Signs of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 38. (9/20/1905)

Signs of the Times

Sep 20, 1905

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Sep 20, 1905

TO HIM BE GLORY

"O sing unto Jehovah a new song; sing unto Jehovah, all the earth. Sing unto Jehovah, bless His name; show forth His salvation from day to day. Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all the peoples. For great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are idols; but Jehovah made the heavens. Honor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. Ascribe unto Jehovah, ye kindreds of the peoples, ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength. Ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto His name; bring an offering, and come into His courts. O worship Jehovah in holy array; tremble before Him, all the earth. Say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth; the world also is established that it can not be moved; He will judge the people with equity. Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; let the field exult, and all that is therein; then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy before Jehovah; for He cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth; He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with His truth." Psalm 96.

Gospel Song Sheaf

By Editor

Twenty-five cents each; $3.00 a dozen

Perhaps your Sabbath-school do not feel able to pay the higher prices asked for other song books; perhaps many of your members still love, and would like to sing from "Gospel Song Sheaf," nearly 30,000 copies of which have been sung from in all parts of the world; possibly you have not heard anything about the book, and do not know of its 240 pages filled with good, stirring, Primary, Intermediate, and Gospel songs. These songs are divided as follows:

PART 1.—50 PAGES OF THE BEST

Primary Songs

EVER WRITTEN

AMONG THE MANY FAVORITES IN THIS DEPARTMENT ARE THE FOLLOWING:

Jesus Loves Even Me - P. P. Bliss When He Cometh to Make Up His Jewels - Geo. F. Root Bring Them In - W. A. Ogden The Lilies (Flower Song) - F. E. Belden Tell It Again - R. M. McIntosh He Loves Me Too (Sparrow Song) - S. W. Straub Yield Not to Temptation - Dr. H. R. Palmer How I Wish I Knew - J. H. Fillmore 'Tis Love That Makes Us Happy - F. E. Belden Hear the Pennies Dropping - Arr. by F. E. B. Daughters of the King - D. S. Hakes Room in Thine Arms - J. H. Kurzenknabe Anywhere with Jesus - D. B. Towner Help Just a Little - W. J. Kirkpatrick Little Feet, Be Careful - J. H. Rosecrans Heaven Is Not Far Away - C. E. Leslie Suffer the Children - Rev. Robt. Lowry Singing as We Journey - Lucy J. Rider Step by Step - C. A. Shaw This Week for Jesus - Frank M. Davis Bearing Fruit (Fruit Song) - F. E. Belden

PART 3.—75 PAGES OF THE BEST

Gospel and Special Songs

Almost all of which may be used by the Junior Divisions of the School, as well as in Special Meetings.

Blessed Assurance - Mrs. Joseph Knapp Draw Me Closer - J. H. Tenney Glory to His Name - J. H. Stockton Wideness in God's Mercy - S. J. Vail Put on the Beautiful Garments - F. E. Belden This is Why I Love My Jesus - Rev. E. A. Hoffman A Child of the King - John B. Sumner Love Is King - Rev. E. S. Lorenz Ask Not to Be Excused - F. E. Belden Workers in the Master's Vineyard - Edward Perkins Leaning on the Everlasting Arms - A. J. Showalter Is My Name Written There? - Frank M. Davis Everlasting Life - W. A. Ogden Able to Save - J. H. Tenney One Sweetly Solemn Thought - Phillip Phillips Sweet Be Thy Rest - D. S. Hakes Memories of Galilee - Dr. H. R. Palmer Till Prohibition's Day (Male Quartet) - F. E. Belden For the Right - Chas. H. Gabriel The Lord in Zion Reigneth - H. P. Danks Safe in Glory Land - John R. Sweney

PART 2.—OVER 100 PAGES OF THE BEST

Intermediate Songs

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AMONG THEM ARE THE FOLLOWING CHOICE SELECTIONS:

