Equal and exact justice to all alert, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.—Thomas jelerson.

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paternal ruler has taken his cue from the contradict truth. For two thousand years the as- he American Sentinel, dethroned Pope, who secured uniformity tronomers had been making almanacs, and calcu- lating eclipses and other movements of the heavenly PUBLISNED WEEKLY, /3Y TEE of religion and language by the same bodies. What would become of astronomy, he tyrannical, oppressive means. By the PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISilliNG COMPANY, asked, if some Joshua could take hold of the spokes way, the Czar is, head of the Greek of the wheel of time and stop the revolution of the No. 4g BOND Sr., Nicw :YORK. Church. This is another fact that illus- earth ? ' Entered at The New York Post Office as Second Class Matter. trates the folly, or, more properly, the Now we do not deny Mr. Treuthart's crime of uniting Church and State. Pol- right to say just what he pleases about EDITOR, - - - ALONZO T. JONES.' itics and religion, when mixed in a ruler, the story of Joshua; but why he should ASSOCIATE EDITORS, bring misery and poverty to the people. address a " strictly -unsectarian." Congress C. P. BOILMAN; ,- W. H. Mc BEE. —Loyal American. in that manner does not seem clear. Nor do we understand what it has to do with OUR public schools are secular, and the separation of Church and State. How- must ever remain so if religious freedom Is It Unsectarian? ever, this was unofficial, and we will leave is to abide. Let the churcheS look to the PRESIDENT WESTBROOK'S call for the it for something from one of the officers matter of religious education; we Presby- Congress of the American Secular Union, of the Union. In her official address, the terians will do our part to it, and we ask recently held at Portsmouth, Ohio, con- Corresponding Secretary, Miss Ida Crad- no subsidy. Let. the fathers and mothers tained the following statement, which we dock, said :— do their part; "an ounce of mother is wish to examine a little in the light of the At this time the American Secular Union is con- worth a pound of priest." And let the Congress itself, and of the official utter- fronted with two distinct lines of policy from State attend to its own business in the ances •made there :— which to choose. One is the policy which it has non-sectarian education of the children of steadily maintained during the past year, of strict The American Secular Union is strictly unsecta- the'land.---Rev. Dr. Burrell. non-partisanship in religious matters, and open- rian and non-partisan in both religion and politics. handed hospitality to all who believe in total sep • It is not, either publicly or privately, committed to oration. of Church and State, whether the applicant the advancement of any system of religious belief A OHinwil known to be the slave of the for membership be Deist or Atheist, Freethinker or or disbelief, but heartily welcomes all persons, of Churchman. State would not have much 'influence with whatever faith, to its membership, on the basis of The other policy looks further than the mere the mass of the people in restraining an- " no union of Church and State." The word " sea separation of Church and State. It demands per- archy and making them good citizens, and ular" is here used in the broadest sense, as applied to petual and unflinching 'hostility to the Christian re- politicians would ever be tempted to turn the State, and not to any system of religious phi- ligion, and an aggressive warfare whose aim is losophy. aside the Church from its proper spiritual finally to cripple the Church, if not to kill it off entirely. work. The heresy, for it is a heresy, of The object of the Union is thus stated, , making the Church subservient to the by Mr. Westbrook, in the same call:— This states that there are two lines of State, is called Erastianism because incul- Its object is to secure the total separation of policy, but is non-committal as to which cated by Erastus, a learned physician in Church and State, in fact and in form, to the end one the Union has adopted; nor does it that equal rights in religion, genuine morality in Heidelberg toward the end of the sixteenth say which one Miss Craddock herself politics, and freedom; virtue, and brotherhood be thinks the better one. The following century, who claimed for the civil magis- established, protected, and perpetuated. from the same address, however, supplies trate the power of exercising discipline With this we have no fault to find. On and of etcommunication in the Church.— the lack, and is a declaration of war on the contrary we hold that this is a worthy religion.:— James llfcCosh, D.D., LL.D., Princton, object. We fear, however, that instead New Jersey. But my great concern is: How shall we reach of being the object it is only an object, the young ? How shall we save them from falling and possibly a secondary object at that. into that religious superstition which puts the cross THE 'Czar of Russia, in the exercise of In giving an account of the opening of higher than their moral duty as good citizens, and pis. paternal sovereignty, has ordered the the Portsmouth Congress, the Truth Seeker which teaches them to consider what the Church Protestant missionaries to leave Russia, says :— sneeringly calls "mere morality" as of little ac- count in the sight of the Deity whom they worship? to cease proselyting. He has also ordered The hail was filled to hear J. L. Treuthart wel- . . How shall we fit them to take the all Jews to leave his dominions, and the come his fellow - Freethinkers. The Portsmouth vacant places in the Liberal ranks — places left order is being carried out with great se- Union, he said, welcomed the Congress as a child vacant almost monthly by the death of our gray- receives a visit of a parent. There was also a large haired veterans? verity. In the Baltic provinces he is public sentiment favoring the objects of the Union. crushing out Lutheranism and the Ger- He also welcomed the Union on behalf of the school That is, " How shall we" (the Secular man language. It is evident that the children who were entitled to know that facts never Unions of course) " make infidels of the 362 Pri=i_h; AIVIEDRICA_N- children ? " And this in the face of the State recognition of religion because they their God-given time for conscience' sake. statement of the President that the Union do not believe in religion is only to say But in any event the non-religious are is ,unsectarian and " not either publicly or that did they believe in religion they forced to observe, to some extent, a relig- privately committed to the advancraent of would favor such recognition. They thus ious institution in which they have no any system of religious belief or disbe- abandon the broad principle of religious faith. C. P. B. lief." liberty, the common ground upon which Nor is this all; Miss Craddock's subject the purest Christians and the most pro- Memorials of 1829-30. No. 1. was " Organization," and she not only