The American Sentinel, Vol. 5, No. 24 (June 12, 1890) | AdventAI

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ANOTHER evidence that the workingmen are not crying so loudly for Sunday laws, and that they are not complaining so bitterly of the Egyptian bondage and slavery of being forced to work on Sunday as the Sunday-law advocates claim, is furnished by the Chairman of the Committee of Arbitration in the great Chicago strike which was settled lately. In that, there was no call by the workingmen for the stoppage of Sunday work, there was no complaint about being required to work on Sunday, no demand whatever for any release from Egyptian bondage, nor Sunday labor. There was just this provision in the settlement with regard to Sunday: “Sunday work will be paid for at the rate of double time.” That is, wherever men work on Sunday, they are to have double wages over work done on other days. It is probable that pay for Sunday work has not always been at the rate of double the pay for work on other days; but nearly always more is paid for work on Sunday than on other days. However, whether that be so or not, it is certain that the workingmen are not nearly as anxious about the question of Sunday labor, as the Sunday-law preachers are.1 paragraphs
The Rights of the People.A. T. J.26 paragraphs
“THE Protestants and Catholics of Newburyport, Massachusetts,” says the Converted Catholic, “are quarrelling over the saloon license. Through the efforts of a secret society all the licenses for that town have been granted to so-called Protestants, and Father Teeling, the Roman Catholic priest, has protested against this unfair discrimination.” This item illustrates the impropriety of calling Protestants all who are not Catholics, and of denominating Christian all who are neither Mohammedan nor Pagan. Of course, as the Converted Catholic remarks, these people who have received license to sell liquors are not members of any Protestant church, but it is just as proper to call them Protestants as it is to call Christians hundreds of thousands who are so called.1 paragraphs
A Telling Example.A. T. J.8 paragraphs
Some Statesmanship.W. H. M.24 paragraphs
Why He Sails Under Cover.W. A. Colcord4 paragraphs
The Contest in Wisconsin and Illinois.Editor19 paragraphs
Thrilled the Audience.13 paragraphs
“God in Government”4 paragraphs
A Good Thing Spoiled.3 paragraphs
The Free Exercise of Religion.16 paragraphs
A Modern Inquisitor.2 paragraphs
Selfish and Tyrannical.J. G. Clark4 paragraphs
How Do They Use It?2 paragraphs
A RELIGIOUS paper of Oakland, California, has the following item which contains a thought worth repeating. It says:—2 paragraphs
THE defeat of what is known as the Bennett law, on a direct issue in Milwaukee, shows the danger of carrying unnecessary proscription into the public schools.—Christian at Work.1 paragraphs
THE BEST12 paragraphs
WATERMAN'S IDEAL9 paragraphs
SAFETY PENCIL POCKET8 paragraphs
THE SENTINEL LIBRARY10 paragraphs
GOOD HEALTH10 paragraphs
TEN LECTURES ON NASAL CATARRHJohn Harvey Kellogg8 paragraphs
NEW EDITIONSAlonzo T. Jones22 paragraphs
GOOD FOR ALL TIME!15 paragraphs
CALIFORNIA ♦ TOURISTS!9 paragraphs
FORTUNE!5 paragraphs
ARGUMENTS6 paragraphs
ROMANISM AND CIVIL LIBERTYWilliam Jackson Armstrong4 paragraphs
THE WEST SHORE RAILROADH. B. JAGOE; O. E. LAMBERT9 paragraphs
The Boston Committee of One Hundred, taking their cue from the United States Supreme Court decision upon the Mormon test oath, are now urging that the Roman Catholics shall be disfranchised. They declare:—3 paragraphs
SOME of our exchanges are still repeating the story that the Nun of Kenmare had received subscriptions for a forthcoming book and then “disappeared,” leaving said subscribers with neither their money nor the book. There never was a particle of truth in the story. There was no disappearance of the Nun. She was filling a lecture engagement in Baltimore, in midwinter, when she took a severe cold, which settled in her throat, affecting it so that she was compelled to break off her engagement, and by the positive direction of physicians go to Florida for her health. But at no time did she disappear, for her publishers as well as her friends knew all the time where she was. Yet her enemies seized upon this circumstance, and, being virtually in control of the press of the country, made it tell for all they could against her. Besides this, when she found that her book would be delayed, she wrote personally from Florida to each subscriber, offering to return the money if he did not want to wait longer than was at first expected for the book. Her enemies however, knowing well that a sensational story stands a much better chance of wide circulation through the daily press than the truth can possibly secure, made the fullest use of their opportunity.Editor2 paragraphs
SOME men are bound to get to the front no matter what it costs; notoriety they will have in one way or another, as is just now strikingly exemplified in the case of Senator Blair, whose picture and name figure prominently in a patent medicine advertisement in several papers. In years to come when it shall be asked, Who was H. W. Blair? the answer will be, He is the man who was cured by Dr. Blank's Wild Cherry and Sarsaparilla Troches.1 paragraphs
AMONG the many petitions for a national Sunday law presented to Congress during the present session, is one from “one hundred and two citizens of Massachusetts, praying for the better observance of the Sabbath.” The query naturally arises, If these petitioners really desire better Sabbath observance why do they not observe it better? There is no law in this country against any man’s observing any day just as well as he wishes to. It would be just as appropriate to petition Congress for better attendance at church, or for more regularity in family worship, or for less formality in giving thanks when sitting down to dinner. There is really no difference between petitions to Congress asking for a national Sunday law, and petitions “praying for the better observance of the Sabbath;” the latter, however, show more plainly the wish of the petitioners, namely, the legal enforcement of a religious institution.1 paragraphs
Miss Mary F. Lathrop, of the Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union, is now on a visit to the Pacific Coast, in the interest of Christian temperance. She met a rather hot reception from some of the partisans of the partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In an address in the First Congregational Church, Oakland, Sunday evening, May 25, she referred to this, and read a letter which she had received from a preacher, before she started for the Coast. In the letter the preacher said to her:—5 paragraphs
THE Christian Statesman of April 24, copies from the illustrated Christian Weekly, an article by the Rev. Robert F. Sample, D. D., in which he says that “patriotism is a Christian virtue.” We have read the New Testament through several times, and we never yet discovered this amongst the Christian virtues. One list of these virtues is as follows: “The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.” Another list gives these: “Faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity.” Patriotism is not amongst these, nor is it anywhere mentioned in the New Testament amongst the Christian virtues. How Mr. Sample found it out therefore, when it is not written, we should like to know. Will Mr. Sample give his authority? or, will the Christian Statesman give the authority for the statement?Editor1 paragraphs
WE have on hand a few volumes of THE AMERICAN SENTINEL for 1889, neatly and substantially bound in half roan, which we will send to any address, post paid, for two dollars per volume. These volumes are very cheap at the price. Order at once if you want one, for we have only a very limited number.Editor1 paragraphs