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prayer of the Seventh-day Adventists for respect law-abiding citizens have been haled American Sentinel. simple justice. before courts, and have been tried and unjustly PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE In England religious persecution, waged convicted. And but for an appeal to the Su- PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY, against the same people, has run about the preme Court, now pending, these men would No. 43 BOND STREET, NEW YORK. same course. Here, as in Basel, it was car- be suffering imprisonment at the present Entered at the New York Post-Office. ried on under color of the Factory Act; and, moment for the exercise of their God-given, as appears from the statement which we take constitutional, and statutory rights. from the Daily Graphic, published upon page And what has been the attitude of the peo- r".42,0 T. JONES, 1. EDITORS. .7„..GYIN P. BOLLMAN, 4,* the greatest sufferers have been those ple toward these persecutions? Largely one Leh)/ A. SMITH, ASSISTANT EDITOR. whom the act styles " protected persons." of indifference. This has been especially true The facts, as set forth in the appeal of the in foreign lands. In London it is said by a RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE. Board of Directors to the Home Secretary, to high government official that the numbers which we have just referred, unmistakably concerned were too insignificant to justify 4ITH this number the AMERICAN SENTINEL stamp the action of the authorities in this in- any action looking to relief, by the govern- en ers upon the eleventh year of its publica- stance as religious persecution. ment. * In this country, a considerable part Intolerance in Our Own Land. of the secular press has spoken out nobly in When the first number of the SENTINEL In our own country bigotry and intolerance defense of the rights of conscience, and in was issued, few, comparatively, even of its have been no less pronounced. The first condemnation of tyranny. But a majority of friends, realized the real necessity there was quarter of the year saw ten Seventh-day Ad- the religious papers have been either silent or for such a paper, and very many thought ventists convicted and imprisoned in Rhea have given their voice in favor of restriction that there was in this country no field for a County, Tenn., upon the technical charge of and oppression. journal devoted to the advocacy of religious " nuisance," their offense being the perform- With the single exception of the American liberty. But subsequent events have fully ance of ordinary secular labor on the first day Baptist Publication Association, the various justified the existence of the SENTINEL, every of the week. And this conviction was had religious bodies of this country, so far as they year making the necessity for it more appar- notwithstanding the absence of all evidence have spoken, have by resolutions not only in- ent than the previous one. that there was any disturbance other than dorsed the restriction of religions liberty, but The past year has been unusually eventful the mental annoyance experienced by those have demanded the enactment and enforce- in the conflict between truth and error, ment of still more stringent statutes calcu- whose bigotry and intolerance render them between righteousness and unrighteousness, incapable of cheerfully awarding to others lated to bind as with a chain not only the between soul-liberty and the bondage of sin. the exercise of rights which they demand bodies but the souls of men to the Sunday The year opened with persecution for con- Juggernaut. With the details our readers are for themselves. This persecution was a gross science' sake, actually in progress in Switzer- injustice not only to the imprisoned men and familiar. land, in England, and in various parts of our their families, but also resulted in cutting What Is Involved. own country, notably in Tennessee; and there short a term of the Graysville Academy, to The law of God declares that the seventh has been no general abatement. the great detriment of a number of students day is the Sabbath, and commands in une- Under color of the Swiss Factory Act, the who were about ready to graduate. quivocal language that it be kept holy. Not Seventh-day Adventist publishing house in An appeal to the legislature of Tennessee only so, but God appeals repeatedly to the Basel was closed some months since, the for relief by repeal of the oppressive act was facts set forth in that commandment as the manager imprisoned, and the publishing work treated with contempt; and four months later ground of his rightful authority over all men, carried on there greatly crippled. eight Seventh-day Adventists, including sev- and also declares: " I gave them my Sabbaths, The employ& of this publishing house, in- • eral of the same individuals formerly impris- to be a sign between me and them, that they stead of being protected by the operations of oned, were again convicted and imprisoned might know that I am the Lord that sanctify this "law," have been greatly embarrassed and worked in the chain-gang with common them."' Thus the Sabbath is the sign of and made to suffer hardship because of the criminals. During the same time there were God not only as Creator but as re-Creator, or loss of employment; and this seems the more other similar cases of persecution in Massa- Saviour. inconsistent because Sunday is not as strictly chusetts, Maryland, Georgia, Mississippi, But in contradistinction to this the Catholic observed in Switzerland as in some other Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Onta- Church commands the observance Sunday, countries. The plaza in front of the Imprim- rio, and Manitoba. to which she appeals as the badge of her au- erie Polyglotte, the Seventh-day Adventist thority to command men under sin.' And publishing house, is frequently the scene of Statutes Overridden. Sunday military parades and athletic games; In both Illinois and Arkansas there is a * See " Too Few to Have Rights," on page 4. clause exempting from the penalties of the and on at least one recent occasion the 1 Eze. 20:12. reviewing stands were erected on Sunday. " law " observers of the seventh day. But this Ques. How prove you that the church hath power to Nevertheless both the government and people provision has been overridden, notably in Illi- command feasts and holy days 7 Ans. By the very act of changing the Sabbath into of SNyitzerland have, turned a deaf ear to the nois, and quiet) inoffensive, and in every Sunday, Which, Protestants allow of; aid tberefore they 2 A.IVIIT,Eiti (DAN SMIV'r INId.- 1,„ VoL. 11, No. 1. such has been her influence with the nations But this occasions no surprise to the student repeal, but by legislation subtly inconsistent of earth that almost every civilized State on of sacred Scripture, for it is plainly declared with -our charters of liberty, State and na- the globe has incorporated into its statutes in Rev. 13: 8: "All that dwell upon the tional, and by practices equally at variance the papal dogma of Sunday sacredness. So earth shall worship him [the Papacy], whose with the spirit of our free institutions, and far is our country from being an exception names are not written in the book of life of scarcely less sophistical than the legislatiou TA- to this statement, that it has stood forth so the Lamb slain from the foundation of the ferred to; and by judicial decisions based prominently in this respect that this institu- world." Obedience is the highest form of upon colonial history and royal charters rather tion is by many styled " the American Sab- worship, and regardless of their profession, than upon those guarantees of freedom of bath." those who knowingly obey the command of conscience by which the people of nearly Notwithstanding the fact that in 1829 and the Papacy rather than the command of God, every State have sought to make sure their 1830 the Congress of the United States adopted thereby worship the beast. It is the boast liberties. the Sunday Mail Reports, written by Hon. of Rome that " the observance of Sunday by The Sunday institution figures more largely Richard M. Johnson, in which it was declared the Protestants is an homage [worship] they in this assault on soul-liberty than any other that if the Sunday act then demanded pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority papal dogma, because it is the test of loyalty " should be adopted, it would be difficult for of the [Roman Catholic] church."' to the Papacy, as the Sabbath is the test of loyalty to God. It is for this reason that we human sagacity to foresee how rapid would be The Papacy and Its Image. the succession or how numerous the train of view with alarm every attempt to coerce men measures which [would] follow, involving the The beast, the Papacy, is a church clothed in this matter, and raise our voices in warn- dearest rights of all—the rights of conscience." with civil power and therefore holding adul- ing against every forward step which is taken The Fifty-second Congress in its World's Fair terous connection with the nations of the in the exaltation of this man-made institu- legislation in 1893 took this dangerous step earth. One of the symbols by which it is tion, this papal counterfeit of the Sabbath of by interpreting the law of God, declaring in represented is that of a lewd woman. (See the Lord. And so the SENTINEL will con- effect that the fourth commandment was not Rev. 17: 1-5.) It follows that any church tinue in the future to uncompromisingly op- only binding upon all men and nations, but forsaking the power of God and seeking the pose, as it has in the past, every step in the that it required the observance of the first day power of the State becomes papal in character, direction of a more perfect development of of the week. whether recognized as a part of the Papacy or union of Church and State, which is bound It is true that the Government has not been not. up with and necessarily included in every consistent in this matter, but it is plainly seen Fourteen of the "evangelical " denom- statute and every judicial decision, andV71 that the trend of public sentiment and of gov- inations of the United States, banding them- governmental action designed in any ezo ernmental policy is in the direction of show- selves together in the American Sabbath either enforce upon the people the obserance ing greater honor to the Sunday institution; Union,' have sought and obtained civil power of any religious dogma, or which proln its and in this the several States are not one whit for