nounced infidels have in the past fought pointed out work to be done by the Union, side by side for their God-given rights, A MEMORIAL FROM SENATOR BLAIR'S STATE. but she prOposed plans. The following is and assent that the question instead of IN the interesting Sunday agitation of one of them being one of inalienable human rights is 1829-30, petitions, both.for and against the Personally, I should like to see established through- one of fact. But to this we can never discontinuance of Sunday mails, were sent out the country Freethought Sunday-schools, where agree. We maintain that the truth or to Congress from all parts of the country. children could be saved on Sunday from the allure- falsity of the Christian religion has noth- Considerable interest was aroused, and ments of the Church. We may be quite sure that, ing whatever to do with this question. even in Congress politicians were found to if we don't look out for our children on that day, the Church will draw them in. This we believe to be the only consistent champion both causes. Several reports position, and to take any other is to aban- were written ; but the most influential, Now we have no fault to find with this don the principle of religious liberty and and the ones receiving the approbation of plan, nor with Miss Craddock for pro- concede that the whole matter is only a Congress, were those written by Colonel posing it. The Secular Union has just question of majorities. Johnson, of Kentucky, afterwards Vice- the same right to teach infidelity that we We hope to say more upon this subject President of the United States. have to teach Christianity; but they have next week; at which time we shall exam- As the same question has been again in- no right to do it and at the same time ine some of President Westbrook's reasons troduced in our National Assembly by insist that the Union is unsectarian, and for opposing the reading of the Bible in Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, whose that it " is not committed to the advance- schools supported by the State. We shall Sunday Bill is now in the committee rooms ment of any system of belief or unbelief." likewise have something to say about the of Congress, perhaps some of the old docu- We are surprised at the attitude of the proposed manual for the teaching of mo- ments which aided so materially in the Secular Union, and especially are we sur- rality in the public schools. C. P. B. defeat of Sunday legislation sixty years prised at the Corresponding Secretary, ago, will be of interest to the readers of who at another stage of the meeting, THE AMERICAN SENTINEL. The first I said :— Why We Oppose Sunday Laws. shall send you is a memorial from. Senator The policy of strict non-sectarianism in religion, Blair's own State. It reads as follows : — which we have zealously striven to maintain during WE object to Sunday laws not because To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Repre- the past year, is already bearing good fruit, not- they require the observance of that par- withstanding the gloomy prophecies of some few of sentatives of the United States in Congress our more radical friends throughout the country. ticular day but because of the principle assembled : By adopting a moderate and persuasive tone, we involved. Sunday laws are wrong, they The subscribers, citizens of the United States, and have succeeded in getting our principles advertised work hardship and injustice, they tend to inhabitants of Portsmouth, in the county of Rock- prominently in several of the leading Christian destroy free heart service to God, thus ingham, and State of New Hampshire, having been papers of the country, thus bringing our ideas be- making hypocrites. For these and similar informed that petitions have been, and are about to fore thousands of Church people who would not be presented to Congress by many of our fellow- otherwise have known how very reasonable are the reasons we oppoSe and would oppose all citizens, in various sections of the country, praying demands we make; and we have some more work such measures. Disguise their motive as that the transportation of the mail upon the first day of the same sort in hand now, of which we are not they may by pleas for a rest day for the of the week may be discontinued, we beg leave re- at liberty to speak. laboring man, the fact remains that the spectfully to remonstrate against granting the prayer great majority of those who desire such of said petitioners, for the following, among other So long as the Secular Union remained reasons: purely a secular affair, there was no rea- laws make the demand because they regard We believe that the measure proposed by said son why Christian journals should not Sunday as a sacred day. Therefore the petitioners, if carried into effect, would operate un- advertise its principles, for " secularism" passage of a Sunday law is State interfer- favorably upon the interests of the Post-office De- means, " The state or quality of being ence in religious matters and involves the partment, and would occasion much inconvenience judicial decision of religious questions. It to our citizens generally.; that it would wholly fail secular ; " and " secular " means, " Per- of effecting it's avowed object, and would, in the taining to this present world, or to things follows that by enacting such laws the end, injure rather than promote the cause of true not spiritual or holy." " Secularism " is State usurps a prerogative of God. And religion; that, however pure and patriotic may have not, therefore, a synonym for infidelity, not only so, but Sunday laws are unjust to been the motives in which it originated, the measure and very many Christians and some man. There are in every State, and in- has found its support among a majority of its friends deed in almost every neighborhood, three more in their zeal than in their knowledge: yet we Christian papers are secularists, that is, cannot but regard the steps they are taking as they believe in keeping Church and State classes, namely, (1) Christians who regard movements hostile to the liberties of the people, and entirely separate; and to this end they Sunday religiously, (2) Christians who do we are persuaded that the original Movers of the can co-operate with all who are laboring not regard Sunday, but who do regard the measure designed it as a stepping-stone to more sen- for the same object; but every Christian seventh day, and (3) non-religious persons sible inroads upon our religious privileges. By who regard all days alike. Sunday laws establishing the principle it involves, they hope and every Christian paper must defend to silence remonstrance against their future enter- the Christian religion when it is attacked, necessarily discriminate between these prises, and contend successfully with weapons fur- or else cease to be Christian. It follows classes. If, as is sometimes the case, the nished them by Corigress. that when as an organization, the Secular seventh - day Christians are exempted The supporters of the measure are sufficiently Union proposes to strike