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The American Sentinel

Vol. 7, No. 47

December 1, 1892

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  1. ONCE more: In the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed; and the righteousness of God only. And it is the righteousness of God only which the Church of Christ is to know, and which she is to make known to all the world. This is the ministry of the gospel which is committed to the Church of Christ. This righteousness is known only by faith, and revealed only to faith. “Therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith.” “Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe.” Rom. 1: 17, and 3: 22. As, therefore, this righteousness is known only by faith, and is revealed only to faith, it is plain that it is only by abiding steadfast in faithfulness to Christ that the Church can know or make known the righteousness of God which is revealed in the gospel. And the sum of all these counts, and of many more that might be given, is simply to demonstrate over and over that it is only by abiding wholly in Christ, by trusting in him entirely, by depending upon him completely, by perfect faithfulness to him, that the Church can be what she must be in order to do what she is established to do.1 paragraphs
  2. IN accordance with this idea the Church of Christ is represented in the Scriptures as the purest and fairest of women, leaning upon the arm of her beloved; drawn to him with the drawings of his love; her only thought being of her beloved; to her the chiefest among ten thousand and altogether lovely, whose banner over her is love, and who would present her to himself “a glorious church not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Such is the Church to Christ; such is Christ to his Church; and such is the relationship between Christ and his Church.1 paragraphs
  3. THE Lord exalted his Church, and clothed her with the beautiful garments of salvation and righteousness, and the power of godliness, before the eyes of all the nations. He made her exceeding beautiful, and she prospered, and her renown went forth to all the world for her beauty; for it was perfect through His comeliness which He had put upon her. But not satisfied <page-break/> with the exaltation which the Lord gave, which could come and remain only through her own humility, the Church grew haughty and exalted herself. Not content with the beauty of the Lord, which he had put upon her, she prided herself upon her own beauty; and instead of trusting in him for her beauty, she trusted in herself. Not content that God alone should be glorified in her, she glorified herself, and lived deliciously. Then, trusting in herself, priding herself upon her own beauty, magnifying her own merit, and satisfied with her own sufficiency,—this in itself was to put herself in the place of God. Then it was natural enough that she should seek to draw disciples to herself rather than to the Lord. Not only this, but having exalted herself, and magnified herself, and trusting in herself, it was impossible for her to draw disciples to anybody but herself. Thus came the apostasy. And thus, instead of remaining the Church of Christ in truth, manifesting to the world the mystery of God and of godliness, she became, though still professedly the Church of Christ, only the manifestation to the world of the mystery of self and of selfishness, which is the very mystery of iniquity.1 paragraphs
  4. IN the Scriptures the Christian's relationship to Christ is described under the symbol of the marriage tie: “Ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.” Rom. 7: 4. “I have espoused you to one husband.” 2 Cor. 11: 2. And the individual Christian is in this represented as having been espoused “as a chaste virgin to Christ.”1 paragraphs
  5. SUCH individuals gathered in fellowship form the Church of Christ. And the relationship to Christ of such collection of individuals is also described under the symbol of the marriage tie: “Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave himself for it. . . . So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church. . . . For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.” Eph. 5: 25-32.1 paragraphs
  6. AGAIN: The gospel is Christ in men the hope of glory. Col. 1:27. This is what the Church of Christ is to make known to men. No one can make known Christ in men who for himself does not know Christ in himself. It pleased God “to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him.” Gal. 1:16. But Christ dwells in men only by faith: “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.” Eph. 3:17. It is evident, therefore, that the only way in which the Church can make known Christ in men the hope of glory, is to have, and to know, Christ revealed in herself. And as this is only known by faith it is evident that it is only by abiding faithful to Christ that she can know Christ in herself or make him known in men.1 paragraphs
