and exact Justice to all Men, of Whatever state or Persuasion, Feligious or 'Political."

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baths ; and they shall be a sign between his heart, and by peace shall destroy American Sentinel. me and you, that you may know that I many : he shall also stand up against the PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY THE am the Lord your God." And " I gave Prince of princes." " Yea, he magnified PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between himself even to [even against—margin] No. 43 BOND STREET, NEW YORK. me and them, that they might know that the Prince of the host." Dan. 8 : 25, 11. Entered at the New York Post-Office. am the Lord that sanctify them." Eze. By comparing the phrase " stand up," in 20 : 20, 12. This is the meaning of the this verse, with the same phrase in verse EDITOR, - - - - ALONZO T. JONES. ASSOCIATE EDITORS,1 CALVIN P. BOLLMAN. Sabbath of the Lord, as he made it and as 23, and Dan. 11: 2, 3, 4, 7, it will be plain WILLIAM H. MC KEN. he gave it. to all that in this verse " stand up " sig- LAST week, from a number of consider- nifies " to reign," as a king. It is seen, BUT in the scriptures of the prophets, ations of Scripture, we found that the therefore, that there would appear in the it is told that there would arise another Sabbath question is not a question merely world a power opposed to Christ, reigning power, putting itself above God and in of days as such : not a question merely in his stead, putting himself in his place, the place of Jesus Christ, as the Com- as to whether we shall have one day or and even above God, showing himself off mander and Saviour of men. Thus it is another. But it is a question as to as God. written : " That day [the day of the whether we shall worship the one true Lord's coming] shall not come except God, or another; and whether we shall Now, everybody knows that there has there come a falling away first, and that have him the one true Saviour, or another. appeared, and that there still continues, man of sin be revealed, the son of perdi- It is a question as to whether we shall in the world, just such a power as is here honor the one true Creator and have him tion ; who opposeth and exalteth himself described. It is the Papacy. Everybody above all that is called God, or that is for our Sanctifier, or another. knows that the head and the embodiment worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in of this power, calls himself before all the AND this, because the Sabbath of the the temple [the place of worship] of God, world, " Vicar of Jesus Christ." A vicar Lord which he made, the seventh day showing himself that he is God. Remem- is a substitute. He therefore poses as which he appointed—this, the Lord has ber ye not that when I was yet with you the substitute of Jesus Christ. While declared to be a sign between him and I told you these things ?" 2 Thess. 2:3-5. Christ is absent from the world he is his men that they might know that he is the This is in the letter addressed to the Thes- substitute to rule it, and to save or des- Lord our God; and a sign by which they salonians. When Paul was at Thessalo- troy it as his " infallible " will shall might know that he sanctifies us. This nica, he had told them these same things. dictate. And as God is the Saviour and being the sign that he is the Lord, the Now, of his visit to Thessalonica we there is none else, and as this power puts true God, the Creator, and he being also read, " When they had passed through itself in the place of God, and even above the Saviour, it is also the sign by which Amphipolis and Appollonia, they came to God, it follows in itself that this power— men may know him as Saviour. The Thessalonica where was a synagogue of the Papacy—should, of necessity, put it- Sabbath of the Lord being the sign that the Jews : and Paul, as his manner was, self in the place Of God and Jesus Christ men may know that he is God, and as no went in unto them and three Sabbath days as the only way of salvation. reasoned with them out of the Scriptures. man can know him except in Jesus Christ, Every one is obliged, under pain of eternal dam- it is, when hallowed, the sign of what . . . And some of them believed, and nation, to become a member of the Catholic Church, Jesus Christ is to men. consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the to believe her doctrine, to use her means of grace, devout Greeks a great multitude, and of and to submit to her authority. IT is by the power of God manifested in the chief women not a few." Acts 17 :1-4. Hence the Catholic Church is justly called the only saving Church. To despise her is and through Jesus Christ alone, and by the same as to despise Christ ; namely, his doc- his Holy Spirit, that salvation is wrought. REASONING with them out of the Scrip- trine, his means of grace, and his powers ; to And this to every one that believeth. tures he told them of the apostasy and of separate from her is the same as to separate Therefore, " I am not ashamed of the the development and exaltation of this from Christ, and to forfeit eternal salvation. Therefore St. Augustine and the other bishops of gospel of Christ, for it is the power of man of sin above God, putting himself in Africa, pronounced, A.D. 412, at the Council of God unto salvation to every one that the place of worship of God, showing Zirta, this decision: " Whosoever is separated from believeth." Rom. 1 : 16. " Neither is himself that he is God. Now, the only the Catholic Church, however commendable in his there salvation in any other." Acts 4:12. Scriptures that they then had, and out of own opinion his life may be, he shall, for this very "There is no God else beside me; a just which he taught them, were what are now reason, that he is at the same time separated from God and a Saviour; there is none beside the Old Testament Scriptures. Where the unity of Christ, not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him."—De Harbe's, Full Catechism me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all then in these Scriptures did he find this of the Catholic Religion ; Imprimatur, N. Card the ends of the earth: for I am God and teaching concerning one who would set Wiseman ; Imprimatur, John, Card. McCloskey, there is none else." Isa. 45 : 21, 22. " And himself in opposition to God and above Catholic Publication Society Co., 9 Barclay Street, no man knoweth the Father, save the Son, God ? Read this : " Through his policy New York, 1883; p. 145. Italics as in the book. and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal also, he shall cause craft to prosper in his God in Jesus Christ being the only him." Matt. 11: 27. " Hallow my Sab- hand; and la) shall magnify himself in Saviour; his power being the only power 258 ..A.WITIO ELI CA.1%1- VOL. 8, No. 33.