down Christian- from the provisions of the law, then it is protected in their worship, and in the enjoyment of ity, it cuts off the co-operation of all Chris- a fact that they are favored above others their religious privileges, by the laws of their red spective States, and this is all they have a right to tians. simply because they are Christians. They demand ; while others are not permitted to disturb And not only so, but by assuming such are granted certain privileges on account them, they should not, as we humbly conceive, be an attitude as this, the Secular Union is of their religion, and that is contrary to permitted to disturb others ; they have not, to Our strengthening the hands of the National the spirit of American institutions. If knowledge, been appointed by the Almighty the they are not exempted and are required defenders of his honor, or the avengers of his injuries. Reformers, for they virtually say that did The experience of all ages fully testifies the deplor- they believe in Christianity they too would to obey the law and refrain from Sunday able consequences of arming religion with the power bo National Reformers. That ,is, opposing work, they are deprived of one-sixth of of the laws. Church and State were never united, THE AMERICANT SENTINEL,. 363

but the -articles of their union were subsequently science is a domain that the State has no upon days when the majority are at work. sealed with blood. right to invade. By " conscience," we All told, our country contains probably an enlightened coinnuthity, blessed with free and liberal institutions, religious despotism can only mean, as defined by Webster, "the fac- fifty thousand seventh-day Christians, who be established insensibly; and !by degrees. Every ulty, power, or principle which decides conscientiously and habitually rest upon approach, to it should be vigilantly guarded against on the lawfulness or unlawfulness of our the seventh day, the busiest day of all the by the Government. Knowing that in all ages, down actions [the divine law being the stand- week, and they find no difficulty in doing to the present time, the cleigy have been enterpris- ard], and approves, or condemns them." so, and desire no law compelling others to ingund attibitious, seizing eagerly upon' power,. and exercising it without reason and without Mercy, 'it This domain, we say, the State has no rest at the same time. would be arrogance in those of the, present age to right, to invade; and it needs no extended Again, this is a question with which claim an exemption from similar propensities ; and, argument to prove this proposition. It majorities and minorities have nothing to even were ,therto claim it, their claim would not has been truly said of civil government, do. The rights of a single individual are be'Credited by 'careful observers of their conduct. that " the domain which it invades it just as sacred, and should be just as care- When we consider'the number,* talents, and influence dominates; the jurisdiction which it takes of this body of Men, their zeal and activity, the in- fully guarded as the rights of a multi- timate union that exists among them, and the con- it keeps." This fact alone should forever tude. The State properly protects from cert with which all their movements are accom- exclude it from the sacred precincts of the interruption religious meetings upon every plished ; the astonishing credulity ,of many of their soul, for no man can ever surrender his day; and it very properly does the same adherents ; the support they derive from numerous conscience to the keeping of another and for other meetings. Such laws are right, religions corporations and soeleties,',ra,pidly increas- maintain his own self-respect, to say noth- ing in numbers 'and in wealth ; the almost unlimited they apply to all people and to all days, poltrolivhich they exercise over Our colleges and ing of his loyalty to his God. but laws setting apart certain days for other literary institutions, with no' power but the Governments have in past ages assumed religious purposes and stopping on those laWs, which they are ambitious to, control, to watch to dominate the realm •of conscience; days all the ordinary avocations of life, or Check them7—we see reason to dread even 'their the sequel is the history of the Inquisition. are opposed to the spirit of our institu- unasSiSted'eff0rts to dePrive Us' of our liberties ; but The thumbscrew, the rack, and the fagot especially should We dePrecateCarthing them with tions, and to the spirit of true Christianity ; poWers which properly belong only to the people are inseparable from the theory advocated and should be opposed alike by the patriot and the, rulers of their choice—powers, like in by our correspondent. He may affirm and by the Christian. other days; to tread on the necks, of kings, dictate that he would not carry it so far as that, This is the principle upon which we laVvs to 'nations, and murder millions with impunity. but it is impossible for him to stop short stand ; we could not, with our understand- We cannot shut our eyes to the visible fact that the of it without abandoning his theory. It clergy are the prime movers, the life and soul of the ing of the word of God, do otherwise and measure prayed for by the petitioners. is for this reason that we oppose all Sun- maintain our Christian integrity. With these views and feelings, we deem it our day laws; they are the beginnings of in- C. P. B. sacred duty respectfully but solemnly, to remon- tolerance ; they necessarily trench upon the strate against the measure prayed for by said peti- most sacred right of man, namely, the Is It Personal Rights or Selfishness? tioners, and we feel conscious that in so doing we right to worship (which carries with it shall best subserve the cause of true religion and the THE interests of our beloved country. the right not to worship), just as seemeth Young Men's Era, of Chicago, in an article relative to the opening of the These reasons, urged .so forcibly' and so him good. World's Fair on Sunday, says :— successfully against Sunday legislation Sunday is, and always was, a religious sixty years ago, are equally applicable to- festival. It was originally, sacred to the Much of the outcry against the enforcement of worship of the sun god, and is now very laws pertaining to Sabbath observance, the Bible 'in day. What was the "life and soul" of that the public schools, etc., is based on the claim of in- generally regarded as commemorating the movement, is the " life and • soul " of the terference with personal rights and religious con- present movement andnow, as then, the resurrection of Christ, and is by many victions. Is it not about time the rights and relig- move is simply a stepping-stone to further held to be the Sabbath. If it were not ious convictions of the other side shall be taken legislation in the same line. regarded as sacred there would be no de- into consideration ? Shall there not be some asser- mand for laws enforcing its observance. tion that the rights of the Christian people in this W. A. BLAKELY. country, rights