING upon an imperial ukase recently issued, forbidding further action by Protestant missionaries, especially in western Russia, under the penalty of expulsion from the empire, the Mail and Express says:—3 paragraphs
“For several years,” says an exchange, “the local bands have given concerts at Seaside, and Washington parks, at Bridgeport, Conn., on Wednesday and Saturday evenings. It is now proposed, by the Wheeler Wilson band, to give Sunday afternoon concerts, at Seaside park, and such a concert is announced for next Sunday. Business men and working people are largely in favor of these concerts, but at the morning prayer-meeting on Saturday, of church people, a resolution was adopted protesting against a profanation of the Sabbath, and agreeing to use all means within their power to prevent the concert from being given.”2 paragraphs
METHODIST periodicals are discussing the growing tendency of the clergymen of that denomination to make their annual and general conferences scenes of wire-pulling and log-rolling, that turn them into veritable political caucuses and conventions. Commenting upon this fact, a secular paper remarks that “the methods of the brethren at the last conference, when the ballot box was ‘stiffed’ during the exciting race of the various candidates for bishoprics, were ominous of degeneration. On several ballots, the number of votes found by the tellers was in excess of the whole number of legal voters in the conference, much to the scandal of the devout.” But sad as such things are, we may expect them to become more and more common, as the churches become more and more involved in political matters.1 paragraphs
W. H. Chandler, Assistant State Superintendent of Public Instruction, of Wisconsin, is credited with the following, concerning the Bennett Law:—3 paragraphs
THE long and short of socialism and nationalism is this: The Government should be everything, the individual nothing.—The Sun.1 paragraphs