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The Life of our Lord in the Words of the Evangelists,
BY JAMES P. CADMAN, A. M.
Is, as its Name Indicates, a Compilation in which the four Narratives of
# THE LIFE OF CHRIST
ARE WOVEN INTO ONE CONNECTED STORY, MAKING A COMPLETE HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS IN THE EXACT LANGUAGE OF THE SCRIPTURES.
THE text is that of the Revised Version, and while every word in the four Gospels appears, the work is so arranged that the reader can tell at a glance the words used in each Gospel. Those who have tried to gather all the facts concerning some miracle, or other event, and at the same time properly locate and credit the various parts of the narrative, will appreciate this book, which is the very best of its kind and gives evidence of an immense amount of careful and painstaking labor.
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Index to chapter and verses; Life of Our Lord (333 pages); Index of persons, places, and subjects, with dictionary of proper names; Explanation of maps and diagrams; Map of the pathway of Jesus; Diagrams illustrating the principal events of crucifixion week.
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Civil Government and Religion
By Alonzo T. Jones
By A. T. Jones,
One of the Editors of the "American Sentinel."
Scriptural, Logical, Plain, and Forcible.
This important work shows clearly the relation that should exist between Church and State at the present time, as proven by the Bible history of the past twenty-five centuries.
Chapter I outlines vividly the relation that existed between "Christianity and the Roman Empire;" Chap. II distinguishes between "What Is Due to God and What to Cæsar;" Chap. III shows for what purpose "The Powers That Be" are ordained; Chap. IV ably discusses "The Religious Attack upon the United States Constitution, and Those Who Are Making It;" Chap. V unmasks "Religious Legislation," calling special attention to the Blair Sunday Bill, introduced in the last Congress; Chap. VI is devoted to "The Sunday-law Movement in the Fourth Century, and its parallel in the Nineteenth."
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The True Mean Between Extremes
By Editor
WE take the following from the Catholic News:—
“‘Among Christians generally, if not universally, unbelief is represented as an unpardonable sin; and yet, with charming consistency, they themselves are unbelievers in the errors of other religions besides their own.’ So says that organ of ‘free thought,’ the Boston Investigator. But why does not our contemporary be more explicit, and affirm that they who deny the authority of the Catholic Church, which Christ founded, can find no haven on this side of infidelity?”
Because France in its recoil from Romanism landed in infidelity, is no evidence that there is no true middle ground. It is natural for humanity to swing to extremes, and especially Gallic humanity. France, in her ignorance, groaned under the darkness of Roman Catholic superstition so long that she saw no other better way. It was the wickedness of a superstitious hierarchy, or the wickedness of selfish, unaided human reason, and France chose the latter. The true mean is that reason which is guided by God, and that faith which believes his word. Such faith and reason, or reasonable faith, is based, not on the pratings of priests, but on the word of God. That is the Protestant platform. It is of greatest value to truly regenerate hearts. It is because Protestants have endeavored to do, independent of God, what man cannot do, or have tried to engraft the Catholic theory of tradition into the Protestant vine, that they have been driven either to infidelity on the one side or Roman Catholicism on the other. The skeptical worldling finds it easy in the former way, the superstitious unregenerate in the latter. He only can be a true abiding Protestant who is a true Bible Christian. Such an one will not be wrecked on the infidel coast of Scylla, or be swallowed up by the Roman Catholic Charybdis.
The Sunday-Rest Bill
By Editor
WE learn that a Sunday-Rest bill for the District of Columbia has been introduced into Congress to prepare the way, or as a feeler, for the national bill. If defeated, the Sunday people prefer to lose on the skirmish line rather than in the main battle. May Congress have sense enough to defeat them in both.
New Volumes of the Libraries
By Editor
WE call attention to the completed lists of the first volumes of the "Sentinel" and "Bible Students'" Libraries, on another page. The new volumes will contain matter of great interest, and that which has either been out of print for some time or else entirely new. This will be especially true of the Bible Students' Library.
Pennsylvania Temperance Alliance
IOWA is not the only State in which there is dissatisfaction in the ranks of the W. C. T. U. with the political aspect of the national organization. The same sentiment prevails in the Pennsylvania Union also, and to such an extent that the non-partisan element has taken steps to organize independently. A meeting for that purpose was held at Philadelphia on the 16th inst., and the name recommended for the new organization is, "The Women's Christian Temperance Alliance of Pennsylvania."
Protests Against Sunday Legislation
By Editor
The Oakland Morning Times of January 19 has the following:—
"The Sunday-law question is again before Congress. Petitions being presented—some asking for the passage of a law enforcing the observance of Sunday, and others protesting against that or any other religious legislation. Among these latter are numerously-signed petitions from San Francisco and Oakland, in the circulation of which the Seventh-day Adventists have been very active and efficient."
