„ Equal and Exact Justice to all Men, of Whatever State or 'Persuasion, Feligious or Political.” VOLUME 8. NEW YORK, OCTOBER 19, 1893. NUMBER 41.

acknowledgment and acceptance of, and much as desiring that which is his broth- American Sentinel. obedience to, all divine truth. Brother- er's, and 'War no false witness against him ; PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY THE hood with all the children of God would he must in all things give ear and credence PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY, then necessarily and inevitably follow. to the Word of the Father, and love the No. 43 BOND STREET, NEW YORK. But if the second clause be first admitted, coming of his Elder Brother. Entered at the New York Post-Office. brotherhood presupposes a common father,

EDITOR, - - - ALONZO T. JONES. and he, being All-father, is consequently AT the Parliament of Religions there ASSOCIATE EDITORS, CALVIN P. BOLLMAN. Creator and God. The two clauses of the WILLIAM E. MC KEE. was one gospel that was possible to be expression answer to each other logically, preached to the full, and no warning sign " BROTHERHOOD of man ! "—a phrase as they do rhetorically. The antecedent be given, and that was the gospel of " the full of promise! "Fatherhood of God !"— requires its consequent, and the consequent brotherhood of man." To that all gave a benediction upon humanity! What do its antecedent. Thus the action of the assent, at least in theory. Pagan, Chris- these phrases mean ? Join them : " Fa- human mind by the unavoidable sequences tian, infidel, all struck hands in allegiance therhood of God and brotherhood of of its necessary processes bring man inevit- to that doctrine. Did they realize what man !" They become an exultant paean ably to the statement of the two facts which they were doing ? Did they know to what to the world. require him in their turn to meet and fill they were committing themselves ? The the sphere of their demands and love his pagan put forward this doctrine, supported THESE words, like far echoes heard Creator-father with all his heart, soul, and advocated it, with even more force, from a distance, have heretofore sounded and mind, and his brother as himself, and fervor, and ability than his companions; from place to place here and there around the first and second great commandments, the infidel accepted it with heartiness and the world; but now the wandering refrain on which hang all the law and the proph- gladness, as a sufficient gospel; the Chris- has become a chorus which in full sound- ets, have been received and acted upon. tian received it tranquilly and joyfully, ing harmony essays, from the platform of This being so what more remains ? Noth- as if he thought it the returning dove the Parliament of Religions, to fill the ing; all the conditions have in this been which he himself had sent out. whole earth with the glory of its song. met, for in this the divine comprehensive- • ness of omniscience has condensed all the re- To what necessary course would this BUT is this a new thought ? It is not. quirements of true religion. Of these two commit the pagan? It would require him, It is as old as the world. Its written and commandments the necessary antecedents were he consistent, to give up all his gods spoken expression is as old as the Word are " the fatherhood of God and the and worship the one true God in simplicity of God to man. And its disregard is as brotherhood of man." and truth. To what would it necessarily old as the question, " Where is Abel thy bring the infidel and the atheist ? To an brother ? " and the answer, " I know not: THESE two propositions, then, depend acknowledgment of the existence of God, am I my brother's keeper ?" The very upon each other. One cannot be fully and all which must logically follow. To question was fatherly; implying the as- received without the other. Their entire what must it bring the Christian ? Either sumption of one relationship and asserting significance is comprehended in the one to a denial of his faith, or to self-examin- the other. The reply denied neither, but word " Christianity." For that is the ation as to whether he be in the faith or in express terms acknowledged the broth- message of the Father to man through not. erly tie, while repudiating its obligations. man's Elder Brother. Therefore he who For, if the pagan, the infidel, and the accepts, professes, and practices the doc- atheist, make " the brotherhood of man " So it is that man has always, through- trine of "the fatherhood of God and the an article of their creed, they cannot deny out these thousands of years, accepted the brotherhood of man " must give up all a common Father, and that is an acknowl- relationship of brotherhood with his fel- false religion, put away all false gods edgment of God, and • their unavoidable lows,—when the stronger, reserving to both within and without; all idolatry filial allegiance. And the Christian, by' himself the right and authority of primo- must end, there must be no more service the very terms of his belief, is committed geniture; when the weaker, using the tie of mammon or self ; to no false god, or to this from the beginning. His practical as an evidence of rightful claim to the idol, or selfish desire, must he bow; he application of the doctrine is then a shib- charity and protection of the other. But must remember the name of God to keep boleth by which his brothers may test the the obligations of the relationship, what- it holy upon his lips; he must remember reality or the hypocrisy of his profession. ever acknowledgment they may have re- the clay of God to keep it holy in his life; At the Parliament of Religions, this ceived, have never yet been sufficient to he must care for, love, and honor his test was applied fearlessly by the pagan lead mankind to do each unto the other father and his mother; he must not com- Japanese and Chinese, and by the Chris- as he would have the other do to him. mit the sin of Cain, or even cherish anger tian negro; and by the test popular Chris- in his heart toward his brother; he must tianity, as represented by the popular WHAT must follow the practical accept- do no impurity, or even harbor an unclean Church, and the idea of the " Christian ance by mankind of the fact of the father- thought in his mind ; he must respect his Nation," was found utterly, utterly want- hood of God ? It must necessarily be the brother's property rights, never even so ing. Who could listen to that voice from 322 - SIEINTrINTior„. VOL. 8, No. 41. the negro race, which, reluctantly re- The Independent, in an editorial com- gled out a special generation which should .counting its wrongs at the hands of a ment, characterizes these words of Mr. follow certain phenomena in the heavens professed Christian people, suddenly cried, Moody's as "somewhat startling." Why immediately after a clearly specified expe- as if in pain at the necessity for it, " Do so ? Is it startling to know that in the rience of the people of God, and tell them we not need a different Christianity from providence of God all this sin, wickedness, specifically that that generation should this ?" and. not ask themselves the same violence, crime, disease; want, suffering, not pass away before the 'Son of man question? Who could listen to the cour- sorrow, disaster and terror- by land and should come again in his glory in the teous and gentlemanly plea of the Chinese sea, and even death itself, shall come to clouds of. heaven ?