the furtherance of their ends, and the en- in any manner the free exercise of religi u behind the General Government. In fact, forcement of at least one of their dogmas,' faith. The nation may not hear, the greiat most of the States have for many years been namely, that of Sunday sacredness, — the mass of the people may not pause, apostNte committed to the defense of the Sunday dogma to which, in preference to all others, Protestantism may not desist from her purse it dogma. as we have shown, the Papal Church appeals of civil power; but individuals will heed t e as the symbol of her power to "command men warning and be saved in the kingdom of Go What of the Future? under sin." And to this end we labor. What the present Congress will do it is of In thus imitating the Papacy and receiving course impossible to tell; but indications are power from the State instead of from her not lacking that it is ambitious to make a Lord, the professed Protestant church of WILL THE " CHRISTIAN " NATIONS FIGHT ? " reform " record. Already there has been America has inaugurated an American papacy, introduced into both the Senate, and House, an image as it were of the Papacy of the pope. Tins is the question that is now agitating the joint resolution which we print on And against the worship of this image as well many minds in all parts of the civilized world, page 6; but even if adopted, this proposed as against obeying the Papacy itself, the and no one is able to give it a conclusive an- amendment would add but little to what we Scriptures give the solemn warning of Rev. swer. Two great " Christian " nations have already have in general; orders, religious proc- 14: 9, 10. It is for the purpose of sounding had a serious falling out, and one of them lamations, the practice of employing chap- this warning that the SENTINEL exists. We has threatened the other with a possible set- lains, State and national statutes, and judicial have never for a moment expected to prevent tlement of their differences by force of arms. decisions. those things which are foretold in the Scrip- Both are standing upon their— dignity, and Judge Brewer's dictum of Feb. 29, 1892, tures. Opposition may retard, but cannot announce that they are firmly resolved to that this is a " Christian nation," while theo- finally avert that which the Word of God long maintain the same, by a careful avoidance of retically without force as law, has practically since declared would come to pass. anything like a confession of being in the nullified that portion of the First Amendment This country was settled and this nation wrong. which declares that " Congress shall make no established, we firmly believe, in the provi- The situation was very generally discussed law respecting an establishment of religion, dence of God, that it might be an asylum for by leading clergymen in their Sunday ser- or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." the oppressed of all nations, and that here a mons, Dec. 22, and a number expressed them- Being a " Christian nation," it follows that purer church might be maintained and greater selves strongly concerning the unchristian the " Christian " religion is the religion of liberty to preach the gospel be enjoyed than spectacle which would be presented in the the nation, and that its institutions are to was possible in any other quarter of the globe. event of war. The Rev. Dr. John Hall, of be protected because they are " Christian." But these privileges have not been appre- the Fifth Ave. Presbyterian Church, New Such was probably the most potent argument ciated, and misguided men, ambitious for York, said that " nothing would cause more (aside from threatened political boycott)' urged their own aggrandizement and mistaking am- malignant satisfaction to the devil than the in behalf of the World's Fair Sunday-closing bition for religious fervor, have untiringly possibility of strife between two such great clause. But be this as it may, the trend of plotted for the overthrow of liberty of con- Christian nations as ours, and that with which events in this country and in the world can- science in the supposed interests of the religion we are most closely associated by ties of blood not be mistaken. Everywhere the Papacy of Him who said to the impulsive Peter: and kindred interests." Rev. Francis E. is being exalted either in its own proper char- " Put up thy sword into his place: for all Mason, of Brooklyn, noticed that " the world acter, or by the adoption of its institutions, they that take the sword shall perish with the is in a state of commotion and war. Even dogmas and methods. sword." our own Congress, the Congress of an avowed One after another of the constitutional Christian nation, is this moment considering fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, guarantees of religious liberties have been and and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same the purchase of 2,000,000 rifles." And the church, are being swept away, not indeed by direct Rev. L. A. Banks, of the same city, alluding Q. How prove you that ? to the idea of a forcible annexation of Canada, A. Because by keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the 4 "Plain Talk about the Protestantism of To-day." by Mgr. church's power to ordain feasts, and to command them Segur; Imprimatur, Joannes Josephus Episcopus, Boston; which would be an inevitable outcome of hos- under sin.—" An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine," by Thomas B. Noonan & Co., Boston, p. 213. Rev. Henry Tuberviite; imprimatur, the Right Rev. Benedict, tilities, inquired: " Has a nation any more Bishop of Boston; Excelsior Catholic Publishing House, 5 a " So far as the writer knows," says Mr. Crafts, "there is moral right to steal a State than a private Barclay St., New York, 1888, p. 58. but one among the State and national and international re- form societies that was officially organized by the churches; citizen to steal an overcoat or a watch?" He This boycotting resolution, sent up to Congress from this one exception being the official institution, at his sug- the " evangelical " churches in all parts of the country, after gestion. of the American Sabbath Union, by fourteen evan- might also with equal pertinency have in- rescribing what was demanded of Congress in respect to the gelical denominations, through official votes at their national quired whether a nation has any more moral ord's Fair, runs as follows: "Resolved, That we do hereby conferences."—Practical Christian Sociology, page 53. ledge ourselves and each other, that we will from this time right than a private citizen has to kill people enceforth refuse to vote for, or support for any office or po- This fact was thus expressed by Dr. H. H. George after sition of trust, any member of Congress, either senator or rep- Congress had yielded to the demand of the confederated who stand in the way of its covetous or ambi- reSentative, who shall vote for any further aid of any kind for churches: "I have learned that we [the churches] hold the tious designs. the World's Fair, except On Conditions named in thelte reSo- 'United States Senate in our hands." And if this he true cif UtionS.' the Senate, how much more so bf the Hauge. It is pleasing to note that the leading oler- JANUARY 2, 1896. A,VIMIELI S3NTrir 3

gymen of the country, with some exceptions, and fame; in the pursuit of education; and we halt Christ his only begotten Son, our Lord." Natural stand firmly for the maintenance of peace, as a sign that we believe in that invisible Lord and science, by its evidences of design, order, and prog- are loyal to his law. There is no other sign of our ress, proves mind in nature; Scripture proclaims and that the " sober second thought " of the faith and loyalty so impressive to a selfish world as that mind to be "the mind of Christ," whom we dis- people has turned largely in this direction. this twenty-four-hour halt in our work every week at obey whenever we disregard a law written in our bodies Still, as has been pointed out, a nation may Christ's command. The Lord's day is therefore the as surely as if it were written in our Bible.3 be led into war against the wishes of the ma- "sign," the ensign of our Lord Jesus Christ; its field jority of its people. In the present case, it is of blue spangled with stars and sun; its stripes the Beyond all question Christ is the Creator. black and white of night and day, and the many colors The Sabbath is therefore the Lord's day be- evident that both in England and America the of sunrise and sunset; and this flag of Christ is car- ried round the world every week and is saluted by cause it is both the memorial of his work and of people almost universally deprecate the idea his rest, the day he himself blest and sanctified, of war; but—there are certain things a "Chris- some in every land by the laying aside of tools and toil, in token of their loyalty to a living Lord. Break- the day which he himself made for man before tian" nation cannot sacrifice even to a ert ing the sabbath, therefore, is tearing the flag of the sin had doomed him to wearing toil,—and war. A " Christian" nation must at all government of the universe, and so an offense kindred to treason. We have forgotten all the murderers of hence the day primarily designed not for phys- costs maintain its dignity. A backdown,—a ical rest but for spiritual rejoicing. confession of being in the wrong, is not to be the Revolution, but not Benedict Arnold, because an offense against a good government the calm verdict Nor is the Sabbath, the Lord's day of the thought of on either side; at least not from of history adjudges to be a greater wrong than any sacred Scriptures, simply the memorial of a any other motive than that of fear of the con- that can be done to individuals. Desecrating the Lord's day, in addition to any wrong to workers or finished creation and of divine rest. The sequences. And here lies the danger. Have Sabbath is a sign to every son of Adam,— these two great " Christian" nations, through to society that it involves, is high treason to the Lord himself., separated from sin by redeeming grace,—of the action of their chief representatives, taken the divine power by which he is saved : a definite antagonistic stand on the question With the first of these paragraphs we have " Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, of controversy? If they have, then war seems no fault to find. The cross and the throne to be a sign between me and them, that inevitable, notwithstanding the natural aver- do indeed both appear in the Lord's Supper. they might know that I am the