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Review and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 23.

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Review and Herald

Jun 9, 1903

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 9, 1903

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The Life and Epistles of St. Paul

BY CONYBEARE AND HOWSON
Bound in cloth, 12mo, $1, postpaid
Our “Sketches of the Life of Paul,” being out of print, we offer the “Life and Epistles of Saint Paul,” by Conybeare and Howson, as a substitute. This book will prove to be of great value in the study of the present Sabbath-school lessons.

Prophetic Charts

We have a series of prophetic charts, seven in number, each of which is finely lithographed on muslin. These charts are large—31 x 44 inches. And instead of crowding everything into one chart, each line of prophecy is illustrated on a separate sheet. This serves to keep the mind of the listener upon the subject under consideration. The lecturer will find the charts well adapted for large audiences. The Bible worker, also, can use them to good advantage.
Number one of the series, shows Nebuchadnezzar’s image, standing three feet high, appropriate colors distinguishing the four nations.
Number two presents the four beasts of Daniel 7.
The ram, and the he-goat with the notable horn between his eyes, dwell together peaceably on the third chart.
The central part of the next sheet is occupied by the sanctuary, showing the position and the proportionate size of the two apartments; and the table of showbread, the golden candlestick, the altar of incense, and the ark, overshadowed by the cherubim, all stand in their respective places. Above and below the sanctuary are diagrams explaining the different sections of the twenty-three hundred days.
The space of another chart is divided between the seven-headed, ten-horned dragon of Revelation 12, and the leopard beast and the two-horned beast of Revelation 13.
Number six: The three angels of Revelation 14, flying one after the other, in the midst of heaven, shed their light over city and country, land and sea, dispelling the gross darkness which covers the earth.
A ten-commandment chart, the regular retail price of which is $1, completes the set.
Sold only in unbroken sets.
But few of our workers are familiar with the merits of these charts. We quote from a letter just received from one who has secured a set of these charts:—
“The charts received. I am very much pleased with them. I feel sure that if our laborers generally were acquainted with this series, they would prefer them to any other charts on the prophecies.”
The special price of the set, postpaid, is $2.50. The regular price is $4.
Order of the Review and Herald Publishing Company, Battle Creek, Mich.

Education

BY MRS. E. G. WHITE
321 pages, beautifully bound in three-color cover design; price, $1.25.
Education in its entirety, covering all phases. Especially prepared for parents, teachers, and students. Excellent for all classes. The great principles of Christian education are clearly set forth, and invaluable counsel for the education of the youth is placed within the reach of all.
In answer to the question, “What is education?” and in defining its source, we quote a few sentences from the first chapter of the book:—
“Our ideas of education take too narrow and too low a range. There is need of a broader scope, a higher aim. True education means more than the perusal of a certain course of study. It means more than a preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole being, and the whole period of existence possible to man. It is the harmonious development of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual powers. It prepares the student for the joy of service in this world, and for the higher joy of wider service in the world to come.”
“The Source of such an education is brought to view in these words of Holy Writ, pointing to the Infinite One: In him ‘are hid all the treasures of wisdom.’ ‘He hath counsel and understanding.’”
Order of the State Tract Societies, or of the Review and Herald Publishing Company, Battle Creek, Mich.

The Place of the Bible in Education

BY A. T. JONES
248 pages, in paper and cloth bindings, 25 and 75 cents, postpaid.
One of the new books just out. An excellent volume to study in connection with “Education.” Its chapter divisions are as follows:—
Christian Education; The World’s Education; The Essentials of Knowledge; The Secret of the Great Apostasy; The Greek or “Scientific Method” Today; The Separation of Christianity and the State; The Bible’s Right to Supreme Place in Christian Education; The Education of Daniel; What Was Taught in the Schools of the Prophets; The Study of Wisdom; The Study of Knowledge; The Study of Science; The Study of Mental Science; The Study of Moral Science; The Study of Physical Science; The Study of Physical Science—Anatomy; The Study of Physical Science—Healing; The Study of Physical Science—Physical Culture; Literature, History, Law, Logic; The Failures of Popular Education.
Order of the State Tract Societies, or of the Review and Herald Publishing Company, Battle Creek, Mich.