unto salvation; and the Sabbath of the of papal authority, and to call upon all shorn of their power to restrain the Sabbath-break- ers. And with the loss of the Sabbath every safe- Lord being the sign of this; it follows of the people of the United States to receive guard to morals is lost. All history proves that a necessity that when another puts himself and wear this badge of allegiance to the Sabbathless people is a people given up to license above God and in the place of God and Papacy. In this Sunday legislation, by and immorality. There has been no exception to another power is manifested unto a pro- which the seventh day the Sabbath of the the general rule. And the Sabbath is going. And the alarming fact is that this advance of the posed salvation, if that other power is to Lord, was interpreted out of his law, and enemy is against the most active and earnest en- have a sign by which it would be known the first day the Sunday of the Papacy deavors of the Christian people to retain the dis- and recognized as of authority, this sign was interpreted into that law instead of tinctively Christian features in our national life.. would have to be a rival Sabbath. It is God's Sabbath, the churches and Congress Never was the battle waged more vigorously for the Sabbath than during the past year. And impossible that it should be otherwise. of the United States have, so far as lies never have the enemies of the Sabbath obtained As he puts himself above God and in the in their power, shut away from men the greater victories against the Sabbath. In the face place of God, and of the Saviour—as he knowledge of the true God and Saviour, of the combined opposition of the Christian cit- is therefore the rival—the substitute and have required that men shall receive izens the advance has been made. What is the reason of this ? How shall we explain this im- indeed—of the true God and Saviour; as and worship the Papacy instead. And it potence of the Christian forces, in the great con- certainly as he sets up any sign by which is an abominable piece of business. But flict for the maintenance of the Christian elements he would be known, this sign, in order they have.done it. in our national life ? Why these defeats all along to mean anything in the case as it is, the line ? would have to be a rival, a substitute THAT which now remains is for each The answer to this is not difficult; it indeed, of the true Sabbath, the true sign person to decide for himself, whether he "lies in hand," as the Germans say. of the true God and Saviour. will do this which the churches and Con- Christian men, the Statesman leading, gress have required. It is for each one are trampling on God's Sabbath, and AND the case holds consistently through- to decide for himself whether he will Christ's example in a most unchristian out. The " man of sin," " the son of honor the Papacy above God; whether he way. They have deserted and denied the perdition," " the mystery of iniquity," will worship the Papacy or the Lord, and Word of God and are trying to patch a " that wicked," the Papacy, this " vicar," whether he will wear this signet of the compromise by false assertions concern- this substitute of Jesus Christ, has also Papacy or the sign of what Jesus Christ ing Sunday. God is ignored by them. It substituted a sign of itself for the sign of is to men. And that this may be seen is too late for them to plead ignorance. Jesus Christ. It has substituted Sunday the more plainly, if need be, we set the Defeat is upon them, and will follow them for the Sabbath of the Lord. two things here side by side :— until they return to God. It may be hard During the old law, Saturday was the day sanc- Remember the Sabbath day, "The [Catholic] Church, in- for them to bear defeat on defeat, but tified; but the Church, instructed by Jesus Christ, to keep it holy. Six days shalt structed by Jesus Christ, and directed by the Spirit of God, God's truth remains unmoved, and their and directed by the Spirit of God, has substituted thou labor, and do all thy has substituted Sunday for ship of " Sabbath Reform," falsely named, Sunday for Saturday; so now we sanctify the first, work : but the seventh day is Saturday; so now we sanctify not the seventh day. Sunday means, and now is, the Sabbath of the LORD thy the first, not the seventh day. has run against Sinai until it begins to the day of the Lord. —Catholic Catechism of the God : in it thou shalt not do Sunday means and now is, the find that God's granite is stronger than any work, thou, nor thy son, day of the Lord." Christian Religion. " Ques. —How prove you that "National Reform" falsehoods, however Ques.—How prove you that the Church has nor thy daughter, thy man- the Church has power to com- painted or puttied. Herein, oh, Christian power to command feasts and holy days ? servant, nor thy maidservant, mand feasts and holy days ? Ans.—By the very act of changing the Sabbath nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger "Ans.—By the very act of Statesman, lies the explanation. You be- that is within thy gates : for changing the Sabbath into into Sunday, which Protestants allow of ; and Sunday, which Protestants gin the work of ruin, by disobeying God, therefore they fondly contradict themselves by in six days the LORD made allow of; and therefore they heaven and earth, the sea, fondly contradict themselves trampling on the Sabbath, transferring its keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other and all that in them is, and by keeping Sunday strictly, name to Sunday, and coining false as- feasts commanded by the same church. rested the seventh day: where- and breaking most other feasts Ques.—How prove you that ? commanded by the same sumptions to cover your crime, and end fore the LORD blessed the Sab- church. Ans.—Because by keeping Sunday, they acknowl- bath day, and hallowed it. " Ques. —How prove you by complaining that men treat your civil edge the Church's power to ordain feasts, and to Ex. 20 : 8-11. that ? statutes as lightly as you treat God's ever- command them under sin; and by not keeping the "Ans.—Because by keeping lasting laws. If you are not content, rest by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, Sunday, they acknowledge the Therefore the Son of man is Church's power to ordain keep on. God can abide the issue as long the same power.—Abridgment of Christian Doc- feasts, and to command them trine. Lord also of the Sabbath. under sin; and by not keeping as you can. But don't deceive yourself, Mark 2 : 28. the rest by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, the nor ask longer for an explanation as to THUS clearly and easily is it demon- same power."—Abridgment of why your efforts are defeated—Evangel Moreover also I gave them Christian Doctrine. strated from the Scriptures that the Sab- my Sabbaths, to be a sign be- "It is worth while to remem- and Sabbath Outlook. bath question, so far from being a question tween me and them, that they ber that this observance of the Sabbath -in which, after all, of merely one day or another as such, is might know that I am the the only Protestant worship LORD that sanctify them. consists—not only has no Chicago Correspondence. a question as to whether we shall worship And hallow my Sabbaths ; foundation in the Bible, but it is in flagrant contradiction and serve one God or another, and whether and they shall be a sign be- with its letter, which com- The World's Fair Again Open on Sunday. we shall have one Saviour or another. tween me and you, that ye mands rest on the Sabbath, may know that I am the Loan which is Saturday. It was It is a question of whether we shall wor- your God. Eze. 20 : 12, 20. the Catholic Church which, by THE injunction granted by Judge Stein ship the Lord or the Papacy ; whether the authority of Jesus Christ, has transferred this to the in the Clingman case, enjoining the we shall look to Jesus Christ for salvation Sunday in remembrance of World's Fair officials from excluding the the resurrection of our Lord. or to the Papacy; whether we shall honor Thus the observance of Sunday people from Jackson Park, has proved a the true God or his supplanter ; whether by the Protestants is an hom- age they pay, in spite of them- serious, and perhaps an unexpected, ob- we shall be saved by Christ or by this selves, to the authority of the stacle in the way of Sunday closing. Church."