  7. To such a church as this Christ committed his gospel to be by her made known to every creature. It is only such a church as this that can make known the gospel of Christ. That gospel “is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.” Rom. 1: 16. No one can make known that power who does not know that power for himself and in himself. And the Church could make known the power of God only by knowing the power in and for herself. And that power being known only by faith, in the nature of things it is only by abiding faithful to her Lord that the Church could fulfill the work of the gospel committed to her trust.1 paragraphs
  8. Such was the Church of Christ in the beginning. Such is always the Church of Christ indeed. But such neither is nor has been the professed Church of Christ. For there has been an apostasy from Christ and from the true Church of Christ. In the apostles' days the warning was given, “Of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.” Acts 20: 30. And there shall come “a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. . . . For the mystery of iniquity doth already work.” 2 Thess. 2: 3-7.1 paragraphs
  9. VII. POWER SHE MUST HAVE.2 paragraphs
  10. FOLLOWING THE SAME COURSE.Alonzo T. Jones14 paragraphs
  11. THE CHURCH AT ROME.1 paragraphs
  12. FORMED AN ADULTEROUS UNION.2 paragraphs
  13. THE LORD WOULD HAVE HEALED BABYLON.2 paragraphs
  14. The Only Proper Sunday Law.C. P. B.11 paragraphs
  15. Religious Co-operation.C. H. Moscrip12 paragraphs
  16. Would Our Forefathers Blush?K. C. RUSSELL14 paragraphs
  17. Not American after All.C. P. B.14 paragraphs
  18. Paternalism.J. O. BEARD11 paragraphs
  19. Religious or Political—Which?I. J. Hankins12 paragraphs
  20. A Tennesseean Stirred Up.C. P. B.12 paragraphs
  21. Repeal Sunday Closing Legislation.9 paragraphs
  22. THE Chronicle, of Bath, England, on November 3, contained a column and a half report of a sermon from a rector of the established church in defense of church establishment. Following this was a full account of the annual meeting of the Bath branch of the Lord’s Day Observance Society. Immediately succeeding these two articles, <page-break/> was a notice of an address by J. S. Washburn, delivered in the same public Assembly Rooms where the meeting of the Lord’s Day Observance Society was held, on the Book of Daniel, in which the point “especially emphasized was this, that religion always does best when let alone by the civil law.”1 paragraphs
  23. An Old Sunday Law Enforced.8 paragraphs
  24. NATIONAL RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ASSOCIATION.1 paragraphs
  25. A LEADING article in the Arena for December is entitled, “Religious Intolerance in the Republic: Christians Persecuting Christians in Tennessee.”1 paragraphs
  26. The Cincinnati Post of November 18 has the following:—2 paragraphs
  27. Those who have back numbers of THE AMERICAN SENTINEL, Signs of the Times, Review and Herald, Youth’s Instructor, or Little Friend, can have these idle papers put to active use by sending them, post-paid, to A. D. Guthrie, Librarian Seattle Tract and Missionary Society, 309 Poplar Street, Seattle, Washington. The society wishes these papers for its depot and ship work.1 paragraphs
  28. The pastors of the different churches of the city of Atlanta, Ga., met recently and organized an auxiliary of the American Sabbath Union. On the same day a bill was introduced in the Georgia Legislature to make the reading of the Bible in all public schools compulsory.2 paragraphs
  29. In its issue of November 16, under the head, “New Jersey Blue Laws Enforced,” the Daily Times of Middletown, N. Y., has this item from Hackensack, N. J.:—2 paragraphs
  30. The Chicago Herald prefaces a report of an address delivered in the Marlowe Opera House, Englewood, on the afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 6, with this paragraph:—1 paragraphs
  31. A FRIEND in Sierra Leone, says in a private letter that “the ministers of the various denominations and other gentlemen waited on the governor with a memorial, praying for a better observance of the ‘Lord’s day,’ and more especially to prohibit vessels from landing here on Sunday, or to discharge or load their cargoes.” What would be the result of the “praying” to the governor, our correspondent was not able to tell at the time of his writing.2 paragraphs
  32. A GENTLEMAN from South Carolina, a lawyer, who has been reading literature on religious liberty put forth by the Association, writes the following:—6 paragraphs
  33. The Little Schoolmaster in the Art of Advertising:9 paragraphs
  34. USEFUL AND INTERESTING BOOKS FOR BOTH OLD AND NEW SUBSCRIBERS.10 paragraphs
  35. THE NEW BIBLE ATLAS AND GAZETTEER, with 16 colored maps by W. and A. Keith Johnson, and a very elaborate gazetteer, giving information about nearly every place which is marked upon the maps, with scripture references. 4to, cloth, $1.50.3 paragraphs
  36. COPYRIGHTS, etc.)4 paragraphs
