p. 15 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 6. (2/8/1899)

Earlier text: LESSON VIII.—SABBATH, FEBRUARY 25, 1899

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Domestic.

The court-martial ordered to try Gen. C. P. Eagan for his attack upon General Miles has found General Eagan guilty of "conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman." The penalty pronounced by martial law upon such an offender is dismissal from the service, and this will be the punishment of General Eagan unless the President shall declare some lighter punishment... Two well-known scientists are now putting forth the theory that the earth, instead of being an oblate spheroid, as it has been so long considered, is more nearly tetrahedral in shape, or somewhat four-sided... It is reported that the government intends to send three detachments of soldiers into the Copper River district of Alaska the coming spring, for the purpose of laying out an all-American route into the Yukon country. This will be from the mouth of the Copper River to Eagle City, sixty miles below Dawson... The attorney for Mrs. John W. Keeley, widow of the motor man, has given out a statement admitting that the so-called motor was a fraud. Keeley had secured large sums of money from wealthy people to "perfect" his discoveries... A strike of phenomenally rich gold ore has recently been made at the Isabella mine, in the Cripple Creek mining district of Colorado. A vein of solid gold has been struck measuring six feet in width, and about three inches thick. Altho about $5,000,000 worth of gold is in sight, the end of the vein has not been reached. Much other ore of great richness has also been found in the mine... Club women of Illinois have undertaken a crusade against the use of women's face or figure for advertising purposes. The crusade was begun on account of the marvelous increase of the use of immoral pictures in so much of the advertising of the present day... Preparations are being made for the twelfth census of the United States. The work is to be begun in June, 1900, and will be complete, so far as taking the data is concerned, in thirty days... A treaty has just been concluded between the United States and the Cherokee Indians, in which it is provided that all schools shall be open to the children of both whites and Indians, but that separate schools must be maintained for colored children... There seems to be a growing sentiment in Congress favorable to the ratification of the peace treaty with Spain, which is to be voted upon February 6... Seven regiments of regulars are now under orders to sail for Manila... The bill to reorganize and increase the standing army passed the House on January 31. It provides for a standing army of 100,000 men, but places in the hands of the President the authority to reduce the number in time of peace to 50,000... The cruiser Philadelphia sailed from San Diego, Cal., for the Samoan Islands on January 31, where she is expected to arrive on March 1.

International.

The big strike of dock men and railway employees at Colon, Colombia, continues, and the conditions are growing worse instead of better. Business is at a standstill, and there are grave fears that the strikers will set the city on fire... The Russians are displaying great activity in Syria and Palestine, the instrument for their activity being a missionary society which is inspired, controlled, and assisted by the Russian Government. Schools are being established throughout the Holy Land in which Russian alone is taught... A deplorable state of affairs has been discovered in the free hospitals of Vienna, where the patients are experimented upon by injecting the bacilli of infectious diseases into their system, that the physicians may watch the progress of the deadly diseases. Young men on the road to recovery have been inoculated with these poisons and died from the resulting disease. The principal victims are newly-born children, scores of whom have been furnished the physicians by certain foundling hospitals. The excuse of the physicians is that this class of "subjects" is cheaper than animals for experimental purposes... The Chinese imperial troops, while attempting to recapture Kuyan from the rebels, were defeated with a loss of 2,000 men. Ten thousand of the latter are now besieging Shuchau, the third most important city in the province of Nganhwi. With the fall of this city the rebels will be in possession of all the northern and central portions of that province... King Oscar, ruler of Norway and Sweden, has temporarily retired from public service, leaving the reins of government in the hands of the crown prince, Gustaf. Ill health is the cause of the king's retirement... Owing to the recent development of the Carlist agitation in Spain, the government has decided to retain the state of siege and the suspension of the constitutional guarantees... The rebellion in Bolivia is still unsuppressed. It is reported that the government troops have abandoned the siege of La Paz, and are being pursued by the insurgents... Colonel Kitchener, brother of General Lord Kitchener, has given up the pursuit of Khalifa Abdullah into Kordofan, where the latter was making war upon local tribesmen... England is now building 119 war vessels, the figures being 16 battle-ships, 36 cruisers, 14 sloops and gunboats, and 53 torpedo-boat destroyers. The number now building exceeds the present number of Russian battle-ships by two. The whole of these vessels will be added to the British navy by 1903, and the lord of the admiralty will within two months ask the House of Commons for credits to further strengthen the British fleet.

