The American Sentinel, Vol. 7, No. 22 (June 2, 1892) | AdventAI

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In a speech in a meeting, in Omaha, recently held in the interest of Sunday observance, Bishop Ninde expressed the opinion that there is little use to expect the people to keep the Sabbath holy until the church has won the masses to Christianity. He wanted to see the ministers get hold of the masses. There are people who make light of popular preachers, but he is ready at all times to take off his hat to the man who can draw the masses to hear the word of God. The church should go after the millions, no matter what their condition is. The churches of the present day have gotten into the habit of shifting along to keep up with the rich, instead of going after the masses everywhere and under all circumstances. He believes that if the churches would take hold in earnest and work for the salvation and conversion of every rank and class of humanity, the great Sabbath question would soon solve itself. The Bishop was loudly applauded, but just the same the usual appeal was made to the arm of flesh in the shape of a demand for enforced Sunday rest.1 paragraphs
In giving a history of Plymouth Colony, Mass., Governor Bradford concludes the record of 1621, thus:—3 paragraphs
SPEAKING to the resolution before the Methodist General Conference, in Omaha, in favor of closing the World's Fair on Sunday, Dr. F. D. Blakeslee, a delegate from the New England Southern Conference, said:—4 paragraphs
A PITTSBURG paper asserts that on a recent Sunday, Law and Order spies tried to keep the employes of a circus, that happened to be in the city, from feeding the animals. “Nothing,” it remarks, “is too mean for the emissaries of Mr. McClure.”1 paragraphs
It is stated that Rev. Anna Shaw was asked to speak at the temperance convention in Boston on the question of opening the World's Fair on Sunday. But the lady had a mind of her own, and promptly replied: “You had better not call on me, for I don't believe in playing into the devil's hands by making Sunday a dull day. I am in favor of opening the Fair on the people's chief holiday.”2 paragraphs
“THE approaching summer,” says the Congregationalist (Boston), “will find hundreds of trains running over the railroads of our State every Sunday. Some of these trains will be used wholly for business purposes, but most will be filled with pleasure seekers, and will be arranged to secure this patronage. It is only just to say that on these trains will be some religious people bound on distinctly religious errands. If our Sunday trains existed only to accommodate notoriously wicked people they would hardly be called a problem.”3 paragraphs
At Washington.24 paragraphs
The petitioning of Congress for the closing of the World's Fair on Sunday still continues with unabated zeal. The Methodist Conference at Omaha telegraphed the President and Senate that about one-sixth of the population of the United States asked, through them, that Congress should take some action to close the Fair gates on Sunday, or at least should make that the condition of further appropriations. The claim of numbers, which the Methodists thus officially make, absorbs the entire church membership, of all denominations, in the United States, outside of the Roman Catholic Church. These religious legislationists are phenomenally blind to the patent misrepresentations which they make. They seem to think that if they say it is so, then it is so, whether it is so or not, and what is more they expect others to agree with them.2 paragraphs
FOR the furtherance of the organized effort to attain national and municipal righteousness by legal enactment and enforcement it has been quite the custom of late to bring to bear upon Washington, in the hope that some stray shot may hit a congressman, all the heavy artillery possible among the legal religionists. A masked battery of their forces having been lately uncovered in New York, in the person of Dr. Parkhurst, he was immediately invited to the Capital and spoke to an overflowing congregation at the Church of the Covenant, on the evening of May 16. Dr. Parkhurst's rhetorical style is quite “Kiplingesque,” sharp, biting, unique. His sentences were spear thrusts barbed with unexpected epithets. This unlooked for originality of thought and method seemed to catch his audience, which was fairly representative of Washington society in general, although there were but very few lawmakers and officials present; even those who lent their names to the public invitation being conspicuously absent. The exordium of the discourse was a studied philosophical presentation of the National Reform theory of the municipal and national responsibility of a Christian nation, in which he talked about saving men “in their social and civil inter-relation,” and reached the climax of that idea when he described Heaven as “a redeemed commonwealth.” According to his theory one of the last of the duties of the Church is the conversion of the individual. He says,W. H. M.10 paragraphs
Theory vs. Practice.J. W. Scoles.9 paragraphs
Sunday Closing of the World’s FairW. A. Blakely17 paragraphs
‘LEGAL religion is the mother of illegal and unchristian laws. Illegal law brings anarchy and misrule. Legal religion is the enemy of equity and Christianity.1 paragraphs
Why Not Appeal to Principle?W. H. M.9 paragraphs
No Righteousness by Law.J. O. JOHNSTON7 paragraphs
A False Appeal to Principle.W. H. M.7 paragraphs
The Sabbath Union at Omaha.L. A. HOOPES.10 paragraphs
Principles of American Government—Personal Rights.Publius7 paragraphs
NATIONAL RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ASSOCIATION25 paragraphs
Sunday Ninety Years Ago.6 paragraphs
Cause for Alarm.4 paragraphs
They Are Proud of It.5 paragraphs
Sunday Observances. -3 paragraphs
SACRED CHRONOLOGY.Sylvester Bliss10 paragraphs
THE6 paragraphs
CRUDEN'S CONCORDANCE,6 paragraphs
THE CHRISTIAN'S SECRETHannah Whitall Smith7 paragraphs
The above named books will be sent post-paid on receipt of price.3 paragraphs
HEALTH FOODS.17 paragraphs
AT the annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, May 18, held in St. Paul's Cathedral, Garden City, L. I., a special committee on Sunday observance handed in its report. After it was read lay delegate James B. Cooper, of Babylon, who is Justice of the Peace in that town, took the floor. He said he did not believe in the church sanctioning any measures to suppress the violation of the Sunday laws in Long Island City and other towns in Queens County. Justice Cooper said further that the people who flock to Long Island towns on Sundays were principally working people, and that was the only day they had for recreation. They probably drank poor whisky and worse beer, he said, but they were certainly no worse than the rich people who went off on their yachts on Sunday and drank champagne at ten dollars a bottle.2 paragraphs
THE Catholic Review, of May 28, has the following note:—3 paragraphs
The House of Representatives, in Committee of the whole, has passed an amendment to the bill appropriating money for the Government exhibit at the World's Fair, conditioning the appropriation on Sunday closing of the Fair by a vote of 107 to 51.1 paragraphs
THE following from the Christian Statesman, of April 16, shows about how much the editor of that paper believes the theory he, in working up sentiment for Sunday laws, tries to get other people to believe, that physical rest one day in seven is a law of nature, and necessary alike to man and beast. He says:—3 paragraphs
THE Western Pennsylvania Sabbath Association, so-called, at its meeting in Pittsburg, March 29, adopted a resolution strongly commending the Commercial Gazette of that city for not issuing a Sunday edition. Referring to this fact the Christian Nation says:—3 paragraphs
A DISPATCH in the Chicago Tribune of the 13th ult., is headed, “Can Saturday be Sunday?” The thing is of course quite impossible, but not so with that which gave rise to the question. The facts are briefly stated as follows in the dispatch:—3 paragraphs
THE Toledo, Ohio, American is responsible for this paragraph:—3 paragraphs
A MEMBER of the Methodist Conference at Omaha, is reported by the New York Christian Advocate as saying; “The heart of this Nation is Christian. The American heart is a Christian heart.” To be Christian is to be Christlike, or like Christ. Therefore to say that one has a Christian heart is to say that he is like Christ, or, in other words, that he is a Christian, and that, not in any accommodated sense, but in deed and in truth. Does anybody believe this is true of this Nation?1 paragraphs