Desire of Ages

BY MRS. E. G. WHITE
This is an intensely interesting and instructive volume on the life of Christ, magnifying the truth that “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself.”
In the hearts of all mankind, of whatever race or station in life, there are inexpressible longings for something they do not now possess. This longing is implanted in the very constitution of man, by a merciful God, that man may not be satisfied with his present conditions or attainments. It is God’s design that this longing of the human heart should lead to the One who alone is able to satisfy it. The desire is of him, that it may lead to him, the fullness and fulfillment of that desire. That fullness is found in Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the eternal God. “For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.” “For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” And it is also true that “in him ye are made full” with respect to every desire divinely implanted and normally followed.
It is the purpose of this book to set forth Jesus Christ as the one in whom every longing may be satisfied; to present the love of God as revealed in his Son, the divine beauty of the life of Christ, of which all may partake, and not to satisfy the desires of the merely curious, nor the questionings of critics. Even as by the attraction of his own goodness of character Jesus drew his disciples unto himself, and by his personal presence, by his sympathetic touch and feeling in all their infirmities and needs, and by his constant association, transformed their characters from the earthly to the heavenly, from the selfish to the sacrificing, from small-hearted ignorance and prejudice to large-hearted knowledge and love for the souls of all nations and races, even so it is the purpose of this book so to present the blessed Redeemer as to help the reader to come to him face to face, heart to heart, and to find in him, even as did the disciples of old, Jesus, the Mighty One, who saves to the uttermost, and transforms to his own divine image all those who come unto God by him.
The “Desire of Ages” will interest all classes, for they were all represented in the various individuals who received help and encouragement from the great Consoler while he was here upon earth. This book should be in every home in the land. If you do not have it, secure a copy now, and after you have read it, loan it to your neighbors. A thousand canvassers should be selling it. Read what is said in the Silent Messengers department concerning the success that is attending the efforts of those who are engaged in its circulation. It contains nearly 900 pages, and is sold at the following prices:—
Popular edition, thin paper, narrow edges, cloth, plain edges......$2 50 Cloth, marbled edges............................3 50 Cloth, gilt edges..............................4 25 Library, marbled edges........................5 00 Full morocco, gilt edges.......................7 00
Order of the State Tract Societies, or of the Review and Herald Publishing Company, Battle Creek, Mich.

Feeding on the Word

By Editor

Editorial

Feeding on the Word

THERE is only one way of sustaining life, and that is by eating. No talk about food, however interesting it may be, will take the place of the actual taking of food. And the one provision which has been made for sustaining both the physical and the spiritual nature is the Word of God. This will be clear from a brief study of the question. It is plain that the original diet of man, as described in Gen. 1:29, was seeds and fruits. But these are simply the word of God in material forms, adapted to the physical system and its power of appropriation. “The seed is the word of God.” He who eats the original diet eats the word of God. The physical system is able to appropriate the word in this form, and by it to be built up and strengthened. In the same way the mind is able to appropriate the word in its immaterial form, and by it to be built up and strengthened. It was therefore no mere figure of speech which the prophet Jeremiah used when he said, “Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart.” In the light of these principles, the teaching of Christ, who was himself the Word of God, becomes simple and clear: “I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. . . . As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.” “The words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.” Christ the Word is our life. Of him we must partake. “Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.” We must take time to eat the good food which the Lord has provided for both the physical and the spiritual nature.

Hands Toward Heaven

WHEN Israel fought against Amalek, “it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.” In order to make victory sure, “Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side,” and Amalek and his people were discomfited. There is a gospel lesson in this experience. The hands uplifted to heaven were an expression of dependence upon the God of heaven for the help needed in the battle. The advantage which the enemy gained when Moses was no longer able to keep his hand uplifted to heaven emphasized the weakness of the flesh unless energized by divine power. The final discomfiture of Amalek when the hands of Moses were continually extended toward heaven, set forth the certainty of victory for those who depend upon divine power. These things were written for our learning. We are wholly dependent upon the power of God in the conflict with evil. “Without me ye can do nothing.” But when we avail ourselves of the abundant power offered through the gift of Jesus, there is the certainty of victory. “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” In these closing days of the great controversy we need the fullness of power in the daily experience. We must keep our hands extended toward heaven.