—and emphasize his Minister and not feel that the professed an end and never be heard of more, so - words got only with that beautiful parable Christianity of this people as expressed in that, they shall never again so muck as of the spring-time and the budding fig- the foreign policy of the Nation was un- come into mind,—is it unpleasantly start- tree, but with those words of earnest ex- worthy a place within the pale of common ling to know all this ? Well, indeed, may hortation which follow. What generation humanity? Who could listen to the fear- we look, with Mr. Moody, into the future is this? Does Mr. Moody belong to the less arraignment - of this Government, its with " unbounded delight." And well, generation which, coming after these trib- people -and its Christianity, by the manly indeed, may these others be startled at the ulations and the darkening of the sun and young Japanese, and not feel that the vista of the ages as it looms up before the moon and the falling of the stars, application of the theory of the "brother- their frightened eyes with its progression meets the description which. Christ here hood of man" by the "Christian" United of grisly terrors and never-ending de- gave ? If he does, then why should he States was so far short of its principles, struction. But they are not startled. not look for these things to be even at the as comprehended by pagan Japan, as to Why not? Is it because they would, doors and their fulfillment imminent ? Did merit the pity and the derision of angels rather suffer the ills that they know of the apostles make the mistake, of which and of men ? now, than see the Son of God come to the Independent speaks ? And if the It is evident that there is a fatal incon- claim his own ? Let them stop and think early disciples did,—is that any reason sistency somewhere. Where is it ? It whether they love the coming of their why Mr. Moody should make a similar lies in the fact that the ringing, rallying Lord, and are watching the evidences mistake ? Is it not rather a reason why cry, " The fatherhood of God and the which he said should so inform them, he should not, profiting by the milestones brotherhood of man," is but words, empty, who, in love of him, watched and waited,, of prophetic fulfillment through 1800 sounding words,—and in the mouths and that his coming should not be to them as years ? minds of those who speak them there is the approach of a thief in the night,, of Christ knew in what generation he no realization of the depth of their mean- which they, sleeping, are ignorant. The should come, and he told his apostles,— ing, or of the personal responsibility of Independent continues :— and Mr. Moody and the Independent, and every Christian life to be the personifica- Every one knows that Mr. Moody is a Premillen- we all have the privilege of knowing what tion of their spirit. In the mouths of arian ; but he is not a man who obtrudes his own he told them. Offenses must needs come, the wealthy, fashionable, mammon-loving personal view on the subject upon the public. Our but shall it be through us that the of- own question which we put to him, "Is the World church member they are a mockery. In Growing Better" ? was one which naturally, if not fensive question is put—" Where is the the mouths of careless, idle, ease-loving, necessarily, called out an expression of such an' promise of his coming"? Mr. Moody says selfish, professing Christians they are a opinion as he has given. He expects a speedy that it shall not be through him, and so mockery. In the mouths of those who smash-up, and after that smash-up a new heaven he looks for the close of this dispensation and a new earth, in which Jesus Christ shall reign uphold, or permit, " Jim Crow " cars, or over a regenerate world. Such a speedy return of " according to his promise," and looks "Jim Crow" church corners, they are a Christ the early- disciples expected. They were "into the future, not with despair, but mockery. In the mouths of those who mistaken. Perhaps Mr. Moody is mistaken. with unbounded delight." W. H. M. think, or say, or vote, that "the Chinese Prophesying is risky business unless you know, and on this matter we know no more than did the must go," they are a mockery. In the early disciples, and they knew no more than did' " Boycott" the Watchword. mouths of those who plead with Congress Christ, who said he did not know when that hour• and the law-making powers to enact reli- should be. THE term " boycott " is of comparatively gious dogma they are a mockery. In the The theory of an imminent smashup is one that is based on the belief that, on the whole, the world recent origin, having been in use less than mouths of those who plead for the enforce- is growing worse and worse, and that a perilous a dozen years. The word originated in ment of these religious enactments from conflict is at hand between right and wrong, in Ireland, and is derived from a man's name, the judge's bench and the jury box, they which Satan will be conquered, not by the methods Captain Boycott, a land agent of Mayo, are a mockery. But—" Be not deceived : which the Church is now using to overcome him,, but by the immediate intervention of Jesus Christ, Ireland, where, because of a dislike to him God is not mocked." W. H. M. who shall overthrow the Evil One. While we do by the tenants of the community in which not hold this view, and do not believe that it is he held the control of lands, they all com- taught in Scripture, we yet respect it; and among When Will the World Be Better? those that hold it have been counted some of the bined and refused to have anything to do most earnest and successful workers of the kingdom with his land, and it was impossible to THE Independent, of October 5, contains of God. secure renters therefor. From this cir- a symposium on the question—" Is the Prophesying is certainly risky business cumstance the word is coined and the defi- World Growing Better ?" Upon this ten to him who is not a prophet, but it is not- nition given is the withholding of social well known persons have expressed their risky business to depend upon the " sure or business 'relations from a certain indi- views in answer to the request of the word of prophecy." Who was it that, vidual or corporation and an endeavor to Independent,—among them Mr. Moody, said, "Behold, I make all things new " ?` deter others from holding such relations. the evangelist. One paragraph from Mr. Is there any risk in depending upon that This is the very spirit that the seer of Moody's contribution is this:— word ? and if all things are to be made Patmos beheld as he looked down through Men who reject the truth grow worse and worse, new will there not be a new heaven and a: the ages and saw the edict go forth that and we see the development of the kingdom of new earth ? Was it not He that sat upon, no man should buy or sell save he who darkness going on side by side with the kingdom the throne that said this, and did he not had the mark of the beast. This is noth- of light. The facts which every one who is not ing more than the papal badge—the blinded by prejudice must see about him on every say to the revelator that he should write hand, as well as the teaching of Scripture, clearly these words for they were "true and Sunday Sabbath. It is a well known and indicate that " in the last days perilous times shall faithful" ? Is Mr. Moody prophesying, acknowledged fact that it was the threats come." There is every indication that the present then ? By no means, he is repeating the of a withdrawal of political support on dispensation will end in a great smash-up; but I the part of the " Christian lobbyists " in believe that out of that smash-up the most glorious word of the Lord by his prophet John in : age in the world's history will come. So I look Revelation 21 : 1-5. So, then, this we Washington at the last session of the Leg- into the future not with despair but with unbounded know that God said to John that he would' islature that did more than anything else delight. make all things new, and that he showed to secure the Sunday-closing proviso of This is a reasonable and noble optimism. to him in vision " a new heaven and the World's Fair appropriation. Three These views are based on scriptural facts a new earth : for the first heaven and the years ago President Blanchard, while in and the more sure word of prophecy. Yet, first earth were passed away." But when attendance at the district meeting of the of all the ten, Mr. Moody alone sees with shall this be ? It is true that Christ said American Sabbath Union at Des Moines unprejudiced vision the realities of the that neither he nor the angels, only the said that the way to stop the Sunday development of the wheat and the tares' Father, knew the day and the hour,—but newspaper was to boycott it, and empha- side by side, and the certainty of the ful- what ad he said previously, in that same sized his opinion with this utterance, fillment of the inspired word that perilous twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew, verses " Why, I would rather swear for half an times shall come in the last days, when twenty-nine to thirty-five, inclusive ? If hour than to buy a Sunday newspaper for all evil and cruelty shall abound in the he had no approximate knowledge of the a minute." hearts of the wicked, and " evil men and occurrence of this great event, and meant Rev. Alfred H. Henry, a Methodist seducers shall wax worse and worse." to convey none, why should he have sin- minister of Chicago, at a mass meeting OCT013ER 19, 1893. N1H_",1,0 323