and privileges which we have in- University of Michigan. It is therefore a matter that the State has herited from our forefathers, and that are vouch- no right to touch. safed to us by the laws of the land, shall be re- It is true that the friends of Sunday spected? Is the State Supreme? legislation have learned wisdom by past This is another instance of the prevailing A CORRESPONDENT sends US a long de- experience, and endeavor as, much as pos- ignorance of what constitutes personal fense of Sunday laws, from which we sible to keep in the background the fact rights. The idea seems to obtain quite take the following extract :— that their motive is religious, but they generally that the rights of different peo- The question involves nothing more nor less can never get away from the facts. They ple always clash, and that for one class' of than the conscience of the individual in conflict demand a "civil Sabbath ;" but what they people to have their rights, another class with the will of the State, and 'the decision hereto- mean is a religious Sabbath enforced by fore 'by eminent jurists, has been, that "the State must yield theirs. This is a great mistake. must not waver." Why ? Because " the State is civil law. Mr. Crafts himself says : "Take Human rights are equal. If no man supreme." If the will of the State is to be bandied the religion out and you take the rest grasps more than he has a right to, every about " by every, wind of doctrine," then it will be out;" and right in harmony with this man will have all that he has a right to. plain to every reasoning mind, the State can never utterance is the following " plank " from Take the case of Sunday rest. It is stated proceed upon any well-regulated eysteni of law, the platform of the Pennsylvania Prohibi- and " without system there can be no rule of ac- that every man has a right to it. That is tion," which will not do for a State. Well, but, tionists :— true, if he wants it; and it is just as true you will now say, the. State has nothing to do with The Sabbath must be preserved by the due en- that every man has a right not to rest if conscience. Indeed! I have just shown that where forcement of existing laws and the speedy enact- he does not want to. The right of choice the will of the State is opposed by the conscience of ment of such additional legislation as may be implies the right of refusal. If a man the individual " the State must not waver." necessary to insure its due observance. has not the right to refuse to do a certain Certainly "the question is nothing more The words " Sabbath " and " due ob- thing, then he has no right to choose to do nor less than the conscience of the indi- servance " are, not civil, or secular, but it; it is then no longer a matter of right, vidual in conflict with the will of the religious terms, and the thought back of but of compulsion, and in that case the State ; " it does not follow, however, that them was a religious thought. It is not rights of some are certain to be trampled "the State must not waver'." In its legiti- physical rest but spiritual worship that upon. mate sphere " the State is supreme and is the object of Sunday laws. The plea Moreover, the right of one man to refuse must not waver ;" but the domain of con- that " all must rest or none can," is neg- to do a certain thing does not interfere ' *PublIsli8c1 by authority of Congress In 1884. atived by the fact that thousands do rest with the right of another to do it. The 304. TI E A.1\ittRioAN

fact that one man does not observe Sunday, result would be unavoidable. The people simply used good judgment in dealing does not interfere in the least with the right would not support the public schools. But with men; he combined the wisdom Of the of another man to keep it. The fact that the census every autumn shows that there serpent with the harmlessness of the dove. one man objects to hearing the Bible read, is no such popular discontent. In spite This is well illustrated by his sermon on or to having his children hear it read, does of many Catholic and Protestant parish Mars Hill (Acts 17: 22-31); instead of not in the least interfere with the right of schools, the public school-houses are not preaching to them from the Jewish Script- another man to read it for himself, and to large enough and numerous enough to hold ures, he took for his text an inscription on his children. So the opening of the Fair the children who are sent to them. The one of their own altars and quoted to them on Sunday will not in the least degree in- great mass of the people seem to take no their own poets ; it was thus that Paul terfere with the personal rights and relig- interest in the discussion which is so act- used guile. ious convictions of those who regard Sun- ive in many religious quarters. They are The difficulties which the Truth Seeker day as the Sabbath, since none will be not disturbed because religion is out of finds in the other texts cited are only compelled to visit it on that day. On the the schools.--New York Sun. imaginary, as we have shown them to be other hand, to refuse to have it opened on . * in Rom. 3:7 and 2 Cor. 12:16, and we that day would seriously interfere with must still insist that it is unjust for that the right of thousands who have no con- Christian Morality. paper to charge upon Christianity all the scientious scruples in regard to the day, faults of much of that which to-day is and who cannot see the Exposition on any IN reply to our advice to "read the twelfth chapter of Paul's ' Epistle to the called Christianity. Men professing to be other day, yet who have as much right to Romans,' to learn what practical Bible Christians are guilty of " vote buying, see it as others have; and while these are Christianity is," the Truth Seeker devotes slandering -of opponents, and deception of being deprived of a right, those who re- nearly a page to an attempt to discredit the people," but they are not Bible Chris- gard Sunday religiously will not be having the Scriptures, and after quoting a num- tians, and we want the Truth Seeker to anything added to their rights and privi- ber of texts which infidels generally re- recognize the fact. The Bible standard leges, since the closing of the Fair will not gard- as objectionable, says :— of morals is infinitely higher than is the enable them to rest or go to church any practice of many who call themselves better than if it were open. We trust that our religious contemporary will be kind enough to say whether it approves of the Christians. The Truth Seeker may deny In these days professed Christians have practical Bible Christianity outlined in. the passages this, but fortunately its ipse dixit does need to beware lest they confuse personal we have quoted; and if it does not to say why. not make true that which it asserts. The rights and selfishness, and while they Space forbids any extended answer to idea that Christianity is immoral is nega- deprive others of what is their right, the Truth Seeker's effort. It is not the tived not only by the facts, but by the add nothing to themselves.