The American Sentinel, Vol. 5, No. 30 (July 31, 1890) | AdventAI

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THE Loyal American says that, “THE AMERICAN SENTINEL questions the right of the State to prescribe what language shall be taught in the State schools,” and asks us to explain why. The Loyal American ought to read THE SENTINEL more carefully. THE SENTINEL never did, and never will, question the right of the State to prescribe what language shall be taught in the State school. All that THE SENTINEL has done in this line is to question the right of the State to prescribe what language or any thing else shall be taught in church schools. For any church to undertake to prescribe what should be taught in State schools, everybody knows would be a union of Church and State; and for any State to undertake to prescribe what shall be taught in any church school is a union of State and Church. And the difference between the evils of a union of State and Church and a union of Church and State is too slight to be defined. Therefore, THE AMERICAN SENTINEL protests just as much against a union of State and Church as anybody else does against a union of Church and State, and we wish the Loyal American would do so too.Editor1 paragraphs
What Is Treason?A. T. J.11 paragraphs
The Order of United American Mechanics is petitioning Congress largely, for “an amendment to the Constitution, which shall prevent the States from enacting laws for the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” This is an evidence that the practical people of the United States are waking up to the dangers and exigencies of the times.1 paragraphs
THERE are at present, four bills before Congress, having in view the closing of saloons on Sunday in the District of Columbia. One has passed the Senate and gone to the House, two have been introduced in the House, and still another has just been introduced in the Senate. The entire Sunday movement seems, at this time, to be concentrated upon the closing of the saloon on Sunday, totally regardless of the mantle of legal charity which it thus throws over the liquor traffic for the remaining six days of the week.1 paragraphs
Is It Blindness?A. T. J.9 paragraphs
A Fallacy.C. P. B.7 paragraphs
Is It Civil?4 paragraphs
Centralization.W. H. M.13 paragraphs
The Sunday Paper Again.Editor7 paragraphs
Evils of Religious Domination.4 paragraphs
“Quite Cautious,” Indeed.11 paragraphs
Who Will Run the Machine?Roswell F. Cottrell4 paragraphs
The Clerical Party.9 paragraphs
By What Authority ?4 paragraphs
ONE of our exchanges, the Orleans Herald, is a little mixed on the proper functions of the State. Some time since we said that “the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors, so far as the authority of Congress or the police power of the State is concerned, has nothing to do with morals, but is solely a matter of the jurisdiction of the municipal law.”Editor2 paragraphs
On May 17, in the Senate, Mr. Manderson, from the Committee on Printing, reported back favorably the following resolutions previously introduced by Mr. Blair, of New Hampshire:—4 paragraphs
The Real Reason.6 paragraphs
THE Secretary of the National Religious Liberty Association is in daily receipt of signatures to the petition against religious legislation, notably from California, Iowa, and Michigan. The signatures are mostly upon petition slips, which the senders seem to have received by letter from some earnest workers for religious liberty.1 paragraphs
THE Advocate, a prohibition journal of Watertown, this State, is calling for the more vigorous enforcement of existing Sunday laws. Speaking of the growing disregard of Sunday, the Advocate says: “If allowed to go on unchecked, a Continental Sabbath, or a Sabbath without regard to a law compelling a suspension of business, will be substituted in this country instead of the Sabbath of our fathers. Against such an innovation we strongly protest.”1 paragraphs
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 onto a sheet of legal cap.5 paragraphs
Freedom and grace of motion cannot be obtained by those wearing a stiff corset.6 paragraphs
THE SENTINEL LIBRARY42 paragraphs
TEN LECTURESJohn Harvey Kellogg11 paragraphs
NEW EDITIONSA. T. Jones22 paragraphs
GOOD FOR ALL TIME!15 paragraphs
HEALTH FOOD CRACKERS8 paragraphs
THE BEST11 paragraphs
SAFETY PENCIL POCKET8 paragraphs
FORTUNE!5 paragraphs
ARGUMENTS8 paragraphs
The Pittsburgh Christian Advocate is not pleased with the present administration. It says:—3 paragraphs
THE preachers of Milwaukee, not long since, discussed in their Monday meeting, the subject of “Capital and Labor.” The following resolution was introduced:—5 paragraphs
THERE was a strike of Sunday car drivers a week or two since in Brooklyn, not as might be supposed, however, against Sunday work, but for pay by the day instead of by the trip.1 paragraphs
THE Voice says that “although Francis Murphy is dead set against prohibition a resolution was unanimously passed at one of his South Omaha meetings, last week, calling upon Mayor Sloan to enforce the prohibition laws on Sunday.” Yes; love for Sunday, and laws for its enforcement, take precedence of all opposition to the liquor traffic, in the minds of thousands of people both in and out of the Prohibition Party.1 paragraphs
THE Loyal American found something in THE AMERICAN SENTINEL which it thought was awry, and asked for an explanation. We have given it; now it is our turn. In its issue of July 2, it sets forth among its principles this:—Editor3 paragraphs
DOCTOR GUTHRIE, the eminent Presbyterian divine, is credited with this statement:—3 paragraphs
The Louisiana Legislature has had before it a substitute for the State Sunday law, in the form of a bill giving to police juries and municipal corporations throughout the State the power to regulate all Sunday trade, etc. The measure is really local option applied to the Sunday question. The bill passed the Legislature, but was vetoed by the Governor.2 paragraphs
At the Catholic Congress held at Baltimore, last year, a committee was appointed to arrange for another one to be held in connection with the World's Fair in 1892. The Catholic Review of June 29, urges upon the committee prompt and steady action in preparing for the Congress. It says that “the Congress will be an American Congress, but the celebration must be continental, and delegates from every diocese in North and South America, representatives from every race on the continent should find recognition on this occasion.” We wait now to see what steps the National Reform Association, and the American Sabbath Union will take to secure the recognition of representatives in that Congress.1 paragraphs
THE St. Paul Dispatch supports the decision of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in the Edgerton Bible case, and says: “In view of the severity with which the founders of our constitutional systems plainly regarded all possibility of interference with individual religious belief or individual right of conscience, it is safe to say, that the proper and the more advisable course in the discharge of the duty of the State, to afford secular instruction to its citizens, is to wholly eliminate all form of religious instruction, and leave the discharge of that duty where it rightfully belongs, with the parents of the several children.”1 paragraphs
THE Sunday Alliance, of Scotland, communicates to the Sunday Union, of the United States, a report of the progress of the work of the Alliance for the past year in Scotland; a paragraph is devoted to the commendation of the American Sunday Union, and the Mail and Express. Thus steadily are these forces for the promotion of political religion joining hands round the world.1 paragraphs