Equal and &xactJustice to all Men, of Whatever state or cersuasion, religious or colitical.—Thomas Jefferson.

VOLUME 7. NEW YORK, MAY 19, 1892. NUMBER 20.

these questions, have erected their buildings for re- the churches have suffered by not being The American Sentinel, ligion or for rum. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, SY THE allowed to dictate to the State and to give PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY, laws to the Nation, the Statesman asks, WAXING exceedingly wroth at the imag- No. 43 BOND ST., NEW YORK. " What can we do ?" and in the energy of despair says :— Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter. inary indignity done by the local author- ities of the World's Fair, the Statesman• Let us turn more earnestly than ever to Con- gress, whose action alone can be final. Sad to say, EDITOR, ALONZO T. JONES, continues :— at this critical moment, when action in Congress is ASSOCIATE EDITORS, The churches, whose opposition to the Fair, in daily expected, the little sect of Seventh day Ad- C. P. BOLLMAN, W. H. MCKEE. case of its becoming an avowed engine of evil, the ventists, that has not as many thousands in its con- Commission seeks to postpone until it will be too stituency as the friends of the Lord's day have late to be effective, should remember the new millions, is just now sending more petitions to SOME twenty more informations for vio- eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not suffer Congress than we, having shrewdly reserved its lation of the Sunday law of Pennsylvania thyself to be hoodwinked." Manifestly both Di- few rounds of ammunition till it could see the rectory and Commission have seen the churches so have been lodged against nowsdealers, by whites of our eyes on the very verge of battle. often trodden on, without a murmur from them, the Law and Order League of Pittsburg. The Lord of the Lord's day calls to us, like the by politics and commerce, that they think the sound of many waters, " WRITE." Not petitions proverb, " The trodden worm will turn," has no only (duplicated for Senate and House and Com- application to religious and reform organizations. THE last Sunday in April five thousand mission) but letters especially to congressmen and It is to be hoped that the churches will remem- senators should be sent at once. people paid twenty-five cents each for ad- ber that, while Christ was meek and lowly, he also mittance to the World's Fair grounds in stood, on occasion, with " a two-edged sword in The Statesman's reference to a prom- Chicago. "An admission fee," says the his mouth," the severest antagonist of evil the inent feature of the battle of Bunker Hill Christian Statesman, " is now regularly world ever saw or heard. However meekly we is unfortunate for the National Reform charged every day in the week, including bear wrongs to ourselves, we should show " the side, for the illustration is more nearly manliness of Christ " in resisting this attack on our Sundays." Hence, that paper concludes, Christian American institutions. true to life than Mr. Crafts thought, else the World's Fair is " already open on Just how the churches have so often he never would have used it. In this case the Sabbath." been " trodden on " in this country is not as at Bunker Hill the defenders of liberty easy to see. They have always been per- are, as compared with those who would On the admission of the public to the fectly free to carry on their propaganda overthrow it, only a very small number; World's Fair grounds on Sunday for pay, in their own way; have had special pro- their petitions are likewise few, but they the Statesman has this :— tection from the State in the way of laws battle for the right, and though like their ancestors at Bunker Hill they may Thus the local Directory cavalierly anticipates against disturbing religious meetings, and the settlement of the question that is pending be- have, for the most part, been free from meet temporary defeat, their noble stand fore its superior officers, the national Commission taxation. How then have they been will have all the moral effect of a victory. and the national Congress. While this act is a dis- The Statesman should remember " that courtesy to these superiors, and to the eight States " trodden on " ? In only one sense have the churches been the race is not to the swift, nor the battle that have officially declared against Sunday open- to the strong." God fights, not for the ing, it is a slap in the face of the churches, which " trodden on " in this country, and that is have almost unanimously asked that God's law and they have, as churches, been allowed no majority, but for the right, and it will American customs, not greed and foreign habits, voice in civil affairs. And in this they finally triumph. Truth will be vindi- should govern the Exposition. What cares the have been " trodden on " ! ! Have the cated, if not before, at the final Judgment. Directory for God's law and the convictions of the But the Statesman is not done; it says :— churches as against hundreds of dollars per week Freemasons and Odd Fellows, and other In the May meetings, which include the great added to the funds of the Fair! fraternities likewise been "trodden on" General Conference of the Methodist Church, and -0- because they have been compelled to act the Assemblies of all the Presbyterian churches, politically as individuals and not as soci- and many Sabbath school conventions and other CONTINUING the discussion of the Sun- eties ? Certainly not; and no more have religious gatherings, not only protests against the day opening of the Fair grounds, the the churches; and the assertion that they action of the Directory and the delay of the Com- Statesman says :— have is an assertion that the churches mission, and appeals to Congress should be adopted, There can be no doubt that the Directory was em- but also and especially more drastic measures. Let boldened in this act by the fact that the Commis- should rule. And that is just what Na- such bodies refuse to aid in the erection of any sion has timidly and evasively laid on the table tional Reform means; and it is just what building or in the preparation of any religious until October the question of Sunday opening and the Christian Statesman means. congress until the question of Sunday opening is liquor selling, which in all fairness should have -0- settled, and let every*Christian be advised to accept been settled this spring or earlier, before those, no position as a member of any advisory board in whose relations to the Fair turn on the decision of IN view of the great wrong (?) which any World's Fair " Parliament" or " Congress," 164 THE AMERICAN SENTINEL.

