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The American Sentinel

Vol. 5, No. 37

September 18, 1890

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  1. THERE is no law to prevent a barber or any other tradesman from resting on Sunday, or any other day of the week. There are several shops in Denver which close every Sunday, and have been following this custom for a year or more. Public sympathy is with the man who does what he believes is right. The way to close is to shut up shop on Sunday. If any number of barbers favor Sunday rest they should take it. Others will follow. Daniels & Fisher close at 6 P. M. every day, without reference to what other dealers do. The Graphic closes early on Saturday, often at noon, without regard to what other printing offices do. Enforced Sunday rest is wrong. Every man knows his own business best, and he should not be interfered with as long as he does not interfere with his neighbors.—Colorado Graphic.1 paragraphs
  2. An Excellent Doom.Alonzo T. Jones17 paragraphs
  3. THE priceless truths of the Bible are best taught to our youth in the church, the Sabbath and the parochial schools, the social and religious meetings, and above all, by parents in the home circle. There these truths may be explained and enforced, the spiritual welfare of the child guarded and protected, and his spiritual nature directed and cultivated in accordance with the dictates of the parental conscience.—Judge Lyon, of Wisconsin!1 paragraphs
  4. “We demand,” say the California Sunday-law advocates, “the enactment and enforcement of an intelligent and rational Sunday law, making one day in seven a rest day, and especially do we demand that all places of secular business be closed on that day, and we further demand that suitable penalties be enacted for the enforcement of the same.” To prohibit secular business is to permit religious; this is therefore a demand that the State give religion a monopoly of one day in the week; and yet we are assured by these gentlemen of elastic veracity that they are demanding civil legislation only!1 paragraphs
  5. Why the Government Should not Employ Chaplains.8 paragraphs
  6. “Bible Readings for the Home Circle.”41 paragraphs
  7. "The N. Y. "Mail" and "Express" and "Sunday Excursions."9 paragraphs
  8. Religion and the Schools.Howard Crosby7 paragraphs
  9. The Eight-Hour Movement and Sunday.4 paragraphs
  10. 2. Preserve the Constitution.H. E. Phelps5 paragraphs
  11. The late German Catholic Congress, held at Coblenz, adopted resolutions demanding “the re-establishment in Germany of all the Catholic orders, including the Jesuits, and the restoration of the Pope’s temporal power.” “These demands,” says the Catholic Review, “are significant in Germany to the party suffering, because of their inherent justice to the party governing, because of the fact that six thousand Germans met in congress to make them.” Yes, they are significant, but not for the reasons given by the Review; they are significant because in every country Roman Catholics are exerting a greater influence than ever before in the present century; and the end is not yet. Of the proposed Catholic Congress to be held in Chicago in 1889, the Review says:3 paragraphs
  12. At a regular meeting of the Board of Managers of the National Temperance Society, held recently in New York, the following resolution was passed, and the Secretary directed to transmit a copy to the Commissioners of the World's Fair, at Chicago:—4 paragraphs
  13. What Need of Sunday Laws?5 paragraphs
  14. WHATEVER may be true of Protestants in other lands, the Protestants of the United States are unqualifiedly opposed to any union of Church and State, even such a union as is involved when the State undertakes to give the simplest instruction in religion. But it becomes evident that, if the State is going to undertake to give complete education to all its citizens, one of two things must follow: either there must be no religious instruction and we must rear generations of agnostics and atheists, or else it must teach doctrines against which a considerable portion of the citizens protest. Neither of these things ought to be. It is the business of the Christian people of this land, and of any land, to see to it that the atmosphere breathed by their children, while acquiring the education which is to fit them for the present life, be such as shall conduce to their religious as well as to their mental growth, that heart and mind be cultivated at the same time.—Journal and Messenger (Baptist), Cincinnati.1 paragraphs
  15. THE Rev. Frank Dixon, pastor of the Tenth Avenue Baptist Church, Oakland, in a recent sermon on “The Sabbath,” touched the heart of the greater part of the fancied devotion to Sunday, in the following words:—3 paragraphs
  16. A LONDON despatch says that Cardinal Manning has written a letter to the Social Science Congress, in session at Liege, Belgium, urging among other things, that the observance of Sunday be enforced. At every public gathering, both in this country and Europe, where it is possible to present and advocate the claims of Sunday for legal acknowledgment and enforced observance, ministers and prelates of ability and eminence, in church circles, are found ready to press the subject with all their power and subtilty. It cannot be long before the result of this will become so evident that even the way-faring men, who are absorbed in running the world's race, will be able to read the signs of the times.1 paragraphs
  17. An Iowa paper, favorable to the objects of the National Religious Liberty Association, has the following note:—Editor3 paragraphs
  18. Mr. B. L. Diffenbacher, 1201 Market Street, Sioux City, Iowa, wishes Religious Liberty reading matter for free distribution during the Corn Palace Carnival, in that city, September 25, to October 11. Unsold copies of the AMERICAN SENTINEL or numbers of the “Sentinel Library,” will be thankfully received, and judiciously used. Send by mail or express, prepaid, to the above address.1 paragraphs