—Signs of the mission of this paper to discuss Bible admission of infidels themselves; and it Times. truth, further than it bears directly upon is too late in the history of the world for the proper relations of Church and State. Danger to Our Civil Institutions. unbelievers to oppose the religion of the Nevertheless, believing that a courteous Lord Jesus Christ because it is immoral. THE. common sense of the people sees question demands a candid reply, we will The world knows better; and we think very plainly that if religious instruction say that THE SENTINEL is a Christian that the Truth Seeker must certainly know is introduced, the school system as it is paper, and that its editors heartily accept better too. C. P. B. . cannot remain. It will be broken up and the Scriptures as the revealed will of God. church schools substituted. There will be We do not, however, accept the interpre- The Public Schools. Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and infidel tation put by infidels upon the texts quoted schools, and each division will have to by our Lafayette Place contemporary. IT is not the business of the public support its own. The proposition has For instance, the Truth Seeker says:— schools to give a complete education, or been made that the school fund be dis- In chapter twelve of the ' Epistle to the Romans,' even an approximation thereto. The prin- tributed among Catholics and Protest- Paul recommends honesty (ver. 17); but in the third ciples upon which they are founded is ants according to their numbers; but the chapter he says :— simply to go so far as within reasonable For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie State can make no such religious discrimi- unto his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner? limitations, may be deemed necessary for nation. A great part of the population, Perhaps Paul was trying to make the truth of the protection and safety of the State. also, are of no religious belief and convic- God abound when he recommended the providing Beyond this we have no business to go. tions, and the number of Jewish children of honest things, for he admits to the Corinthians Religion is an individual want or realiza- that he caught them with guile (2 Cor. 12:16). in the schools is large, much larger pro- That, we suppose, is "practical Bible Christianity," tion, which pertains to the individual portionately than the number of. Jews in as the vote buying, slandering of opponents, and alone, or, distinct from his rights and town. Neither is there any agreement deception of the people nowadays by Christian duties, as represented in the State—a part among Protestants as to what is the true statesmen is practical politics." of which he is, and in all of which he religion to teach. Schools that would suit We dislike to impute to anybody wrong bears a responsible share, over and above Episcopalians would not suit Baptists and motives, but in this case we can scarcely any allegiance which he owes to his own Methodists. If there is to be any religious think that the:-editor of the Truth Seeker spiritual nature or the religious powers instruction, each party will demand that does not know that Paul was arguing which represent this element in the ec- it be after its own tenets. Each wants to against the very thing of which infidels clesiastical organism which gives form hold its own children in its own fold, for accuse him, namely, of doing evil that and force to the outward acts of man. on them chiefly depends the perpetuation good might come. The apostle says that If there are any deficiencies they should of its strength. this was " slanderously reported" of him be supplied in some other way. If relig- The only way to escape discord is to then; and it seems that some are still ion could be taught, it should be taught keep the instruction purely secular, and circulating the same old slander. by the church, where each can be repre- it is the only course consistent with our Of guile, Webster says : " Craft; cun- sented in its own way, and where each theory of Government. Otherwise we ning; artifice; duplicity; deceit ;—usually can be cared- for without interference should have to give up the public school in a bad sense." But the apostle does not from the other. The public school is the system altogether, and turn over educa- use it in a bad sense; indeed, he, did not creature of the 1State, and the State, in this tion to private enterprise wholly. If there- use the word " guile " at all, but a word country, is inherently and distinctively were as much dissatisfaction with this di- meaning " artifice." The Diaglott renders republican. So that if you want to set vorce of religion among parents generally it : " I did not burden you; but being aside or modify the school, in this respect, as there is among theologians, such a cunning, I took you by artifice." Paul to suit the special religious views of any THE AMERICAN SENTINEL. 365

seat or church, the first thing will be to league with the saloons that no man can certainly not in the public schools, where break down the principle upon which be a Christian and vote for him, nor has children are being trained for citizenship they rest. That is, republican govern- it any right to bind all its members to at the public expense. ment. If that is legitimate and right they vote for prohibition or high license. The I believe in parochial schools. We have must stand intact, and perform their duties Lutherans of Illinois, according to recent hundreds of Presbyterian schools, and the in perfect harmony therewith. And, in papers, are making a political issue, fight- Baptists have hundreds more, but these this respect, there can be no distinction. ing out at the polls a certain matter which are not sustained at the public expense. All are equal and all are entitled to re- they think nearly concerns them, and in We expect to go on teaching the West- ceive whatever education may be legiti- my view it is a great mistake.—Rev. John minster Confession of Faith in our denom- mate with this end in view. K. Allen, in Christian at Work. inational schools, but we have not the Therefore, it must be common, in which brazen effrontery to ask the common- wealth to foot the bills. If we choose to all agree, as far as it goes. And hence Let the Verdict Hasten. all who agree in republican government have a Presbyterian dance we will pay must be supplied with an education that IT is well that the case of R. M. King, the piper with Presbyterian money. And simply conforms therewith. And so the Seventh-day Adventist, of Obion County, that, too, while loyally supporting the schools being creatures of the State, which Tenn., is to be carried to the Supreme non-sectarian public schools. There is is itself secular, must be of a secular char- Court of the United States for adjudica- room for both. The public schools, how- acter ; and their secular character must tion. It will be remembered that he was ever, must always and everywhere be of not be tampered with or encroached upon heavily fined in the lower court for quietly such a character that parents may send by any religious body, Catholic or Prot working on his farm on Sunday; and that their children to them with a definite as- estant. his defense as a Sabbath-keeper was dis- surance that their rights of conscience The public 8chools are for all creeds, or regarded. The decision has been sus- shall not be violated by the propaganda no creed--Catholic, Protestant, or Agnos- tained by the higher courts in the State, of any sect. Only so can our 'religious tic; for all' nationalities, native-born and and hence the final appeal to the Supreme freedom be protected and secured for com- foreign—for the American, the Irishman, Court of the Nation. There have been ing days.