held a year ago the 25th of last month, succeeded Cardinal Simeoni as chief of the Propa- by Bishop Ryle. The bishop starts with ganda. Since the fall of Bismarck Cardinal Ledo- the institution of the Sabbath, and comes told the assembly that the " vulnerable chowski seems to have forgotten his old enmity point of the merchant of to-day who opens ,toward Germany. Emperor William has undoubt- steadily along the beaten track, through his store on Sunday is not his head nor his edly sought to conciliate him, for he remitted the the giving of the manna and the law, heart, but is his pocket book," and then sentences passed against the Cardinal, and will down to Christ, and does beautifully till expressed the " wish that it could be personally entertain him during his coming visit to he comes to the " gap," and this is how Berlin. It is pretty well understood that the sup- agreed upon to patronize only those who port recently given to Chancellor Caprivi's policy, he gets over it :— close on the Sabbath." As the outgrowth especially in the case of the Army Bill, by the , Undoubtedly the day was changed. It was made of this, resolutions were passed, one of Polish party in Germany, is due to Ledochowski's the first day of the week in memory of our Lord's which was— influence. resurrection, instead of the seventh. But I believe the apostk s were divinely inspired to make that Resolved, That it be the sense of this meeting Of course, in both the matters of con- change, and at the same time wisely directed to that we, the purchasing public of this, the West tention between Bismarck and Cardinal make no public decree about it. Side, do agree not to purchase any goods sold by Ledochowski, the latter was clearly right. any store that may keep open its doors on the Sab- It was an unwarranted usurpation of As an example of legerdemain, this last bath, and do further agree to exert our influence in is a master-stroke. With one hand the every way practicable for the closing of stores on power for Bismarck to assume to dictate bishop presents an unwarrantable assump- the Sabbath. the appointment of bishops, and it was no tion, and with the other he filches away This is only a sample of what we see better for him to command the use of the all possibility of any one testing that as- cropping out everywhere,—seeking coer- German tongue in the Polish schools; but sumption. cion as to Sunday observance by means of it is to be feared that the change in the In another pamphlet put out by the the boycott. policy of Germany is simply a change of same society, the Rev. Eynon Davis tries On Sunday the 1st instant, there was a policy, and not a change from policy to his hand. Mr. Davis is a wise man. He mass meeting held under the auspices of principle. Papists held the balance of simply says:— the Sunday Rest Association in Chicago, power in Germany, and it was necessary to conciliate them. And to conciliate We find that with the change of dispensations, a called to order by Pres. C. C. Bonney, and change was also made in the world's day of rest. addresses were made by quite a number of papists in political matters means always . . The deliverance from sin through Christ the leading lights in this movement, the to give them the lion's share, and to give was greater than the deliverance from Egypt it to them as papists. through Moses, so the memorial day was shifted general discussion being in the trend of from the seventh day to the first day of the week— securing laws for Sunday closing. Ac- to our present Sabbath. The day is not at all im- cording to the report of the meeting in the How It Is Done. portant, so we need not stay to discuss the altera- Inter Ocean of the next day, the speaker tion. who elicited the most applause was Rev. IN England we have two societies for So he hurries off to a less dangerous 0. P. Gifford, when he declared that a list the purpose of enforcing Sunday observ- ground, carrying his reader with him. of the Sunday dealers ought to be made ance. One is " The Lord's Day Observ- Yes, Mr. Davis is certainly a wise man. out and nobody should buy from them on ance Society," and the other, "The Work- (See Prov. 17: 28.) Monday, then said, " I would rather ingmen's Lord's Day Rest Association." Now these are circulated as the best preach without a shirt on Sunday than Both circulate a large amount of literature reasons that the best men in England can buy it on Monday from a man who kept to show that Sunday is the Sabbath. produce for " shifting " the commandment open on Sunday.' Most of the writers follow the same line of God. If this is the wisdom, what must Thus are the advocates of compulsory of thought. They first start out on the the foolishness be like ? Well might Paul Sunday rest seeking to wheel the masses solid foundation of the institution of the say, " Hath not God made foolish the into line with their ideas of an outward Sabbath at creation, and then come down wisdom of this world ?" 1 Cor. 1: 18-27. increased regard for the day by appealing through the Bible, bringing forth an im- —Francis Hope, in Review and Herald. to the basest of all motives, rather than pregnable array of texts which refer to to " the law and the prophets." Surely the seventh day; and all goes well until the lines are drawing closer and closer, they reach the resurrection of Christ, The Sunday Plank in Ohio Prohibition and he is stone blind who cannot see that when here they attempt to slide all this Platform. it will end in religious intolerance of the edifice onto the first day of the week, and THE following is the Sunday plank very worst kind. Is it not time that a make all they have said apply to Sunday. adopted by the Prohibitionists of Ohio at warning voice should be heard ? This Herculean task is impossible as a feat their convention in 1893:— W. E. CORNELL. of logic; for it can only be performed in The business of government is to protect men in the way a conjurer performs a " pass," by their rights. It is not the business of government Papal Influence in Germany. sleight of hand (Eph. 4 : 14); and the to legislate on matters of religion. Liberty of con- various ways which these gentlemen at- science is guaranteed by the Constitution. The tempt it is of great interest. Christian has the right to regard the first day of SOMETHING of the rapid increase of the week as one sacred to religious worship. The papal influence in the German empire, First, here is a pamphlet, " The Lord's Jew, under our form of government, has the same during the last five years, will appear from Day is the Sabbath," by Rev. J. Gretton, right to believe that the seventh day of the week is the following facts recently published in D.D., secretary of the first-named society. the day which he was commanded to keep holy. In it occurs this :— The Mohammedan has, under our form of govern- the Outlook :— ment, an equal right to regard the sixth day as a The visit to Germany of Cardinal Ledochowski, There remains but one other question. Can the day of special religious observance. The majority Prefect of the Propaganda Fide, and one of the Lord's day be the Sabbath day, when the one is the has no right nor power, under our Constitution, to most influential of Leo XIII.'s advisers, inevitably seventh, and the other the first day of the week ? enforce its religious opinions upon the minority, no suggests a comparison between his present status, I reply, the Sabbath law is the separation of one matter how small that minority may be, nor is it as concerns temporal power, and that of his ancient day in