Angry Words! O, Let Them Never - Dr. H. R. Palmer Dare to Do Right - F. E. Belden Give Me the Bible - Rev. E. S. Lorenz We Come, Come Again - T. Martin Towne God Bless Our School - D. S. Hakes Try to Bring One - W. I. Hartshorn Open Now Thine Arms for Me - Theo. F. Seward List to the Songs - W. J. Kirkpatrick 'Tis I, Be Not Afraid - J. H. Tenney Jesus, Come and Bless Us - Dr. W. O. Perkins I Love to Tell the Story - Wm. G. Fischer Keep Your Covenant with Jesus - Dr. W. H. Doane God Be with You - W. G. Tomer No More Good-Byes - J. H. Fillmore Kind Words Can Never Die - Abbie Hutchinson He Shall Feed His Flock - W. A. Ogden Walking in the Light - R. E. Hudson The Beautiful Shore - W. W. Bentley He Is Knocking at the Door - Rev. I. Baltzell Vale of Beulah - Joseph Garrison Tarry by the Living Waters - F. E. Belden

PART 4 CONTAINS NEARLY 100 OF THE BEST

Standard Hymns and Tunes

SUCH AS: Coronation Praise Ye Jehovah's Name Lead, Kindly Light The Voice of Jesus What a Friend We Have in Jesus Rock of Ages Greenland's Icy Mountain Pilot Me Just as I Am He Leadeth Me Jesus, Lover of My Soul Nearer, My God, to Thee O Happy Day Sweet Hour of Prayer Welcome, Day of Rest Saviour, Like a Shepherd Lead Us

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WHICH WAY?

EVER since sin came into the world, there has been a conflict between the way of God and the ways of men. Man has either followed his own way to his own sorrow, or has followed God's way to his undying peace and happiness. In the strife for self-honor, he has found humiliation and remorse, or has died without hope with his fingers still reaching after the ever-fleeing apparition of mortal fame. In seeking the glory of God and the good of others, he has come down to life's reaping time full of hope and joy and trust and satisfaction. The way that looked hard to the eye proved pleasant to the feet; but in the self-chosen path of pleasure the feet find thorns and jagged rocks where the eye had seen naught but roses and smoothest paths and bowers of delightsome shade.

AGAIN and again man has so far forsaken the ways of his Maker that he has lost the very remembrance of Him by whose power and sufferance he lives. And because they did not like to retain God in their minds, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, and permitted them to follow out to its very ultimate the courses which they had chosen—the way which they had set up in opposition to God's way. He permitted them to demonstrate that Death stands at the end of every way that is out of harmony with the way of God. Then would come His message to them to forsake the paths of death, and turn their feet in the way of life and everlasting peace. There is one straight course to the city of God. No way that turns aside from the straight way can reach the goal toward which that straight path leads. A tangent never returns to the course it forsook. So as long as we remain in any of the hundreds of paths we may make for our own feet, we can not reach the goal of life.

A HIGHWAY IN THE HILLS—GRIMSEL ROAD, SWITZERLAND.

ANCIENTLY when a king paid a visit to another king, the order went forth to repair the highway over which he must enter the city.

Every rough place must be made smooth. Every high place must be made level. Every low place must be brought up. Every stone must be removed. There must be nothing to displease the visiting king in the matter of the road over which he entered the city. The Lord uses this as a figure of the work that must be done by us if we would receive Him into our hearts as our guest. When He enters, it must be over His chosen way,—the way of life, the only way of life—and we are to take down every barrier to His free entrance. He will not force the gates of our citadel, however flimsy they may be. But He says, "I stand at the door and knock." You must open to Him; you must bid Him enter.

WHAT is there that stands between you and your Maker? Unbar the gate; unlock the door. If your own will has undermined the way like a rush of waters, you have but to pray, "Thy will, not mine," and the chasm is bridged. If you have chosen the wrong road, you have but to say, "Lord, establish my goings; direct my feet in the way of life," and He will lift you out of your way and into

His. If you have allowed the chariots of doubt to demolish the way up to the citadel of your soul, you have but to pray, “Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief;” and your prayer will be answered, and the ruined road will be restored. Whatever mountains of selfishness and sin may stand in the way, you can confess, and He can take away. Your desire for His entrance, and your faith in His willingness and ability, will open the way for these mountains to be removed and cast into the depths of the sea.

GOD has marked out for our feet a way—His own way. Men have forsaken it. Now His message to every honest soul rings out in these words:

“Go through, go through the gates; Prepare ye the way of the people; Cast up, cast up the highway; Gather out the stones; Lift up an ensign for the peoples.” Isa. 62:10.