—Rev. Dr. Burrell. the German or Italian. This makes them several similar cases in which Seventh- impartial, secular and comprehensive. No day Adventists, and Seventh-day Baptists German Lutherans and the English other system can exist in this country so have been thus persecuted. Prejudice Language. long as it is republican in manner and and ignorance have thus combined to pro- form.—The National View. duce a state of things like that which ex- SOME alarm has been felt in some parts of isted in the Middle Ages. Such cases the West lest through the influence of paro- Work of the Church. denote a revival of the bigotry which chial schools the rising generation should be burned' Protestants and Papists in the kept in ignorance of the English language. IN matters of political economy the stormy days of the English Reformation. We regard this fear as utterly groundless. church is not authorized to expound It seems incredible that such things can How German Lutherans themselves look God's will. Every time she has tried be in the last decade of the nineteenth 'cen- at the question will be seen from the fol- it she has done no end of mischief, tury. They are part and parcel of the and never any good. Our' Lord refused new crusade represented by the American lowing article from the Vindicator, a to be a judge in the distribution of prop- Sabbath Union, and the attempt to 'Save Lutheran paper, published in Pittsburg, erty, and he never gave to his church an the failing fortunes of Sunday by civil Pennsylvania:— authority he would not assume for him- law. We are glad that the highest tribu- The opinion is freely expressed on all self, What Jesus did was' to forbid op- nal of the Nation is to pass upon this case. hands that the German language in this pression, but what oppression was in a Every Sabbath-keeper is directly involved country will, sooner or later, die out. At particular case he did not decide. Solomon in the results which are likely to flow from the meeting of the Kansas District of the might have done that, Caiaphas might do that decision. The whole status of the Missouri Synod, in Atchison, Kansas, last that, but it was not for Him to do it. He Sunday laws of the United States is also September, this opinion was expressed— asserted principles of love, unselfishness, likely to be much affected, pro or con, by not by young men and unthinking enthu- order, but particular cases under those the verdict of the court. Let that verdict siasts—but by aged men of wide and va- principles he never decided. He cried out hasten.—Sabbath (Baptist) Recorder. ried experience. Everybody seems to be- for justice, mercy, and truth, but which come gradually reconciled to the inevitable; brother had the right on his side was for Let the Churches Teach Religion. so then all that remains to be done is to the civil courts, to determine. Who made draw the legitimate conclusions and to act me a,judge over you ? What right have THE unsectarianism of our public school upon the hint. I to decide these questions ? system is the secret of its-whole power, so Well, then, if that comes to pass what There is the guiding light for the Church that to sectarianize it would be to utterly the wisest among us predict and concede in all ages. It lays down great principles, destroy it. It is an American axiom that to be inevitable, what is to become of our but it throws upon men the responsibility the perpetuity of our civil and religious German Lutheran Church ? Shall it die of deciding what is best and right under freedom depends on a complete severance with the language ? Perish the thought ! those principles. In the old slavery days of Church and State. No loyal American No true Lutheran can bear even to think in this country it was the duty of the who is acquainted with the theory and of such a thing ! And yet this must in- Church to speak about the iniquity of hu- history of our Government will question evitably be the fate of the church unless man bondage, to speak of the sacredness that postulate for a moment. The First sufficient provision is made to preach our of man, but it left men to decide how that Amendment to our national Constitution doctrines in the English language. Or are iniquity was to be abrogated. It had no is in these words : " Congress shall make we waiting for the precise moment when right to say that its members should go to no law respecting an establishment of the climax shall have been reached, then the polls and vote with one political party religion." That settles the matter. Our all at once make German congregations as against the other. It is its duty to talk public schools must be carried on consist- English ? We all know that such a thing about the evils of intemperance, to urge ently with that idea; there must be no is impossible. A change like the one in men to sobriety in every possible way, but sectarianism there ; there must be no " es- question must be accomplished gradually. it has no right to say because a certain tablishment of religion " in connection There will be no discharge of artillery to governor is commonly believed to be in with any of our national institutions; warn us of the necessity of a change. No 366 THE A.IVIERICA.N SENTINEL. angel will appear to tell us ; now is the: 242,frerICla'q.".14 the State if the Governor would pardon me? I told him, No, sir I time, up and change your tactics!" We are= RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ASSOCIATION. bidden to read the signs of the times. inthe United States of America, during Some of the German churches being emp- the last decade of the nineteenth century, a man, without known fault as a Christian tied of young people ought to be sign suf- ficient that the time has come. Therefore and a citizen, is fined and imprisoned be- cause in his devout simplicity, he reads in we believe that English Lutheran congre- DECLARATION of PRINCIPLES. his Bible the commandment of God, " Six gations should be established wherever an We believe in the religion taught by Jesus Christ. We believe In temperance, and regard the liquor traffic as a days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, opportunity offers. If we will not do so II0'07 curse to society. We believe in supporting the civil government, and submit- but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the the opportunity may be past by the time ting to its authority: We deny the