Lord that sion of the people thereto; for must not a The words, " As often as ye eat this bread and sanctify them." As " the Spirit of God " Christian" nation fight rather than ac- drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death moved upon the face of the waters" 6 to bring knowledge itself in the wrong? Certainly— till he come," 1 point us not only back to the order out of confusion, to transform chaos into to voice the general sentiment—it must. valley of humiliation, but forward to Mount beauty, so the same divine Spirit changes the Hence both nations will await with anxiety Zion; and the eye of faith sees Christ not stony heart to a heart of flesh, and from the chaos the result of the commission to be appointed only as the Man of Calvary, the " Lamb slain of sin brings forth the beauty of holiness, by President Cleveland to make an investiga- from the foundation of the world," but be- the spiritual " man which after God is cre- tion which will settle the question of the duty holds him coming again as "King of kings ated in righteousness and true holiness."' "For of the United States. Meanwhile suggestions and Lord of lords." God who commanded the light to shine out are being made by peace-loving people, of But the second paragraph is as full of error of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give means which they think still open to this na- as the first one is of truth. " The Lord's the light of the knowledge of the glory of tion or to England to avoid a conflict without day" truly stands " at the portals " of the God in the face of Jesus Christ."' The any loss of dignity. It is possible, and cer- book of Revelation " as the most impressive power that redeems, that re creates, is the tainly devoutly to be hoped, that events may sign " of Christ's authority, but that day is same that in the beginning created the world furnish such a solution of the difficulty. But not Sunday, nor does it stand for civil author- from nothing, and that from darkness made in case they do not, and it remains either to ity exercised by self-appointed vicars of the light. And in every age and in both Testa- confess or to fight, then these two " Chris- Son of God. ments the Sabbath of the Lord, the Lord's tian" nations will lay hold of all the carnal The only Lord's day known to the Script- day, stands as the symbol of that power. weapons they can command, and kill, maim, ures of truth is the seventh day, " the Sab- But the author of " Practical Christian burn, batter down, and in general do their bath of the Lord," kept by patriarchs, proph- Sociology " scorns the Lord's day of the best to disable each other, in order that their ets, apostles, the holy women at the tomb, and Scriptures and insists that another day shall " Christian" dignity may be maintained! by our Lord himself. That this day, honored represent the Lord's power! He tramples in Can we not see that all talk about this or alike by God and his people, is indeed the the dust " the ensign of our Lord Jesus any other nation being Christian, in a govern- Lord's day, is evident from Ex. 20:8-11; Isa. Christ," the standard which our Lord himself mental sense, is nonsense? 58: 13; and Matt. 12:8. The first of these as Creator ordained, whose " field of blue " texts says plainly : " The seventh day is the he himself " spangled with stars and sun," Sabbath of the Lord thy God;" in the second, and whose " stripes the black and white of the Lord calls the Sabbath " my holy day; " " PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN SOCIOLOGY." night and day, and the many colors of sunrise while in the third, that same Lord, as the Son and sunset," his own fingers painted; and in of man, styles himself " Lord even of the its stead he unfurls the flag of antichrist and Sabbath day." The conclusion is irresistible IN Dr. Crafts' work, " Practical Christian demands that it shall be acknowledged as that the seer of Patmos was in the Spirit upon the standard of " the King of kings, Sociology," referred to in our issue of Dec. the day divinely sanctified and blest for man, 19, 1895, he makes this argument(?) for the and Lord of lords "! Ignoring the only —" the Sabbath of the Lord." divine command ever given to " halt as first day of the week, to which he applies the But the Lord's day of Rev. 1 : 10 is none names " Sabbath " and " Lord's Day ' :— a sign that we believe in that invisible Lord the less the badge of Christ's authority. Dr. and are loyal to his law," our author demands • That first gospel, the promise that the seed of the Crafts himself says:— woman should bruise the serpent's head, and it should for the counterfeit Lord's day the honor due bruise his heel, pictures the promised Christ as a When the laws and law principles of the Old Testa- alone to the Sabbath of the Lord, the true bruised Conqueror, a Saviour-King. The later proph- ment have been added to those of the New, we have Lord's day, and declares that breaking this ecies painted the Coming One sometimes as a sufferer, not yet before us the complete law of Christ, which false sabbath, this man-made Lord's day, is includes also the so-called " laws of nature," " the sometimes as a sovereign, which led some of the Jews tearing the flag of the Government of the uni- that were unable to conceive of a king as a voluntary Oldest Testament," of which Christ is divinely de- sufferer to expect two Messiahs. At the birth of clared to be the author. " In the beginning was the verse, and so an offense kindred to treason"! Christ two cries rang out together: " Unto you is born Word. The world was made by him, and the world How dare any man so write? and what shall a Saviour." " Where is he that is born King ? " On knew him not." Nor does it yet know Christ as its such an one answer when the Lord of the true Creator. Although John three times declared that the Mount of Coronation Jesus " spake of his decease." Sabbath shall demand, " Who hath required When we recall the cross at the Lord's Supper that "the world was made by him," who was "made flesh very name should prompt us to look above his wounded and dwelt among us;" and although the book of He- this at your hands ?" Are not such well de- feet and hands and side and brow, to the words above brews twice declares the same; and although Paul in scribed in these words of Holy Writ: "Have his head, "This is the King; " to which also points Colossians, which presents Christ as King of the Cos- mos as well at King of the Church, proclaims that in ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not the word sacrament, whose original meaning is a sol- spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, dier's oath of loyalty to his king. These double pic- him were all things created, and that with him all tures of the Saviour King culminate in Revelation in creation is filled, and that by him all things "hold The Lord saith it; albeit I have not the throne on which was a Lamb " as it had been together," yet how seldom to a child's curious ques- spoken ?" " Her priests have violated my slain." " The gospel of our salvation " is also " the tions about the great world does anyone answer law, and have profaned mine holy things: " Jesus made it "! He is known as the author of " the gospel of the kingdom," the good news including not they have put no difference between the holy only pardon through Jesus the Saviour, but also pro- new creation," only—as Redeemer, but not as Cre- tection and direction through Christ the King. ator. If the so-called "Apostles' Creed," which is and profane, neither have they showed differ- At the portals of that same book of Revelation, partly responsible for the exclusion of Christ from the ence between the unclean and the clean, and which is preeminently the book of Christ's Kingship, work of creation, is to be made truly apostolic, in have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I stands the most impressive sign of his present earthly view of the foregoing words of apostles we must am profaned among them." authority, " the Lord's Day," the profound significance change a word and say, " I believe in God the Father, of which in this connection I have never seen devel- Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth through Jesus oped. One day in every week an invisible Lord com- " Practical Christian Sociology," pp. 24, 25. mands us to halt in the most absorbing pursuits of 1 " Practical Christian Sociology," pp. 26, 27. 4 our earthly life: in the pursuit of money and business; Eze. 20:12. 6 Gen. 1: 2. 8 Eph. 4: 24. in the pursuit of pleasure; in the pursuit of politics 2 1 Cor. 11:26. 7 2 Cor. 4: 6. 8 Eze. 13: 7. 9 Eze. 11: 16. 4 A.IVIMIEZICAN SENTINEL.. Vol,. 11, No. 1.

NATIONAL REFORM CONVENTION IN BAL- tianity." The former is the religion of As stated elsewhere, we are not in sym- TIMORE. Christ, and does not seek the aid of the civil pathy with the manner of expression used by power to make men religious, neither does it " Father" O'Keefe in his arraignment of in- As noted in our last issue, the National put a premium upon hypocrisy by making consistent Protestants. We have no sym- Reform Association held its annual convention " Christians " the only office-holdiers, as pathy with anything like a spirit of bitterness in Baltimore, Dec. 12-14. The attendance National Reform proposes to do by disfran- or railing, and prefer to see the truth stated was small, but as the real work of the associa- chising " every logically consistent infidel," free from any mixture of this kind. We tion is done by means of local meetings, ad- or in other words, every honest man who published his letter because it emphasizes, by dresses before churches and colleges, and by should refuse to wear the regulation National the testimony of a Roman Catholic through the dissemination of National Reform liter- Reform collar. The latter, or " Christianity," the organ of Cardinal Gibbons, a truth which attire, its influence cannot be measured by the is not able to stand alone and so seeks the every Protestant ought to know; namely, number attending its conventions. support of civil " law," police clubs, army that the Bible gives no sanction to Sunday Among the speakers present were Rev. W. rifles, etc. keeping or Sunday enforcement, and that F. Crafts; Rev. J. M. Foster, of Boston; Rev. Among the resolutions adopted was one de- consistent Protestantism is therefore separate David McAllister, editor of the Christian manding the adoption of the proposed amend- from either one. As a testimony to this Statesman; and Rev. R. C. Wylie, of Pitts- ment which we print on page 6; another in truth, we trust it will serve a useful purpose. bnrg. favor of Sunday observance; and another re- Mr. Foster is " a stalwart of the stalwarts" questing the Executive Board of the Associa- among National Reformers, and at the con- tion to maintain a representative at Washing- TOO FEW TO HAVE RIGHTS. clusion of his address Rev. C. A. Fulton, ton " to prosecute a vigorous policy on moral pastor of the Immanuel Baptist Church in issues in the course of legislation." SUCH is the meaning of the decision ren- which the convention was held, and who pre- A resolution condemning secret societies dered by the British Home Secretary (London), sided at this particular meeting, rose and which take a hand in politics was promptly in the case of the International Tract Society, said: " I have accepted an invitation to pre- tabled when it was brought up. located on Holloway Road, in that city, the side over to-night's meeting, but if I thought The next annual convention is to be held in prosecutions of which for Sunday labor we for an instant that the gentleman who has Philadelphia. have several times mentioned. Recently the spoken represented the views of this gather- -4.