That is the highway of Jehovah, and that ensign is the ensign of the leader of the Lord’s hosts. There are highways and byways that ramify the whole earth—there is but one highway that our Lord calls His, and that is the highway in which Christ Himself walked. Walking “even as He walked,” we are walking in His highway. Walking as He did not walk, we are walking in the ways of death. There are voices calling to us from every side. There is but one Voice that can lead us in the way of safety that leads to the city of God. It is not enough to sit behind our gates and wait for some one else to do the work that needs to be done. We must emerge from our seclusion, “go through the gates,” and do what we can to prepare the broken way. Men have invented ways which they hope will lead to their own salvation, while they ignore the way already prepared for that purpose. God is not in these ways; for Christ declares, “There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” So long has the great world followed its own ways, that the way of Jehovah appears to them as a desert waste. But God declares, “Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain; and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.” Isa. 40:3-5. The decree has gone forth for this to be done; the people of the Lord must obey the decree, and set the way of God more perfectly before the world. It has been confused with a mass of worldly rubbish; that must be taken out of the way. Some have sought to bury it under loads of self-seeking and self-service; these must be removed. Some have placed false interpretations upon its meaning; these must be brushed away by the plain teachings of the Word—that there may be no excuse for the wayfaring man losing his way, or even stumbling in that way.

THE law of God is the plainest expression of His way. David’s inspired prayer was, “Make me to go in the path of Thy commandments; for therein do I delight.” Ps. 119:35

Christ walked in the way of the Father perfectly; and because He did, He became man’s acceptable sacrifice; and this is what He says of Himself: “If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in His love.” John 15:10. “He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.” 1 John 2:6. That is walking in the way of God. If we are not so walking, we are not walking as we ought; for so says the Word. There are thousands of ways, but only one is God’s; only one leads heavenward; Christ walked in that way. Which way shall we walk? s.

ESSENTIALS OF THE MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD.

VI. An Everlasting Priesthood.

IN its fullest sense the Melchizedek priesthood is an everlasting priesthood. Relatively this is true as to its past; for the priesthood is coeval with the world and its people, of which its Melchizedek is the first. He is the father of the people of his world. To them he is an everlasting father. He antedates them, and abides with them to the end. To them he has "neither beginning of days nor end of life," but abideth a priest continually.

He is made a priest in the very nature of things; better to say, perhaps, he is a priest in the very nature of things. He is a priest, first, because he is a son of God, and, secondly, because he is the father of his race. As a son of God he does not die. As a father he is the most merciful of priests. He is a priest, therefore, not after "a carnal commandment," but "after the power of an endless life," an "indissoluble life," the life of righteousness of Melchizedek a king of righteousness. For it is witnessed of Him, "Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."

Note the contrast between the earthly and Melchizedek priesthood: "And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing; but He, because He abideth forever, hath His priesthood unchangeable [because always a son of God, always a father, always a king of righteousness]. Wherefore also He is able to save to the uttermost ["completely," not merely as regards quantity or magnitude, but as regards time] them that draw near unto God through Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them." Heb. 7:16-25.

What a blessed thought is this everlasting priesthood. What a joy it is to a trusting son to confide in a wise and loving father in time of perplexity! What gratitude comes into his heart as that father is spared to him from year to year! What trembling of heart comes to him as that father is taken sick, and symptoms seem to indicate that he may die! What unspeakable sadness comes to him when that father dies! The active, experienced mind is at rest; the lips are cold and silent. There is no response to the anxious questioning of the perplexed and needy son. His earthly hope is gone. But he whose hope is anchored in the Melchizedek of God has an everlasting father of everlasting love, everlasting mercy, everlasting sympathy, everlasting riches of grace, everlasting power to help, everlasting life to give. Praise God for His everlasting priesthood. Yet this is God’s glorious plan for every sentient being. O soul, trust in the everlasting Helper.

(Concluded next week.)

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN NOAH’S TIME.

By G.

THE religious liberty of a man does not cease because he is wicked. This was demonstrated in the time of Noah. Mankind had become so corrupt that God determined on a general obliteration of sinners and the result of sin. He said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man, and beast, and creeping thing, and the fowls of the air.” Gen. 6:7. But, that there might be no appearance of rashness in this judgment, a hundred and twenty years of special probation was given, during which time a final effort was to be made for the salvation of the condemned race.

Of all men, Noah alone “found grace in the eyes of the Lord,” and he was entrusted with the proclamation of the last message of mercy to that generation. The means of salvation from the threatened Deluge was to be an ark; and the method of inducing men to repent and turn to God and live was the Gospel.

