The American Sentinel, Vol. 6, No. 15 (April 9, 1891) | AdventAI

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REFERRING to a large foreign element in this country and the relation to Sunday of those who compose it, Alex. S. Bacon, Esq., of Brooklyn, at the second anniversary of the American Sabbath Union, said:—5 paragraphs
The American Sabbath.Alonzo T. Jones46 paragraphs
As soon as we leave generalities about the “inculcation of Christian morals” and undertake to determine specifically what Christian morals the public schools shall inculcate, we come upon matters of controversy about which people differ whose rights as citizens, as parents, and as taxpayers are precisely the same.—New York Times.1 paragraphs
ENFORCED labor on Sunday is a tyranny, and enforced idleness is the same. The civil, or any other, Sabbath is not nor ever was necessary for the preservation of our free institutions. California, where the civil Sabbath does not exist, and where institutions are as free as anywhere, proves the claim for the necessity of a Sunday law to be false. Sunday laws are necessary only to the preservation of religious institutions, and they are necessary to that purpose for no other reason than that professing Christians are not sincere enough to keep Sunday without being forced to do so.—San Francisco paper.1 paragraphs
Shall Our Schools Be Sectarian?4 paragraphs
A Remarkable Publication.C. P. B.46 paragraphs
Give Us Rest.R. F. COTRELL2 paragraphs
The Sabbath Question.Lux Benigna7 paragraphs
Burdensome Laws.2 paragraphs
On Sunday Laws.4 paragraphs
Religious Persecution.J. H. Sargeant2 paragraphs
In Russia.6 paragraphs
The Reason Why.2 paragraphs
INTOLERANCE is the shadow which dogs the footsteps of faith, and in many cases more than obscures its benefits.—Laing.Laing1 paragraphs
A Sunday Question.2 paragraphs
A CITY has clearly the right to see that no disorderly conduct is indulged in within the corporate limits on Sunday or any other day. Whether it has the right to stop an orderly game of baseball, or of any other kind that is not in itself immoral, is another question.—Gilpin County Observer.1 paragraphs
The law can compel no man or congregation of men to observe Sunday as a religious day. The right to worship is left with the individual, as well as the object which he desires to worship. A town has a perfect right to maintain peace and quietude within its corporate limits. If baseball playing on Sunday is indulged to the annoyance of the citizens it can be abated as a nuisance, after the nuisance is proven. Such testimony, however, must necessarily be direct, positive, and from persons living in the immediate vicinity of the place where the game is played. The same evidence would suspend baseball playing in the same location on any other day of the week. In other words, a nuisance on Sunday is as much a nuisance on Monday.—Colorado Graphic.1 paragraphs
STRANGE as it may appear, in this age of enlightenment, and this land of freedom, there are some who seem not yet to have broken through the shell of error and superstition of the past, and learned that it is not the business of the Church to dictate the policy of the State, nor of the State to say by whom, or by what means, men are to be saved in a kingdom not of this world.—Western Herald.1 paragraphs
AGENT WANTED9 paragraphs
DO YOU USE A FOUNTAIN PEN?7 paragraphs
DO YOU WANT THE BEST ATLAS PUBLISHED?8 paragraphs
THE NEW WEBSTER.8 paragraphs
PROPHETIC LIGHTSEllet Joseph Waggoner13 paragraphs
SIBERIA AND THE NIHILISTSWilliam Jackson Armstrong11 paragraphs
The Nonsuch Professor,William Secker10 paragraphs
Sacred Chronology.SYLVESTER BLISS11 paragraphs
IS THE PAPACY IN PROPHECY?Rev. Thomas W. Haskins, M. A.15 paragraphs
THE Christian Nation brings against us a railing accusation because we wished success to a paper in San Francisco which is issued seven times a week. We would be glad to see everybody, including our critic, keeping the Sabbath of the Lord our God, but we have no disposition to dictate to those who do not see this matter as we do; and we must certainly decline to wish ill of those who, for reasons satisfactory to themselves, refuse to follow our example in the matter of Sabbath-keeping. But we are not surprised at this outburst of our contemporary, since it has many times shown itself to be governed by a spirit other than that of Michael, who when under not an imaginary but a real provocation durst not bring against even the devil, a railing accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke thee.” (Jude 9.) However, the attitude of the Nation is only what we might expect, since, as we have many times shown, the whole National Reform scheme, to which it is wedded, is not only non-Christian but essentially anti-Christian. The truth of the Scripture (2 Cor. 11:13, 14), which our contemporary applies to us, is well exemplified in the fact that a paper advocating so-called National Reform, calls itself “Christian.” To what base uses are noble names oft applied!Editor1 paragraphs
A GENTLEMAN writes us:—Editor6 paragraphs
PENNSYLVANIA has decided to retain the Sunday law of 1794.1 paragraphs
TENNESSEE has passed a law against the running of freight trains on Sunday.1 paragraphs
FORTY thousand ministers were appealed to during the month of February to assist in the work of securing signatures for the Sunday closing of the World's Fair in 1893.1 paragraphs
“THEY do some very queer things indeed in England,” says the Recorder, “for instance, at Birkenhead, the Brooklyn of Liverpool, the municipal authorities have carried their no-Sunday-labor zeal so far that they have prohibited interments in the cemeteries on the one day in the week when workingmen can attend a funeral without sacrificing valuable time.” And yet this whole Sunday business is, we are told, a movement in the interests of the “poor workingman.”1 paragraphs
GEN. T. J. MORGAN, United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in a recent address in Chicago, expressed the opinion that the Indians should be taught the English language, that they should be given a knowledge of the use of machinery and tools, and that they should be induced to become Christians. He made it clear to his auditors, however, that schools supported by the Government had no right to teach religion. His idea was that missionaries should give the needed religious instruction.1 paragraphs
It is stated that Rabbi Marcus, a Jewish physician and chassamovitch, living in Grodno, Russia, has been arrested and exiled for two years, for sending to the Government a Jewish petition demanding redress for an outrage committed by a Russian doctor Granolosk, who is charged with having branded the word “thief” in three languages upon the forehead of a Jewish boy who was accused of having stolen a small quantity of fruit. The petition sent said this would excite the indignation of the civilized world. Russia is a thorough-going National Reform country; its rulers pose as Christians, and tolerate those who don’t if they “ do not rave,” that is, if they carefully conceal their religious beliefs.1 paragraphs
It is thought in Ottawa that the Parliament to assemble there May 1, will be the stormiest the Dominion has ever witnessed. Cardinal Taschereau and the Canadian bishops of the Catholic Church are demanding the disallowance of the Manitoba act abolishing separate schools in that Province. This demand has fallen like a thunderbolt upon the Government. It places the Government in a very perilous position. One of the first acts of the Liberal party when Parliament assembles, it is said, will be to move a vote of censure against the Government for not interfering to prevent the abolition of separate schools, which is a vested right of the Catholic Church in the several Provinces. The Government, it is thought, stands a much greater chance of defeat on this than upon the trade question.1 paragraphs
APROPOS of our note of last week, in which it was stated that owing to persecutions about one hundred thousand of the poorest class of Russian Jews had embraced the Russian faith, is the following item from the Recorder, of this city:—Editor3 paragraphs
ONE of the most interesting religious publications that comes to our table is The Gospel in All Lands. It is a publication that should be in every home, as it will certainly stimulate interest in Christian missions, wherever read. Fifteen cents sent to Hunt & Eaton, Fifth Avenue and 20th Street, this city, will secure you a copy.Editor1 paragraphs