- society addressed to the Home Secretary the ing, my own feelings and my conscience following appeal:— would compel me to decline to take any part "FATHER" O'KEEFE ON SUNDAY OBSERV- ANCE. The Board of Directors of the International Tract in it." Society, Limited, beg respectfully that you will allow Dr. McAllister rose and assured the pastor them to call your attention to the following facts, that every word spoken in the conference was As promised, we reprint in this issue the showing the operation of the Sunday clause in the letter of the Rev. M. O'Keefe on Sunday ob- Factory Act in the case of our printing works, situated simply a personal expression of the speaker at 451 Holloway Road, N. and could in no wise be taken as a declaration servance, to supply the numerous calls received By the seizure of machinery and material to satisfy of the association. This satisfied Mr. Fulton, for the same after its first publication. fines imposed for allowing certain women and young and the discussion was ended for the time In the Baltimore Methodist of Nov. 21, persons to work on Sunday we are compelled to close being. And this notwithstanding the fact appears what is termed, " A Sufficient Re- the factory. For six years in our present factory our work was that Mr. Foster has for years been prominent ply" to this letter; but which is no reply at allowed to proceed without interference. Visiting in- not only upon the National Reform lecture plat- all so far as concerns the justification of spectors recognized the fact that the spirit of the Act form and pulpit, but as a writer for the Chris- Sunday observance or the enforcement of was complied with, and that the violation was only However, the doctor need Sunday laws. No attempt is made by it in technical. We being observers of the seventh day of tian Statesman. the week, and all our employes being of like faith, our not have made his disclaim of responsibility this direction, further than to quote a letter works have been entirely closed on the Sabbath, and for Mr. Foster's sentiments so broad, for Mr. purporting to have been called out from an- opened on Sunday. Fulton is reported by the Baltimore Sun as other Catholic priest in answer to his co- Further, had we been able conscientiously to sign saying subsequently: " When I spoke Thurs- religionist, and dealing mainly with the the Jewish exemption form, we might have continued without interference. But we are Christians—the day, after an address of Rev. J. M. Foster, of question of the Sunday saloon. As concerns International Tract Society, Limited, being one of the Boston, I was in favor of this part of his re- this, we are, as we have often stated, in favor publishing branches of the Seventh day Adventist mark {the "Christian " amendment], but of a closed saloon on Sunday and on every denomination—and cannot truthfully enter ourselves opposed his idea that Christians should re- other day of the week. as Jews under the Act. Thus the administration of the law discriminates against us as Christians, forbid- frain from voting until the Constitution is so " Father " O'Keefe replies again through ding that which would be allowed us did we falsely amended." the Catholic Mirror of Dec. 7, noticing the declare ourselves Jews. A protest against the National Reform absence of any effort on the part of his Prot- We have not been contending for our rights nor for scheme was received from Mr. E. Livezey, a estant opponents to sustain Sunday keeping our convenience in doing business. But God's right to our obedience to the fourth commandment is not citizen of Baltimore. It was in part, as fol- and Sunday enforcement from the Scriptures, ours to surrender, nor can we obey that command- lows:— and repeating the charge of Protestant incon- ment to keep the Sabbath holy and at the same time The purposes of the National Reform Association sistency in pursuing a course contrary to the keep the Sunday—an institution established by human are thoroughly revolutionary, as they are to change example of Christ and the apostles, and to the authority in opposition to the Sabbath—even as we entirely the character of our Constitution. This Con- teaching of that Book which Protestantism could not serve God and at the same time recog- stitution was wisely framed by the fathers of this Re- proclaims its only guide in spiritual things. nize other gods. In effect the law has sought to public. The name of God was omitted because they compel us to recognize a religious institution which wished to establish religious liberty and a purely sec- Referring to this fellow-priest, whom he loyalty to the law of God requires that we should not ular form of government; Church and State were to deemed such only in pretension, he says :— observe. We acknowledge the uniform courtesy of her maj- be forever separate. What living Catholic priest is there who does not esty's inspectors who have taken this new departure It was declared that Congress should make no laws know that Protestantism has, contrary to its funda- for the establishment of any religion. Religion, as regarding our relation to the Factory Act, but we have mental principles, abandoned its sole acknowledged felt it not disrespectful to address you this note of re- Madison declares, was not within the " purview of teacher, the Bible, on the Sabbath question, and, guilty government," and Washington affirmed in the treaty monstrance against the action of a law by which the of a double apostacy, gone over, bag and baggage, to work of our factory is stopped and our factory em- of Tripoli " that in no sense whatsoever is this Gov- the teaching and practice of the Catholic Church? In ernment founded upon the Christian religion." ployes deprived of this means of earning a livelihood. putting the question, I must make honorable excep- In the act these are named as " protected persons," These are the foundation principles of our Govern- tion. I refer to the Seventh-day Adventists. They ment. The question arises, is it policy to change our but by the operation of the act they have been shut are the only consistent Protestants on earth. They out from their work. form of government and inaugurate a new scheme; follow the teachings of their Bible by keeping the make this a religious government and put God and We respectfully submit that this is an injustice not Sabbath enjoined by God and their acknowledged contemplated by the framers of the act. Christ and the Bible in the Constitution and radically guide, only to be fined, punished and imprisoned by reform its spirit and purpose ?" their fellow-Protestants even in the State of Maryland, This appeal was published in the London for their consistency, whilst their prosecutors have Daily Graphic, of Dec. 5, from which we In reply to this, Dr. McAllister reiterated shamefully abandoned the very principles for which the usual National Reform argument. He they punish them. take it. In the Graphic of Dec. 17, appears asked, " Who discovered America? "—" Chris- the following reply from the Home Secre- tians." That settles the whole matter. Being " Father" O'Keefe is not the only Catholic tary:— discovered by " Christians," it follows that who has pointed to seventh-day observers as Whitehall, 13th Dec., 1895. the country is " Christian." But has it the only consistent Protestants. "Father " Sin,—With reference to your letter of the 1st inst.. never occurred to Dr. McAllister that this Elliott, a " Paulist " priest, who has come drawing attention to the operation of Section 21 of the country was also discovered by Roman Cath- into close contact with the former in Michi- Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, in as far as it af- gan and elsewhere, while he bitterly denounced fects the printing works of the International Trsct olics? Is he willing to grant that it is there- Society at 451 Holloway Road, I am directed by the fore or ought of right to be Roman Catholic? them, said he thanked God that consistent Secretary of State to acquaint you that the matter has Rome thinks so. Protestantism was narrowed down to one small already received his very careful consideration; but, There is, however, Christianity and "Chris- sect. as the law at present stands, the Seventh-day Advent- JANUARY 2, 1896. A.101ClElaICA.INT SMicrl'INTEL. ists cannot be exen.., _.,m the penalties consequent ons flag of ours, which is the synonym of that divine and civil law. The latter enacts a pen- upon a breach of the ,actory laws as to Sunday labor. genuine and plenary liberty attainable nowhere alty from the man who sells liquor on Sunday, The Secretary of State does not think the numbers of the sect afford any hope or reason for legislation to else on this planet. on conviction, and should intoxication result alter their position. Nevertheless, as a citizen neither the holder to the individual, he is amenable to the law of I am, Sir, of nor aspirant to any office, State or Federal, God for his complicity in the crime of drunk- Your obedient Servant, I am happy and contented in the role of a eness, not because of Sunday, for the same KENELM E. DIGBY. The Secretary, International Tract Society, private individual, neither invited nor aspir- guilt attaches to any other day. Were he and 451 Holloway Road, N. ing to a participation in the control or manage- his victims Catholics, they are both before God ment of public offices. Nor does my position guilty of the additionable crime of desecration Thus it appears that these Christian sev- as a