There is no record of any civil law in the matter at all; there is no record that Noah, or any one else, had authority to enact or to execute any reform law. Altho “the earth was filled with violence,” no effort was to be made to work a moral reform by means of human law. If Noah had been instructed to secure, or had secured, anything in that line, we would have some record of it. God was just as wise then as He is to-day, and He was just as anxious to save that generation as He is to save the people of to-day. So it is evident that if there could have been any efficacy in a civil reform law it would have been forthcoming.

But we know that the law of God was in force; for “death reigned from Adam to Moses” (Rom. 5:14), and death is the result of sin (chapter 6:23), which is the “transgression of the law” of God. 1 John 3:4; Rom. 7:7. Where there is sin and death, there must be the law of God in force; for “where no law is, there is no transgression”—“sin is not imputed when there is no law.” Rom. 4:15; 5:13. Therefore there would be no need of the Gospel when there was no sin; no matter what the antediluvians did, it would not be sin, and their destruction would be an injustice.

God proclaimed Noah to be “righteous” (Gen. 7:1), and his righteousness was the righteousness of faith (Heb. 11:7). Therefore when he preached righteousness (2 Peter 2:5), he preached righteousness by faith. He exhorted men to repent, to turn to God, and to put away their sins. In other words, he exhorted them to come into harmony with the law of God, which they were so grossly viola

ting.

This is evident from the statement that, “dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.” 2 Peter 2:8. It was by the Spirit of Christ that Noah preached, “while the ark was a preparing,” to those “disobedient” ones who were in the prison-house of condemnation to death. 1 Peter 3:18-20.

While Noah was preaching the Gospel to the people, he was building “an ark to the saving of his house.” Heb. 11:7. And God had said, “Thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.” Gen. 6:18. God gave direction for the building of the ark—the size, the arrangement, and who and what should go into it; yet there was preparation for only eight people. What does this apparently meager preparation mean?

1. It means that God foreknew that only the eight persons mentioned would believe and accept the proffered terms of mercy.

2. It means that no compulsory method was to be used to induce men to accept salvation from the approaching doom.

3. It means that men can not be saved against their will. They must believe in order to get any permanent benefit from the Gospel; and belief is a matter of the free exercise of the will.

Now the Lord has told us that a like condition will obtain just prior to His second advent as existed before the Deluge. Matt. 24:37-39; Luke 17:26, 27. “Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold,” is another testimony concerning the last days. Matt. 24:12. And the description of the “days of Noah” fits the conditions of the present day, while the testimony of the daily record of events fulfils the prophecy of the apostle Paul, that “evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse.” 2 Tim. 3:13.

What then shall be the remedy for such conditions? God is the same in all ages; sin is the same in all ages; and there is but one remedy for sin, one way of saving sinners, in all ages, and that is by the Gospel. Acts 4:10-12. The terms are, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” There is no provision for making professed disciples, nominal Christians, by law. “He that believeth not [is not a voluntary disciple] is condemned already,” and no amount of law can save him. It can only make him a hypocrite, which, if possible, makes his condition worse.

ONE SALVATION.

By Uriah Smith

THE world is needy—very needy. There are millions sitting in the gloom of a darkness through which they see shining no single ray of hope. There are other millions whose eyes are blinded by a false light that lures to the paths of death. The ways of Satan are many, and their windings devious. There is no possibility of a single soul escaping from the intricate maze except by the one way, through the one door, following the one safe Guide, Jesus Christ.

Fashionable religions have sought to eliminate this Guide as a nonessential. The way He leads they have declared too narrow, His sacrifice in man's behalf unnecessary; and then they have exalted man to the place of a saviour, and pointed out another way of salvation than that which our Lord established.

But as true as our Lord is Lord, there is disappointment and death in every way of human devising, no matter how acceptable it may appear to the natural heart. Christ declared: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one cometh unto the Father, but by Me." If there were any other means of salvation than that provided in the sacrifice of Christ, that sacrifice was superfluous, and Christ could not be either "the way" or "the truth;" for His words declare as plainly as words can declare anything that through Him alone man can escape the penalty of transgression and gain an inheritance in glory. "In none other is there salvation; for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved." Acts 4:12.

The same truth is stated in these words:

"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the way which He dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh, . . . let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith." Heb. 10:19-22.

