American Sentinel, Vol. 8, No. 12 (March 23, 1893) | AdventAI

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The powers of evil, heretofore in the world's history, have used the grosser forms of force and violence, but now the subtlest deceptions conceivable by the mind of the master of all deceivableness, have been developed, and a capacity for a higher intensity of action has been gained. The results of this are already seen and will continue to be manifested to a greater and still to a greater degree. The seed which was sown by the wicked one long ago has grown under his fostering care so luxuriantly, and in such perfect semblance to the wheat itself, that many can not distinguish the tares from the good grain.4 paragraphs
FROM the desire for liberty to its possession is an upward step, but this is the pinnacle; there is but one step from the possession of liberty to the desire for power, this is a downward step. Through ambition the angels fell; by it the covering cherub lost his high estate; how then could feeble humanity, whatever its Christian profession, expect to gain by that through which heavenly power was lost? When once the unholy lust for power has entered into the heart of the church the satanic poison has begun its work and still that is a fallen church, no less than is Lucifer a fallen angel. The fallen angel and the fallen church will be kindred spirits, and they will work the same works.1 paragraphs
Now, however, having gained numbers, wealth, popularity, it is no longer content to remain dependent but by right of its acknowledged spiritual authority must claim temporal power. That the attempt to enforce this claim should be made under existing conditions is natural, logical, historical, and so, inevitable, <page-break/> except the tide of time and the nature of man should be reversed, and all mankind come, like Nicodemus, to the feet of the Lord to be taught of him, and be born again of the Spirit into righteousness.W. H. M.2 paragraphs
Civil liberty is a product of the gospel. To demand complete freedom for himself is natural to every man; but to deny to all others the same liberty which he so earnestly desires for himself is just as natural. To the unregenerate man liberty means freedom from authoritative control coupled with the possession of despotic power over all other men.1 paragraphs
FREEDOM to enslave, liberty to exercise the right of might, the gospel of force, this only can the natural man understand, the possession of this only satisfies him. What freedom really is—actual liberty—is alone comprehended by the spiritual man. Before the understanding of this paradox of freedom through subjection can enter the mind of man, he must first have talked with God, as did Nicodemus; and, being taught of the Lord, have learned the mystery of regeneration.1 paragraphs
IF there have been those who unreservedly espoused the cause of civil liberty and human rights, pure and simple, while seemingly antagonizing Christianity, by denying its power and authority as exemplified in the minds, hearts and lives, of their contemporaries, it was because they unconsciously followed in the steps of Christ and but needed some one, like another Paul to the Athenians, to preach to them the God whom they ignorantly worshiped. Who will say that the Athenian who knelt at the altar of the unknown god was not nearer to the kingdom of God than the Pharisee, the dust of whose city Paul had shaken from his feet?1 paragraphs
THE day is past when the stern and hardy pagan may think to stay the progress of the gospel by hurling the gauntlet of his defiance in its path—he could never bring it to single combat at all, for those who carried the Word of the Lord of Hosts, though alone, were supported by the hosts of those who wait upon their Lord to do his bidding. Their armed hordes have disappeared like the frost before the morning sun; and the pagan sword and the paynim spear have been replaced by the pen of the subtle writer; while the voices of the captains of thousands now ring from the public platform, and the pulpit, marshalling the forces of evil to the final conflict.1 paragraphs
As Lucifer sought supreme authority, eternal in the heavens, so when the spirit of worldly ambition has entered the Church it seeks temporal authority supreme on earth. This is but the natural course for human weakness to take, when it has forgotten to subject itself in child-like humility to divine leading. When the time has come that the clergy can arrogate to itself the possession of the trained intellectuality of the world sanctified by a superior spirituality in its own conceit, then is the time that it will set up its claim to rule the world, as Satan, drunk with a consciousness of his own beauty and supernal intelligence, coveted divine supremacy in the heavens. These two, then, having purposes which complement each other and tend to the same end, become natural allies, and the human power and intelligence becomes the dupe and the tool of the supernatural subtlety to work its purposes on the earth.1 paragraphs