The Hour of Trial

JUST before the coming of Christ there is to be “the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.” This is the final test of the church. The result of this trial determines the destiny of those who pass through it. Only the fullness of the grace of Christ will be sufficient for this experience. Only a faith which appropriates the complete provision of the gospel will meet the demand of this time. But just this fullness which is needed is provided in the threefold message which is sent to the church in this generation. The final message prepares the church for the final experience. In this last generation the direct issue is concerning the commandments of God. The question to be settled is whether we will receive the seal of God or the mark of the beast, whether we will observe the true Sabbath of the Lord or the spurious sabbath of the papacy. Here is where the whole controversy will center in this closing generation, and the threefold message is to make this clear to the world, and also to reveal the all-sufficient grace for successfully meeting this test. Only those in whose hearts the law of God is written, through the ministry of our High Priest in their behalf, will be able to reveal that law in their characters during the hour of trial. “Because thou didst keep the word of my steadfastness, I also will keep thee.” “I will put my laws on their heart, and upon their mind also will I write them.” “So shall I observe thy law continually forever and ever.”

“In the Beloved”

God made man a little lower than the angels, but man fell much lower by his sin. Now he is far separated from God, but he is to be brought back again. Jesus Christ came to do that work; and in order to do it, he came, not where man was before he fell, but where man was after he fell. This is the lesson of Jacob’s ladder. It rested on the earth where Jacob was, but the topmost round reached to heaven. When Christ comes to help man out of the pit, he does not come to the edge of the pit and look over, and say, Come up here, and I will help you back. If man could help himself up to the place from which he fell, he could do all the rest. If he could help himself one step, he could help himself all the way; but it is because man is utterly ruined, weak, and wounded and broken to pieces, in fact, perfectly helpless, that Jesus Christ comes right down where he is, and meets him there. He takes his flesh, and becomes a brother to him. Jesus Christ is a brother to us in the flesh; he was born into the family.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son.” He had only one Son, and he gave him to us. “Unto us a child is born, unto us a sonis given.” Sin has made a change even in heaven; for Jesus Christ, because of sin, has taken upon himself humanity, and to-day he wears that humanity, and will through all eternity. Jesus Christ became the Son of man as well as the Son of God. He was born into our family. He did not come as an angelic being, but was born into the family, and grew up in it. He was a child, a youth, a young man, a man in the full prime of life, in our family. He is the Son of man, related to us, bearing the flesh that we bear.
Adam was the representative of the family; therefore his sin was a representative sin. When Jesus Christ came, he came to take the place in which Adam had failed. “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” The last Adam is the man Christ Jesus, and he came down to unite the human family with the divine family. God is spoken of as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, came himself to this part of the family, that he might win it back again, that there might be a reunited family in the kingdom of God. He came and took the flesh of sin which this family had brought upon themselves by sin, and wrought out salvation for them, condemning sin in the flesh.
Adam failed in his place, and by the offense of one many were made sinners. Jesus Christ gives himself not only for us, but to us, uniting himself with the family in order that he might take the place of the first Adam, and as head of the family win back what was lost by the first Adam. The righteousness of Jesus Christ is a representative righteousness, just as the sin of Adam was a representative sin; and Jesus Christ as the last Adam, gathered to himself the whole family.