By the blood of Jesus, then, and by no other means; "by the way which He dedicated for us," and by no other way, is it possible for us to gain remission of sins and have a part in the resurrection of the just. Listen to our Lord's own declaration in the matter:

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the Door of the sheep. . . . I am the Door; by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture. . . . I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. I am the good Shepherd; the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep." John 10:7-11.

It is plainly apparent that our Lord foresaw the condition of these times; saw that men would be devising ways of salvation of their own; that they would be turning from the only way provided; and so these ringing words of truth were spoken and written for us "upon whom the ends of the world are come." The tempter will seek to beguile us with every plausible excuse, placing before us plans and schemes, and ways that look beautiful and feasible. Be not deceived. There is but one way of life—Jesus Christ. There is but one sacrifice that can avail for us—His life. Every way outside of Him is a way of death. It is worth more to us than all the gold and all the pleasures of earth to know that truth and walk in its light.

BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THERE.

By G.

ONE who persists in being "not subject to the law of God" (Rom. 8:7) has recently published a remarkable finding. A child who ever learned the fourth commandment could have told him the same thing. He says, "There is no Saturday in the Decalogue, and no Saturday mentioned in connection with God's sanctifying the seventh day after six creative days." This discovery is supposed to demolish the Sabbath of the Lord. True, "there is no Saturday in the Decalogue," or anywhere else in the Bible. Saturday is a name given by the Romans to the seventh day of the week, as Sunday to the first day, Monday to the second, etc.

But the Decalogue does mention the seventh day, in a way to explicitly identify it with the seventh day that God blessed in the beginning. Compare Ex. 20:8-11 with Gen. 2:2, 3. This same definite seventh day was known to Moses and the children of Israel when the manna was given in the wilderness, some weeks before they came to Sinai. Then for forty years it was definitely designated by three miracles every week.

When Christ, the "Lord of the Sabbath," came to earth, He observed the Sabbath on the same day the Jews were observing it, thus showing that they had made no mistake in the matter. He rose from the dead on the "first day of the week," which was the day following the "Sabbath day according to the commandment."

Now the Jews have continued to observe the seventh day without change until now, without confusion or dispute in any part of the world, and the people who chose to observe the first day have always kept the day after that observed by the Jews and seventh-day Christians. And that first day has always been the day which the Romans called Sunday, so named before the advent of Christ. So the Roman name Saturday does not in any sense affect the seventh day of the Decalogue. That "Saturday" argument is like a drowning man catching at a straw; but the law of the Lord is not so easily overthrown. G.

Question Corner

By Editor

1720.—Did Christ Have an Advantage Over Us?

Did not Christ have an advantage over us by being sinless during childhood, while the power of sinful habits become so strong in us, before we are converted? We are not as strong to resist evil as we would be, if we had never sinned. Also, we have no record in the Scriptures that Christ was ever sick, while we are often weakened by sickness. Is not this an advantage? Why is it that, having the power that Christ had to live a sinless life, all of His followers have sinned?

When Christ came into this world, He took the body God had prepared Him (Heb. 10:5), into which the evil inheritance of many generations had been poured; for He was made of the seed of David according to the flesh (Rom. 1:3). The strongest sins which the child has to meet are the inherited sins. But whatever our condition may have been, whatever sinful habits we have formed, God takes us just as we are, under the promise that where “sin abounds, grace doth much more abound.” Rom. 5:20. One difficulty is that our faith does not grasp God’s word. First, we do not see sin to be “exceedingly sinful,” as He declares, and thus do not repent of it; and, secondly, as a result, we do not grasp the holiness of God’s law and cause and the necessity of whole-hearted, daily consecration as we ought; and therefore, thirdly, our faith does not appropriate the fulness of God’s keeping promises in Christ Jesus as it should. We do not feed upon the Word, and therefore we grow poor and lean and weak. Would we live the Christ-life; we must surrender, must pray, must appropriate truth, even as Christ did. He is “able to keep us from falling.” Do not look at the human failures, but to the divine fulness which awaits appropriating faith. We are weaker to resist, but is He less strong?

Yes, Christ was sick; for “Himself took our infirmities, and bare our diseases.” Matt. 8:17. “He poured out His soul unto death.” Isa. 53:12. Read, also, the twenty-second, thirty-first, and sixty-ninth psalms. Let us not fear because of our sinfulness or past failures; let us know that He gives to us freely all His “advantages.”