except on condition that religion is to be respected where he can not proclaim himself a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars nor by Sabbath closing. . more than fifty dollars for each offense, upon con- Boycott is a hated word, because abused, but no Christian? Should a minister ever go viction in the police court of the District of Colum- Christian will seriously declare that there are not where he must deny his calling ? To ask bia. institutions that ought to be boycotted. If the these questions is to answer them. Yet, SECTION 8. That acts or parts of acts inconsistent World's Fair with Sunday opening should not fail, this is just what Dr. Parkhurst's mistaken with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. it would boom Sabbath-breaking all over the world for a century. In case of opening, friends of the conception of the nature of his sacred Upon this bill being submitted to the Sabbath would be bound not only to shun it as work led him to do. As related by Miss District Commissioners for their approval, they would a Sunday saloon, but to fight it as they Frances E. Willard in the Union Signal, of they recommended the striking out of the would an invading army whose avowed purpose May 5, she asked the Doctor this question : words " at depots or offices," and the in- was to crush American Christian institutions. " How could you ever be so disguised as sertion, after the word " Sunday," the If this does not show the Satanic spirit to escape recognition in the purlieus of words, " nor at depots or offices of ice that actuates those who, while calling New York, as a man of the highest cul- companies except between the hours of themselves " Christian" would adopt un- ture and character ?" Dr. Parkhurst ans- five and nine o'clock A. M., and five and christian methods to compel others to wered that he had been accused of being six o'clock P. M., on that day." comply with their demands, then nothing a judge or minister, and replied, " I am In reference to this bill a communica- could show it. The boycott is unchristian now acting as sheriff." The answer needs tion to the Washington Evening Star, of and never can be anything else. The no comment. All can see that work April 29, says proposition is not only to remain away which requires a denial of his sacred office From a purely humanitarian standpoint it is to from the Fair on Sunday, but to boycott can not properly be done by a minister of be hoped that the bill recently introduced to pro- it on every day and in every feature if it the Lord Jesus Christ. hibit the sale or delivery of ice on Sunday will be- is open on Sunday. That is if in the esti- —0— come a law, and, while the matter is under consid- mation of these Sunday zealots -the man- eration and the rights of the working people are BUT sad as is the picture of a Christian being considered, I think it a timely suggestion agers of the Fair do wrong on Sunday that the sale or delivery of groceries on Sunday can they will see to it that they are punished on minister consorting with lewd women, in readily be dispensed with. . . . It would be a Monday. They forget that the Scripture order that he may testify against them, shame to work mules on the canal as these boys says, " Avenge not yourselves, but rather the incident has brought to the sur- and young men are worked. They would take it face the fact that there are Christian as a great boon if only these Sunday hours of labor give place unto wrath; for it is written, were taken from them. While the sympathy of Vengence is mine; I will repay, saith the ministers in New York who labor some- our large hearted legislators is going out toward Lord." Or perhaps they realize that the thing as the Master himself did, for the oppressed humanity, I hope it will be broad Lord has no controversy with those who moral uplifting and eternal salvation of enough to take in this class of laborers, by enact- even depraved women. Rev. Benjamin ing a law that will relieve them from Sunday carry on legitimate business on Sunday, work. and so fear to leave the matter in his -F. De Costa, Pastor of the Church of St. bands. They have robbed God of his John the Evangelist, is one of this class. It is not at all strange that the writer When the woman decoyed by the man of this communication ardently desires own sacred memorial of the finished cre- the success of the Sunday ice bill, for ation, have, as it were, forced upon him who abdicated his ministerial office that he mightact as " sheriff," was awaiting the principle involved in both is the another day—the sun's day—and fearing same, and if one were passed the other that God does not accept the substitute, sentence, Dr. De Costa addressed a letter they propose to bolster it up by boycott, leg- to the Court, saying : " I ask mercy for would follow naturally, and the door being this poor creature, who is better than opened for that class of legislation, no islative enactments, police regulations, etc. limit could be set short of the enactment C. P. B. some of her accusers." A reporter sought .4-. • an interview with the Doctor, and learned of the whole line of religious legislation asked. The same principle applies to THE Parkhurst episode is still attracting that he is Secretary of the White Cross a good deal of attention in this city. The Society, set on foot eight years ago in this this that applies to all. This differs from wretched woman who kept the house country to keep men pure. all the rest only in its restricted applica- where Dr. Parkhurst and his party wit- Of the woman convicted by Dr. Park- tion. The religious clause in the Blair hurst's testimony, Dr. De Costa said :— Educational amendment, the Blair Sun- nessed the beastly show, has been found day Rest bill, the local Sunday bill for the guilty of keeping a disorderly house, and, Women like Hattie Adams are the sad results of as the world goes, she is deserving of no society as it exists at present. They are victims of District of Columbia, the bill forbidding sympathy. present social conditions. You and I, as entities of appropriation of money to expositions society, as it breathes