seven unto the Lord, —one day after six and the business of civil government to interfere with foe, Prince Bismarck. Miecislaus John Ledochow- not the seventh day absolutely. There came a such matters. But it is the business of civil gov- ski is by birth a German Pole, and until very recent time when one day in history fell out, as not being; ernment to protect men in their rights, whether years his very name was a synonym for anti German for therein the Lord of life lay dead in the tomb, those rights be civil or religious, and a right to rest sentiment. During the years immediately succeed- and the next day—when he rose again, the Prince one day in seven is a right which can only be se- ing the War of 1870, when Bismarck, then at the of life—became at once the seventh and first; and cured under existing social conditions by the pro- height of his power, was using it to curtail the this day, thus unique and glorious, was actually tecting arm of the law. Without the protecting privileges and counteract the influence of the the Sabbath. arm of the law the right to enjoy one day in seven Catholic Church, Ledochowski, then Bishop of as a day of rest could not be exercised. Without Posen and Gnesen, fearlessly disputed every inch Could any argument be more fanciful the protecting arm of the law workingmen would of ground with the Iron Chancellor. Upon two and unreal ? How could a day fall out ? be driven to seven day's work for six day's pay, as great issues the Cardinal was immovable—the ,au- Where did it fall to ? A marvelous per- was illustrated at the World's Fair where the thority of the Church in educational matters, and formance, surely, but it is surpassed by weekly wages of the employes were not increased its right to elect its own bishops without State in- when the gates were opened on Sunday. Without terference. When, therefore, during the spring of the Rev. Dr. Pope, in " The Christian the protecting arm of the law restraining the gen- 1874 he refused to permit the German language to Sabbath " (for same society). He says of eral public from reckless desecration of the day the be taught in the schools of his diocese, it seemed Christ: — Christian would be prevented by his neighbors that the limits of tolerance had been reached. He He kept the old day always and to the last. He from enjoying his one day of rest in seven. Tire was fined and imprisoned, but while yet- in prison went from its most sacred observance in Jericho right to one day of rest in seven can only be secured he was made a Cardinal by Pius IX. Upon his straight to his cross. He left the old Sabbath in by the protecting arm of the law, and all classes of release Ledochowski went to the Vatican, there to his sepulchre, but it rose again with him on the men have a right to this protection. be received with honor and rapidly preferred. third day, now to be the first day of the week. This question has raised considerable discussion Though absent from Posen he continued to direct in regard to how such legislation can be enacted the affairs of the diocese and inspire further oppo- Such talk is sheer nonsense. How could and enforced so as not to interfere with the rights sition to Bismarck, so that the German Government a day perform in this manner ? And yet of persons who conscientiously regard some other twice condemned him, in contumaciam. While day of the week as their day of rest. There have Bismarck remained in power at Berlin no effort this is presented by grave doctors of di- been, unquestionably, under our present laws, was spared to weaken Ledochowski's influence at vinity as the best they have. which are usually scandalously lax, cases of shame- the Vatican, but without success, for he finally The other society publishes a pamphlet ful persecution for principle's sake; men who with- J24 AmnittIscAN rot. 8, go. 41.

out interfering with the rights of others choose to siastical hierarchy; the merging of pagan matters of indifference as far as Bible observe some other day than the first day of the week as their day of rest have been persecuted by philosophy with the simple truths of Jesus authority was concerned, and therefore unreasonable men who availed themselves of im- of Nazareth; the confusion of Church and might be enforced by civil law. The perfect laws. civil power; the substitution of the cen- Puritans regarded them as matters of The principle laid down in the Prohibition plat- tral doctrine of Christianity, salvation importance, because they were points of form fully covers all such cases. While it provides that he who regards the first day of the week as the through faith in Christ, for the outward contact with the Romish church, and sacred day of rest shall be protected in observing it forms of that religion, were important therefore must not be tolerated. the same principle would protect from persecution steps leading down into the darkness of Not a discussion, nor even a statement any person who conscientiously observed some the age in which the popes, and ignorance of all the points of agreement and dis- other day. The fact that imperfect laws, under corrupt officials, have been used as a means of op- and superstition, held sway. The age agreement between the two parties, inter- pression is not an argument against just laws, in which the word of man was substituted esting as it might be, should detain us enforced by honest officials, for the protection of for the Word of God, and that precious here. One, however, stated by Neale, in all men in their religious rights document, hid away by the careful craft his admirable resuna6 of the salient fea- The trouble with this utterance is that of jealous ecclesiastics, never reached the tures of these points, in his history of the the conclusion that a legal rest-day is a ear of man except as it came perverted Puritans, is important for us in the con- necessity is based on a false premise. and distorted. A period, in short, which sideration of our topic. Both Puritan and Thousands of Seventh-day Baptists and made an age like puritanism necessary. conformist agreed too well in asserting Seventh-day Adventists, not only in the One stands aghast at the state of cor- the necessity of uniformity in public wor- United States but also in Europe, South ruption in the Church which the early ship, and for using the sword of the mag- Africa, Australia, New Zealand and other light of the reformation revealed. But the istrate for the support and defense of their countries, are so many living witnesses scholarship of Wycliffe, the wit of Eras- principles of which both made an ill use that a rest-day can be regularly and reli- mus, and the brave enthusiasm of men whenever they could grasp the power in giously observed without the aid of civil like Luther and Tyndale, drew the Bible their hands. The standard of uniformity, law. Of course in some cases it involves from the monasteries; wrenching it from according to one, was the queen's suprem- more or less self-denial, but it is not the the jealous hands of the popes, they broke acy and the statute laws, according to the province of civil government to legislate the seal of the dead languages which for other, the decree of provincial and national the cross out of our Christianity. The centuries had kept it from view, and synods allowed and enforced by the civil Christian should be willing to endure translating it into the tongue of the com- magistrate. Neither party admitted that hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. mon people, scattered it broadcast over liberty of conscience which is every man's C. P. B. the land. Ere many years the prophecy right. With an inflexible zeal the Puri- of Tyndale to an angry theologian,—" If tans began to promulgate their views; and The Influence of Puritan Religious God shall be my helper I will cause the with an iron purpose to enforce uniform- Legislation Upon Subsequent boy who drives the plow to know more of ity according to her standard, the queen Christianity. the Bible than you do," began to be ful- began to persecute. But, in spite of her filled. rigorous measures of suppression, they [A thesis prepared by T. J. Van Horn of the The despotism of the hierarchy had spread with