DANGER IN HYPNOTISM.

From day to day we have new revelations of the dangers lurking in hypnotism; but recently there occurred in the city of New York a case which has emphasized the danger of alliance with that Satanic invention. A mother and daughter were found in a state of unconsciousness, and were removed to a hospital. All efforts to arouse them were futile, and they were kept alive for fifteen days by liquid food administered through a tube.

As the physicians were unable to explain the phenomenon, a specialist in hypnotism was called. After investigation, he stated that the two women had hypnotized each other. Both being hypnotized, there was no one to break the spell, and even this specialist found himself unable to accomplish their release from the deadening power. He further stated that he himself had been hypnotized while hypnotizing another, and had only been awakened by the arousing of the other party.

It is only what might justly be expected by the one who yields up his God-given powers to the direction of another power. When we surrender the citadel of the will, we can have nothing to say about who or what shall enter and inhabit there. When the mind and will-power are surrendered, all is surrendered. The evil one can enter and do as he pleases. If he choose to vacate at the command of the hypnotizer, it is but to leave a mind weakened and shattered, and more susceptible than ever to Satanic influences. If every person who is approached by a hypnotist could be made to realize that they are about to throw open the innermost door of the soul to the unopposed entrance of the prince of the powers of darkness, there would be much less hypnotism in the world than there is to-day. But that is what takes place, and that gives Satan a hold upon that individual which he has never had before. There is danger in hypnotism. s.

Labor Unionism

Labor Unionism.—According to labor-union philosophy, more than ninety per cent. of the laboring classes of the United States are only fit to be called "scabs." According to labor-union logic, less than ten per cent. of the laboring people of the country are worthy of any employment whatever—are really fit to live. According to labor-union claim, the privilege of public labor, for which all the people pay, should be restricted to less than ten per cent. of the wage-earners of the land. This little ten per cent., or one-tenth, have the temerity to ask legislative bodies to enact laws giving them special privileges over the other nine-tenths. No trust monopoly ever has asked any more. As the business trust says to the individual manufacturer or dealer, You must come in with us or we will break down your business, so the labor-union trust says to other laborers, You must join the union, or we will keep you from getting any work at all. And the labor-unions pose as the friends of labor! and they claim the inherent right to ruin the prospects of every one who does not support their claims.

SUNDAY LAW IN THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.

By John D. Bradley

BY JOHN D. BRADLEY.

THE Sunday-law issue seems to be gradually creeping into politics. The question of Sunday enforcement against ball-playing and "such other amusements as are now common in the state" is up in the Ohio gubernatorial campaign this year, and, according to a recent despatch from Columbus, "promises to enter largely into it" before it is over. It seems that about the time of the Democratic convention there was considerable comment on the matter, and in his speech of acceptance the Democratic nominee for governor, John M. Pattison, felt called upon to take notice of, and to indicate his attitude on, the question. He declared that he stood just where he stood when, as a state senator, he voted against the repeal of the law prohibiting Sunday baseball and other amusements.

But it seems that since that time Mr. Pattison has had appointed as Democratic campaign manager a man who is part owner of the American League Baseball Club, which plays Sunday games, and secretary of the National Baseball Commission, which countenances Sunday playing. This has moved the State Prohibition Convention to call upon Mr. Pattison to define his sentiments, so that the people may know whether or not the appointment of Bruce, which was made entirely at his instance, is an evidence that he has changed his views upon the Sunday-law matter.

The Columbus despatch states that "whether or not the matter is given any consideration by the Democratic candidate, it will be a factor in the fight, for if he ignores the request to define his position, it is certain that he will lose votes from both sides, while to take a stand means to divorce many votes of the element displeased." And the importance that is being given the question in the campaign is further indicated in the following statement: "It is safe to say that the matter will be kept so prominently before the people that Mr. Pattison can hardly ignore it."

It does not appear that any expression on the Sunday question has come from the Republicans as yet, and tho they are quietly bidding in the present campaign for the support of the "liberal" element, it is probable that there will be none, unless an expression can not be avoided, for the Republicans already have all the opposition that they care for from the Puritan element because of the support given their candidate by the liquor interests.

It is said that "in practically every county in the state some temperance or religious society has 'resolved' against Governor Herrick's re-election." And of course such resolutions would be redoubled if Governor Herrick should openly take a stand for the repeal or non-enforcement of the Sunday law.

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