recognized minister of the Christian reli- of the Lord's day. This is the result of an enth-day observers are refused justice and gion seem to call for, or warrant any such overt act of disobedience to the voice of the freedom of conscience on the ground that they interference. I hold in such esteem the Church, commanding her children to keep the are few in number, and this too by one of the divine calling I so unworthily represent Sunday "holy;" God commanding us to hear world's great " Christian " nations. If they that I would never, during my long life, her voice. But, reverend sirs, let me ad- were able to cast any considerable vote, avail myself of the right to register my monish you that no Protestant, true to the so as to be a power in politics, then it voce for one or other political party; principles of his religion and conscientiously would be quite proper to let them have their nor am I ever likely to do so, unless, in- obedient to his teacher, the Bible, need ever rights! We are living in the closing years of deed, that the ghost of "Sam"—defunct have misgivings as regards the freedom of Sun- the nineteenth century, but everywhere it is Knownothingism—should once more develop day; nay, more, his teacher is consistent in evident that men still have more respect for itself in A. P. A.ism or other kindred, dark- impressing on him in every page of the New might than for right. lantern conspiracy, as it did in the earley fifties Testament as well as of the Old, that God has • -•••- only to be crushed to powder by the voice appointed the Sabbath or Saturday as the day and votes of an indignant people, uncompro- set apart by him for his worship. SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. misingly jealous of their liberty, religious as Our Saviour, whilst on earth, kept no other well as civil. day; and we learn that for over thirty years Letter From Rev. M. O'Keefe on this It is not, then, with me a question of right, after his death, the Acts of the Apostles re- Subject. but one of expediency as to whether I could cord the fact that the Apostles consistently consent to mire my priestly robes in the turbid kept their divine Master's Sabbath (the Sab- [From the Catholic Mirror, Baltimore, Md., Nov. 9.] and foul waters of muddy politics. bath which the Jews have kept ever since for Hence, as a clergyman, I question the pro- over eighteen centuries, they having the same IN response to an invitation to attend a priety or expediency of interfering, indirectly teacher, the Bible, as you have) according to the meeting of ministers in Towson, Father even, in the execution, or rather failure (if it practice and teachings of Christ and his apos- O'Keefe replied as follows:— prove so), on the part of officials to execute tles, without modification, as testified by the Towson, Baltimore Co., Md., the Sunday laws, which are of a purely civil New Testament from Matthew's Gospel to the Oct. 23, 1895. character. Revelation. This statement is absolutely true REV. MESSRS. J. FRED HEISSE, W. G. As representatives of Christianity, we and unsusceptible of successful contradiction; CASSARD, and C. E. GUTHRIE— Gentlemen: occupy a very questionable, nay, highly imagine, then, my surprise on reading in the I am in receipt of your esteemed favor of the mortifying position, viz: to be obliged city papers yesterday of the anomalous and self- 19th instant, courteously inviting me to at- to acknowledge that the moral power of stultifying position occupied by you, as accred- tend a meeting in the lecture room of the M. the Christian religion is lamentably inad- ited ministers of the Christian religion, assum- E. Church, Towson, at 2:30 P. M. to-morrow, equate to reform, measurably at least, the ing the role of . . . spies—a self-consti- as follows:— morals of its votaries without having re- tuted smelling committee—for you represent course to the aid and interference of the civil no civil office whatsoever, laying snares and REV. M. O'KEEFE—Reverend and Dear Brother: law by imposing civil pains and penalties; traps to inveigle the unwary that you might The violations of the Sunday laws in your county is flagrant. The exposure of guilty parties is arresting thereby, publicly confessing the mortifying drag them before the civil courts for violation attention. We desire a conference of the ministers and shameful failure of Christianity to com- of a purely civil law, forbidding the sale of of the county. Please meet us in the lecture room of pass one of the chief ends of its institution liquor on the first day of each week. On what the Towson M. E. Church, at 2:30 o'clock, next and mission, viz : the culture of the moral law grounds, may I ask, can you justify such pro- Thursday afternoon, Oct. 24. Sunday laws must be enforced. Come. Do not disappoint us. in the heart of Christians. For the above ceedings ? How were these people interfering Your Brethren, reason, and others equally cogent (had I time with you in the practice of your religious acts ? J. FRED HEISSE. to unfold them), I am reluctantly compelled Place your finger on any page of your acknowl- W. G. CASSARD. to forego the pleasure which a meeting with edged divine teacher, the Bible, and show the October 19, 1895. C. E. GUTHRIE. my fellow citizens for discussion of the ques- world the proof that, on your own principles, In reply, I would beg leave to say that tion named in the invitation would afford they had violated any ordinance of the Chris- whilst fully appreciating the courtesy extended me. tian religion. I hereby denounce your conduct me as a clergyman residing in the county, I Deeply impressed with the above views, in this matter as not only highly reprehensible, am at loss to conjecture whether the invitation during a long life as citizen and clergyman, I but as being in direct violation of the revealed may be regarded as referring to me as a citizen regret that our views as to the object of the will of God as taught by your Bible. or clergyman, or as both combined. Anyhow meeting do not harmonize. You had succeeded in getting a verdict I regret to be obliged to state that I could not As a Catholic clergyman, I have ever been against them before the civil courts for trans- conscientiously participate in a discussion of an earnest and steadfast advocate of Sunday gression against the civil law. I now in the the infraction of the Sunday laws. observance; and I may say, too, without ego- presence of the public pronounce you, on your Holding no office under the civil law, whether tism, a life-long impersonation of total absti- principles, guilty of the grossest misdemeanor, as judge, magistrate, sheriff, squire, bailiff, nence, and whilst I sincerely regret the use of thousands of times over, against the divine constable, detective or spy, paid or unpaid, I intoxicants, I never could consent to be in law. could not help regarding myself otherwise touch with those who, in their rank fanaticism, When, let me ask, have you, even once, in than as an officious intermeddler in the legiti- would rob man of that God-given freedom your lifetime, kept the command of God : mate business of the proper officers appointed which would be to him an inalienable gift and "Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy" ? to execute the laws, and who would very natur- treasure. Two wrongs never made a right: Which day is the Sabbath? I answer, the last ally regard my action as a gratious piece of and the drunkard and the fanatic are equally day of the week, the day kept by God himself, interference in their legitimate calling. a nuisance—the latter the more dangerous of and for that reason assigned by him for ob- The above officials under county commis- the two. servance by man, the Sabbath or the day kept sioners are the responsible officers entrusted Whilst dealing with the question, I publicly by the Redeemer and his apostles whilst they with the duty of taking due cognizance of all own that I have never but once in my lived on earth. such violations, and, doubtless, are as willing life tasted liquor, and then whilst presum- You pose before the world as models of Chris- and ready as they are competent to bring all ably in the jaws of death from yellow fever, tian morality, and behold every week of your violators of the law to condign punishment. my physican admonished me that death was lives you are guilty of gross violation of one of Hence, as a citizen of this great republic, I inevitable, unless I consented to use a mint- God's most positive precepts, "Remember the am amenable to the laws enacted by the peo- julep—the vomit, the last stage of yellow fever, Sabbath," etc. Let me illustrate in order to ple's representation for the benefit and happi- having set in. I then touched liquor for the prove God's earnestness in this respect: ness of the masses, and as one of the number, first and last time during a life fast verging "And it came to pass, when the children of I highly appreciate and duly enjoy with undis- on the three-score and ten. . . . Israel were in the wilderness; and had found guised gratitude the temporal blessings assured Before closing this letter, I would call atten- a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath-day; to every law-abiding citizen under that glori- tion to a distinction between violation of the that they brought him to Moses and Aaron, 6 A MI C giblemri iNTEr__4 VOL. 11, No. 1. and the whole multitude. And they put him A RELIGIOUS AMENDMENT PROPOSED. ministers, in spite of the fact that two of them, into prison, not knowing what they should do at least, had preached for three months in with him. And the Lord said to Moses: Let THUS early in the first session of the 54th succession in the neighborhood of Darrell. that man die, let all the multitude stone him Congress, have the National Reformers secured The witnesses admitted attending the meet- without the camp. And when they had the introduction of the following joint resolu- ings that the Adventist ministers had held, brought him out, they stoned him, and he died tion proposing the establishment of a national and yet all the witnesses swore positively that as the Lord commanded." Num. 15 : 32-36. religion and the adoption of a national creed : they did not know that the defendants were Such, Rev. Sirs, was the punishment meted ministers. out by command of God to a man who was JOINT RESOLUTION The complaining witnesses went twenty-two guilty but once of an infraction of the law of Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the miles in order to get the matter before a jus- the Sabbath, whilst each one of you is guilty United States. tice where there