rapidity, until, within half a University of Chicago.] been broken, and long strides had been century after the death of Elizabeth, the HISTORY is not an artificial grouping of taken in that reform which the Puritans civil power of England was in the hands isolated facts. " No man liveth unto him- sought to perfect, when Thomas Cart- of the Puritans. The Lord Protector self " is a well-established fact in social wright, in the middle of Elizabeth's reign, Cromwell was peremptorily dictating life. Equally true it is that no fact in began his career which historians have terms of peace with Holland, inspiring history stands alone. If it is true, as Em- somewhat arbitrarily indicated as the the awe, and receiving the compliments, erson says, that there is a relation between beginning of puritanism. But Elizabeth, of the crowned heads of Europe, and even the hours of our life and the centuries of as it has been said of Luther himself, did frightening the Pope himself with the time, much more is there an organic rela- not begin to get the rags of popery-off her. threat, that unless he redressed the cruel- lationship existing between the facts of If her legislation against Romanism was ties inflicted upon the Waldenses in the history. One stands related to events especially " stinging and acute," it was Piedmont, his cannon would thunder at preceding which have caused it, and to prompted by a jealous care of her own the gates of Rome. Such, briefly and im- events following after, of which it is it- prerogative. It was legislation aimed at perfectly, was puritanism in its inception, self the cause. He is a poor student of Roman interference in England, rather principles, and what it came to be in tem- history who knows only the location of than against Romish doctrine and disci- poral power. How shall we regard this the battle of Poitiers, its date, the forces pline. " Her ritual," says one, " differed strange phenomenon of civil and religious engaged on each side, the number of so little from the papal forms, of service history, which, in so short a time, rose to killed and wounded, the name of the gen- that a stranger could not detect the differ- such prominence in the annals of the erals in command, and allows his inquiry ence." Against the policy of this maiden world ? How shall we interpret some of to stop there. He will be a student in a queen so determined to root them out, the the strange facts and incongruities which truer sense who seeks an answer to the Puritans, with the open Bible before them, we notice in the progress of their growth questions, Why did this battle occur ? felt called upon to protest. These dissen- and development ? What are the consequences to follow ? ters, who were becoming so obnoxious in That there should arise such a reaction In no branch of investigation is the the eyes of Elizabeth and her coadjutors, against religious tyranny and oppression, question " Why ?" more important and were people who were making, and were does not seem strange to one who knows appropriate than in history. It is often- not without the means of making, a com- something of human nature and has times not the easiest of solution. It may parison of the forms of religion which she studied the movements of history with any require the wisdom of inspiration to re- sought to force upon them, and the forms purpose. With a principle which they veal the import of the "Mene, mene, tekel prescribed in the New Testament. For, considered of supreme importance and for uphatsin," marking off the epochs co/time. as Green says, "England became the land which they firmly stood, though opposed Some one has said that history is an intri- of a book, and that book was the Bible." by fire and sword, it is not unaccountable series of causes and effects, acting and They were philosophic enough to detect nor unnatural that the Puritans should reacting upon one another. And the a wide difference. On the ground of this develop a moral character which has exer- success of the student will depend upon difference they based their objection to the cised the power of orators to extol, and his ability to interpret a fact in its relation Anglican faith. the genius of the poets to sing; and to to other facts, and its bearing upon the The vestments, confirmation, kneeling which has been justly ascribed the preser- whole at the sacrament, bowing at the name of vation of the most in our moral and reli- Puritanism is one such epoch. It has had Jesus when pronounced, the priest's holy gious character that is of permanence and a marked influence, not only upon the life days, the form of baptismal service, the value. That this moral power should of the Church, but upon the general events burial service, were some of the points to - attain such strength among them, situated of the world. which the Puritans sternly objected. Not and environed as they were, until Crom- Like every other epoch, it has had its only because they were unscriptural, but be- well's " Ironsides " advancing irresistibly ruing sun, its days, not without clouds cause they were imposed by civil author- against the forces of King Charles I., may and storms, and its setting sun. Martyn ity alone, nor yet so much because they be regarded as its fit emblem, is not phe- has aptly said, an epoch is not cut short were imposed by civil authority,—as we nomenal. by dates. may justly infer from their subsequent More difficult is it to understand why The departure from the New Testament history,—aso because this civil authority there was not a reaction against religious doctrine of the general priesthood of be- was vested in one person. The queen and legislation, since he had sufft red so much lievers, and the establishment of an eccle- the court reformers, insisted on these as under it,—that, when on American shores OCTOEEE 10, 1g08. 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the Puritan was left free to exercise his given why public opinion has not, by the A Wonderful Scheme. own prerogative, he would avoid it as he fiat of its powerful displeasure, long ago would an intolerant monster from whose done away with them, is because they SPEAKING of the Sunday Rest CongreSSi clutches he had just escaped. How is it answer to an innate intolerance and furi- the Examiner (Baptist) says :— that with the Bible and the lessons of the ous fanatical desire which still reigns in There are widely divergent views even among past before him, he did not learn the lesson the hearts of such a majority of American devout Christians with regard to the " metes and bounds" of Sunday observance, and especially re- of religious toleration, and take hold of citizens, and which makes these desperate specting the admissible and desirable degree of gov- the idea of Christian liberty which the and revolutionary methods,—sure to be ernmental restriction of freedom of action. One New Testament teaches ? Why is it that the result of the friction of such antago- of our own most devout and conservative religious their administration under the protector- nistic organizations,—seem to them even teachers has suggested that perhaps all that Chris- tians can properly ask of the civil power is protec- ate after all their bitter experience and desirable. tion in their Lord's day worship. Others, and *e sufferings, seemed so nearly to justify the There is no distinction to be made in think wisely, insist that all men should be protected criticism of Macaulay, who says of them, these associations, they are all equally a in what we believe to be their "divine right" to " They were as intolerant and meddling menace to civil order,—they are all equally a weekly rest day, on the broad ground of the gen- eral welfare. There is much diversity of view, as ever Laud had been." They interdicted unchristian. It matters not that one calls also, among individual Christians as to how best to under heavy penalties the use of the Book itself Protestant and the other Catholic, observe Sunday in order to derive the largekt phys- of Common Prayer, not only in churches, they are all impelled and directed by the ical, mental, and spiritual benefit from the rat-Clay. but in private houses. It was crime, in a same evil spirit of