Caribbean Watchman for 1910
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INCONSISTENT THEOLOGY, Page 6 Price 5 Cents Watchman Publishing Association MARCH, 1910 Cristobal, Canal Zone, Panama Three Phases of the Law of God AS GIVEN BY JEHOVAH AS CHANGED BY ROME AS CHANGED BY PROTES- TANTS "I will not alter the thing that Is gone "He shall think himself able to change out of My lips." times ant laws " Daniel 7:25, "I., vain they do worship Me, teaching for Douay Bible doctrines the commandments I of men." Jesus. Thou shalt have no other gods before me II I am the Lord thy God; thou Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven shalt not have strange gods before Thou shalt have no other gods before me, image, or any likeness of any thing that is in me. heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, II II or that is in the water under the earth; thou Thou shalt not take the name Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven shalt not bow down thyselfto them, nor serve of the Lord thy God in vain. image, or any likeness of any thing that is in them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath. God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon - or that is in the water under the earth; thou the children unto the third and fourth gener- shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor ation of them that hate me, and showing serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a mercy unto thousands of them that love me. jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the and keep my commandments.. fathers upon the children unto the third and III — III fourth generation of these that hate me, and Remember that thou keep holy showing mercy unto thousands of them that Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord the Sabbath day. love me, and keep my commandments. thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. III IV Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord IV thy God in vain; for thh Lord will not hold Remember the Sabbath day to keep it him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. holt. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all Honor thy father and thy IV thy work; but the seventh day is the Sab- mother. bath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt Remember the first day to keep it holy. not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-ser- work; bin the first day of the wt ek is i he vant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is Sabbath of 'all Christians: in it thou shalt not within thy gates; for in six days the Lord do any work, thou; nor thy son, nor thy made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid. in them is, and rested the seventh day; servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, is within thy gates; for Jesus Christ arose and hallowed it. from the dead on the first day of the week, .V V therefore all Christians and all the world should keep it holy. Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy Thou shalt not kill. V days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth the. Honor thy father and thy mother, that VI thy days mat be long upon the land which VI Thou shalt not commit adultery. the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. VII VI VII Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. VIII VII VIII Thou shalt not bear false wit- Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. ness against thy neighbor. VIII, IX Ix Thou shalt 'linOtt steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against Thou shalt not coviet thy IX thy neighbor. neighbor's wife. X Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, Thou shalt not covet thy X thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor neighbor'sgooes. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his [See Butler's Catechism, p. thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy 28, edition of 1877, published his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor neighbor's. by Heiman Bros., Milzuau- his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy [See Ex. 20 :3-17.] kee, Wisconsin.] neighbor's. THE Caribbean Watchman Vol. 8 Cristobal, Canal Zone, Panama, March, 1910 No. 1 THE OUTLOOK A New Nation of them. These colonies are under the care of a committee which administers all The United States of South Africa is the the affairs of the colony, providing instruc- name of the new nation which has been tions in gardening, encouraging self de- born in South Africa as a result of the fed- pendence in the people and, when needed, eration of the British and Boer colonies. appeals are made to the philanthropic Like the Commonwealths of the Dominion societies to help secure the lumber to build of Canada and Australia the new federation the houses. Mr. Hall in speaking of the has a constitution and central government. benefit derived by the children of these Mr. Herbert Gladstone is to go to South families says:— Africa as the Governor-general representing "It is not play, nor even easy work that the British Empire. the children do, because the use of the The population is close to five and one- spade and rake require muscular effort; half millions of which the predominating but it is ennobling work, teaching the stock is Dutch. children independence, self-respect, respect 0-- for others, and afl forms of labor. Besides "Homes in Waste Places" boyish destructiveness is largely diminished by the interest created in preserving the Is the attractive title of an article by fruits of their own soil, and there is devel- Potter Hall in World's Work, in which the oped a spirit of willingness to aid others." writer shows how students of the modern conditions of want and suffering have found a practical solution to the perplexing A Glimpse of Jamaica problem by bringing land and labor into Jamaica is now in a prosperous condi- closer relation. tion, at least in most of the parishes; and The movement in Berlin, Germany, is notwithstanding the fact that for half of a undertaken in large part by the munici- decade she has sent thousands of laborers palities and is known as "Arbor Colonies." to Panama and Central America, the inhabi- Undesirable land, such as is cut up by rail- tants have steadily increased, and the road tracks and newly laid out streets, etc. record for 1910 begins with a population of is rented out to city dwellers, and parti- 900,000. cularly to the poor who construct primitive Kingston, which was almost completely homes in which they can be comfortable destroyed by the earthquake three years during the summer months while they culti- ago, is being rebuilt as fast as it is pos- vate "intensively" the land. These arbor sible and, the work of repair would have gardens are established on every square rod been much more rapid, had not the people of unused land about Berlin, and it is esti- been obliged to wait two years for their in- mated that there are altogether about 50,000 surance, and then they only received eighty 2 THE CARIBBEAN WATCHMAN four per cent. of the eleven million dollars The loss of the Hotel Titchfield is sorely due. felt in Port Antonio, but Jamaica's It is evident that the Jamaicans are genial climate and beautifnl scenery will adopting some American customs and to a never fail to attract tourists, and especially limited extent patronizing American indus- now since all fear of malaria is being re- tries, but they are for England to a man. moved by the war that is being waged In all of Great Britain's colonial posses- against the germ-carrying mosquito. sions there could not be found more loyal supporters of the crown. After seeing the results of the corrupt Opium politics in some of the. Latin-American Opium is said to have been introduced -republics it is easy to see that it has been much better for both the mother country into China by the Arabs in the year 1280 and the colony itself that the Jamaicans to 1295, during the reign of Taitsu, and with have contented themselves with religion the exception of the year 1368 when its use instead of politics. However, there is a seems to have temporarily ceased, has been lively interest manifested in the present the bane of the nation. At different times •elections in England. We note here that the government authorities have made it was through free trade that the London desperate efforts to rid the country of the market, for the past decade, has been sup awful curse, and in 1769 opium smoking plied with continental beet sugar, thus ex- was punished with severe penalties, which cluding the cane sugar from the West In- were ultimately increased to deportation dies. This robbed Jamaica of her best crop and death.