was a prospect of conviction. of a similar desecration of the Sabbath (Satur- Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives The city of Chatham, with several magistrates, day) each Saturday of his life—and this on the of the United States of America in Congress assembled, queen's counsel, and the County Court, were unerring testimony of your own teacher, the (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following amended form of preamble to the Con- passed by, and the prosecutions were taken to Bible. "Out of thy mouth I judge thee thou stitution of the United States be submitted for ratifi- Ridgetown, twenty-two to twenty-four miles wicked servant." cation by conventions in the several States, which, away. The cases were tried Dec. 5th, and Nor has God's counsels changed by the ex- when ratified by conventions in three-fourths of the the remaining two Dec. 12th, the decision in ercise of infinite patience. He can afford to States, shall be valid as a part of the said Constitution, namely : the last case, that of the farmer, being reserved abide his time for the vindication of his an- for seven days, bringing the decision for that thority and contempt of his commands. The PREAMBLE. one, Dec. 19. precept, "Remember the Lord's day to keep We, the people of the United States (acknowledging The three ministers were convicted and sen- it holy," is as obligatory now as it was in the Almighty God as the source of all power and author- ity in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the tenced to pay fines, ranging from ten to twenty Old Law, as in the instance above quoted. ruler of nations, and His revealed will as of supreme dollars, and in default of fine, forty to sixty Can you offer the slighest pretext or pallia- authority in civil affairs) in order to form a more days in jail. tion for your abandonment of your teacher, perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tran- An appeal has been taken in the three cases- the Bible, which enjoins absolutely the keep- quillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty of the ministers, while the farmer's case ing of that day, kept by God himself first, to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish was dismissed, it having been decided several after the creation ? You pursued the viola- this Constitution for the United States of America. times that farmers do not come within the tors of the civil law unrelentingly and did not statute. cease, until you secured a conviction. How, It may be asked, In what way would this establish a national religion and adopt a na- In speaking of the testimony given by one may I ask, will you fare when cited before the of the witnesses (a student for the Methodist tional creed ? The answer is, the adoption divine Tribunal, and compelled to confess ministry who sometimes preaches), one of the from the pages of the divine Record, which of this proposed amendment would be to attorneys for the prosecution said : " It is in- make so-called Christianity the national re- you boast of as your guide and teacher, that conceivable that a man who is studying for you have never once obeyed the Sabbath pre- ligion; the "revealed will" of the Lord Jesus the ministry of a rival denomination should be cept, and that you stand to-day before God, Christ the national creed—not indeed really his revealed will, but that will as interpreted so zealous to enforce laws against these people, heaven and earth as the most unmitigated and have nothing but the honor of the British Sabbath breakers on earth ? Do I exaggerate by the Government, just as a portion of it has law in mind. Were he an honest man he already been interpreted by Congress in the in the slightest degree the unscrupulous an- would enforce all law equally with this one tagonism to the law of the Sabbath evinced by Sunday closing clause of the World's Fair against a rival denomination." you every week of your lives ? Not in the legislation, by the adoption of which, for the At the close of the trials of the ministers, least. And for the purpose of leaving you reasons given, the fourth commandment was interpreted as enjoining Sunday observance. several leading citizens expressed their abhor- not a shadow of excuse, I herewith present rence of such proceedings, and such a mani- each of you two pamphlets containing the fest travesty of justice. " It is to be re- countless proofs of your apostasy from the PERSECUTION AT DARRELL, ONTARIO. gretted," said one, " that these people are teachings of the Bible, your sole and recog- not permitted to worship God as they choose, nized teacher. I defy you to disprove these and then go quietly about their work upon pamphlets. Observe silence with regard to BY J. G. LAMSON. Sunday, if they want to." them, and the public must conclude that you There was not a word of testimony to the rank, as I have already designated you, effect that the work done by the defendants amongst the champion Sabbath breakers on ON Sunday, Nov. 3, 1895, three ministers. had disturbed any one in the least, except in earth, as the pamphlets, based on God's Word, A. 0. Burrill, P. M. Howe, and William their religious feelings. One testified that he your guide, prove you to be. Simpson, having rested the day previous ac- was pained; another that his religious " scru- I have no sympathy with violations of the cording to their belief, were engaged in slack- ples " were wounded! The witnesses who civil law, but when men are hunted down by ing lime, preparatory to the erection of a testified to the last expression, upon being self-righteous, self-constituted . . . spies church building for the Seventh day Advent- questioned by the attorney, admitted that had and detectives, whose record as violators of ist denomination at Darrell, Ont. These he stayed away from the place where the work one of God's most positive precepts is unques- ministers had been preaching at or near Darrell was being done, it would not have hurt him tionable, I am reminded of Satan rebuking for some time, their ministry had borne fruit, at all. sin. and it was decided to erect a house of wor- The witness in these prosecutions gets half I will now conclude with the word of rebuke ship. The ire of the neighboring church the fine, if one is paid. This may add some- spoken by our divine Saviour (Matt.7: 2) : poeple was aroused, and they set spies to watch what to the understanding of why the prose- "And why seest thou the mote that is in thy whether the Adventist ministers would labor cutions were begun. brother's eye [the violations of the civil law] on Sunday. The cases will come up on motion to quash and seest not the beam in thy own" (the Ontario has what is known as a " Lord's in the high court in Toronto, some time in life-long career of a Sabbath breaker)? "Or Day Act," it being copied almost verbatim January or February, and it is to be hoped how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cut from the statute of King Charles the Second, that the honorable court will be able to weigh, the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam which was first enacted about eighteen years impartially, the questions at stake, and re- is in thy own eyes ? Thou hypocrite; cast after the Cromwellian period, member that her majesty, Queen Victoria, out first the beam out of thy own eye, and This statute provides that " a person shall issued a proclamation in 1858, in which she then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out not do any worldly labor, business, or work of said:— of thy brother's eye." Remove the beam be- his ordinary calling on Sunday." The labor of fore you search for the mote. the ministers was certainly not of their ordi- Firmly relying ourselves on the truth of Christian- Having assigned you your true position as nary calling, but it was an easy matter for ity, and acknowledging with gratitude the solace of religion, we disclaim alike the right and the desire to champion biblical Sabbath breakers, whilst I the prosecutors to overcome this; for it was impose our convictions on any of our subjects. We have shown that the victims of your self- alleged that they did work of a worldly na- declare it to be our royal will and pleasure that none righteous, arrogant and unjustifiable persecu- ture of " one of their ordinary callings." be in anywise favored, none molested nor disquieted, tion, were merely violators of the civil law, a Under this information sworn to in the case by reason of their religious faith or observance, but of one of the ministers, testimony was offered that all shall alike enjoy the equal and impartial pro- crime insignificant compared with yours, I tection of the law ; and we do strictly charge and en- close this correspondence with the sincere showing that the ordinary callings of the men join all those who may be in authority under us, that hope that you will reopen it with a manly were those of laborer, carpenter, or mason. they abstain from all interference with the religious effort at self-vindication. Count on a reply. Witnesses were very willing to swear to this, belief or worship of any of our subjects, under pain M. O'KEEFE, but every one of them swore positively that of our highest displeasure. Catholic Pastor, Towson. they did not know that these three men were Not only should the court have in mind her JANUARY 2, 1896. _A. INIEIOIELIC.A_N- '7 majesty's government, but they should also to the divine service and sermons preached upon the Whosoever shall profane the Lord's day, or any part remember that before God they will be held sabbath day, and in the afternoon to divine service, of it, either by sinful servile work, or by unlawful accountable for any obstacle they may lay in and catechising, upon pain for the first fault to lose sport, recreation or otherwise, whether wilfully or in their provision, and the allowance for the whole week a careless neglect, shall be duly punished by fine, im- the way of any being who is a free moral following;'for the second, to lose the said allow- prisonment, or corporally, according to the nature, agent in his worship of God. They should ance and also be whipt; and for the third, to suffer and measure of the sinn, and offence. But if the remember that it is impossible that any man death.' court upon examination, by clear, arid satisfying evi- Whoever shall absent himself from divine service dence find that the sin was proudly, presumptuously, can delegate to any other man the right to say any Sunday, without an allowable excuse, shall forfeit and with a high hand committed against the known whether he shall wok ,hip God or not. Neither a pound of