—Plain Talk About "substitute" for him. It is a question the Protestantism, of To-day, Judge Stein has not receded in the least of whether we shall wear the badge of the p. 213. degree from the position first taken by Lord of Glory, or that of the man of sin; Which way do you take ? Which do him in that case. On Sunday, July 23, whether we shall bear the sign, which you choose ? Which do you serve ? the gates of Jackson Park were closed to God has set, or the sign which the Papacy Which sign do you bear ? To which one all persons except those directly connected .has substituted for it; whether we shall of these do you look to be sanctified ? To with the Exposition or carrying passes. wear the signet of the Most High or the which one do you look for the power of This was by order of the Board of Direc- mark of "the mystery of iniquity," "that salvation ? Think seriously of this, and tors, and in direct disobedience to wicked," " the beast." It is a question next week, from the doctrine and the his- the order of the court. The authority of as to whether the Sabbath of the Lord tory, we shall further consider the mean- the State court was entirely ignored ; no shall be observed as he made it, and as he ing of this substitution of Sunday for the steps being taken so far as came to the gave' it ; or whether the substitute, the Sabbath of the Lord. A. T. J. knowledge of the court or the public, to Sunday, which has been set up by the secure the dissolution of the injunction or Papacy shall take precedence of it and Sabbathlessness Gaining. even to learn the intention of the court as crush it out of the world—whether the to the matter, or of the views held by the Lord shall be God indeed, or whether the THE Christian Statesman of June 10, parties to the case under the changed con- man of sin—the Papacy—shall indeed be 1893, in an editorial, speaking of the ditions which had come about. In reality exalted above him. forces of evil, says :— this would have only been courtesy, and could have had no positive value in the Having passed the boundary line at which con- THIS is what the Sabbath question is, science ceases to be a restraining influence, they matter because the injunction had been and this is precisely what is involved in now propose to remove the barrier which civil granted and was on record as a formal act it. And what the churches and Congress government might interpose if permitted to wield of the court. Nothing but a formal act of its power in the interest of morals. They there- the court taken after due presentation of of the United States have done, in this fore deny to civil government a right to the moral Sunday legislation, is to fasten upon the domain. And they are gaining ground. They are the matter could have nullified it. The Government of the United States this sign obtaining viOtPriest §AblAth laws are gradually parties against whom the injunction. was AUGUST 1T, 1803. AVIIHALICAN 259 directed were bound to take notice of it. demand that the Sunday opening faction It might have done more." And goes on On the contrary, they ignored it entirely. should yield without objection to the de- to say that law is nothing unless it is There was no evidence shown that they cision of the United States Circuit Court operative against these directors "as well had even so much as remembered its exis- by which the gates of the Fair were closed. as to the humblest creature that abides tence. It appeared, however, as the case At that time they were quick to demand within its influence. It is nothing if it developed, that they had remembered its an immediate submission and to accuse of does not reach the millionaire as readily existence, but had carelessly and unwar- anarchy even those who sought in the as it reaches the man of no means at all. rantably acted upon the supposition that regular course of legal procedure to obtain It is nothing if, ignoring classes created it was of no authority and that the court a revision of the ruling of that court. by arrogance or prejudice, it does not would permit its action to be ignored and But when that decision was overruled and compel obedience from the highest as overridden with impunity. the gates opened by the decree of a higher from the humblest of citizens. That it is This was a most remarkable thing for court, they forgot their previous advice a potency against men of intelligence and men of high business intelligence and ex- to others and bitterly and intensely an- of wealth who offend, has been demon- tensive experience to do. It was entirely tagonized the decision of the higher court. strated by the action of the Superior unwarrantable and met with a severe re- In the case of the directory which had Court." buke at the hands of Judge Stein. thus carelessly put into practice the theory The whole effect of this peculiar contest In one sentence the judge solved the en- which they had been taught by the Sun- and its surprising outcome should be to tire problem about which so much mys- day closers, of the valuelessness and lack teach those who would enforce religion tery has been thrown in the different of authority of the decisions of courts, by law, the fallacy of their position, and trials of the World's Fair cases, as to who except as they were in accordance with show them that it is just as possible, in so are the responsible and authoritative par- their wishes and conditions, the judge far as the technical use of legal methods ties in the management of the World's had here a practical opportunity, and, in is concerned, to enforce upon them that Fair, namely, the directors. The penalty the circumstances, was under the necessity which they consider irreligion as for them which he imposed upon five of them of of giving an unmistakable lesson of the to enforce upon others what they call $1,000 each and another of $100 and the authority of a decree of the court and religion; and consequently every religious Director General of $250, are in direct the wisdom of obedience. In this whole question is entirely without the sphere of evidence that the World's Fair Directors matter the Sunday closers have convicted civil jurisdiction. W. H. M. are not the agents of the Government of themselves of that of which they accused Chicago, August h. the United States in the matter of the others, and those who unwittingly followed World's Fair, and that the Exposition is their advice and acted according to their Sunday Street Cars in Toronto. not a great eleemosynary institution under wish have received the necessary penalty. the guidance and direction of the United These members of the World's Fair Direc- TORONTO has no Sunday street car serv- States Government, but a practical busi- tory are most unexpectedly and unin- ice, and a good many people who do not ness enterprise under the direction and tentionally the scapegoats of the entire want to remain at home all day, but who business management of a corporation es- National-Reform-Sabbath-Union-Sunday- have no other means of conveyance, not tablished under the laws of the State of closing clique. owning carriages, and not being able to Illinois, and which is responsible for its The views of the decision of the court hire them, are demanding that the various acts to the State of Illinois and cannot in this matter expressed by the city press, transportations companies be permitted with impunity override the decrees of a are various and suggestive. The Evening to accommodate the people on Sunday as State Court. Post upholds Judge Stein and says that it on other days. We condense from the This fact has been impressed by the act is not clear how he could have done other- Toronto World of July 28, some account of the court upon these directors and upon wise than he did ; the Herald characterizes of a meeting held the previous day in the the public most effectually. In senten- it as " a joke, but a serious joke. The interests of this movement. cing the directors for their contempt of act of contempt was not malicious, and Among those present at the meeting court, the judge very properly remarked apparently not with deliberate intent. It were a number of ladies, including Miss that even in ordinary cases, when the was a good-natured, total disregard and Joussaye, President of the Working Wo- facts constituting the breach of an injunc- neglect of the court's order, under the men's Protective Association; Miss Hep- tion were known to none but the imme- supposition, if they supposed anything, burn, Vice-President of the Trades and diate parties in interest, yet even then, that it never had any force or had lost its Labor Council. Dr. Larratt Smith pre- when the breach is brought to the knowl- force while they were looking some other sided. He thanked the meeting for mak- edge of the court, the law is swift to way." Granting this to be true, would it ing him chairman. He had lived in To- puni.,11 the offender, but in this case the not, in persons of such prominence in ronto many years—from the time when it violation of the