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Sunday Postal Work

First Assistant Postmaster-General Heath, in a letter on the policy of the Post-office Department respecting Sunday work, says that the present administration has no rule or regulation on this subject that did not exist under the two previous administrations. The custom then, and the custom now, is to consider each case by itself. No general rule can be applied to post-offices without regard to surrounding conditions. In some instances it would be inconvenient, he says, “to the proper conduct of the business of the postal service to deprive it of any Sunday labor in post-offices or to discontinue mail service on railroads.” It has been his rule, he says, so far as possible, to favor the closing of post-offices on Sunday, when it appears that the public convenience does not require them to be kept open on that day. Where post-offices are kept open on Sunday, postmasters are instructed not to keep them open during the hours of public worship, and that they need to be kept open for one hour only during the entire day.—New York Independent.

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The State Camp-Meeting

The State camp-meeting for California will, it looks now, be held in St. Helena, Cal.

Jottings from Our Mission

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We publish in our Mission department this week “Jottings from Our Mission.” These will continue for a time

Second National Congress of Mothers

The Second National Congress of Mothers will be held in Washington, D. C., May 2-7, 1898. The addresses of the first Congress are published in a book which sells in pamphlet form for 35 cents; in cloth, $1.15. Address, National Congress of Mothers, Washington, D. C.

The First Number of a New Health Journal

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Functions of the Church and State Distinguished

“Functions of the Church and State Distinguished; A Plea for Civil and Religious Liberty,” is the title of No. 50 of the Religious Liberty Library. The author is General William Birney, Washington, D. C. It is a masterly argument and strong appeal to all Americans, and it ought to be circulated and read everywhere.

Our New Press

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A Noble Work.

A noble and growing rescue work was started some time ago in the city of Philadelphia, under the auspices of the Sunday Breakfast Association, the president of which is Mr. Lewis U. Bean, 2030 Vine Street. Recently Rev. Robert F. Y. Pierce, the evangelist, has connected with this work. In this work it is said that many hundreds have been rescued, home circles restored, young men and boys regained. Especial efforts are put forth to find wandering men and women. Those who have lost erring ones would do well to communicate with Mr. Bean. May God bless this and every other work of gathering home the lost sheep.

Spiritual Declension as Manifest in the Sunday-school.

The following is what Edward W. Bok, himself having experience as a Sunday-school superintendent, after long observation and close study of the subject, has to say as to his conclusions:—

“Even the most zealous advocates of the Sunday-school concede the fact that its strength is on the wane. Attendance is on the decrease, and those who do attend are lukewarm in their interest. It is a common experience with parents nowadays to have their boys and girls beg off from going. A careful study of over two hundred Sunday-schools reveals this condition in nearly every case, and inquiry among parents and Sunday-school workers only serves to corroborate the self-evident facts.”

A Christian Nation

A Christian Nation.—The general character of a “Christian” nation is well set forth in the following words from a speech by Senator Thurston on the condition of things in Cuba:—

“I shall refer to these horrible things no further. They are there. God pity me, I have seen them. They will remain in my mind forever, and this is almost the twentieth century. Christ died 1,900 years ago, and Spain is a Christian nation. She has set up more crosses in more lands, beneath more skies, and under them has butchered more people, than all the other nations of the earth combined.”

The moral is that Christian nations are not made by constitutions, legislation, or human decree of any kind. Every attempt so to do has always the opposite effect. The history and work of Spain emphasizes this fact.

HOW TO HELP IT.

Says a postal-card correspondent:— “Holidays are the great harvest-time for saloons and harlot houses; and all other business houses are closed. How important these dens of vice and crime are that they are not expected to respect our nation or our Creator, Sundays, Mondays, or Sabbath days!”

But the government licenses them to do such work, while in some cases it arrests honest men for doing honest work on Sundays. There is but one cure, friend, and that is Christianity in the heart. There is no hope of making men better by law.

Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace

At the annual banquet of the Second Army Corps held in Washington, D. C., March 15, General Miles is reported to have said:—

“No nation has ever had so much to say against war, against the maintenance of a large army, or against anything that might lead us into open conflict. And no nation has had so much to say in favor of peace and arbitration. No people are so anxious to maintain peace at home and abroad as the American people. We would not enter into any conflict without just provocation or a righteous cause.”