Jesus Christ, in taking the place of Adam, took our place completely, in order that we might take his place. He took our place with all its consequences, and that is death, in order that we might take his place with all its consequences, and that is life eternal. “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” He was not a sinner, but he invited God to treat him as though he were a sinner, in order that we who were sinners might be treated as though we were righteous. “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” The sorrows that he bore were our sorrows, and it is actually true that he did so identify himself with our human nature as to bear in himself all the sorrows and all the griefs of all the human family. “He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.” What was bruising to him was healing to us, and he was bruised in order that we might be healed. “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” There was no sin in him, but the sins of the whole world were laid on him. “Behold, the Lamb of God, that beareth the sin of the world.” “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”
Whether a man repents or not, it is true that Jesus Christ has borne his griefs, his sins, his sorrows, and he is invited to lay them on Jesus Christ. If every sinner in this world should repent with all his soul, and turn to Jesus Christ, the price has been paid. Jesus Christ did not wait for us to repent before he died for us. “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” Christ has died in behalf of every single soul; he has borne the grief and carried the sorrow; and he simply asks us to lay it on him, and let him bear it.
Every one of us was represented in Jesus Christ when the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. We were all there in Jesus Christ. We were all represented in Adam after the flesh; and when Jesus Christ came as the last Adam, he stepped right into the place of the first Adam, and thus we are all represented in him. He invites us to step into the spiritual family. He has formed this new family of which he is the head. He is the new man. In him we have the union of the divine and the human.
In that new family every one of us is represented. “And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, paid tithes in Abraham. For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.” When Melchisedec went out to meet Abraham returning from the spoil, Abraham paid to him a tenth of all. Levi was still in the loins of his father Abraham, but inasmuch as he was a descendant of Abraham, what Abraham did, the Scripture says that Levi did in Abraham. Levi, who descended from Abraham according to the flesh, had not been born when Abraham paid tithe, but in that Abraham paid tithe, he paid tithe also. It is exactly so in this spiritual family. What Christ did as head of this new family, we did in him. He was our representative. He did not become simply a man, but he became flesh, and every one that should be born into his family was represented in Jesus Christ when he lived here in the flesh. You see, then, that every one who connects himself with this family is given the credit for doing in Christ all that Christ did. Christ was not a representative outside of him, disconnected from him; but in this spiritual family, every one who should afterwards be born did what Christ did, as Levi paid tithe in Abraham.
All humanity was brought together in the divine head, Jesus Christ. He suffered on the cross. Then it was the whole family in Jesus Christ which was crucified. “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died.” What we need in our experience is to enter into the fact that we did die in him. But while it is true that Jesus Christ paid the whole price, bore every grief, was humanity itself, yet it is also true that no man receives benefit from that except he receives Jesus Christ, except he is born again. Only those who are twice born can enter into the kingdom of God. Those who are born in the flesh must be born again, born of the Spirit, in order that they may really be in Christ.
The work of Christ is to bestow the character of God on us, and in the meantime God looks upon Jesus Christ and his perfect character instead of upon our sinful character. The very moment that we empty ourselves, or let Christ empty us of ourselves, and believe on Jesus Christ and receive him as our personal Saviour, God looks upon him as indeed our personal representative. Then he does not see us and all our sin. He sees Jesus Christ, and we are accepted in the Beloved.