violence. They both No one man or body of men can be presumed to have attained to the whole truth concerning this child, to read by the bedside of a sick appeal to the sword and they both will great of estion in all its bearings. What may be a parent one of those beautiful collects perish by the sword,—while innocent fel- very simple matter, so far as one's own personal which had soothed the griefs of forty gen- low-citizens, non-combatants though they conduct is concerned, becomes a difficult and com- erations of Christians. Clergymen of re- may be, will suffer with them, plex question when large masses of men must be considered. The problem grows more serious as spectable character were not only ejected W. H. M. population increases, and especially in the great from their benefices by thousands, but cities. No one can say dogmatically what is the were frequently exposed to the outrages of Church and State. best thing to be done. Perhaps a satisfactory solu- a fanatical rabble. " One of the first res- tion will never be reached. Yet a thorough dis- cussion, from different points of view, of this great, olutions of the Barebones Parliament was POINT is given to the current discussion broad, perplexing Sunday question, in all its varied that no one should be admitted to the of the relation of Church and State in the aspects, as proposed in the programme of the Chi- public service till the House should be efforts now being made in this country to cago Congn ss, may be expected to throw new satisfied of his real godliness." And after bring them into essential union through light on the subject. Light, indeed, is sorely needed. The present out- all there seems to be some occasion for the sectarian appropriations by individual look is not encouraging. Our Sunday laws are sneer of this brilliant historian that " the States of the Federal Government. These crude, conflicting, often designedly favorable to Puritans hated bear baiting, not because it efforts are in direct violation of the genius those who most need restraint for the good of their gave pain to the bear, but because it gave of our institutions and the theory of our fellow-men, and, such as they are, are rarely en- forced. Public opinion is too generally acquiescent pleasure to the spectators." Government, which is that Church and in the open violation of the laws and the flagrant (To be continued.) State shall be separate, the one advancing refusal of the authorities to punish the law-break- the spiritual and the other the secular in- ers. If the congress does no more than awaken terests of the people, and each having its fresh interest in the subject by the light shed upon it, the object of its assembling will not be wholly Dangerous Antagonisms. own revenues. Under the Constitution, no lost. But we hope it will do more than that. religious test as a qualification for official A LATE incident in St. Paul, Minn., position or public trust is required, and This is indeed a most peculiar question. where a public speaker was denied an the passage by Congress of any law Nobody knows how the day ought to be opportunity of delivering addresses, previ- abridging the freedom of speech or of the observed, and yet the majority are of the ously contracted for, because the purpose, press is expressly prohibited. These pro- opinion that the State ought to make and —as stated by the city clerk in the docu- visions are tantamount to a declaration of enforce laws to secure its proper observ- ment ref using the use of the hall, which the separation of Church and State, a con- ance! "Light, indeed, is sorely needed." was city property, was,—" to wantonly dition further emphasized by the first But notwithstanding the general fog that attack the character of institutions sa- amendment to the Constitution, which exists on this subject, the Examiner hopes credly cherished by a large number of the prohibits Congress from making any law that the congress will do more than sim- taxpayers of this community." The ad- respecting an establishment of religion or ply awaken fresh interest in the subject; dresses were anti-Catholic in character forbidding the free exercise thereof. that is, our contemporary hopes that such and were claimed to be under the patron- It is unfortunate that the principle thus an impetus wiil be given to Sunday legis- age of the American Protective Associa- enunciated has not been given complete lation that the State will step in and settle tion. The city clerk of St. Paul is re- and definite expression in the constitutions the vexed question of how Sunday ought ported to have told the advance agent of of all the States. Many of them provide to be kept by compelling all to observe the lecturer that " The Irish Nationalists no adequate safeguard against the viola- it alike. Wonderful scheme, truly ! and the Ancient Order of Hibernians had tion of religious freedom, and impose no C. P. B. met on Friday and Saturday and had de- express prohibition against the making of cided that they would not allow such a ectarian appropriations. Legislation in- The Russian Stundists. meeting to be held, if they were obliged volving such appropriations, and through to use force." There does not exist at them the violation of religious freedom, THEIR enemies themselves admit that a the present time a greater menace to civil is being constantly introduced into State Stundist family is a model of peace and rights and public peace in this country legislatures, many of which can and do unity. The children display the greatest than these organizations here named,—and grant them by a mere majority vote of love to their parents, and such a thing as their kindred,—organized, and in some the assembly. Such legislation is a clear a parent punishing a child is almost un- cases drilled and armed, with the avowed violation of the letter and spirit of the known. The virtue of extreme cleanliness purpose of antagonizing each other on Constitution,and constitutes a serious men- is energetically inculcated among them, lines of religious prejudice, bigotry, and ace to American institutions in that it not and the prevailing filth and disorder of fanaticism. When some shocking out- only stimulates sectarian greed, but intro- the Russian hut is nowhere seen among break, or a concerted series of them, shall duces the Church into politics, to the the Stundists. It has been often remarked occur,—or a condition of religious terror- grave peril of both Church and State. by Russian writers on the subject that a ism be instituted,—then the citizens of Its whole, tendency is to degrade religion Stundist's first desire is to learn to read the United States at large will awake to a by involving its forces in an unseemly and write, his second to teach his children realization of the dangerous and destruc- struggle for spoils, and to deprive ques- —their great object being to study the tive character of the forces which have tions which affect the rights and privileges New Testament. A Stundist never will- been gathering and organizing unperceived of the people of proper consideration by ingly sends his children to the village for years. There is no reason why they bringing sectarian animosities and con- school; they would there hear their pa- should have been unknown to the people troversies into their discussion. Absolute rents scoffed at and maligned, they would and to the public. Their methods and separation of Church and State alone se- be taught to venerate everything con- their purposes, though confessedly secret, cures the religious freedom which is the nected with the corrupt Russian Church, have not been so closely concealed as not right of all men, as well as the highest and to worship icons. to have been patent to any interested ob- civil liberty. It is the divine order of re- In the vicinity of the German colonies server. The only reason why these or- lation, and assures the citizen complete many Stundists may be found who have a ganizations have grown to their present liberty of choice in his religious and politi- fair knowledge of German, and who read proportions,—the only reason that can be cal faiths.—N. Y. Observer, German religious books. The vast ma- 324 A.MMEZICAN VOL. 8, No. 41.