injunction was as public business and financial circles, so well ac- contained only four churches and was a and as notorious as it possibly could be; quainted with all the requirements of their strip along the water front, until now it more than that, it was by men of the position and of such standing, not only had a frontage of ten miles and three highest standing and intelligence in the personally but in public capacity, before miles deep. The time had certainly come community, who of all others should have the community and the world, be as when our citizens should be able to get scrupulously obeyed the law and thereby marked a case of contempt as could well around on Sundays as well as week days. set an example to the rest. be imagined ? Certainly, it would, and [Cheers.] He had his own horses and These facts which are undeniably true, this apology thus intended to be made for carriage, and his man-servants and maid- make it not only proper but necessary in the directors would really militate against servants, and could get to church by a case brought so prominently before the them rather than in their favor. employing these; but he would prefer to community and the world at large in a The Inter Ocean makes a similar excuse allow them to rest and to go by the cars. matter of so much moment and impor- for the directory and says, "it will be But while he had these advantages there tance that no mere nominal penalty should the general opinion that Judge Stein were many others who had not—[hear, be affixed. Bonds were given for the might have vindicated his honor by in- hear]—and was he going to deny to others payment of the fines and notice of an flicting very nominal fines upon those di- what was the poor man's horse and car- appeal filed. It is not supposed that the rectors and authorities of the World's Fair riage—the electric car ? No ! [Hear, appeal can be tried before next November. who had ordered the gates to be closed in hear.] " What I have—the means of In the meantime, as far as the present neglect of his ruling in the Clingman case. getting about—others want, and I shall status of things is concerned, it appears The fine of $1,000 seems to savor of the let them have it." [Hear, hear.] that in obedience to the injunction, Jack- arbitrary." The Inter Ocean neglects to SYMPATHIZERS WITH THE MOVEMENT. son Park will have to be open to the public remark that it is not the honor of Judge on all days of the week. Stein, personally, that is at stake, but that The president read a number of letters After all the vicissitudes through which there was a decree of the court which from sympathizers with the movement this contest has gone, this is a, remarkable could not be permitted to be recklessly unable to be present. and no doubt very unlooked for conclu- overridden, and that it was not the per- C. J. Campbell, Assistant Receiver-Gen- sion, yet so many and unexpected have sonal honor of the judge which was at eral, wrote :— stake, but the question as to whether the I am leaving town to-day at 4 o'clock, otherwise been the kaleidoscopic changes of ,the I would certainly have been present in support of Sunday question as regards the World's citizens of the State should give due con- a movement that has my warmest sympathy. I Fair that it is not possible to predict from sideration to the decree of the State Court. am ready to assist in any way I can to secure the week to week what the outcome may be. The Chicago Times entitles its editorial running of street cars on Sunday. It will be interesting to see what views upon the subject " Vindicating the Law," Mr. Joseph Jackes, of Jackes & Jackes, of this enforcement of law will be ex- and says : " The court under the circum- barristers, writes :— pressed by those who were so ready to stances could de no less than was done. I am quite in accord with the Sunday car move- 260 A.m.nntc.ANT VOL. 8. No. 83.

ment, and hope it will be successful. I consider and started out with the assertion that Blind Watchmen. the car service quite as necessary as the gas or water service, or the delivery of milk. the running of street cars on Sunday is It seems to me that the opposition to the Sunday " contrary to the will of God." He con- SAYS the prophet (Isa. 56: 10), speaking ear service comes from a class that pay no taxes tended that the Sunday street car could of Israel, " His watchmen are blind." and contribute nothing to the expenses of the city, not help the poor, for they were already However we may regard the application and yet enjoy all its advantages. too low down to make use of them. He of this language, seemingly there can be AN ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED. claimed that at least twenty-five per cent. no more marked fulfillment of it, either of the city of Toronto received charity in principle or in fact, than is to be seen Dr. John McConnell moved, and J. B. during this last year. in the case of some who assume to be Leroy seconded, this resolution :— F. S. Spence urged his friends to start spiritual guides at the present time. A That this meeting of citizens declares in favor of out at once and hire up all the convey- forcible illustration of this occurs in the a Sunday car service for the city of Toronto, and ances they could for the 26th of August reflections upon the Sunday-school lesson hereby organizes for the promotion of the election based upon the experience of Paul and on August 26 next, under the name of " The Sunday [the day the election is to be held], for he Car Association," and invites the co-operation of felt sure that if they did not that their Silas at Philippi, in the Christian States- all citizens favorable thereto. opponents would not leave them a single man, of July 1. Starting out with the idea that "this lesson looks as though it In moving his resolution, which was rig to take their voters to the polls. He had been selected especially for the times," carried amidst cheers, Dr. McConnell con- also saw Toronto, after the fated 26th of it proceeds to institute a comparison be- gratulated the association in securing for August, plunged in all the horrors of the tween the apostles' persecutors and those presiding officer a man who, during his worst features of the American Sabbath, who oppose Sunday laws. In this com- entire lifetime, had been identified with with the additions of the wickedness of parison there are some things so mani- good works. [Cheers.] This spoke vol- gay Paris, the bull fights of Spain and the festly applicable to themselves that the umes for the success of the Sunday car despotism of Russia. only way we can account for their not movement. A case which had come under The Toronto World says, editorially, in seeing this fact, and consequently the his notice a few days ago afforded him a advocating Sunday cars, it is fighting a falsity of their own positions, is the fact lamentable opportunity of proving what battle on behalf of three-fifths of the citi- that their minds are blinded as to the true a benefit Sunday cars would be to the zens of Toronto. It seems that the re- state of the case. Space will permit me poor. A citizen, resident at the extreme markable objection has been raised that west end of the city, received word that a Sunday cars would increase Sunday drunk- to note only a few points in confirmation of this thought. friend was seriously ill in the hospital. enness. To this the World says :— One of the Pittsburg Sunday papers is He went to a livery and was told that it What we say is, that there i13 no connection charged with counselling "mob law and would cost him $2.50 to drive to his desti- between Sunday cars and Sunday drinking. We nation. This was more than he could want British Sunday cars and the Ontario liquor murder" in opposition to the enforcement law as it now is enforced. And the best of all of Sunday laws, and the proprietors of afford to pay and he was perforce com- proof that there is no connection between the two pelled to walk the entire nine miles, and is that they have cars on Sunday in Philadelphia, such papers and the World's Fair Direc- tory are arraigned in the following forcible this was only one of numerous cases which Boston, Albany and other cities and no sale of liquor ; that they have Sunday cars in England style :— might be cited. Those who prophesied and a limited sale of liquor, and cars in Rochester all sorts of evil from the running of the and a ,free sale of liquor. All going to show Such outrageous lying as has been done by the that there is no relation between the two. . . . World's Fair Directory and ‘ ‘ Sunday paper " pro- cars, did not know whereof they spoke. prietors to obscure the realissue, we have never He lived in the