New Trusts.

The banking firms of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and Spencer, Trask & Co. have formed a trust under the name of the American Beet Company. The new corporation designs to purchase all the beet sugar plants west of the Mississippi. It has a capital stock of $20,000,000... The Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company, a trust, filed articles of incorporation on January 26. Its capitalization is $50,000,000. On the same day articles of incorporation were filed by the National Tin Plate Company, the United States Tin Plate Company, and the National Tin Plate and Stamped Ware Company, trusts, the two former having each a capital of $125,000, and the latter an authorized capitalization of $20,000,000... The manufacturers of the lower-priced derby hats have effected a combination to go into force February 1. In this trust there will be no combination of capital by the different firms interested, but the manufacture and output will be under the direction of one New York firm... All the whisky distilleries in Kentucky have turned their stock over to a trust, which is capitalized at $32,000,000... A plan is on foot for the consolidation of all the window-glass factories in America, much after the plan of the Standard Oil Company. J. Pierpont Morgan and Brown Brothers of New York will be the moving spirits in the new organization.

Casualties and Calamities.

Appeals are being made to England and other countries for help in the famine-stricken districts of Palestine. Flour has advanced seventy per cent. in price; the crops have been a failure on account of drought; and the poor people are flocking into Jerusalem for food... Bad water is causing terrible mortality among the Russian troops at Port Arthur, China. Two hundred fifteen died during November and December, and the death rate continues high... The steamer Chateau Lafite, from Cienfuegos, Cuba, arrived at Barcelona, Spain, on January 30, with 1,250 repatriated Spanish troops, 350 of whom were seriously ill. There were 56 deaths during the voyage... On January 29 fourteen persons were killed by an explosion of gas in the Palia mine, near Cartagena, Spain... Smallpox is epidemic at Ponce, Porto Rico, and the military governor has ordered compulsory vaccination... Seven persons lost their lives by an avalanche at Rogers' Pass, on the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, January 31.

Philippines.

Agoncillo, the Philippine representative who is seeking recognition at the State Department at Washington, has presented another legal document to the department, protesting against the annexation of the Philippines, declaring that this government has no jurisdiction, natural or acquired, through any of its agencies, to adjudicate in any manner upon the rights of the Philippine country and its people... Señor Meliza has been elected president of the Visayan States by the insurgents at Iloilo for the period of two years, and has acknowledged allegiance to Aguinaldo... It is reported that the Filipino Congress has given Aguinaldo authority to declare war upon the Americans whenever he may deem it expedient so to do. The Congress has passed resolutions that the Spanish clerical prisoners should be released; but they still remain prisoners, as do all the other prisoners whom the Filipinos have held.

Cuba.

The War Department has decided not to allow the Bank of Spain in Cuba to collect the taxes, as it was planned, and provision has been made for their collection through American and Cuban officers... The Catholic bishop of Santander has refused to permit any Protestant clergy to take part in the ceremonies over the graves of the Maine victims in the Catholic cemetery at Havana, declaring that he has no option in the matter... Two hundred men who were engaged in road making in Santiago Province have struck for higher wages.

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Not Toleration but Freedom.

An exemption clause in a religious law is evidence of the intrinsic badness of the law. It says in effect, as in the present Sunday bill before the Legislature of this State, "We, a certain religious class, condemn all kinds of labor, recreation, and performances of every kind which are not in harmony with our creed. We will 'tolerate' those who conscientiously observe another day, providing they do not 'disturb'—a wonderfully elastic word—us." But why should not the man they tolerate have the same privileges as they? Why should he be exempted upon "conditions"? Has he not the same rights as his neighbor? In true Americanism there is no such word or thing as toleration. If I hold to true religious liberty, I will be most anxious that my neighbor and opponent should have equal right with myself, to think and act for himself. Only so can I win him.

MAN-WORSHIP.