right of any civil government to legislate on Lord thy God, in it thou shalt do no we are ready to act. Difficulties ? Cer- religious questions. We believe it is the right and should be the privilege, of work," etc., and acts accordingly. Is it tainly the work is difficult, but so is all every man to worship according to the dictates of his con- science. possible to imagine a more ludicrous work worthy the effort of an honest man We also believe it to be our duty to use every lawful and honorable means to prevent religious legislation by the civil travesty on justice, true religion, and and a Chriatian. We cannot' say that it government that we and our fellow-citizens may'enjoy the in- is impossible, for we have not yet made an estimable blessings of both religious and civil liberty. common sense ? W. H. M. earliest and vigorous effort. We ought not OFFICES. to complain of small success, because, be- 48 BOND STREET, NEW YORK CITY ; The National Reform Association. ing new in the work we naturally make 225 A ST., N. g., WASHINGTON ; 28 COLLEGE PLACE, CHICAGO. many mistakes. But then the Lord has not THERE is no doubt that there is a class of people in America whose aim is to subvert promised us brilliant success, nor any cer- C. ELDRIDGE, - - - - President. tain degree of success ; but has said that W. H. McKEE, Secretary. our American institutions. This class are his word, if preached faithfully shall not now working, in Idaho for the purpose of remain without fruits, and that ought to "Songs of Freedom." establishing a theocracy. The green-eyed be sufficient for us. monster has fastened its covetous eyes Some will fear the danger that English IN the recent call for poems designed upon our infantile commonwealth, and as Lutheran congregations will swerve from for use in "Songs of Freedom," the time an entering wedge it proposes to introduce the standard of true Lutheranism. If this was limited to November 10; but as cir- a Sunday bill into our Legislature. hitherto has sometimes happened, it is not cumstances render the publication of the We have just been divorced from one to be wondered at. For they were exposed book impossible before the latter part • of church that demands of its adherents more than the German congregations to the January, the time is extended to December implicit obedience in matters both tem- influence of the sects around them, while 10, before which date all competing poems- poral and spiritual, and thank God and they had but few truly Lutheran books and must be received. J. 0. CORLISS. our worthy politicians, that we are free. papers. But this ought not to discourage Let not our Legislature be deceived. The us, but rather act as an incentive to vigor- THE News-Banner, of Troy, Tennessee, National Reform Association is a foe to ous exertions in order that we may make in its issue of November 6, publishes the our form of Government. Article II of the writings of the fathers of our church following item:— their Constitution reads as follows':— The object of this society shall be to maintain exist- accessible to English speaking people. And Robert M. King, the Seventh-day Adventist, who when that has once been accomplished, ing Christian features in the American Government; was tried in the circuit court, and sentenced-to pay to promote needed reforms in the action of the Gov- doubt not that there will be as good En- a seventy-five dollar fine for working on Sunday, ernment touching the Sabbath, the institution of the glish Lutheranism as there ever Was in and who appealed to the State Supreme Court, and family, the religious element in education, the oath, any other language. had the decision affirmed, is in trouble. and public morality as affected by the liquor traffic Lawyer Richardson, of Dyersburg, is going to The work may not be exactly such as and other kindred evils; and to secure such an appeal the case to the Supreme Court of the United amendment to the Constitution of the United States we would choose were a choice left open. States, and has telegraphed to get Don. M. Dickin- as will declare the Nation's allegiance to Jesus Christ son, Post-master General under the Cleveland ad- But it is thrust upon us, and seeing that it and its acceptance of the moral laws of the Chris- is,. as all admit, either an English Lu- ministration, to take charge of the case. tian religion, and so indicate that this is a Christian theran Church or no Lutheran Church at The time has come when King must pay the Nation, and place all the. Christian laws, institutions seventy-five dollar fine or go to jail. He says that all in this country, shall we any longer and usages on an undeniably legal basis in the fun- it is religious persecution, and that he will 'go to damental law of the land. rest content with weak, half-hearted, ten- jail before he will-pay one cent. King is now in tative efforts ? Will we continue to allow charge of Sheriff Jackson, awaiting -the result of Let these principles prevail and our Gov- ourselves to be pushed and forced by dire Colonel Richardson's efforts towards securing an ernment becomes a theocracy. There is necessity and by the force of circum- appeal' in reality no such thing as a union of stances ? In several cases the opportunity Mr. King Writes a very interesting per- Church . and State ; both claim to be su- was just slipping away from us before we sonal letter ,from the (Non Connty, Jail, preme, and they.both shoUld be supreme, were aroused. Already, in. several places at Troy, narrating his experiences in con- but in their own realm. Let the Church we are too late—not too late to do-, any, finement, his opportunities for conversa- dictate secular matters and the bloody good, but too late for the greatest measure tion on Biblical, truth, etc. He says of scenes pf, the Dark Ages will be re-enacted. of good. When the most favorable oppor- those who have him in charge, "I am Men and women would be imprisoned for tunity had passed then we arrived upon treated just as kindly,. by the jailer as conscience' sake. The history of Church the - scene. Too late! May it never be possibly could be expected," and mentions rule is a history of bloodshed, a history of unexpected courtesies shown him by oth- persecution. Men and women were burned the fate of the Lutheran Church, nor of ers. at the stake. for their belief. 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" ISN'T it Strange," says a Western paper, lievest, and, there Is no earthly power that " that the laboring men, whO Are repre- can determine between you." Neverthe- sented by the Sunday-law lecturers as less we held -that it is the duty of all men consuming with desire for a- Sun.day to "fear God and keep his command- are in mortal dread' of saying anYthing ments; " " forr,God shall bring every work about it, lest they should lose their .places, into judgment, with; every secret thing, and yet they willStrike for an adVance- of whether it be 'good, or whether it be evil." NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 20, 1890. twenty-five cents a day in wages, "or even Eccl. 12 :13',--14.