jority of them are engaged in agriculture, a crowd can intimidate. It may put pres- A Vain Expectation. but in the towns a good many Stundist sure on us which we have not the moral artisans may be found—millers, smiths, courage to resist. A thing does not look THE Sabbath Outlook seems to antici- carpenters, tailors, etc. I will close this so evil, when many are engaged in doing pate, as a result of the present agitation article with a few extracts from the it. They do not, of course, call it evil. of the Sabbath question, a general return Russian press, from the writings of men They put new names upon it, and laugh of Protestants to the observance of the altogether hostile to Stundists, but men, at us for our scruples. This may lead us Bible Sabbath. It is vain to expect any nevertheless who have been obliged to to think that the course in which we are such thing. The language of the Apostle testify to their worth and superiority to asked to join is not so very bad after all. in 2 Tim. 3:1-5, forbids any such hope the ordinary Russian moujik. A writer So we belie or dissemble our real convic- This know also, that in the last days perilous in. the Kief Diocesan Reporter, an ultra- tions, and do what the crowd bids us. . . times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, Orthodox paper, says: " The character of As counteractives to the influence of the disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, with- the Stundists is as opposed to the use of crowd we do well to remember that the out natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, force as to using deception." " All who vox populi is not always vox Dei; that incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, really know them," says another well the fashion of the day can never make traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of, pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godli- kno.n. writer, " recognize that they are that right which the law of God declares ness, but denying the power thereof : from such honorable, terirp`erate, wise, industrious, to be wrong; that the voice of the multi- turn away. devoted to work and to the enlightenment tude is one thing to-day, and another thing of their minds by reading." This is a picture of the professed church to-morrow, while truth and duty remain of Christ in the last days, for it describes M. Emilyanoff, one of their bitterest one and the same.—Pulpit Commentary. enemies, is obliged to confess that "the those who have a form of godliness. The multitudes never have been loyal Stundists are a most hard-working folk, A Left-handed Blow at the Jews. peaceful, abstemious, truthful, sober in to God. God's people are the " little flock," the " remnant," etc., not the ma- their language, and leading Christian IN the Republic of Switzerland " popu- lives. Such a thing as a crime is hardly jority. Said the Saviour:— lar sovereignty " has reached its most ex- Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the known among them. Their highest duty, treme development in the constitutional gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruc- they consider, is to feed the hungry, to device known as the Referendum, which tion, and many there be which go in thereat: be- clothe the naked, to shelter the sick and gives the people power to veto laws passed cause strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, the pilgrim." But perhaps the most strik- which leadeth unto life, and few there be that by the Federal legislature, and to pass find it. ing testimony to their moral elevation is laws rejected by that body. A singular contained in a report written by M. Shug- instance of the latter kind has just occurred. That this is not true simply of a portion aevsky, an Orthodox official of the minis- The Swiss Society for the Prevention of of what is known as the gospel dispensa- try of justice, a gentleman who lived for Cruelty to Animals recently endeavored tion, and that in the latter part of it all many years in their midst, and who thor- to secure the enactment of a law by the will be converted, is evident from the oughly understood their origin and the legislature prescribing that in slaughter- words of our Lord in Matt. 24: 37-39:— trend of their movement. " They are ing animals they must be made insensible But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the remarkable for their pure morality," he coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days before being bled, but the bill was rejected. that were before the flood they were eating and writes. " In villages inhabited by Stund- Whether it was meant to be so or not, the drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until ists crime finds no footing; the family life act was a blow at the Jews, who are re- the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew is a model of chastity and peace, and their quired by the Talmud to bleed to death not until the flood came, and took them all away ; relations to one another are those of sin- animals intended for food. The bill was so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. cere Christians. Thanks to their total thereupon referred to the popular vote, The gospel is to " be preached in all the abstinence from strong drink, their eco- and has been approved. The adoption of world for a witness unto all nations," but nomical position stands infinitely higher this law is a virtual notice to the Jews of nowhere are we taught that it will convert than that of the Orthodox population, and expulsion from Switzerland, unless they all, or even the majority. God is taking as to their intellectual superiority there are prepared to turn vegetarians. The out of the nations "a people for his name," can be no doubt, for they can almost all success of the measure is attributed to the but the gospel deals with individuals. read and are deeply versed in the precepts ignorance or indifference of the people, " Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, of the Holy Scriptures."—Foreign Corres- who voted for it without understanding and Job, were in it, they should deliver pondence of the New York Observer. or caring for its effect upon the Jews. but their own souls by their righteousness, We trust that this is the case, for as it saith the Lord." Vigilance Needed. stands the law is a serious blot upon the fair fame of the ancient republic, which Protestants Still Protest. IN a " stall " in the Government build- has been for so many centuries the home ing, at the World's Fair, there is, at of liberty and justice. It is to be hoped REFERRING to Dr. O'Gorman, of the this very time, persons soliciting names to that on sober second thought the hardship Roman Catholic University of Washing- a petition to have God recognized in the of the law will become apparent, and that ton, D. C., at the Parliament of Religions, Constitution, and in the next " stall " is it will be promptly repealed.—The Exam- Rev. Dr. David James Burrell, pastor of another petition to have the Bible taught iner. the Marble Collegiate Presbyterian Church in the public schools. And the awful of this city, said:— truth is, that nearly everybody signs them ! London Sunday Papers. We could not have trouble, for the church which I got this, directly, from one who has he represents, and the church which commands my just returned from the Fair, where he was allegiance hold the whole matter of Christianity in THE question of Sunday newspapers is common, in that we believe in our one Lord and asked to sign these petitions. Brethren, just now being earnestly discussed in the Saviour Jesus Christ, and with him and his people, what does this all mean? Is not the situ- United States, and the general verdict of as with me and mine, Christ is first, last, and all ation an awful one? Is it not time to Christians is that the Sunday paper is a in all. arouse and do active missionary work, by perennial evil. While making a very ear- Does not the fawning doctor know that circulating the AMERICAN SENTINEL and nest protest against a Sunday paper, the " Rome never changes " ? and that tens of other literature ? St. Louis Christian Advocate makes the thousands of martyrs have laid down their The alarming feature about these peti- following astounding statement : " Lon- lives as a protest against Rome's denial of tions is that many sign them, little think- don, with her five million inhabitants, has Christ in that she denies justification by ing what the result will be.—The Reaper, no Sunday newspaper." This will be news faith and teaches justification by penance Wash. to the .people of the Metropolis who have and "good works" ? Did Huss and Je- Principle or Popularity? become quite accustomed to hearing the rome die and Luther and Wyckliffe labor Sunday newspapers cried by the news- in vain, that men who now call themselves THERE is an infectiousness in the ex- boys. We are profoundly sorry that our Protestants thus fawn upon the " man of ample of a crowd which only a firm back- contemporary's observation is wholly un- sin," and flatter the "mystery of iniq- bone of principle and some independence true. London has a surfeit of Sunday uity " ? Has the blood of fifty millions of of mind, will enable us to resist. The newspapers, and some of these have a martyrs been shed in vain ? God forbid ! tendency is to follow the multitude, even phenomenal circulation, reaching as many The Lord still has in Israel those who when it is to do evil. Men like to be on as 500,000. Surely this does not look have not bowed the knee to Rome, nor the side that is popular. They dread the much like superior respect for the Lord's kissed the Pope's toe, nor ceased to protest reproach of singularity. There are those day on this side the Atlantic! Our con- against Rome's wicked denial of Christ who would almost rather die than be out temporary will have to try again.—Chris- by substituting for his merits penance and of the fashion, A crowd can ridicule, and tian Commonwealth ( London), March 80, "good works." Protestants still protest, OCTOBER 19, 1893. _A_NEIHJ MICA N 327

