p. 208 | The American Sentinel, Vol. 15, No. 13. (3/29/1900)

IMPORTED GERMAN BIBLES.

MANY of our German friends prefer the “old country” editions of the Bible to those printed in the United States. We have therefore imported some German Bibles from Hamburg, and we feel sure that those described below will please our SENTINEL readers who use the language of the Fatherland. These are Luther’s translation, and all have references.

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PSALMS.

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of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. 9 ᵃ Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

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Freedom in New Territories

It is being seriously argued to-day even by prominent journals that because the Constitution did not (in the days before the war) of its own force extend slavery into the new territories of the United States, therefore the Constitution does not now of its own force extend freedom to the new territory taken from Spain. Such an argument is altogether fallacious. Slavery did not represent the Constitution or the Government; it was a blot upon the Government. Freedom, on the other hand, is the very essence of the governmental system which the Constitution embodies; and when the Government is extended, freedom, by the force of the Constitution, necessarily goes with it. When men fix their gaze too intently on technicalities, they generally lose sight of the principles which lie at the foundation of the whole subject.

The Julian and Gregorian Calendars

The Russian government, it is reported, is about to issue a decree for the abandonment of the old-style Julian calendar and the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in its stead, which has long been in use by other civilized nations. There is a difference of twelve days between the two systems of reckoning; nevertheless the change from one to the other will not in any way affect the days of the week, notwithstanding the many and emphatic assertions we have heard that the Sabbath must have been lost at the reforms of the calendar instituted by Julius Cæsar and Pope Gregory.

Bound Volumes of the Sentinel

Bound Volumes of the SENTINEL for 1899 are now ready for delivery. Prices as formerly. Cloth with leather back and corners, $2.50. Heavy manila paper, $1.50, postpaid.

Religious Liberty in Ancient Babylon

By Editor

Read the article in this issue by Prof. W. W. Prescott, on religious liberty, as taught by the experience of the greatest king of ancient Babylon. The events are ancient history, but the lessons they teach are as applicable now as they were then.

A Failed Religious Liberty Prosecution

THE effort, in Mississippi, to put two seventh-day observers on trial a second time for the same “offense” after they had been acquitted, in the interests of Sunday observance, met with speedy and complete failure. See p. 194. The people of that State do not countenance such an unjust proceeding, and in any other cause it would probably not have been attempted.

Military Drill and Public Schools

Such accounts as that published on another page relating to a youth in Nebraska who was expelled from the public school for refusing to participate in military drill, and then arrested and dragged into court as a vicious character, although his deportment as a pupil had been uniformly excellent, are not calculated to cause right-minded people to long for the extension of the military spirit and system in this country. As men lose the love of justice, liberty and peace, however, it is but natural that the opposite spirit should take its place.

The Sabbath Brings Rest and Refreshment

THE Sabbath was ordained to give man something more than mere rest; for on the seventh day God “rested and was refreshed.” All that the Creator designed in giving the Sabbath is secured to man through the gospel; but the restraints imposed by legislatures and courts can provide neither rest nor refreshment.

The Art of Self-Government

SELF-GOVERNMENT is a simple art in itself, but civilization has made of it a complex system, altogether beyond the intellectual grasp of the inferior races. But because these people cannot govern themselves after the American system, we need not conclude they cannot govern themselves in any way. Governments are instituted among men to preserve rights and any people who respect human rights are qualified to make a success of self-government.

Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Church

ACCORDING to the returns from the religious census lately taken in Philadelphia, as published in The Independent, out of 239,631 families visited, only twenty-two persons reported themselves as atheists or agnostics. Doubtless Philadelphia contains fewer people of this class proportionately than many sections of the country; yet we are obliged to conclude from these figures that real atheists and agnostics are not numerous anywhere in the United States. A vast number of people do not go to church and seem indifferent about religion; yet they believe in the existence of God. Is the fault theirs? or does it lie at the door of the church?

Religious Teaching in Public Schools

SOME excellent thoughts by The Outlook, relative to the controversy over the question of admitting religious teaching into the public schools, are presented on another page. This question is being widely agitated at the present time, and is one upon which people everywhere need to become well informed.

Self-Government in Kentucky

THE news from Kentucky shows that the faculty of self-government continues to be a lost art in that section of the United States. There seems to be no logical reason why that State should not be benevolently assimilated.

The Designation United States of America

The argument that the “United States of America” is a designation applying only to the States and not to the territory under the Government’s authority, is one that proves altogether too much. See p. 200. And “that which proves too much proves nothing at all.”