The Presbyterian Creed

By I. A. S.

If press announcements are correct, the Presbyterian Church has changed its creed. The change was accomplished by vote of the general assembly at Los Angeles. The vote in favor of the change was almost unanimous.
It is announced that the Presbyterian confession of faith “no longer compels belief in the old doctrines of Calvin,” on “predestination” and infant damnation; and that from this time henceforth the creed will teach “that God’s decree hinders no man from accepting the offer of salvation made through Jesus Christ, and that no man is condemned except by his sins.” All who die in infancy, the new creed says, are saved.
Nine other changes in the creed have been made, but these two are the most important. The subject of divorce and remarriage was considered at some length by the assembly, and a report was adopted which forbids Presbyterian clergymen from performing a marriage ceremony between parties either of whom has been divorced on other grounds than those recognized as valid by the church, and pledging the influence of the church to an endeavor to secure such State andnational legislation as the church believes will correct the divorce evil.
The Presbyterian Church is certainly to be congratulated on having shaken itself free from even a pretense of belief in the dreadful doctrines in question; for that such doctrines are not really believed by the people of this day, there can be little doubt. No more God-dishonoring doctrine than that of the damnation of infants to an eternal burning hell could possibly be conceived. And next to this, and almost equal to it in atrocity, is the doctrine of an eternal burning hell for adult sinners,—the doctrine that there will be a part of God’s universe where sin, sinners, and inconceivable suffering will eternally exist. Such a doctrine is diametrically opposed to the explicit Bible statement, “God is love.”
Would that the Presbyterian Church, and all other churches as well, might advance to the point of freeing themselves from the unscriptural doctrine of immortality for sinners. Man was created to live forever, but he was created righteous; and it is the express purpose of God that only the righteous shall live forever. The very first thing that was done by God after the fall in Eden, was to send angels to guard the tree of life, lest man, who had become a sinner, should eat of its fruit and live forever. “The wages of sin is death,” and when the final settlement is made between God and man, no sinner will fail to receive the wages due him.
No soul is by nature immortal. Life and immortality have been brought to light through the gospel (2 Tim. 1: 10), and only through the provisions of God’s grace will any person receive them. Those who reject the gospel are cut off from immortality. To say that man is naturally immortal is to rob Christ of a portion of his glory. To say that there will be an eternal hell is to say that sin will eternally exist, which is to deny God’s universal sovereignty. God will have a clean universe, where only love abounds; for he is love.
A creed is an unfortunate thing for any church, because it tends to supersede the Word of God. The church is bound by its creed, the Bible is interpreted in harmony with the creed, and a barrier is erected which shuts off progress in receiving a knowledge of the truth, and brings the church to a standstill in the pathway of divine revelation. It would be much better for the Presbyterian Church and other churches if they would throw away their creeds, which have been demonstrated to be faulty, and study the Word of God, free from the bias of tradition and preconceived opinions. Sincere prayer, the Word of God, and the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit are the only things that count in an understanding of the truth which is unto salvation.
I. A. S.

We Must Advance on Our Knees

By W. A. S.

“We must advance on our knees,” cried Neesima, one of the earliest of Japanese Christians, by whom God wrought a noble work. Missionary triumphs have ever been fought out in prayer. Doors have been opened, and barriers as real as the walls of Jericho have fallen down before that weapon, “all-prayer,” which Bunyan’s pilgrim had to wield even more constantly than he handled sword and shield.
Now we, with the mightiest work ever given to men, with this very generation only in which to do it, must advance on our knees. The very certainty of the triumph of the message may, if we watch not, lead us to feel that we need only go on in the even tenor of our way, doing what we can and keeping busy in God’s cause, while we wait to see him finish his work.
Not so; if we triumph with this message, we must, every soul, know of the labor and the travail by which Heaven is at last to triumph over sin and Satan in this generation, and to win a people from every tribe and tongue. Jesus has laid upon the heart of every believer the burden of this harvest time: “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.”

To Our Workers Abroad

First, let me pass the word on to our fellow workers in other lands. You face the needs daily that wring from your hearts the cry for more help, more laborers to enter the untouched fields where millions upon millions are waiting for us. Let us not look primarily to the Mission Board, or even to the home churches, for the laborers or the means by which to advance the work. Come face to face with God with your burden of need. Lay out the wide-open fields before him. Plead their needs in detail and in definiteness before him, even as Hezekiah spread out Rabshakeh’s letter before the Lord in the temple. Press the need that well-nigh crushes your hearts before the Lord in daily prayer. It is a time when we may expect great things from God, and he wants us to ask for the things we know to be according to his will. And pray that God may roll the burden of the great fields upon hearts in the home churches.

To the Believers at Home

Thank God that by prayer you may accomplish definite results in every part of the wide harvest field. Paul was in Asia, hard pressed, almost despairing of life. But the victory came; and he wrote to the church in Corinth, across the waters in Europe, that they had helped him conquer by their prayers to God for him. The Holy Spirit, by whom Paul wrote the letter to the Corinthians, knew exactly how these prayers in Corinth had helped in Asia, accomplishing actual results.
As you read reports from the workers in the fields, will you not pray for the workers and the fields by name? Spread the needs before God as Hezekiah did that letter. It was well said that Sir John Patteson gained a great victory in family prayers when he ceased praying for “the absent member of our family,” and began to pray for “John Patteson, missionary bishop,” who later gave his life in the South Sea Islands. Our prayers may easily become general and scattering, whereas the needs we should bear before God are very specific. We are to give the Lord no rest, he tells us, till he makes Jerusalem a praise in all the earth.
When Moody went to England, years ago, he found the Cambridge students unapproachable. The wall of indifference was as adamant. He called a meeting of Christian mothers. They spent the time praying specifically for those Cambridge undergraduates. The next day the blessing came, and a great work was done.
The China Inland Mission, in its early history, had calls from just seventy places where it seemed the cry for help must be answered. The workers began definitely to pray God to send the workers and the means by which to supply those seventy stations. Within three years seventy-six workers and the necessary means were supplied.
Let us pray definitely in behalf of the harvest fields and the workers at home and abroad. We may pray in faith, for the set time is come, and the angel reapers are hovering over the world-wide harvest.
W. A. S.