Civil Grounds of Religious Intolerance.C. P. B.19 paragraphs
The Final Record of the First Religious Congress of the United States.60 paragraphs
True to Their Principles.13 paragraphs
Sunday Legislation in Maine.M. G. HUFFMAN18 paragraphs
Curious Ideas of Liberty.2 paragraphs
A Congressman's Protest.17 paragraphs
Let Us Encourage Them.7 paragraphs
What Principle?Grant Adkins10 paragraphs
Dr. Talmage and the Greek Church.A. SMITH9 paragraphs
Complete DictionaryRight Rev. Samuel Fallows5 paragraphs
SACRED CHRONOLOGY.Sylvester Bliss11 paragraphs
The Munson Typewriter10 paragraphs
SMITH'S DICTIONARY of the BIBLE.9 paragraphs
THE BATTLE CREEK SANITARIUM13 paragraphs
ATTRACTIVE TRUTHS IN LESSON AND STORY.6 paragraphs
IN Our Day, for March, Mr. Crafts makes this confession:— We observe with shame that scarcely any petitions are now going to Congress in regard to the exclusion of liquors [from the World's Fair], although this was asked by the great evangelical national bodies, representing forty millions of our population, and the Catholic Total Abstinence Society besides, and could be carried to victory like the Sabbath closing if the action of national bodies should be followed up by a snow-storm of letters to senators and congressmen.2 paragraphs
A CORRESPONDENT writes from Grand Island, Florida, of the intolerant spirit manifested at that place in reference to the teachings of the Seventh-day Adventists. A minister of that denomination has been holding meetings there for several weeks, which aroused the Methodists to call some of their ablest ministers from other parts of the State and make appointments to refute the scriptural doctrine as it had been presented. When the Seventh-day Adventist announced that he would review these Methodist ministers, there appeared the next morning, on the bulletin board, in the village post-office,—the most public notice that could have been given,—the following:—6 paragraphs
Do not fail to read, "True to Their Principles," printed on page ninety-two. It is a protest by the Seventh-day Adventists against religious legislation on their own behalf in Tennessee.1 paragraphs
“The Fifty-second Congress, which expired by limitation on March 4, will not be remembered,” says the Observer of this city, “as a body of great accomplishments.” This is a cruel and ungrateful thing, for a paper which has all along advocated Sunday closing, to say of the first National Religious Congress of the United States.1 paragraphs
A DISPATCH to the New York Times, states that there is a religious war in Columbus, Ohio, between a Protestant faction and the Catholics over elections to the school board. The American Protective Association, representing Protestants, will undertake to control the election next month. This association has been denounced by Dr. Washington Gladden.1 paragraphs
A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Pilot, writing of the Catholic Congress to be held in Chicago early in September, says:4 paragraphs
THE Colorado Sun, of February 5, has this pertinent paragraph:—3 paragraphs
It is a strange idea that some people have that civil law is based upon the Decalogue, and that though the State has no right to define or enforce religious obligation, it is not only its right but its duty, to legislate upon that portion of the divine law that defines social duties. The fact is that civil rights and a practical recognition of them long antedate the giving of the law upon Mount Sinai. Inalienable rights are God-given, and the inherent sense of them is God-implanted; so that it was always true, as set forth in the Declaration of Independence, that “it is a self-evident truth that all men are created equal;” and “that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”1 paragraphs
ANY mother of little children sending a list of twenty young mothers to the Kindergarten Literature Co., Woman's Temple, Chicago, will receive a copy of the beautiful new Kindergarten magazine for children, called Child-Garden. It is the most practical magazine in the nursery. $1 per year.1 paragraphs
Battle Creek Sanitarium Health Foods4 paragraphs
AMERICAN SENTINEL.11 paragraphs