NOTE.—Any one receiving the AMERICAN SENTINEL without when they have no personal grievance, if having 'ordered it may know that it is sent to him by some a fellow-workman is discharged ? " Well, fritind, mnlesS plainly marked "Sample copy." It is our invari- THE Sunday question seems to be just able yule to send out no papers without pay in advance, except yes, it would be strange if the representa- by special arrangement, therefore, those who have not ordered as perplexing in Hong-Kong as in America. the SENTINEL need have no, fears that they will be asked to pay tions of the Sunday-law, advocates were The advocates there of enforced Sunday fOr it simply because they takedt from the post-office. all true; but inasmuch as_they are not rest get just as badly tangled in its in- true the only strange thing about it is tricacies as they do here, and in a very "A REST day is justified," says Dr. Mc- that men professing godliness will resort Donald, a prominent Sunday-law advo- similar manner, as is witnessed by the to duplicity to accomplish what they im- following extracts from an article in the cate, " upon the principle that the priv- agine to be a great moral reform. The ilege of rest for each citizen depends upon China Mail in advocacy of a Sunday law Jesuits should be awarded a monopoly of for the harbor of Hong-Kong :— the observance of one day of rest in seven, " doing evil that good may come." by everybody." But the assumption is I do not think there is one man in the Colony who would support compulsory Sunday observance false. Mr. Crafts himself says that " the throughout the Colony. Even if it were possible to Jew is left absolutely free to observe the WE learn from the China Mail that a enforce such a law, it would be a curse instead'of a seventh day." True enough ; and so is law forbidding Sunday labor in the harbor blessing. every one else left absolutely free to keep of Hong-Kong is among the probabilities Thus readeth extract No. 1. Number 2 the first day. of the near future. At a recent meeting is as follows :— of the Mercantile Marine Officers' Associ- It would no doubt be well if this rest could be secured by voluntary co-operation, but that I fear ation held at Marine Hotel on Saturday ACCORDING to the Morning Journal, is impracticable. Compulsory measures always evening, Captain S. Ashton, the President, Colonel Ingersoll says that " if we should objectionable in themselves—have been sanctioned at home, and will I fear have to be resorted to in finally invent some means of traveling by addressed the members on the Sunday labor question. After alluding to " the Hong-Kong. , which we could go a thousand miles a Just so! It has been so; therefore, it day, a man could escape Sunday all his good work done by Rev. A. G. Gold- smith, with a view to bringing about a must be so. This is the logic of Sunday life by traveling west. He could start laws the world over. Monday, and stay in Monday all the time." cessation of Sunday labor in the harbor, The Colonel will have to invent some bet- President Ashton said that he was a firm REFERRING to the Sunday closing of ter argument than that against Sunday believer in the fourth commandment, and the Columbian Exposition, the Union laws or they will, we fear, remain on the he thought those who obeyed it would Signal editorially says statute books of the several States. We " be healthier, wealthier, and wiser in the end." As in this country, the great plea The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, act- don't wonder that Ingersoll said this, but ing in conjunction with' the Sabbath Observance we are surprised that any paper would for this Sunday law is that the laboring man may have opportunity to rest, and, Associations, has a great educational work to do think it worth printing. To escape Sun- along this line, and now is none too soon to begin. day all his life one would have to travel as here, it appears that the real motive of Educate by petitions, by mass-meetings, through about twenty-five thousand miles a day. the prime movers is their religious re- the press; educate and agitate, till the Sunday- gard for the day. Were Sunday not re- closing victory is won. Then plan and work for ligious the plea for a rest day for the the best possible utilization of the Sabbath time during the Exposition; it will be the opportunity THE standard argument used.to win the " poor working man " would never be of the century for preaching Christ to those who masses to Sunday closing for the Colum- made. know him not. So broadly should we plan and bian Exposition, is " that Sunday opening work that at the close of 1893 we can truthfully is not a boon to the working people, for it of the Shaker Order, at Mount say, " Not one soul in the Columbian Exposition A MEMBER did not have salvation offered; no tried, tempted means unremittent toil for thousands of Lebanon, New York, writes to us saying :— one need go away in chains to drink because a way them--seven day's work for six day's pay." I wish that you could see, as I do, that the God out of temptation has not been shown him." These words are from the Union Signal, of Israel was only a created being--a tutelary deity. Thus again, it appears that the real object but the Observer of this city, comes nearer Well we can't see it; and furthermore of the Sunday-closing movement is relig- the truth when it says : " Sunday opening it has nothing to do with the question of ious. It is right that the women of the is opposed solely in the interests of the governmental regulation of religion and Woman's Christian Temperance Union Christian Sabbath, of rest from toil, and religious Observances. We are Christians should plan to do all the good they can of holy occupation." And that is just and believe most sincerely that Jehovah, the upon the occasion of the Exposition; but what we have said all the time, namely, God of the Jews, is a self-existent being, they have no right to invoke the aid of that were it not for their religious regard that he created all things by Jesus Christ, the civil power in the matter of offering for the day not one of the champions of arid that the Scriptures of the Old and salvation. so-called civil Sunday laws would lift his New Testaments are his revealed will; voice, or wield his pen, in advocacy of a but with Paine, the infidel, we would say THE AMERICAN SENTINEL. day of rest for the working man. 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