vicinity of Hyde Park, There was a time when Denver was the wildest city on this continent; street cars came on Sunday heard in any other matter. and knew that the working classes who and now it is eminently respectable. But we do came there were orderly and well behaved. Strongly as these things are to be con- not see any connection between these two, though demned, if true, the inquiry will arise, It was an insult to people, and especially we have more reason to infer it in the one case How far do they exceed in turpitude the to workingmen, to say that because they than in the other. fraudulent and law-defying methods of couldn't afford to hire a carriage and spent The World also makes short work of Sunday law leaders, or the spirit that will ten or fifteen cents going to Hyde Park the claim that Sunday cars would increase oppress the consciences of Christian citi- by cars they were bound to come home the hours of labor. On this point the zens by enforcing Sunday laws, and even drunk. [Applause.] Bishop Sweatman's World argues, " there has been for many invoke military power in their support, as testimony with regard to the behavior of years back, and there is at the present in the case of the World's Fair. people at the Island on Sunday was a suf- time, an agitation for securing fewer The following extracts, with a little ficient answer to the charges of desecration hours' work per day all over England. mental paraphrasing, are still more to the of the day. The workingmen of that country are point :— Miss Joussaye, President of the Work- apparently able to look • after themselves. But in their efforts to better their position The pretended motive, patriotism, philanthropy ing Women's Protective Association, stated and piety. These opposers are standing for their that the working women needed the cars do we find them demanding the cessation city, their time honored customs, their religion. as much as the men or more. If the men of Sunday cars ? The antis in Toronto They dare not confess their real motives. They found it difficult to pay for a carriage, it pretend to believe that Sunday cars here must pretend to something high and honorable. will make a slave of the workingman, but The truth in the premises would hardly commend was doubly impossible for the women to their efforts. They must therefore hide the real afford it itt their lesser wages. The talk still, in England, where they have these motives under some honorable pretense. The Phil- of beer gardens following in the wake of cars in every city, the workingman has ippian opposers of the gospel are still at work in Sunday cars was simply untrue. It was as yet made no move to destroy this slave- Pittsburg and other places. It is the same corrupt maker. The workingmen over there are old human nature still. an insult for one class of people to think Of course the magistrates have a hand in it. It they were better than others. acting more rationally. They are peti- would be a strange thing in history, to find an Miss Hepburn, Vice-President of the tioning and insisting on the government open opposition to the work of the gospel, without Trades and Labor Council, agreed with to make eight hours the legal work day. the civil magistrate taking a part. This seems to And their persistent action in this direc- be the highest conception of duty, which a city Miss Joussaye. Many women worked official is capable of reaching. He feels that he is from 7 in the morning until 6.30 at night tion is already bringing forth good results. set for the defense of the evil doer, against the work all the week through, and at present there Manchester, as we know, is a great labor of the gospel. It was so in Philippi. It is so in was no means of transit for them to get centre, and they have Sunday street cars Christianized America to-day. And having the there too. In spite of the existence of power they arrest the missionaries. Then they mag- out into the parks on Sunday. She was sat- nanimously, because these unprotected men are isfied there was no person who considers these Sunday cars we find that in Feb- helplessly in their power, "lay many stripes upon the question from the position of labor or ruary last the proprietors of the Salford them and cast them into prison." of working women but must be in favor Iron Works decided on reducing their In speaking of the earthquake which of the cars. workmen's hours of labor from 53 to 48 shook open the prison doors the following After other short speeches the meeting per week without reducing the wages." truthful words are used :— adjourned. The committee will meet The World certainly has the argument on this score, as well as on several others. Here was where the enemies of the gospel made early next week, and be ready to report their mistake; they left the Lord Almighty out of to the public meeting a few days later. The contest will be watched from this side their account. To the enemies of Paul and Silas it But while there is a strong sentiment in the line with interest. seemed enough to have the magistrate and the lash Toronto in favor of Sunday cars, there is and the dungeon and stocks on their side, and it might have been sufficient if there had been no also much opposition from the churches. IT is reported from Rome that the God. So it is still. The enemies of Christianity The same evening that meeting referred German Government has intimated to the are leaving the Almighty out of their calculations. to was held, the Sunday people got to- Vatican that the German Emperor and This may seem a small oversight for a little while, gether and condemned the movement in his ministers will not oppose the proposed but it is certain to be disappointing in the end. strong terms. After an organization was law providing for the return of the Jesuits But the worst enemies of Christianity effected, Mr. S. C. Biggs was introduced to Germany. are among its pretended friends, and these AtYGUsT 11, 1893. A.MTIMEtICAN KINT`ININ-1HilLe 261 like their Philippian predecessors, are ernment may legislate upon considerations sides so far as the adherence of'," thugs" standing for their time honored customs of immorality, so called, in distinction is concerned ; but the Seventh-day Ad- and religion, not daring to confess their from • religion, there is no showing that ventists are certainly peculiar in their real motives, but pretending to something such considerations entered into the settle- attitude on this question. It is frequently high and honorable, and at their behest, ment of the question of Sunday closing. stated that the Seventh-day Adventists magistrates, in the imitation of the Phil- But it may be urged that the employ- are in favor of an open Fair, and ener- ippian persecutors, are now arresting ment of sixteen thousand men in running getically circulated petitions to secure it; Christian men and women and magnani- beer gardens on the grounds every Sun- but the facts are different. The only mously laying heavy fines upon them, day was certainly an immoral proceeding petitions circulated by these people have casting them into prison and confiscating demanding suppression. Assuredly it been to secure a repeal of congressional their goods. They seem to think that it was; but no more immoral on Sunday legislation intended to close the Fair on is enough to have the law and the magis- than any other day, and no more immoral Sunday. To any one who thinks, this is trate, the jail and the chain-gang on their inside the grounds than outside. The peo- vastly different than to petition Congress side, but like the Philippians, they are ple who wanted to drink beer or some- to close the Fair on Sunday. Seventh- leaving the Almighty out of their account thing stronger on Sunday could get it just day Adventists have from the beginning and are bound to be disappointed; for, in as easily outside the gates, and without of the controversy consistently held that the closing words of the paragraph from paying the admission fee. It has been Congress had no constitutional right to which we last quoted. " God will rise up thoroughly demonstrated to the shame of dictate to the local directory in the mat- some day to avenge his name and honor Chicago that Sunday closing of the Fair ter of Sunday closing; and the decisions institutions. Let us be confident of that. did not prevent this and other nameless of the courts, in none of which they were We do not know how long he may wait forms of immorality. So Sunday closing directly interested, their views have been for men to repent and turn from their sins is certainly not " a great moral victory " sustained. The local board has the right but he will come for the overthrow of in this respect. which it