God's Way Versus Man's

By L. A. S.

As reported in the Chicago Record Herald of June 1, a Methodist clergyman of that city, Rev. Clarence Abel, addressed these words to his Sunday congregation, on the subject of the duty of voting:—
I would have every Christian man go to the polls to-morrow, as much from a sense of Christian duty as he would go to a prayer meeting, and record his ballot as an act of worship before the great God of justice and truth.
The trouble with this sentiment is that it does not take account of the fundamental principle of Christianity, that man must be in everything a co-worker with God. An election contest, as a general rule, simply offers a man an opportunity to be a co-worker with a political party. The candidates for office are nominated not by the Lord, but by the party leaders. The Lord has nothing to say about it. God is not thus left out of account where Christian duty is concerned.
God has his ways of working, and hisagencies, but they are not those of the politician. They are of his own devising, not of man's. God's agencies are spiritual, man's are not. What men often seek to do through politics and legislation, God purposes to do through the gospel. God's agencies alone can reach the fountain head of the stream of evil which pollutes the earth, and therefore they alone are effectual for a true reform. At the polls Christ's followers are mere voters, in a hopeless minority. But as co-workers with God they are the salt of the earth. Politicians—“Christian politicians” especially—proceed on the idea that the world can be reformed. God's work proceeds on the idea that the world can not be reformed; that it is doomed to perdition, and that the only thing that can be done is to save people out of it. Man's methods and schemes to establish righteousness in the earth will fail, but God's will succeed. God's idea is the true one, and all others are wrong and futile.
The Almighty is not in partnership with any political party. His organization on earth is his church, and through that he purposes to accomplish the overthrow of evil and the establishment of righteousness in the earth. But let it not be forgotten that the methods and agencies for this work are such as he alone, and no man nor party, has devised, and such as he alone controls.
L. A. S.

Note and Comment

One of the greatest matters of state, if not the greatest, now pending in the republic of France, is that of the projected separation of church and state. A bill providing for the separation is now before the French Chamber. The author of the bill is M. de Pressense, the Protestant son of a distinguished Protestant father. It is believed the bill is regarded with favor by a majority of the Chamber, among whom is the premier, M. Combes. The measure has the support of the anti-clerical press.
The bill as published in the Paris Temps begins with a religious bill of rights, next nullifies the Concordat, or century-old compact between the state and the Catholic Church, pensions some of the clergy, makes the police responsible for the orderly character of public worship, declares most of the cathedrals, churches, and pastoral residences state property, and suppresses the stipends of the clergy. In refutation of the idea which clerical papers advance that church and state can not be separated without great disaster, the author of the bill points to the United States as an example of a country where the full separation of church and state has proved to be to the advantage of each. And this affords an illustration of the truth that the United States is a world power by virtue of the influence of its principles and institutions upon other nations, which, if maintained, would accomplish far greater results in the world than could be effected by the nation's military prowess.
If Protestant and republican government fails in the United States, the death knell of free government will be sounded, not merely here, but throughout the world.

