The American Sentinel, Vol. 7, No. 10 (March 10, 1892) | AdventAI

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GOD is the great moral Governor; to him every soul is responsible; to him every free moral agent must give account. To permit any power whatever to come between the individual and God, would destroy this individual responsibility to God. If it were the province of the State to enforce the law of God, the individual would naturally seek to know, not the will of God, but the will of the State. And the effect would be to put the State in the place of God, just as the Papacy puts the Pope in the place of God, "so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." But God has no vicegerent upon earth.1 paragraphs
More Judicial Legislation in Tennessee.W. H. M.26 paragraphs
GOD gives manhood but one clew to success—equal and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency. Deviate one hair’s breadth—plant only the tiniest seed of concession—you know not how “many branches of mischief” shall grow therefrom.—Wendell Phillips.Wendell Phillips1 paragraphs
We must remember that if we would maintain our free institutions, we must protect the rights of minorities, and insure to them every privilege and immunity that is accorded the majority, and that every man’s rights must be protected whether he stands alone or with the Nation. We must remember, too, the tendency of mankind to enforce upon others their opinions and their customs.—W. A. Blakely.W. A. Blakely1 paragraphs
THE morality as derived from religion which the State needs will be best supplied by the confinement of its agency to things temporal and the entire omission on its part of any attempt to administer things spiritual. The State can do religion no favor so great as to have nothing to do with it, and itself no favor so great as to let religion alone. The moment the two are put in alliance with each other both are injured.—Samuel T. Spear, D.D.Samuel T. Spear, D.D.1 paragraphs
Is It the Sabbath?C. P. B.18 paragraphs
Specious Reasoning.W. A. Colcord9 paragraphs
“THE law of love being the foundation of the government of God, the happiness of all intelligent beings depends upon their perfect accord with its great principles of righteousness. God desires from all his creatures the service of love,—service that springs from an appreciation of his character. He takes no pleasure in a forced obedience; and to all he grants freedom of will, that they may render him voluntary service.”1 paragraphs
Sunday at the World's Fair.3 paragraphs
“Pagan or Christian.”W. S. C.8 paragraphs
This extract from the proceedings of the Ohio Legislature published in the State Journal, Columbus, February 25, shows how little the legislative mind comprehends the true principle at issue in these bills involving religious questions:—4 paragraphs
A DIFFERENCE of opinion seems to have arisen in Minneapolis, Minnesota, between the city council and the Sabbath Union and the Law and Order League. The life of the Sunday-closing ordinance there has been short. The committee to whom the matter was referred in the council made this report:—6 paragraphs
The minister of religion should inculcate correct principles, should insist upon honesty in every walk of life, but when he attempts to coerce voters by threats of the Divine wrath, or even to influence them in a certain direction by threatening them with his own or the church’s displeasure, he abuses his sacred office and arrays himself on the side of religious despotism. It matters not even if, in a given case, the minister’s views are correct as to the better political course to pursue, the principle remains unchanged; and it should be insisted upon by free people everywhere that ecclesiastics, as such, shall keep out of politics.1 paragraphs
It is reported that petitions are being industriously circulated in Canada, asking that the Canadian Government order its exhibit at the World's Fair closed on Sunday.1 paragraphs
The “Pearl of Days” reports that “the Legislature of Ohio by a decided vote—fifty-four in the affirmative and twenty in the negative—has requested the Commissioners of the Columbian Exposition, in Chicago, to keep the gates closed on Sunday.”1 paragraphs
The question of teaching religion in the public schools is one that will not down. The advocates of a national religion are of course logical and consistent in attempting to use State and national means for its promulgation. That California is feeling the premonitions of a coming agitation of this subject is shown by the following editorial item from the Grass Valley Union:—1 paragraphs