has exercised in trying both Sun- wickedness and the vindication of right- But if not a moral victory, is not Sun- day opening and Sunday closing. eousness by and by." day closing a great religious victory ? It One final query : Is the Sunday ques- S. B. WHITNEY. hardly seems that way to one who holds tion now finally settled in this country ? that religion should at least include mo- Not at all. The decisions of both Judge rality. Even if the Fair had been closed Jenkins and Chief Justice Field are The Lessons of Sunday Closing. by civil enactment, avowedly for religious merely vindicative of the principle of reasons, it would scarcely have been a State rights against congressional en- Now that the Sunday closing question victory for religion—though it might croachment. They do not at all touch has been definitely settled—if, indeed, it have seemed to favor what some people the propriety of the original legislation is settled yet—all parties to the contro- think is religion. But let it be remem- by which Congress sought to bring about versy ought to be satisfied. The advo- bered that that true religion never seeks, Sunday closing in response to the de- cates of Sunday opening of the World's nor boasts of, the assistance of civil law; mands of organized religionists. That Fair have secured a legal recognition of much less when that assistance takes the action stands still unquestioned by judicial their contention that the local directory form of a colossal bribe. Christianity utterance and unrepealed as a precedent could rightfully open the Exposition seven should crimson with the shame of prosti- for religious legislation. And the people days in the week if it chose. At the same tution to think of the pure religion of who are congratulating themselves upon time, it has chosen to take such action as Jesus in such an attitude the accomplishment of this "great vic- appears to be a compliance with the de- But there are a few more questions that tory " are by no means content with it. mands of the Sunday closers. Both sides are pertinent, Who wanted the Fair The vigilant, patriotic lover of civil and should be satisfied then, the latter because closed on Sundays ? Apparently a large religious liberty shall see greater things Sunday closing is an accomplished fact;* proportion of the membership of nearly than this. F. W. HOWE. the former because though their principle all the religious denominations and allied is conceded, their Sunday patronage of organizations in the land, showing unmis- The "Christian Oracle " on Sunday the Fair was not sufficiently large to war- takably the religious interest in the ques- Legislation. rant the incurred expense. tion. Added to these were the Chicago It is a good time now to review the brewers and liquor dealers with few ex- [In its issue of June 29, the Christian Oracle, of situation and discover its lessons. A Chicago, published by request a sermon by Pres- ceptions. Their interest is easily con- ident Dungan, of Cotner University, the subject few questions are appropriate. Is the ceived. Then Senator Matthew Quay being the Sunday opening of the World's Fair. Sunday closing of the Fair " a great strangely but piously (?) wanted the Fair The Oracle takes issue with the sermon, and in its moral victory," as its advocates claim ? closed on Sunday in obedience to " the editorial columns comments on it in part, as fol- It would hardly seem so in face of the Book of law," which commands the ob- lows :] fact that no moral reasons are officially servance of the rest day of orthodox Jews. WE question the correctness of the pro- assigned for the determination to close. And Senator Hawley wanted the Sunday fessor's assertion that the saloon men of The fact is that it was purely a matter of closing provision to pass so that he and this city are "yelling for the gates to be financial policy that the Fair was closed; other politicians could " come back here" open on Sunday." They have been re- Sunday opening did not pay either the to Congress. Altogether the combination ported at different times on both sides. stockholders or the patrons who were which forced the Sunday closing bribe At the present time we believe that if the charged full price for the privilege of through the national legislature was not sense of the seven thousand saloon keepers seeing half the exhibits closed or covered intensely and unanimously either moral of Chicago were taken it would be found by their owners. or religious. And so again it is not man- that nine out of every ten would be in For Sunday closing to be proved " a ifest that the final accomplishment of favor of Sunday closing. A saloon keeper great moral victory," it must be shown their purpose is a great victory devoutly near the central part of the city said to a that Sunday opening was immoral, a thesis to be lauded by all good people. An in- friend of the writer, a brother who lives that is by no means conceded in Sunday herently good cause seldom invites such in Southwestern Iowa, that it was better closing. Is it an immoral thing to view support as this received. for his business that the Fair should be the wonders and achievements in the art, On the other hand, who wanted Sunday closed on Sunday. This was said only a science, and mechanics of any and all opening ? Undoubtedly many bad men short time since, and after he had had an nations on Thursday ? Then why on as well as good ones. Doubtless the mo- opportunity to test the matter both of Sunday ? If it be replied, because Sun- tive to maintain an open Fair was largely Sunday closing and Sunday opening so day is a day sanctified by religious senti- that of making as much money as pos- far as the effect on his business is con- ment and worship, the question is imme- sible—just as the confessed reason for cerned. . . . diately shifted from the field of morals Sunday closing now is. Yet the influence " Has the Nation a right to interfere as to religion ;j and at this point we are dis- and numbers of those who demanded an the defender of Christianity ? " says the cussing only the morality or immorality open Fair was by no means inconsider- professor. of an open Fair. Granted that civil gov- able if there is reason to applaud Sunday To this we reply, If the Nation has a right to interfere as the defender of Chris- * Since this was written the Chicago kaleidoscope has taken closing as " a great victory." Yet the another turn and at the moment of writing this note the Fair writer but recently heard an ardent, and tianity further than to protect each phase is nominally open on Sunday. What the situation will be when this reaches the readers nobody knows.—EDITOR. apparently intelligent advocate of Sun- of it in the inalienable right to propagate t It is difficult to separate between morals and religion. day closing, declare that " Nobody wanted its doctrines by moral means and without While common usage seems to justify such a distinction, it direct aid from the State, or to protect it does not exist in fact. Moral is that which is right, immoral, the Fair open on Sunday but Seventh-day that which is wrong. Civil government has properly nothing Adventists and thugs." Well, it must be from the unlawful encroachments of other to do with right and wrong, but only with rights and wrongs.— EDITOR. said that honors are easy between the two religions, we would like to know which VOL. 8, No. 88. phase of Christianity it is to defend. One of public parks in cities and elsewhere, bath " can never command respect nor phase of Christianity in this country is thereby enabling the people to provide awaken conscience. The world waits for Catholicism. " It," says the professor, places where they may go at all times, the God-ordained holy day. The choice " is in favor of Sunday opening because and where they do go by thousands during lies between that and ruin.