The Anti-Saloon League and Sunday Laws

By Editor

The anti-saloon league of Springfield, Mo., has given notice that henceforward in that city “all barber shops, fruit stands, drug stores (except for the sale of medicines), cigar stores, candy stores, and ice-cream rooms” must be closed on Sundays; otherwise the proprietors of the same will be prosecuted.
It seems strange that an anti-saloon league should think that its work as such extended to the closing up of stores and other places of legitimate business. The Sunday law of the State is, of course, the avenue through which the anti-saloon league has wandered away from its legitimate path. The league is attacking the saloon through the Sunday law, and to be consistent it must enforce the law against all business to which it applies. It is the nature of a Sunday law to put no distinction between the good and the bad. Its objection to the saloon is not because the saloon is an evil place, but only because it is kept open on Sunday. Let the saloon only observe Sunday, and the Sunday law has nothing to say against it. Tacitly, it sanctions the institution.
We submit that this is not the proper ground of objection to the saloon. Would it not be far better for the anti-saloon league of Springfield, and for every such league, to oppose the saloon on the ground that it is an evil thing, intrinsically so, every day in the week,—a natural enemy of law and order, peace and prosperity, in the community, and therefore to be treated as an outlaw? Why throw around such an institution the sanction of law, by enacting a law which it can observe, and thus claim to be law-abiding, and yet carry on its evil business six days in the week? We wish every anti-saloon league would seriously consider these questions.

Railway Horrors Versus the Horrors of War: An Appalling Record

FROM the following, which is printed in the Scientific American of May 30, it would appear that in this country at least it is becoming increasingly unsafe to travel by the ordinary means of conveyance. Under the heading “Railway Horrors Versus the ‘Horrors of War:’ An Appalling Record,” the Scientific American says:—
In a recent editorial on the subject of the alarming increase of accidents on our railroads, we called attention to the fact that the railroad companies seemed to place a very cheap estimate upon life, as evidenced by the fact that no special measures were being taken to check the rapid growth of fatalities among railroad passengers and employees. We have before us a government publication whose figures present incontestable evidence that the charge of negligence is well founded. According to Accident Bulletin No. 6, published by the Interstate Commerce Commission, the number of passengers killed in train accidents during the months of October, November, and December, 1902, was 266, and of injured, 2,788. Accidents of other kinds, including those sustained by employees while at work and passengers getting on and off cars, etc., bring the total number of casualties up to 12,811. Of these 938 were killed and 11,873 injured; from which we see that at the close of last year our railroads were killing people at the rate of 3,752 a year, and disabling them at the rate of 47,492, a rate of 51,244 deaths and injuries in a single twelve months. Now, these figures are surely sufficiently shocking in themselves; but we can better appreciate their meaning if we compare them with the casualties in some specified instance of the universally admitted “horrors of the war.” During the whole of the Boer war, which lasted about three years, the total number of casualties (killed, wounded, died of disease, and invalided home) in the British army was 27,732, of whom 5,727 were killed in action. The Boer losses, if we exclude the number of prisoners taken, were not so numerous as those of the British; but even if we allow that they were approximately equal, we find that the wholenumber of casualties of British and Boers, throughout the three years, was only about equal to the total number of railroad casualties in the United States, supposing, that is, that the rate shown in the last three months of last year were to prevail for the whole year. Judging from the daily record of accidents during the first three months of 1903, this rate has not only been sustained, but has greatly increased.

A Union Labor Church

AN announcement which perhaps is of little or no importance, yet which suggests possibilities of great consequence, is the following, which was printed in a Chicago daily of June 2:—
A union labor church is to be established in Chicago. At least W. B. Cook, of 314 West Monroe St., who writes to The Examiner with the appended cognomen of “Max O’Rell,” and who is self-styled “The Labor Preacher,” declares so. And Mr. Cook, or the Rev. Mr. Cook, says that this new church will be built strictly upon union principles. First of all, the “Rev.” Mr. Cook will secure union headquarters. The building must be erected by union tradesmen and furnished by union clerks and furnishers. The pastor must be union labeled, and the congregation will be compelled to show the union card at the door of the edifice. From union labeled prayer books and hymn books the supplications and chants of union tongues will rise, and union buttons will be the symbol of the church. The choir will be paid the union musicians’ wage scale, and the contribution basket collectors will wear the card. Those are some of the requisites to the ideal state from the religious standpoint as judged by the “labor preacher.”
It is a well-known fact that workingmen to-day are for the most part not in sympathy with the methods and institutions of modern orthodoxy. If the union labor movement should enter the field of religion, it is not impossible that it might assume an independent form, such as is outlined in the report given above.
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