Good! Let Seventh-day Adventists protest; and so let all others who love liberty and equal rights. We do not see how true Christians or patriots can do otherwise. It is a time when Protestantism should again live.
The Ten-Million-Signature Petition
By Editor
According to the Chicago News, itself a strong advocate of Sunday legislation, Rev. Joseph W. Morton, of that city, has brought forward another argument to show that it is impossible that the Sunday-law petition that was presented to the last Congress could have contained ten million signatures, as its friends claim. "To contain ten million signatures," says Mr. Morton, "would require at least 166,667 sheets, making more than 347 reams, which, at the average rate of twelve and one-half pounds to the ream, would weigh more than two and one-sixth tons. The length of the petition would be a little more than sixty-three miles." We think that this calculation is very moderate, but we don't think that anybody will claim that over two tons of paper was piled up before the Speaker's desk at any time last year. The News says that "Mr. Morton is very confident that no such petition was ever presented to Congress on any subject." And so are we, not merely from calculation, but from positive statements made under oath by the one most active in pushing the circulation of the petition.
Tobacco Use and Scripture
SOME who are under the bondage of habit as regards appetite are wont to refer to the words of our Lord in Matt. 15:17-20 to justify them in their practice, declaring that not that which "entereth in at the mouth" defileth a man, but that which proceeds "out of the mouth." But a tobacco user has no right to use this text to justify himself unless he swallows all the smoke and spittle which come from his use of the weed. He will need to do this but a little time to be beyond the reach of all argument or help.
Sunday-Law Pharisees
ONE of the chief arguments which Sunday-law advocates bring against those who fairly and consistently oppose their work, is to ridicule and reproach them, and condemn the principles and arguments, because disreputable men see their force, and are found supporting them. Their argument is not new, however. The Pharisees of old brought a similar accusation against Jesus; they said, "This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them." Luke 15:2. "How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?" Mark 2:16. "Behold a man gluttonous, and a wine bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners." Matt. 11:19. But His words were true then, and Sunday-law Pharisees would do well to heed them now: "Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you." Matt. 21:31.
Spiritualism and Self
By Editor
THE editor of the Golden Gate writes thus:—
“When the Methodists want to pay off a church debt, be the same more or less, they pass around the hat, and, lo, the shekels come forth. When the Catholics would erect a cathedral, the bishop passes the word down the long line of servant-girls and day laborers, and a mighty host they ‘step up to the captain’s office and settle.’ When a little handful of Seventh-day Adventists, even,—a sect believing in a monstrous idea of the All-Father, in a personal devil, in the sleep of the dead, in a literal resurrection of the flesh and bones of these old bodies of ours, in the annihilation of the wicked, and in an assorted lot of other absurd notions,—when these people, whom Spiritualists outnumber twenty to one, want a college or a publishing house or a new church, they go to work and build it. When Spiritualists—we beg pardon, ‘comparisons are odious.’”
All of which shows the difference between religions which are based upon the teachings of Christ, even though those teachings may be perverted, and a religion which begins and ends with self—whose sole principle is the ego. Each man for himself, both here and for eternity, is the motto of Spiritualism.
The National Reform Threat
By Editor
REV. M. A. GAULT, a representative of the National Reform Association, and of the American Sabbath Union, writes to a Seventh-day Adventist at Hawleyville, Iowa, as follows:—
"I see most of your literature in my travels, and am convinced that your folks will die hard. But we are helping Brother Crafts all the time to set stakes and get the ropes ready to scoop you all in. You will kick hard, of course, but we will make sure work."
Mr. J. S. Washburn, to whom this card was addressed, claims to have heard from Mr. Gault's own lips "the infamous declaration that as a last resort to be used in compelling this nation to profess Christianity he would advise the use of the sword and the bullet." From this and many like expressions from the same "reverend" lips, Mr. Washburn feels justified in placing upon the above threat "the most literal interpretation." We think his conclusion is correct, and that the National Reform Inquisition will be, as far as in them lies, a true image of the old Roman institution. No doubt, with their "stakes" and their "ropes," they will make the deaths of all whom they are able to "scoop in" as hard as their vindictive invention will permit.
The Abomination of Desolation
By Editor
A CORRESPONDENT asks an explanation of Matt. 24:15. On this point we cannot do better at this time than to quote from "The Second Coming of Christ," by Elder James White, pages 25, 26:—
“ ‘When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand).’ ”
“The ‘abomination of desolation’ is called ‘armies’ in Luke 21:20, and refers to the Roman army. ‘And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.’ This desolating power is spoken of by Daniel as follows: ‘And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. . . . And for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.’ Margin, ‘desolator.’ Dan. 9:26, 27. Here is a clear prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman armies. Our Lord referred to the book of Daniel, and taught his disciples to read and understand it; and when they should see what was there predicted take place, they must make their escape.”