The American Sentinel, Vol. 5, No. 23 (June 5, 1890) | AdventAI

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“ALL crime against the State,” says Rev. W. J. Coleman, “is an open sin against God.” If this were true, it would follow that the State can require nothing wrong, and forbid nothing that is right. It would also follow that the three Hebrews who refused to fall down before the great image which Nebuchadnezzar set up, were guilty of sin; that Daniel sinned in praying to God when forbidden so to do by the king; and that the apostles and martyrs of Jesus also sinned when they chose to obey God rather than men. God has ordained civil government; he did this when he created men and placed them together in families and communities; and when governments confine themselves to their proper sphere it is sin to resist their authority; but when they enter the domain of morals and assume to rule in things pertaining to God, they put themselves in the place of God, and must be disobeyed by all who would remain loyal to God. It is this principle alone that justifies the martyrs; any other reduces them to the level of criminals who suffered justly, condemned alike by God and man.1 paragraphs
The Bennett Law.A. T. J.31 paragraphs
Those who insist that some species of religious instruction shall be incorporated into our public-school system, may not intend the result; yet they are taking just the course most likely to destroy the system altogether, since they demand of it what it cannot consistently do. Secular instruction is the utmost limit to which the system can be reasonably extended.—Independent.1 paragraphs
THE home and the church are the proper places for moral and religious training, not the State free schools. These schools are for secular training, to prepare for intelligent citizenship, heroic manhood, and for life work. The State educates for its own support and protection, not for the future of man or boy after death; not to make Christians, Jews, or Mormons, but to make good citizens, noble patriots, and wise men.—Commercial Gazette, Baltimore, Maryland.1 paragraphs
Senator Blair’s Educational Bill.2 paragraphs
The Public-School Question.13 paragraphs
Simple Tyranny.5 paragraphs
Where the Difficulty Lies.Alonzo T. Jones16 paragraphs
Sunday-Law Campaign in California.11 paragraphs
THE American Sabbath Union Convention held a meeting in San Bernardino last week. The stock resolutions against Sunday newspapers were adopted. Sunday trains and Sunday mails were condemned of course. Those present were in earnest and meant what they said, but that doesn't help the matter any.—The Citrograph.1 paragraphs
The Sphere of Legislation.3 paragraphs
A Political Revolution in Wisconsin.7 paragraphs
Remarkable Language.The Sun7 paragraphs
THE BEST9 paragraphs
WATERMAN'S IDEAL4 paragraphs
SAFETY PENCIL POCKET8 paragraphs
THE SENTINEL LIBRARY10 paragraphs
GOOD HEALTH9 paragraphs
TEN LECTURESJohn Harvey Kellogg11 paragraphs
NEW EDITIONSA. T. Jones16 paragraphs
GOOD FOR ALL TIME!15 paragraphs
CALIFORNIA • TOURISTS7 paragraphs
FORTUNE!6 paragraphs
ARGUMENTS ON THE Breckinridge Sunday Bill.6 paragraphs
ROMANISM AND CIVIL LIBERTYWilliam Jackson Armstrong4 paragraphs
THE WEST SHORE RAILROAD9 paragraphs
In defense of the Bennett law, Governor Hoard cites the fact that some persons who could not understand English had been seduced into signing what they supposed were contracts to sell patent rights or something of that sort, while in fact they had signed promissory notes for large amounts of money, or perhaps mortgages on their farms. Well, we have known that to be done all over the land, to people who could not understand any language but English. If the Governor’s argument means anything, it means that people who can speak, read, and write English are thereby made safe from being deceived or swindled. That is giving rather more virtue to the English language than it had ever yet been known to display. But perhaps the idea is intended to be conveyed that the Bennett law gives to the English language this virtue. If so, then the argument has at least one merit, it is the only real point that has yet been made in favor of that law.1 paragraphs
The Canadian Supreme Court has just decided that in the works of Victor Hugo there is nothing immoral, even though they may be condemned by the Roman Catholic Church. The case grew out of the refusal of certain Catholic booksellers of Montreal to fulfill a contract which they had made to supply a customer with Hugo’s works, on the ground that as Catholics they could not sell works condemned by the church. The court very properly held that the Congregation of the Index, or any other congregation, could not make laws annulling the legal contracts between its own members and outside parties. The Catholic Review of this city complains that this is simply a Protestant decision, and that it places the booksellers in a dilemma: they must “commit a grievous sin by dealing in prohibited books, or they lose heavily by breaking their contract.” This, the Review thinks, “only illustrates a plain but much-obscured fact, that Church and State cannot ignore each other, even if they would.” It is evident that the editor of the Catholic Review would like to see “the Church” clothed with power to revoke civil contracts just as she used to do in the palmy days of the Inquisition. The bookseller was not obliged to make that contract; but having voluntarily entered into such a contract it was only justice that he should fulfill it. Let Roman Catholics make no such contracts, and they will have no such difficulties. No decree of any church can impair the obligation of contracts.1 paragraphs
THE German Emperor makes “Sunday rest” the phase of the industrial question, which claims “the foremost attention.” It will not be long before the Sunday-law question becomes not only a national but an international one.1 paragraphs
THE Woman’s Christian Temperance Union takes to itself much credit for securing the Illinois Compulsory Education law. They are entitled to all the credit that attaches to such a statute. The law is entirely worthy of its source1 paragraphs
THE Christian Union says that “Few intelligent Christians believe that the earthly body has any resurrection.” Such “intelligence” as that is the most serious kind of ignorance. Such wisdom as that is of that kind which by wisdom knows not God, at the last. The earthly body of Jesus Christ had a resurrection, and so must every one have who will ever be where he is.1 paragraphs
A CONTRIBUTOR to the Western Wave, of South Dakota, states that in some of the public schools in Grant County in that State “the Roman Catholic catechism is being taught.” Those who know of it ought to have it stopped. The Roman Catholics of South Dakota have no more right to use their catechism in the public school, than the Protestants of Wisconsin have to use the King James version of the Bible in the public school.1 paragraphs
THE Hon. J. M. Palmer, late United States minister to Spain, adopted in Spain, and brought home with him, a Spanish boy. As the Spanish nurse who had engaged to come was hindered at the last moment, Mr. Palmer waited in this city until another could come from Spain; because, he says, he desires that conversation with the child shall be wholly in Spanish, and that his instruction shall be in that language also. It is a good thing that Mr. Palmer lives in Michigan, instead of Wisconsin or Illinois. Otherwise, he might soon find himself undergoing prosecution for not giving the child instruction in English, and for not causing the child to forget the Spanish language as soon as possible.1 paragraphs
SUNDAY evening, May 11, Rev. Theo. Clifton, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, delivered a lecture on “What Protestants May Learn from Catholics,” in which he said:—3 paragraphs
MANITOBA has adopted a law by which it is proposed that from the first day of May and forward, the schools shall be public schools, and so conducted as to be without offense to Catholic or Protestant; in short, unsectarian. Accordingly instructions were given as follows:—3 paragraphs
SOME time ago we mentioned the pamphlet “Bible Principles and the Union of Church and State,” issued by the London branch of the Pacific Press. We had then received only a sample copy. We are glad to announce that we have the pamphlet now in stock and can fill orders promptly. Aside from the Bible principles, which are universal, there is much in this pamphlet that is of interest to the people of the United States in its excellent showing of some of the workings of Church and State when legally, or rather illegally, joined. In the presence of the workings of the National Reform Association and its allies this book makes good reading for Americans. We shall present extracts from time to time in THE SENTINEL; but everybody should have the pamphlet. Send in your orders. Price, forty cents.Editor1 paragraphs