tobacco; and he that absenteth himself a command and authority of the blessed God, such a is it within the power of any indivividual month shall forfeit 50 lbs. of tobacco.4 person therein despising and reproaching the Lord to say how another individual shall worship shall be put to death, that all others may feare and SOME " BREATHS " FROM MASSACHUSETTS. shun such provoking rebellious courses.8 God. Further bee it enacted that whosoever shall pro- Absolute religious liberty alone, and positive phane the Lords day by doeing any servill worke or tithingman, then `sett in stocks,' and then cited before the Court. They were also confined in the cage on the meeting- silence on the matter of religious laws, is the any such like abusses, shall forfeit for every such de- house green, with the Lord's Day Sleepers. The tithingman only way by which a government can place it fault tenn shillings or be whipt.' could arrest any who walked or rode too fast a pace to and from meeting, and he could arrest any who walked or rode beyond the power of any fanatic to inflict per- PRESUMPTUOUS SUNDAY DESECRATION TO BE PUNISHED unnecessarily on the sabbath.' Great and small alike were under his control, as this notice from the Columbian Centinel secution upon his fellow-beings. BY DEATH.6 of December, 1789, abundantly proven. It is entitled The President and the Tithing man:' 9. This court taking notice of great abuse, and " ' The President (George Washington), on his return to many misdemeanours, committed by divers persons New York from his late tour through Connecticut, having THE OFFICER COMPLETED THE AWFUL missed his way on Saturday, was obliged to ride a few miles on in these many wayes, Profaning the Sabbath or Lord's Sunday morning in order to gain the town at which he had CRIME. day, to the great dishonor of God, Reproach of Reli- proposed to have attended divine service. Before he arrived, however, he was met by a tithing man, who commanding him gion, and Grief of the spirits of God's People, to stop, demanded the occasion of his riding; and it was not Do therefore Order, That whosoever shall profane until the Pres,dent had informed him of every circumstance [New York World, Dec. 16.] the Lord's-day, by doing unnecessary servile Work, and promised to go no further than the town intended that the tithing man would permit him to proceed on his jour- A FARMER named Schwab, living in Bronx- by unnecessary travailing, or by sports or recreations, ney.' " Earle's "Sabbath in Puritan New England," pp. dale, bought a fine mulch cow in the East he or they that so transgress, shall forfeit for every 74, 75. such default forty shillings, or be publickly whipt; 8 "Nevv-Haven's Settling in New England. And some forty-sixth Street stockyards Saturday af ter- But if it clearly appear that the sin was proudly, Pre- laves for Government; Published for the use of that Colony. 'Schwab wanted his cow before Mon- sumptuously and with a high hand committed, against Though some of the orders intended for present convenience moat:— may probably be hereafter altered, and as need requireth day, and at 6 A. M. yesterday Solomon Beck, the known Command and Authority of the blessed other Lawes added. London 1656." Reprinted at Hartford, God, such a person therein despising and reproaching 1876. The laws of the adjoining colonies were copied from the a young man living at 107 East Fifty-second the Lord, shall be put to death or grievously punished laws of Massachusetts, which accounts for their likeness here. although I have transcribed the Plymouth laws from a book Street, was sent to deliver her. The animal at the Judgment of the Court. of a later date. was made comfortable in the box of a big 10. And whosoever shall frequently neglect the express wagon, and Beck started for Bronx- public Worship of God on The Lords day, that is ap- proved by this Government, shall forfeit for every The story of dale. He drove through four police precincts such default convicted of, ten shillings, especially passing dozens of policemen unmolested and where it appears to arise from negligence, Idleness, or had arrived within a half mile of Schwab's Prophaness of Spirit. PITCAIRN ISLAND. barn when Patrolman Dermody, of the Tre- PENALTY FOR TRAVELING ON THE LORD'S DAY. (SECOND EDITION.) mont station, stopped him. To prevent prophanation of the Lords day by for- BY ROSALIND AMELIA YOUNG " Don't you know you are breaking the eigners or any other unnecessary travelling through A Native Daughter. law ?" he asked. our Townes on that day; It is enacted by the Court "No," answered Beck. that a fitt man in each town be chosen unto whom Pitcairn Island, one of the volcanic gems of the Pacific, has whosoever hath necessity for travelling on the Lords been heard of wherever the English language has been spoken. " Where are you taking that cow ?" asked The story of the working out of the problem of human life on day in case of danger or death or such necessitous oc- its limited territory reads stranger and more thrillingly in the officer. casions shall repaire and makeing out such occations many respects than a romance. But most, if not all, of the satisfying to him shall receive a Tickett from him to tales told and books printed have either been too fragmentary " Over to Schwab's farm," responded the or incorrect and misleading. It will be interesting to the friends driver, smiling at what he supposed the pas on about such like occations which if the traveller of that miniature world to know that an authentic history has attend not unto; It shall be lawful for the Constable been written, and that by a native of the island, one to the policeman meant to be a joke. or any man that meets him to take him up and stop manor born Miss Rosa Young is one of the direct descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty. The book is a plain. unvar- " Don't laugh," said Dermody, " I'm in him untill hee be brought before authoritie or pay his nished tale of Pitcairn and its inhabitants from its settlement dead earnest. By delivering that cow on fine for such transgression as by law in that ease is to the year 1894. It is written with a charming simplicity of provided : and that if it after shall appear that style which refreshes the reader and invites a continual peru- Sunday, you are breaking the Sunday law and sal. Illustrated with 26 engravings by the half-tone process, his plea was falce then may hee be apprehended att and its 23 chapters have each a neatly engraved heading. I'll have to lock you up." another time and made to pay his fine as afore- Price, 81.00 With that he jumped in beside Beck and said.' ordered him to drive to the station house. PACIFIC PRESS, 43 Bond Street, New York City. The sergeant received the complaint, and 1 "Articles, Laws, and Orders, Divine, Politique, and Martial, for the Colony in Virginia; first established by Sir Beck was locked up. Thomas Gates Knight, Lieutenant-General, the 24th of May, " What shall we do with the cow ?" asked 1610. Again exemplified and enlarged by Sir Thomas Dale, Knight, Marshall, and Deputie Governour, the 22d of June, THE "CYCLONE" Dermody. 1611." Reprinted at Hartford in 1876. " You'd better go over and deliver it your- 2 This was at the time the Virginia plantation held all things in common; and if the sabbath was not observed ac- STILL WHIRLS! self," said the sergeant, and an hour later the cording to the requirements of the government, all supplies bluecoat arrived at Schwab's farm with the were cut off. SWEEPING EVERYTHING CLEAN BEFORE IT. cow. "The first settlers [of Virginia] were emigrants from • 11. • England, of the English Church, just at a point of time when it was flushed with complete victory over the religions of all SEE WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY! other persuasions. Possessed, as they became. of the powers " THE BREATH OF THE PURITAN." of making, administering, and executing the laws, they Burnett June., Wis., Oct. 23, 1895. showed equal intolerance in this country with their Presby- MESSRS. COON BRos.: I find the Cyclone Washer to be terian brethren who had emigrated to the Northern govern- indeed a practical washer; it works on scientific principles, ment. . . . Several acts of the Virginia Assembly, of 1659, works easy, and hence does away with much hard work. In [By Addison Blakely, Ph. D., Lecturer in Political 1662, and 1693, had made it penal in parents to refuse to have fact, it makes wash day the easiest day in the whole week. Science and History, University of Chicago.] their children baptized; had prohibited the " unlawful " as- I take much pleasure in recommending it. sembling of Quakers; had made it penal for any master of a MRS. A. H. CADY. vessel to bring a Quaker into the State; had ordered those Charlevoix, Mich., April 15, '95. already there, and such as should come thereafter, to be im- MESSRS. COON BROS.: IN this Sunday agitation we have often prisoned till they should abjure the country,—provided a Gentlemen: The Cyclone Washer which I ordered of you milder penalty for the first and second return, but death for is giving perfect satisfaction. It surpasses all other machines heard our Puritan ancestors praised for the their third. If no capital executions took place here, as did in time, wear of the garments, and work. I' think it is the position they took on Sundayism. An emi- in New England, it was not owing to the moderation of the greatest labor-saving machine, and think it will do all you church, or spirit of the legislature, as may be inferred from claim for it. There is no need of my going into details in nent divine, inspired by his feelings of antag- the law itself; but to historical circumstances which have not regard to the excellent points of your machine. I would not been handed down to us."