If the United States really stands at the head of the champions for peace, what must be the condition of the nations at the foot of the class! If the present rush in preparing for war is any index, there is but very little room for genuine peace sentiments. And after all is it not quite evident that we are in the time described by the prophet, when the people would be saying, “Peace, peace, when there is no peace”?

Unionism and Non-unionism in Churches.

In the Baptist Church at Scottdale, Pa., a non-union mill worker and his wife applied for membership. When the minister announced the applications, after the morning service, and asked if there were any objections, several strikers formerly employed at the steel mill in Scottdale, jumped to their feet, and protested in vigorous terms. In the evening the matter was brought to an issue, and the non-union worker and his wife were not admitted. The despatch says that the congregation is composed principally of strikers, tho several of the officials of the steel company are members of the church. Further trouble has arisen because a meeting of the Aid Society had been called at the residence of a family which took non-union workmen to board. The existence of such a state of things shows that the church is not waiting for the Lord to remove its candlestick out of its place, but trying hard to break it in pieces.—The Christian Advocate.

Cost of Intemperance in California

Mrs. Severance, a writer on economics in the Pacific Ensign, puts the direct cost of liquor and tobacco in California as follows:—

“The statistician will confirm my points. In California are 14,000 saloons; at $10 per day, a low average, that means $140,000 per day; in 365 days, the yearly amount spent for liquor is $51,100,000. The tobacco bill of the nation is half its liquor bill; at the same rate, California spends over $25,000,000 for tobacco. The bill for lust is not computed; it doubtless equals the tobacco bill.”

Add to all this the indirect costs and consequences of drinking and smoking,—the dire, haggard want, wo, and misery, the brutal crime, expensive trials, courts, jails, etc., together with the utter ruin of the bodies and souls of the thousands who die from the effects of drink, and the thousands more worse than widowed and orphaned. It is horrible.

British Army Expansion and War Alarm

The British war office has lately set forth a plan for the reform of the army, which, it is said, gives satisfaction in the House of Commons. The new scheme adds 23,000 men to the army, the largest increase ever proposed by that government in time of peace. “So great is the empire’s demand now,” says the Western British American, “that one in every sixteen able-bodied men in the country is serving either in the army or navy, and one in every four youths reaching the age of eighteen years, joins one of the two services.” Is such a system of war preparation and war education likely to create a peace sentiment in the minds of the coming men of the country? If this is the condition in the nation that is doing more than any other in the matter of enlightening the world, is it any wonder there is a general alarm of war?

Unique in the Annals of the Navy

“Unique in the Annals of the Navy.”—Says the San Francisco Chronicle, the ambulance ship comes now to carry the ministering succor of the Red Cross upon a blood-stained sea. Would that men’s hearts might so change that no such vessels would ever be needed. But with the great object lesson before us, of the destructive energy of “high explosives” in the wrecking of the Maine, and the consequent awful disaster to human life, let us say, Speed on the ambulance ship. It is easy to see how men could become interested in building and operating an ambulance ship. But why do not their hearts turn with horror and disgust from the thought of building the awful implements of modern warfare with which to slaughter their fellow-men?

Despite the Boasted Civilization

Despite the boasted civilization of these closing years of the nineteenth century, there are still many localities in so-called Christian lands where if a man is unfortunate enough to have been born of some particular parentage or race, he is shunned and often persecuted. Can a man change his parentage?—Certainly not. Then if his ancestry unfortunately is bad or uncongenial to us, don’t kick the poor fellow down for that in which he bears no responsibility, and which it is impossible for him to change. There is one thing that men can not choose, and that is their race or parentage. And Christianity always says to us, Love, and never hate, mankind.

A “Christian,” yet Not a Christian Utterance.—

We clip the following from the Pacific Christian of March 17:—

“For the sake of humanity, as well as for vengeance for the murder of the men of the Maine, we hope and pray that the government will act, and act speedily. If this be jingoism, make the most of it!”

There is that in it which is more serious than jingoism: it is either ignorance of the Word of God or downright unbelief; for it is written: “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath; for it is written, Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” Rom. 12:19. Why not be willing to trust God?

The Love of Christ

“COULD we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made, Were every reed on earth a quill, And every man a scribe by trade, To write the love of Christ our Lord, Would drain the ocean dry; Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Tho stretched from sky to sky.”