  37. Do you know what the Sunday law of your State is? If not, No. 42 of the “Sentinel Library” will tell you, and also give you the principal court decisions under it. Everybody ought to have this pamphlet. Price twenty cents.2 paragraphs
  38. YOUNG PEOPLES' LIBRARY,8 paragraphs
  39. The Board of Control of the Art Student's League, of New York, has brought up the latest phase of the Sunday question, by its proposition to throw open its studios and schools for the study of the nude on Sunday. The expressed intention of the League to give opportunity for its students to avail themselves of instruction seven days in the week, met with some opposition, but that Sunday should be especially devoted to the nude seems to have horrified many more. Why artistic nakedness should be horrifying on Sunday and quite æsthetic on Monday is a question which only the artistically conscientious can solve.1 paragraphs
  40. The Home Missionary in its issue for November makes an earnest plea for the extension of the circulation of THE AMERICAN SENTINEL. Among other things it says: “We are confident that those who have read the stirring articles in recent numbers of THE SENTINEL can not feel indifferent in regard to this matter, or rest content, until its subscription list has been increased by many thousands. Let every one now decide to do what he can for THE SENTINEL. . . . Why should not this work grow until from individual subscriptions and clubs taken, there should be a demand for a regular weekly edition equaling that of the recent ‘special’ of September 22, a round 250,000?”1 paragraphs
  41. The Sun's London letter, of November 12, contains this paragraph:—3 paragraphs
  42. The “Pearl of Days” gives the latest baseball news as follows:—5 paragraphs
  43. THE Mail and Express is alarmed lest Mr. Cleveland should welcome to Washington a Papal nuncio. In its issue of November 17, it said:—6 paragraphs
  44. ANOTHER point of interest in Mr. Moscrip’s article is this:—4 paragraphs
  45. FRANK RUSSELL, D. D., Field Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance, has an article in the Christian at Work of November 10, entitled, “The Church and the Community,” in which he asks, “What is the Church?” and answers his own question in these words:—3 paragraphs
  46. THE Supreme Court of Nebraska has decided that Sunday laws are religious, in these words:—3 paragraphs
  47. “It is remarkable,” says the Signs of the Times, “how many clergymen declare against a union of Church and State, and at the same time advocate religious legislation in the form of Sunday laws, which is a direct invocation of State support of the Church.”1 paragraphs
  48. SPACE is given in another column to an article from the Chicago Tribune in reference to the organized effort now being made to secure the repeal of the Sunday closing proviso attached to the World's Fair appropriation bill. It is already evident that this movement will receive large support. It is very important that it should receive support. But it is of the highest importance that those who throw their influence in its favor should do so intelligently and from proper motives. A compromise usually combines the weakness and the viciousness of both extremes of which it is the mean. It would be so in this case. An unqualified repeal of the Sunday closing act should be demanded. Nothing less can consistently be asked. The petition should also be couched in such language as to show a full realization that this congressional legislation upon religion is unconstitutional. There should also be no reserve in stating the fact, that whatever evil precedent may be cited to the contrary, this, as well as all other religious questions, is totally without the sphere of civil jurisdiction.2 paragraphs
  49. THE article, on another page, “Religious Co-operation,” deals with this question in a refreshingly original style in this age of a wishy-washy sentimentalism that substitutes a sentiment for a principle and then submits to be ruled by it as with a rod of iron.1 paragraphs
  50. This may appear at first sight to be paradoxical, but it is nevertheless true. For instance, the sentiment in favor of so-called church union that we hear so much about, is as attenuated as a Homeopathic remedy and as colorless as the ether that fills all space, yet as Mr. Moscrip shows, those who are ruled by it—are neither modest nor hesitating. They have no doubts of the righteousness of their cause. There is to them no question as to the sincerity, honesty, or principles of those who do not agree with them. Their verdict against them is given with no uncertain sound. Such as do not favor amalgamation are schismatics, sectarians, heretics.1 paragraphs
  51. THERE is nothing more inconsistent, and few things more wicked, than this same thin, weakly, sickly, cringing, but withal intolerant and persecuting sentiment which teaches that it is a matter of indifference what a man believes so long as he does not know exactly what it is, and is ready to ostracize any man who does not fully agree with him.1 paragraphs