We read in the twelfth chapter of the Acts that on a certain occasion one of the Herods made a speech to the people displaying his royal glory and oratory, and the people in fawning homage declared, "It is the voice of a god, and not a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost." The Emperor Wilhelm II. of Germany recently entered Jerusalem, escorted by a large and gloriously caparisoned retinue. The highways had been prepared, the crooked places made straight, the rough places smooth, the hills leveled, the valleys filled. The glorious sun from a cloudless sky glinted with splendor every piece of armorial metal, or gold or silver trapping. Of course it would be expected that the Germans would gladly receive their emperor; but the greatest and most fulsome adulation came from that people whose ancestors nearly nineteen centuries ago rejected their own King and whose descendants have cherished hatred against Him ever since. In the words of Cecil F. P. Bancroft, LL.D., in The Christian Advocate of December 3, "The Jews had spanned the road with a characteristic arch inscribed in Hebrew and German, 'Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord,'" words prophetic of the Messiah, fulfilled in part when Jesus entered Jerusalem, crowned only with holy character and preceded by good deeds, to be fulfilled again by those who rejected Him, when the words shall be forced from their lips, but, alas, too late! The emperor received it, so far as we learn, without rebuke. All proper respect should be shown to all who are in authority; but the highest of earthly princes are men, not God.

HOW SUNDAY LAWS WORK.

By Editor

The New York World of recent date gives the following instance of Sunday-law enforcement in Mount Vernon, N. Y.:—

"Fred Windot, of North Fourth Avenue, a poor man who works hard all the week, with long hours and little pay, was chopping wood in his back yard on Sunday afternoon. Policeman Thistleton strolled along. He arrested Windot. The prisoner would have passed the night in a cell had not a friend deposited $10 to guarantee his appearance in court. Windot was arraigned before Judge Schatz in special sessions. 'My family has been sick, and I was chopping wood to kindle a fire,' he said. 'If that is a crime, I plead guilty.' 'It is,' said Judge Schatz. 'I'll find you guilty of the charge, but will suspend sentence this time. Hereafter, you must remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy.' Windot promised to obey the law."

Religious tenets enforced by civil law invariably beget oppression. There is no class of men so fearful of offending influential persons as policemen, so their victims are nearly always the poor and unfortunate. It would be putting the estimate low to suppose that 500 people in some way violated the Sunday law in Mount Vernon that day, yet that poor man in his back yard, doing a work of necessity, was the only one seen by the police—and this was one too many. It was enough, however, to demonstrate what every intelligent person ought to know, that the enforcement of any religious observance is antichristian, and therefore contrary to the Golden Rule, which is the law of God.

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CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

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Poetry. The Universal Feast, D. P. ZIEGLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Angels' Record, MRS. E. R. LEWIS . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Pitcairn, MRS. M. J. BAHLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 My Life and Joy, J. A. POWERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

General. Humility in Victory, F. M. WILCOX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Silencing the Pharisees, MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . . . . . . . . 2 Studies in Galatians (Gal. 3:15-18), E. J. WAGGONER . . . . . 3 Lord, Is It I? JULIA H. DUFFIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Tendency to Gambling, W. N. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Sabbath According to the Commandment, JOHN E. MOORE . . . 5 How Life and Immortality Are Brought to Light, C. P. B. . . . 5

Editorial. Which Shall It Be with You?—The Mask Thrown Aside— The Spirit behind Colonization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7

Question Corner.—Nos. 908, 909, 910, 911 . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Outlook.—The Growing Power of Grasping Wealth . . . . . . . . 8

Missions.—Sailing of the Pitcairn, C. H. JONES—Our Work and Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 10

International Sabbath-school and Sunday-school Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

The Home.—How to Live a Century, No. 2, B. F. RICHARDS —Turned Out to Pasture, FRANCES E. BOLTON . . . . . . . . 12, 13

News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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The Poem on the Pitcairn

By Editor

The poem on the Pitcairn in our missions department was written at the time of the first voyage of the ship, but was buried with a mass of other matter and overlooked. It was from the pen of the late Mrs. M. J. Bahler, an old-time contributor to this paper.

Vital Issues Extra for California

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A special four-page "Extra" supplemental to this issue of the SIGNS has been published for California, dealing with the tremendously "Vital Issues" now before the Legislature. It may be obtained for $1.00 a hundred of J. J. Ireland, secretary of the California Tract Society, 1059 Castro Street, Oakland, Cal. Donations for its special and extensive circulation will be wisely bestowed and gladly received.

Keeping Pace With the Cause of God

We hear much talk on every side about keeping pace with the progress of the world; but it is far more important to keep pace with the cause of God in the earth. To be really "up to date" now, it is essential to know where we stand in the world's history as written in the Word of God.