—Evangel and it is more agreeable to priest and people." the summer season. But in providing for Sabbath Outlook. Suppose the Government should conclude such places of resort, according to the that the Catholic phase of Christianity in professor's reasoning, with no restrictions Persecution Antichristian. this country would best subserve its pur- against Sunday visiting, at which time is poses as a Nation, it should then decree the principal attendance, they are tempt- PERSECUTION for opinion's sake never as " the defender of Christianity," Sunday ing the people to "leave their places of belonged to the Church of God, as a opening. Or suppose that the Seventh- worship," and according to the argument whole, or in its individual membership. day Adventist phase of-Christianity should are tempting them to sin, in that it is On the contrary a tender regard for the become the object of the Government's " a temptation to neglect the service that conscientious scruples of other men, was special protection and favoritism, how is pleasing to God. The public parks ever a marked characteristic of the true would that kind of legislation suit, First- should therefore be fenced and the gates Church, of every genuine disciple of day Protestant Christians ? Now we most closed on the Lord's day. The argument Jesus from the time of the apostles to emphatically deny the Government's right proves too much and hence proves noth- the present day. Read the epistles of to legislate directly in favor of religious ing, so far as the question under consider- St. Paul and be convinced of this, you belief, thus discriminating against others. ation is concerned. who by your attitude, or by your words When the State does so she transcends her Further, the service at the church is not and actions are taking a hand in the re- constitutional limits. If the union of " pleasing to God " except it be from the ligious persecution going on in Tenn- Church and State is the true doctrine heart. Those who go to church from essee and Maryland, and being waged toward which we should work, then the external pressure or the force of circum- against those few faithful Christians who views advocated in the sermon at this stances and whose hearts are elsewhere, to obey God and their own consciences point are right, otherwise they are erro- are not pleasing God by such service, and rest on the seventh day, and follow their neous and dangerously so. Such doctrine would as well be, and perhaps better, peaceful employments on the first day of may suit the Catholics, who are looking some other place. And we may further the week, contrary to the resurrected forward to the time in the near future say, in connection with the foregoing, Blue Law code of Maryland, Tennessee when they will have control .of this that the greater " masses," the irreligious and other States, but not contrary to, but Nation, and then the Nation may interfere throngs, have no churches from which in exact harmony with both the letter and all too often as the defender of that kind to be drawn away on Sunday. Will they spirit and intent of our Federal Consti- of Christianity and to the sorrow and be endangered by going to such a place as tution, which is or ought to be supreme injury of Protestantism. The professor's Jackson Park on Sunday ? and will society in this and every other State in the Union. position may do well enough for Spain or be less secure`by their going, if the gates —Cottage Pulpit. Portugal, but it will not do, just yet, for are open and they choose to go ? free and liberty-loving America. " Some one says, It is better to have the IN giving the reasons why the Stundists If Congress passed the Sunday closing Exposition gates open on that day than to are persecuted in Russia, a correspondent law on religious grounds, it transcended have the crowds go to the beer gardens of the New York Observer says :— its constitutional prerogatives in so doing, and to the saloons. . . . This is based The worship of icons and of particular crosses or if it had enacted a law for Sunday on the idea that we must do one wrong and pictures is also held in utter abomination, and it is this iconoclastic spirit more perhaps than any- opening, for the same reasons, it would in order to prevent another and worse thing else that causes the Stundist to be so detested have been equally in error. It would, in wrong." Now the professor's reasoning by the Orthodox Church party. . . . Holy days our judgment, have been far better for in this paragraph is sound enough for in Russia are, as everybody knows, absurdly nu- Congress not to have legislated at all con- those who admit his premises. But we merous. In addition to Sundays, there are fifty- three days in each year when all public offices and cerning Sunday observance and thus have deny that it is a sin, per se, to go to the schools must be closed, and which are observed as left the World's Fair managers and the Fair on Sunday any more than any other general holidays. Every Russian, moreover, has people free to settle the question them- day except that in so doing some higher his name's day—the day set apart for the worship selves. Let religion be free in this coun- interest or duty may be neglected just as of the saint whose name he bears. St. John's Day, try from the entanglements of national they may on for example, is observed as a holiday by all the other days. There may be Ivans in the empire. The Stundist sets his face and State legislation, except within the those who are attracted to the Fair on resolutely against these " prazdniki," as they are limits we have elsewhere pointed out, and other days than Sunday, when, in going, called; says they are relics of heathenism, which Christianity, as it plants itself on prim- they are neglecting duties and obligations they undoubtedly are, and somewhat too ostenta- itive apostolic grounds of faith and prac- to others, and through such neglect are tiously for his own peace, he goes about his work tice, will be mighty through God in pulling sinning. on these days as on ordinary days. down the strongholds of error and sin, and • -.11• • Now, the whole Protestant world de- in making conquest of the world. Outside Its Sphere. nounces the persecution of the Stundists The deductions made by the professor in Russia, yet the reasons why they are are not pertinent. As an abstract ques- IT is unquestionably true that the treat- interfered with are substantially the same tion it may be true that " it is as much ment which Sunday receives at the hands that are urged in justification of the per- our right to ask that the law ,shall shut of many Christians is the primary source secution of Seventh-day Adventists and the gates of the Exposition on Sunday as of its weakness. It is equally certain Seventh-day Baptists in this country. In that we should ask that the law shall that Christians have destroyed conscience the case of the Stundists they "ostenta- require the saloons to be closed on Sun- touching Sunday by their efforts to evade tiously" disregard the Russian holy days; day." But it does not follow that it would the claims of the Sabbath, " Saturday." and in the case of R. M. King, in Tennes- be wise to do it. If it were right to pat- In order to quiet conscience for disregard- see, it was said that he " ostentatiously " ronize saloons during the working days of ing God's Sabbath, they use arguments set at defiance the religious prejudices of the week, which our brother will not which are fatal to religious regard for any his neighbors. He simply worked on claim, his argument would be relevant; day. Sunday just as on other days, just as he otherwise it is not. . • . Another reason for the growing disre- had a right to.do and as every man has a " In ordering the gates closed on Sunday gard for Sunday is that people have learned right to do, but which religious prejudice the law does not force worship," says the more of the facts concerning it and its in- does not permit in America any more professor. And as a parallel to the fore- troduction into Christian history, all of than it permits the Stundists to disregard going we may say, with equal truth, that which destroys faith in it, and conscience the fifty-three holy days dear to the aver- the gates being open on Sunday does not in regard to it. The situation is serious age Russian. " force " Sunday attendance. Those who indeed, so far as Sunday is concerned. really want to go to church on Sunday The masses care nothing for it, except as THOSE who are willing to labor without will go whether the Fair be opened or a holiday. And unless the holidayism is the stimulus of any visible reward; whose closed. of the higher type, it injures society far lives pass while the object for which they Again he says, " Whether men shall more than constant labor would. Chris- labor is too far distant to comfort them; worship on that day, the law says noth- tians have undermined all Sabbathism in who are willing to earn the misunder- ing; it simply says that the masses shall attempting to overthrow " Saturday," and standing of the crowd, and even oppose a not be tempted to leave their places of hence the work of ruin goes on. The only seeming good because they see a darker worship by the action of the Government." hope is in such reaction as will drive men evil lurking behind it, these are the With. equal pertinence we may say that back to God, and a conscientious regard statesmen of the kingdom of God.—Pro- the State legislates for the establishment for his Sabbath. The " American Sab- fessor Drummond.