On Wednesday, March 2, the Committee on Corporations, of the New Jersey Legislature, to which questions in reference to the World's Fair had been referred, gave a hearing upon the closing of the World's Fair on Sunday. There were present about twenty-five persons, mostly clergymen and members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Three members of the Legislature attended the hearing. The purpose of the gathering was to ask that a resolution be presented to the Legislature, and passed, expressing it as the opinion of the Legislature of New Jersey that the World's Fair should be closed on Sundays. Rev. Geo. S. Mott led the delegation and gave a detailed history of the practice of previous expositions, in this and other countries, and upon the precedents quoted based his request for legislative action in the case of the Exposition at Chicago. Mr. Mott attempted to put his plea entirely upon a civil basis, but Jas. S. Ford, and Mr. Taylor, of Belvidere, who followed him, being less instructed in the sophistries of the subject, made a religious plea that the Legislature should voice the views of the churches and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in regard to Sunday closing.2 paragraphs
NATIONAL Religious Liberty Association17 paragraphs
SMITH'S Dictionary of the Bible.5 paragraphs
FOUND AT LAST!7 paragraphs
Such communications as this, published in the “Pearl of Days,” show the progress of the popular movement for the recognition of Sunday throughout the world. The French Popular League is wiser in its generation than the American Sabbath Union and avoids committing itself in so many words to the civil enforcement of Sunday regulations, nevertheless they are affiliated organizations with the same general purpose in view:—8 paragraphs
UNDER the title “Mass Meeting of the Wicked,” the Mail and Express, of February 27, publishes a “special” from Chicago, as follows:—5 paragraphs
The rare ability of the author in the presentation of Scripture truth has never been used to better advantage than in this little work. “Steps to Christ” is not alone suitable as a guide to the inquirer and young convert, but is rich in thought and suggestion for the most mature Christian. Some idea of its scope and practical character may be gathered from the following table of5 paragraphs
THE CHRISTIAN'S SECRETHannah Whitall Smith8 paragraphs
CHURCH AND STATEPhilip Schaff7 paragraphs
IN THE HEART OF THE SIERRASJ. M. Hutchins9 paragraphs
USEFUL AND INTERESTING BOOKS FOR BOTH OLD AND NEW SUBSCRIBERS.10 paragraphs
IN commenting upon the proposed Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the Christian at Work says: “This amendment forbids any appropriation of public moneys to sectarian purposes. . . . Its adoption would at once solve the vexed public-school question in every State in the Union. It would also render the introduction or passage of such measures as the Freedom-of-Worship Bill impossible.”7 paragraphs
THE bill to authorize an appropriation of seventy thousand dollars a year to maintain the Metropolitan Museum of Art and keep it open on Sundays, has passed our State Senate. “It ought soon to become law,” says the World, “and there is little doubt that it will.”1 paragraphs
NEVER before were the advocates of religious legislation so active or so aggressive as now. Both Congress and the several State Legislatures are being fairly deluged with petitions asking for legislation of a religious character. The most of these petitions are concerning Sunday.1 paragraphs
As might have been expected, disestablishment of the Church of Wales has been defeated in Parliament. In that country the Established Church is greatly in the minority, but it has the advantage of being entrenched in the law, and so by brute force, holds the whole country under tribute to it. However, with the election of a new Parliament, which can not be long delayed, disestablishment may come.1 paragraphs
A good deal is being said by both press and pulpit on the subject of marriage and divorce, and the religious press especially is deploring the great increase in the number of divorces granted. The remedy is supposed to be in the direction of a national divorce law, or at least in the amendment of the divorce laws of the several States. But this never can correct the real difficulty. The fault is not in the laws but in the morals of the people. A change in the laws might make fewer divorces but it would not remove the immorality which gives rise to divorces. It is well to have good marriage and divorce laws; it is better to have good morals. Legislatures can make the laws: individuals alone can cultivate the morals.1 paragraphs
A READER asks to be advised as to the propriety of signing the following pledge, which is being circulated very extensively at the instance of the Voice, of this city:—3 paragraphs
COLERIDGE defines morality thus: “Morality is the body, of which the faith in Christ is the soul.” What folly then to talk of enforcing morality by civil law.1 paragraphs
It is a contradiction to let a man be free, and force him to do right.—F. W. Robertson.F. W. Robertson1 paragraphs