—Jeiferson's "Notes on Virginia " part with it for double the amount I gave for it. I think that onism to Sunday activity, sometime ago ut- ( 1761) , p. 167. every lady should have the Cyclone Washer. tered the meaningful words, " Oh, for the 4 Hening's " Statutes at Large," Vol. I. p. 123. Very truly yours, Mrs. Chas. Lamoreaux. breath of the Puritan." These words have "The Compact, Charter, and Laws of the Colony of New Bellevue, Mich. Plymouth." Boston, 1836. MESSRS. COON BROS.: I am well pleased with the Cyclone peculiar force in this connection, for in no Washer I bought of you, and the more I use it, the better I thing were the early settlers more peculiar 6 "The Book of the General Laws of the Inhabitants of the like it. It is beyond comparison. R. T. STURBINO. Jurisdiction of New Plymouth, collected out of the records of than in their radical ideas on Sundayism. the General Court; and lately revised, and with some emen- dations and additions, established and disposed into such SPECIAL BARGAIN. That utterance, therefore, prompted the writer order as they may readily conduce to general use and bene- to collect the following " breaths of Puritan fit, and published by authority of the General Court for that jurisdiction, held at Plymouth, the sixth of June, annodom. WE have for sale one set of Encyclopedic Diction- law," prefacing them with a similar "breath" 1671. Cambridge: 1672 " From chap. III., "Criminals," secs. ary, consisting of 4 volumes, 8% x111 9, 10; reprinted at Boston, 1836. /inches in size, from Virginia:— aggregating 5325 pages, with 3000 illustrations, nicely " The tithingman also watched to see that no young bound in cloth, marbled edges, the very lowest price VIRGINIA "BREATH." people walked abroad on the eve of the sabbath,' that is, on A a Saturday night (after sundown). He also marked and re- of which is $16, and we are informed it will soon be PENALTY OF DEATH FOR NON-ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH ported all those ' who lye at home,' and others who pro- advanced to $42, and it is said to be cheap at that. phanely behaved,' lingered without dores at meeting time We offer this set, packed in a box and on board the ON SUNDAY.1 on the Lordes Dale,' all the sons of Belial strutting about, setting on fences, and otherwise desecrating the day.' These cars, for $12. PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO.. Every man and woman shall repair in the morning last two classes of offenders were first admonished by the 48 Bond Street, New York,

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formed in such a way as not to involve or disturb published in this city by Benziger Bros., others; also to open places of business or traffic, ex- " Printers to the Holy Apostolic See," says of cept in the case of drug stores for the dispensing of the Inquisition :— medicines; also to make contracts or transact other commercial business; also to engage in noisy amuse- The duties and powers of inquisitors are minutely ments for gain, or entertainments for which admit- laid down in the canon law, it being always assumed NEW YORIt, JANUARY 2, 1896. tance fees are charged; also to perform any court that the civil power will favor or can be compelled to service, except in connection with arrests of criminals favor, their proceedings. Thus it is laid down that Pr ANY one receiving the AMERICAN SENTINEL without and service of process to prevent fraud. they "have power to constrain all magistrates, even having ordered it may know that it is sent to him by some friend. Therefore, those who have not ordered the SENTINEL SECTION 2. That the penalty for violating any pro- secular magistrates, to cause the statutes against her- need have no fears that they will be asked to pay for it. vision of this Act shall be a fine of not less than $10 etics to be observed," and to require them to swear for the first offense; for second or subsequent offenses to do so; also that they can " compel all magistrates AT its recent session in Fond du Lac, the a fine not exceeding $50, and imprisonment for not and judges to execute their sentences, and these must Wisconsin Sabbath Association, so-called, less than ten nor more than thirty days, and one year's obey on pain of excommunication ;" also that inqui- adopted resolutions urging all " Christian forfeiture of license, if any is held by the offender or sitors in causes of heresy "can use the secular arm," his employer. and that " all temporal rulers are bound to obey in- people" to withhold patronage from Sunday SECTION 3. That this act shall take effect upon its quisitors in causes of faith." trains and Sunday papers, and to support for passage. Cardinal Gibbons, in "Faith of Our Fathers," office only open and avowed friends of the Drs. H. H. George and W. F. Crafts are page 269, quotes from that eminent Catholic " Lord's day." both working for the passage of this bill. theologian, Becanus, the statement that " re- ligious liberty may be tolerated by a ruler of St. Paul, Minn., THE Cooperative Age, when it would do more harm to the State or noting in its issue of Dec. 19, some of the SPEAKING in regard to the principle which to the community to repress it." " This," facts of the persecution of Seventh-day Ad- is believed to be at stake in the present con- the cardinal says, " is the true Catholic teach- ventists in Maryland and Tennessee, says: troversy of this country with Great Britain, ing on this point." The Constitution of the United States the New York Sun of Dec. 25 says:— " Father " O'Keefe very properly and justly guarantees to every citizen of the country General Sherman spoke of war as hell; and un- arraigns the preachers to whom he writes on the right to worship God according to the questionably it is an infernal business, with its horrible the charge of inconsistency in transgressing dictates of his own heart. We are beginning destruction of life, the cruel physical suffering and the fourth commandment, the only Sabbath to wonder what guarantee' means. mental anguish it causes, and its frightful waste of law in the sacred Scriptures; and they have " It has come to pass in this free' country the fruits of industry. But there is something worse than war and more disastrous, and it is the sacrifice made no attempt whatever to reply to him that in many States a man who worships God of principle by a nation in order to avert war. upon this point, nor are they likely to do so. according to the Bible is a criminal. But it is in vain that " Father" O'Keefe or " Is it not about time to curb the fanatics But what about the sacrifice of the great any other Roman Catholic, or any number of who seek to force others to worship God ac- principle of religious freedom—the very foun- Roman Catholics pose before the people as cording to an intolerant bigot's notion or suf- dation principle of our national structure— advocates of total separation of Church and fer imprisonment as heretics? " which is going steadily on month by month, and year by year, as evidenced by such spec- State, and non-interference in politics; for, as tacles as that of eight honest and conscientious we have seen, it is and always has been the THE city of Tacoma, Washington, has policy of that church to control and use the passed an ordinance forbidding any barber citizens serving in the chain-gang (seen in Tennessee last summer) for no other "crime" civil power, wherever possible, to further the shops to be open for business on Sunday. A interests of "the church." barber named Krech said it seemed curious to than that of setting apart the seventh day of him that the barber shops which wanted to the week, as enjoined by the law of God ? Should there be anything done to preserve AN index to Volume 10 of the AMERICAN close on Sunday had to have an ordinance SENTINEL has been printed, and will be sent before they could do it, and announced that this principle ? to any address upon application. Of course he would keep his shop open as usual. He it will be of value only to those who have pre- did so and was arrested and convicted. He WE reprint on another page " Father " served files of the paper. appealed his case to the higher court, but the O'Keefe's letter to certain " Protestant " Sunday law was sustained. Of course if bar- preachers of Baltimore, in reply to an invita- Bound Volumes. bers can be rightfully forbidden to do business tion to participate in a meeting in the inter- on Sunday, other tradesmen can be likewise ests of legal Sunday enforcement. This letter THOSE desiring bound volumes of the SEN- restricted; so it will be in order next for the first appeared in the Catholic Mirror, the of- TINEL for 1895, should send in their orders city to pass an ordinance commanding the ficial organ of Cardinal Gibbons. This fact, at once. The prices are the same as for- closing of all places of business on the first rather than the name of the writer, gives it merly: $1.50 in manilla paper, and $2.50 in day of the week. Only give the germ con- significance. The reason for republishing cloth with leather back and corners. tained in this barbers' ordinance a chance to this letter is a demand for copies of it which grow, and the upas tree of religious legislation we were not able to supply when it first ap- R. T. WOODWARD, 66 Emerald St., Boston, Mass., will spring up speedily. peared in our columns. desires unsoiled copies of the AMERICAN SENTINEL for free distribution in that city. Postage should be " Father " O'Keefe's position as to the cor- fully prepaid. Four copies can be sent for one cent. rect attitude of the Church toward the civil The rate on such matter is one cent for four ounces DECEMBER 6, Representative Morse, of or fraction thereof. Nine copies properly wrapped Massachusetts, introduced into the House a power and toward civil authority cannot be would cost but two cents. bill entitled, " A bill for the protection of the successfully assailed. Nor have the Baltimore first day of the week, commonly called Sun- ministers attempted to assail his position. We day, as a day of rest and, worship in the Dis- have no right to question this priest's sincer- AMERICAN SENTINEL. trict of Columbia." The text of this bill is ity in the matter, so far as his own practice Set for the defense of liberty of conscience, and is therefore as follows :— is concerned, but his letter to these Protestant uncompromisingly opposed to anything tending toward a union of Church and State, Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Rep- ministers is a fearful arraignment of the policy either in name or in fact. resentatives of the United States of America in Con- which his own church has pursued in every Single copy, per year, - - - $1.00. gress assembled, that on the first day of the week, age and in every country. The Roman Cath- In clubs of 5 and under 25 copies to one address, 1 year - 75e known as the Lord's day, set apart by general consent olic Church has sought and obtained the aid " 25 and under 50 " 1 60e " 50 and under 100 " " " 1 " - 55c in accordance with divine appointment as a day of of the civil power wherever she could, and this " 100 or more 1 64 rest and worship, it shall be unlawful to perform any To foreign countries in Postal Union, - - 1 " - ss labor, except works of necessity and mercy and work is freely admitted in standard Roman Catho- Address, AMERICAN SENTINEL, by those who religiously observe Saturday, if per- lic publications. A " Catholic Dictionary," 4B Bon) STAKET, now YORK.