  19. THOSE who wish to do so and who have not already had the opportunity of so doing, or who have neglected it, are requested to sign BOTH of the following petitions and send them to W. H. McKEE, 225 A Street, N. E., Washington, D. C. If room for more names is desired the petition may be cut out and pasted on to a sheet of legal cap.5 paragraphs
  20. NATIONAL RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ASSOCIATION.15 paragraphs
  21. DO YOU USE A FOUNTAIN PEN?9 paragraphs
  22. THE SENTINEL LIBRARY44 paragraphs
  23. TEN LECTURESJohn Harvey Kellogg11 paragraphs
  24. GOOD FOR ALL TIME!16 paragraphs
  25. NEW EDITIONSA. T. Jones22 paragraphs
  26. HEALTH FOOD CRACKERS9 paragraphs
  27. IS THE PAPACY IN PROPHECY ?Rev. Thomas W. Haskins, M. A.10 paragraphs
  28. THE BEST12 paragraphs
  29. SAFETY PENCIL POCKET8 paragraphs
  30. The result of the recent election in one of the Southern States, is thus announced by the Court. The Hon. James P. Eagle, Democrat and Baptist, was elected Governor of Arkansas yesterday, defeating the Hon. Napoleon Bonaparte Fizer, Union Labor Republican, and Methodist.2 paragraphs
  31. THE new Citizens' Movement in the city of New York, for ousting Tammany Hall from the control of city affairs, fell into a serious error," says the Christian Advocate, "in using Archbishop Corrigan's name. Not only did they place his name in the list of clergymen who support the movement, but put him at the head of a committee of clergymen, one of whose members is a Catholic priest who is on a contentious attitude toward his church. The committee has been ordered to withdraw it at once. It now appears his name was used in the first place without securing his consent, but simply on the theory that he was favorable to the movement. Such use of any man's name is an imposition. Never without express consent given after full opportunity of reading the document, should any person's name be signed to it? There is a good deal too much of that sort of thing done, and nowhere is it more common than among those who attempt to engineer political matters from a religious standpoint. Such unwarranted use of names is very common with the National Reformers. It is not at all reassuring to know that the Citizens' Movement has been guilty of it in the very outset of the cause of reform. Moral reformers should be scrupulously honest.1 paragraphs
  32. The American Sentinel says, “the world,” to make Texas fever non-contagious and non-infectious, by a Congressional proposition that Congress is like Parliament, able to do anything but make a man a woman.” But curious as is such a proposition, it is neither more curious nor more absurd than is the National Reform proposition to make America a Christian nation, by inserting in the Constitution a complimentary mention of God.1 paragraphs
  33. The Sun, of this city, notes the fact that there were two meetings in Chicago, one a recent Sunday, to protest against opening the World's Fair on Sundays, and remarks upon it, that “this seems somewhat premature and immature. It is far from certain as yet, that the World's Fair will be open on week days. The Chicago managers are grasping at Time's forelock most unnecessarily.” It would appear that the self-instituted Sabbath Observance Department, of the World's Columbian Exposition, is trying to prove the truth of the old adage, “It is better to be ready and not go; than to go and not be ready.”1 paragraphs
  34. THE OLD NORTH JERSEY3 paragraphs
  35. This paragraph is interesting as showing the progress that the Sunday cause is making, and the efforts that are being put forward in its behalf. Just what force there is in the reference to the fact that Luke wrote the Acts of the Apostles, we confess that we do not see.1 paragraphs
  36. THOSE who are being seduced into the support of Sunday laws by the “civil Sabbath” plea, should make a note of these words from the Christian Advocate, of this city:3 paragraphs
  37. We are asked if we wish our readers to understand that we think that all drinking of intoxicating beverages should be abolished? and if we would carry prohibition so far as to forbid the use of intoxicating wine in the holy communion? We will simply say that we are opposed to the liquor traffic, and believe that there are ample civil reasons why the State should abolish the saloon; but just how far prohibition should be carried, we are not prepared to say; that is, our study of the matter does not qualify us to speak ex-cathedra upon so difficult a question. It seems to us, however, that to prohibit the traffic in alcoholic beverages, and their manufacture for the purpose of traffic, is about all the State could justly do. It would seem that to carry prohibition to the length intimated by our correspondent, would be an unwarranted invasion not only of religious rights, but of proper personal, civil rights.Editor1 paragraphs
  38. ONE of the neatest and best books which we have seen in a long time, is “Glimpses from the Pacific. Fiji and Samoa.” By Emma H. Adams, author of “To and Fro in Southern California,” and “Up and Down in Oregon and Washington.” This book, which is handsomely illustrated, is printed in large clear type, on excellent paper, and is substantially bound in cloth, beautifully embossed in jet and gold. It contains 160 pages of not only absolutely unobjectionable, but highly interesting and profitable matter, descriptive of Fiji and Samoa, and giving glimpses of native life in those interesting islands. No parent can do better than to place such books in the hands of his children, and thus cultivate in them a taste for good reading.3 paragraphs
  39. A Special Offer.Editor2 paragraphs