Editor’s Address

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The address of the editor of this paper, M. C. Wilcox, will be till March 7, South Lancaster, Mass.; after that, till further notice, South Russell, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. Personal correspondence should be sent to the above addresses, due time being allowed for transmission of the communication. All literary matter for the paper should be addressed, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.

Delegates Depart for General Conference

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The following-named persons left this city during last week for South Lancaster, Mass., to attend the S. D. A. General Conference: Brethren J. N. Loughborough and A. J. Breed, of the General Conference Committee; H. W. Decker, president of North Pacific Conference; W. T. Knox, president of California Conference; C. H. Jones, president of Pacific Press Publishing Co.; M. C. Wilcox, editor SIGNS OF THE TIMES; E. E. Andross, of San Francisco; M. H. Brown, secretary of the International S. S. Association; George A. Nichols, of College Place, Wash., and H. H. Hall, of Oakland. Brother Brown was accompanied by his sister and Miss Alberta L. Little, corresponding secretary of the International S. S. Association.

A Baby Plea

By Editor

A Baby Plea.—One of the pleas made for a Sunday law is that men are compelled to work Sunday. And when the reply is made that men are free to refuse, the answer comes, "But he will lose his place if he will not work Sunday." Let him lose it, then, like a man, for conscience' sake. Such a man will not come to want. Let men be men in Christ Jesus, not great State babies or public wards. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." These are Christ's words. Let our Sunday-law brethren teach the Gospel.

Inconsistent

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Inconsistent.—From a press correspondent at Sacramento we learn that "a host of divines," Protestant and Catholic, including the archbishop of the diocese, are at the capital urging upon the Legislature the propriety of a constitutional amendment exempting church property from taxation. They claim that California is the only place in the world where church property is taxed. It is said that the sentiment of the Judiciary Committee is favorable to the proposition, with the proviso that a limitation be placed upon the amount of property the churches can hold. But it seems rather inconsistent to see Protestants who oppose government aid to church Indian schools and other church purposes on the one hand, asking the State to exempt their church property from taxation on the other hand. Wherein is the difference in principle between Federal aid and State aid? Another inconsistent feature is in asking the State to enforce the Sunday dogma of the churches, and other measures which they specially demand, while shirking their part of State expenses. If they would make of the State a beast of burden, logically they should help to feed it. However, people who insist on the unequal yoking of Church and State must necessarily be inconsistent.

Good Things in the Signs for 1899

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We can not begin to tell our readers all the good things which the SIGNS will give them in this present year. For instance, we shall, when the present articles on health topics by Brother B. F. Richards are finished, publish a series on Ventilation (illustrated) by Dr. Sanderson, the physician in chief at the Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, St. Helena, Cal. To-day there came seven articles on health along Gospel lines by a leading Christian physician in Battle Creek, Mich. Then Dr. W. H. Riley, physician in chief of the Boulder, Colo., Sanitarium, will furnish an excellent illustrated series on the nerves, nervous system, etc. But this is only a part of the good, interesting, practical matter which the SIGNS will lay before its readers in 1899. Is it not time to subscribe? You may begin with January 5 yet, if you wish.

An Error

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An Error.—In an issue of January 11 we stated that Mr. George McLafferty, of Aberdeen, Wash., had been fined and imprisoned for refusal to serve on a jury on the Sabbath of the Bible. We learn from his father, under date of January 26, that he was not at that time imprisoned. He was fined fifty dollars for refusing to serve as juror on the Sabbath, and was given till the end of the term to settle. He refused to pay the fine. The court took a recess, and the jury were no longer needed. What the court will do remains to be seen. Mr. McLafferty rightly has not paid his fine. Will the court send a man to jail for conscience' sake?

Scholarships for Christian Education

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HAVE you seen our scholarship advertisement on page 10? If not, you should turn and read it. There is now a way open for any enterprising person to secure a college education, under Christian influences, even tho he may be without means to pay his way. The advertisement referred to will explain how we propose to furnish scholarships to any and all such persons. Such a training as would be received in any one of the schools named, would be of incalculable advantage to the person who expects to be a worker for the Master in any part of His vineyard.

The World Almanac for 1899

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"The World Almanac" is the best of its kind published; and the issue for 1899 is the best yet. It is marvelous the amount of information such a cyclopedia contains. Prominent new features for 1899 are the war history, half-tone illustrations, and a battle calendar. It is only 25 cents. The World, New York.