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in a lump, as "the heathen delegates." aid or show special favors to Christianity The parliament itself, the Advocate says, to the exclusion of all other religions, can was "something more of a humbug than with the same ease confer pecuniary even its severest critics supposed it would or other benefits, upon any particular sect be," and " shows a vast disintegration of of Christians in exclusion of all other NEw YORK, OCTOBER 19, 1893. faith." This last expression is truthful sects ? Many professed Protestants can and just, and goes, in a general way, quite see and appreciate the evils of Church and ANY one receiving the AMERICAN SENTINEL without having ordered it may know that it is sent to him by some to the root of the whole matter. This State union at the points of first con- friend, unless plainly marked " Sample Copy." It is our invari able rule to send out no papers without pay in advance, except parliament is a religious weather vane tact, only when Roman Catholics are the by special arrangement, therefore, those who have not ordered the SENTINEL need have no fears that they will be asked to pay which the whole world may see, and from beneficiaries. for it simply because they take it from the post-office. which it ought to be able to judge of the THE Sunday Rest Congress at Chicago course which modern theology is taking. THE World's Fair attendance Sunday, closed with a supplementary meeting on October 1, was 48,535, and on Sunday, IN its view of the Parliament of Reli- Sunday afternoon, October 2, under the October 8, reached, the highest number of New York Sun sees with a good auspices of the Sunday Rest Association any Sunday since the opning, the gates gions, the deal clearer vision than many religious at Chicago. One of the speakers of the registering 88,045. afternoon said papers. It asks : — Open Sunday stores must go; it is even now in How can Christians consistently join in any such SOME of those whose profession is pol. sight. The American Federation of Labor, the polytheistic symposium as that now proceeding at itics begin to see the drift of religious Illinois State Federation of Labor, and the Chicago Chicago ? agitation in this country. Ex-senator In- Trades and Labor Assembly have declared that no galls prophesies that religious questions This question the Sun then follows man working for a living shall buy anything on with these observations :— the Sabbath day. Within a month an ordinance will enter into the national campaign of will be presented to the city fathers for their con- 1896. If Christianity is not the sole true and perfect religion, and if all others are not consequently false sideration. The storekeepers themselves have signed the petition to have the Sunday-closing or- ISAIAH KUNZMAN, the keeper of a small and pernicious, it is based on delusion. If it is not dinance passed, while, besides, there are thousands fancy goods store at 183 Grand Street, this merely the best, but also the only religion whereby men can , be saved, it is an imposture. If it con- of clerks who are begging that the law shall be city, was arrested on Sunday, October 8, tains only a part of the truth, sharing that price- made. Employers and employes together on the by detective Sloan, for selling him a less possession with many other religions, its source same petition ought to make a profound impression handkerchief, in violation of the Sunday is not as it proclaims it to be. Christianity is either on the city council. I have no doubt that within a the sole and complete revelation of divine truth month the law' will be passed and in force. Let law. Mr. Kunzman was held for trial the council make the law and we workingmen will and gave bail to the amount of one hun- from God himself, and hence the only and absolute see to it that it is enforced. truth, or it is a fabrication of men, the more worth- dred dollars. The detective has not yet less because it seeks to bolster itself up by false To those who have spent any time in been arrested for buying the handkerchief pretenses. That being so, Christianity cannot Chicago the past summer it looks like on Sunday. argue with other religions and compromise with undertaking a large contract to stop all them, accepting something and giving something. Sunday traffic in Chicago, especially as THERE is trouble in the little village of It can only say: "This is the truth of God uttered the " workingmen. " for whom it is so Pawnee, near Springfield, Ill., between by God himself, and there is no other religious glibly promised here that they " will see truth possible. Accept it or reject it at the peril of to it that it is enforced," are divided the Protestants and Catholics over the among themselves on the subject, with the reading of the Bible in the public schools. your soul.'' How, then, can Christians come to- gether with Buddhists, Brahmins, Mohammedans, majority against any such enforcement. Some Protestant teachers have insisted Jews and Zoroastrians to discuss their religion upon Bible reading and prayer in their with them on equal terms ? How can they treat A VERY neat and acceptable volume on schools irrespective of the protests of Ro- them otherwise than as infidels who are the surer " Christian Education," by Mrs. E. G. man Catholic parents of their pupils, and of damnation because they have seen the light of White, has reached the SENTINEL desk. It bears the comprehensive and ringing the advice of their directors. The ques- heaven and turned away from it? In Chicago, hos- pitality to all religions indicates agnostic indiffer- motto, " True knowledge is divine," and tion of the Bible in the public schools is ence to them all. the matter which fills its pages is in keep- one that will not be silent. ing with its motto. The prefatory note The last remark is doubtless true : it to the reader summarizes most completely was indifference, not true Christian char- and concisely the purpose of this book in REV. LESLIE SPRAGUE of the Second ity, that made the Parliament of Religions these words : " The whole subject of Chris- Unitarian Church, of San Francisco, possible. tian education is treated from the broadest preached a sermon a few Sundays ago on .standpoint, with valuable principles and the subject, "Sunday and the Midwinter ON another page is published a short suggestions applicable to every stage of Exposition," in which h e said :— article from the Observer, on " Church child development; and it is confidently and State," which is worthy serious atten- believed that this little work will prove a The question was raised in Chicago long before blessing, both in a richer personal expe- there was any certainty of a Fair, and the preachers tion. One point is specially apt, namely, rience and in an increased ability for ser- became corrupt politicians by threatening the heads that efforts are now being made in this vice, to every one who will read it thought- of congressmen who dared to make appropriations country to bring Church and State into fully." to an open Fair. The question came up here when The spirit of this book from beginning the project was fully started, one preacher refusing essential union by sectarian appropria- tions. There is an admission that there to end is, that all, both old and young, to assist in the opening exercises unless he could should, in all things, be taught of the be assured that the Fair would be closed on Sunday. may be' a virtual union of Church and Lord . In this Sunday question a spirit has been State without a legal establishment, or Published by the International Tract raised which, be it conjured ever so wisely, formal recognition of some denomination Society, Battle Creek, Mich. will never down until the revealed end of as the State Church. But why does the all evil has come. Observer use the word " sectarian " ? AMERICAN SENTINEL. " Who does not see," said James Madison Set for the defense of liberty of conscience, and therefore THE Nashville Christian Advocate pub- in 1785, " that the same authority which uncompromisinglywaadanonefrauread opposed anything State, gtending lishes an editorial article on the Parlia- can establish Christianity, in exclusion of either in name or in fact. ment of Religions, in which it criticizes all other religions, may establish, with the Single copy, per year, - - - $1.00. In clubs of 2g to 24 pes to one address, perrar,. -. -. gg with much acerbity the effusiveness of the same ease, any particular sect of Chris- 99 c Shinto priest who returned in kind the tians, in exclusion of all other sects ?" 100 to 249 " " " " - - Re " • 250 to 499 " " " " " - - 70e it 64 61 it - enthusiastic salutations of some of the With equal propriety might the question 500 to 999 " - .. 65c 1000 or more " " " " -60c over-wrought women of the parliament, be asked : Who does not see that the To foreign countries in Postal Union, - - 5 shillings Address, AMERICAN SENTINEL, and classifies the foreigners all together same authority which can give pecuniary 48 Bond Street, New York City.