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Fair on Sunday. Adventists have insisted of the gates on Sunday, Judge Stein from the first that the Government had no violated the rule thus stated by Judge right to require the closing of the Fair on Jenkins. This is a mistake. The Stein Sunday, and they have likewise insisted injunction was granted by a State court all along that the directors were the proper solely on the ground that Jackson Park NEW YORK, AUGUST 17, 1893. persons to decide whether the Fair should in which the Fair is held, being dedicated be open or closed on that day. They have to the city for a park " to be open to the Qom' ANY one receiving the AMERICAN SENTINEL without having ordered it may know that it is sent to him by some made no appeal to any court on the sub- people of Illinois for ever," could not be friend, unless plainly marked " Sample Copy." It is our invari- able rule to send out no papers without pay in advance, except ject, nor will they do so. It would be a closed to the public on any day of the by special arrangement, therefore, those who have not ordered the SENTINEL need have no fears that they will be asked to pay good thing if the secular press would give week by anybody. This is a question for it simply because they take it from the post-office. the public a little less misinformation. over which a United States Court could Take Notice! We believe it was one of our great humor- not possibly have any jurisdiction, and is ists who said he would rather not know so a very different matter from the question A VOLUME Of the SENTINEL consists of much than, to know so many things that presented to Judge Jenkins. but fifty numbers, and according to our were not true. People who rely implicitly custom we shall give our employs a on the newspapers for information certainly IT now seems inevitable that the World's week's vacation on the occasion of the have a good deal of the latter kind of Fair will be a financial failure. The Atlantic Camp-meeting at Newark, Del., "knowledge." latest estimate places its resources at August 17-27. No. 34 of the SENTINEL SOME one has sent us a paper containing $6,510,000, and its liabilities at $6,881,000, will bear date of August 31. We publish including the debenture bonds. The best no paper next week. a marked article by the President of the American Sabbath Union in which the calculations show a deficit of $71,200. These calculations take in $300,000 as an "ALL the great daily newspapers of position is taker that polygamy is enjoined in the Old Testament, and that, therefore, additional resource for certain material this city now issue a Sunday edition," says on the grounds not counted in the official the Christian at Work. The statement is the Morman can as plausibly plead that he should be permitted to have several figures. All calculations leave out the quite true; but will the Mail and Express $11,000,000 of stock subscriptions and city take kindly to it ? for that paper has no wives as the Sabbath keeper that he ought not to be molested for working on Sunday. bonds as items of liability. The idea of Sunday edition and is not therefore one of reimbursing the stockholders or taking the great dailies. For a complete refutation of this sophis- try see No. 10 of the Religious Liberty Li- up the bonds appears to have been aban- doned. This is due in large measure THE Christian Statesman still insists brary, Review and Herald, Battle Creek, that Seventh-day Adventists are parties to Mich. Price 3 cents single copy. to the general stringency of the times, the Clingman injunction suit. Well that but it is more than likely that as the is not strange since the Statesman never MR. CRAFTS, he of the " new method of Sunday people are claiming everything in misses an opportunity to excite prejudice petitioning," by which men, women and sight, and counting it from two to six against Adventists, regardless of the facts. children are counted again and again times, the whole gigantic failure will be The Statesman is as unscrupulous as a many times over as petitioners for his pet charged up to Sunday opening. And in Jesuit or a ward politician. Suppose that schemes, thinks that the reopening of the utter disregard of the fact that Sunday is Mr. Mason— Clingman's attorney — had Fair on Sunday " is not to be feared, es- not the Sabbath but is a fraud, the failure among his clients a single Adventist stock- pecially since Congress has been called for of the Fair will be cited as indisputable holder in the Fair, which however he has August." " It would," he says, " inflict evidence of the divine displeasure. not, would the Statesman be justified in swift punishment if any second 'contempt' were put' upon its authority and the peo- WE have received from the publishers, representing that "the Seventh-day Ad- 28 Lafayette Place, this city, No. 33 of the ventists " were parties to that suit ? An ple's will." So he would have Congress not only override the Constitution by " Truth Seeker Library," the same being honest man can give but one answer to the " Pen Pictures of the World's Fair," by question. making an appropriation directly in the interests of a religious institution, but he Samuel P. Putnam. Mr. Putnam is a THE Cleveland News and Herald is would also have that body violate the pleasant gentleman, and an excellent probably no worse than thousands of pa- charter of American liberty by passing an writer, and we cannot speak too highly of pers, but it is hard to believe that the fol- ex post facto law, that is a law imposing a his " Pen Pictures," except in one particu- lowing editorial note published by it on penalty after the commission of the act. lar, namely, the hostility to Christianity the 27th ult., was not inspired by malice :— which he plainly exhibits several times in Moreover, he would have the legislative this otherwise exceedingly meritorious The legal warfare over the Sunday question in branch of the Government usurp the func- pamphlet. "Pen Pictures" is well illus- connection with the World's Fair is not yet ended. tions of the other two branches of the trated, is written in Mr. Putnam's happi- The non-religious forces engaged have dropped out, but the Seventh-day Adventists, aided some what, Government, namely, the judicial and est descriptive style, and notwithstanding the executive. There is nothing small the objectionable feature which we have it may be by a few Jews, are keeping up the fight mentioned, is well worth the price asked against closing the gates on the first day of the week. about this gentleman except his ideas of for it (25 cents). It would not be a bad Since it has been proved by experience that the fi- other people's rights. hand book for expectant visitors, who nancial interests of the Columbian Exposition Com- have sufficient stamina not to be influenced pany would be best served by Sunday closing, the WHEN an injunction was sought from by what Mr. Putnam does not know about people who looked only at the money side of the Christianity. question have been well content to let the latest de- Federal Judge Jenkins enjoining the cision of the directors be final, but the Adventists World's Fair Directors from keeping the are not so ready to yield a point. They propose to Fair open on Sunday, on the ground that AMERICAN SENTINEL. stick out for their own ideas of the true time to ob- to do so would impose a financial loss serve the Christian day of rest and religious ser- Set for the defense of liberty of conscience, and therefore upon the stockholders, because of the uncompromisingly opposed to anything tending vices, no matter what the result may be to the toward a union of Church and State, World's Fair or any other interests, however great. religious boycott, the judge held that he either in name or in fact. It is such exhibitions of unreasonableness which had no power to grant the relief prayed Single copy, per year, - - - $1.00. make multitudes of men and women impatient of In clubs of 5 to 24 copies to one address, per year, - 90c for because it was a question of policy to 25 to 99 " " " - - - 80c denominational and religious controversies. 11 100 to 249 " " " " - - 75c be decided by the directors, and with if 250 to 499 " " " " " - - - 70c 500 to 999 {1 {A id 11 14 65c The Adventists have had absolutely which the courts had no right to meddle. " 1000 or more " " " 600 nothing to do with the litigation having Some people have supposed that in grant- To foreign countries in Postal Union, - - 5 shillings Address, AMERICAN SENTINEL, for its purpose the opening of the World'ti ing an injunction forbidding the closing 45 Porta Street, New .York City.