and moves and has its being which open on Sunday, the proviso con- to-day, are responsible, in greater or less degree, BUT thethe fact of the guilt of this wicked for the fall of the woman we are talking about. ditioning Government appropriation to and depraved woman, does not justify a Who shall throw the first stone ? Shall it be you the World's Fair upon Sunday closing, Christian minister in prostituting his or I ? In any event, shall humanitarians stone her ? and this last, to prohibit the sale and de- Shall God's priests and chosen ministers stand by livery of ice on Sunday in the District, are powers to so base a purpose as enticing and revile her? all but slight variations of the same thing, women to indecent acts in order that he I do not think so. If I did I should not be one of may become a competent witness against the organizers and the present head of the White a persistent attempt to lead Congress to them. The gospel commission is to preach, Cross Society of the United States. commit itself to a line of religious legis- not to prosecute. A minister of Christ Years and years ago there was a woman taken lation, which, having once entered upon, in adultery. Nobody need be reminded of the ver- it must follow and obey the behest of the has no authority to play the detective. dict passed on her. What was Christ's charge to —0— her ? majority of religionists, with the same • zeal with which congressmen conform to CHRIST dealt mildly not only with the Of the two men personally, we know erring, but with the abandoned. To the the political views of their constituents. nothing. Doubtless they are equally hon- Those who have been instrumental in woman taken in adultery he said, " Nei- est, but what Christian can doubt that ther do I condemn thee; go, and sin no the presentation of this Sunday ice bill Dr. De Costa's society is more nearly in are saying that now a bill has been drafted more." And why did our Lord not con- harmony with the gospel of Christ than demn this woman ? Let Jesus himself which no one can oppose. Why not? It is the society whose agents depend on is only a smaller edition of the same thing. answer : " For God sent not his son into the civil law for the promotion of moral- It does not vary at all from the " bill to the world to condemn the world; but that ity ? C. P. B. the world through him might be saved." prevent persons from being forced to John 3 :17. labor on Sunday in the District of Colum- —o— Religion on Ice in the District of bia," except that the one is an attempt to Columbia. secure a sweeping Sunday law which shall CHRIST did not excuse sin; he granted include all forms of labor and secular no indulgence for sin. But because he THERE has been introduced in both the occupation, while this specifies one, and could not at one and the same time be both Senate and House "A bill to prohibit the thus paves the way for other special enact- Saviour and judge, he said, " I judge no delivery and sale of ice within the Dis- ments, which will at length reach the full man." Even when appealed to to settle a trict of Columbia on the Sabbath day, corn, requirements of the general act. But the civil difficulty, by adjusting property monly known as Sunday." extent of the application of the act is not claims, he answered, " Who made me a The bill would enact— the question. The character of the legis- divider and a judge over you ?" Such lation asked is vicious. If the require- work was foreign to Christ's mission, That from, and after the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful to sell or deliver ice in any quan- ments of the bill were so restricted as to and as " the servant is not greater than tity or quantities, by means of wagons or other apply to but one man in the District of his lord," should not the minister of Christ vehicles, on the public streets or thoroughfares or Columbia, instead of to one occupation, do even as Christ did ? • at depots or offices within the District of Columbia on the Sabbath day, commonly known as Sunday. the thing asked would be just as evil, and SECTION 2. That any person or corporation vio- in its present form is just as pernicious as AGAIN, should a Christian ever go lating the provisions of this act shall be liable to a its predecessor, the local Sunday bill, THE AMERICAN SENTINEL. 155

which applies to all occupations. This charters, from monarchs who assumed to The old method of petitioning, by miscellaneous same course of narrowing down the legis- be the head of the Church as well as of signatures, obtained hastily at the door and on the street, is not only slower, but more likely to result lation asked, to single occupations, has the State, which Mr. Justice Brewer cites in mistakes than the new method, by deliberate been followed elsewhere, though in other as a portion of his series of " organic utter- vote, after explanation and discussion, in citizens' places it has usually been the barbers who ances that this is a Christian Nation." meetings, labor lodges, and church assemblies. have been used as here it is attempted to It is very evident that the Pearl of Days, These indorsements of organizations also show, by the name of the organization, just what sort of use the icemen. If this bill were passed, the Christian Statesman, and Mr. Elliott people are favoring the movement. the next would apply to groceries and F. Shepard, do not think the statement grocery clerks, as foreshadowed in the too sweeping, that the Supreme Court has It certainly is a much easier way, to communication to the Evening Star. championed an establishment of religion. count up suppositious petitioners,—for It is claimed that there can be no valid Not only that but the particular religion the presiding officer in a public meeting ground for opposition to this measure, established is specified, and already the to have the resolution adopting the me- because it is purely civil. Is it? It for- especial tenet of that religion which must morial read, and say, "You hear the reso- bids the sale of ice " within the District be enforced is named. Will the answer lution. Is there any objection ? I hear no of Columbia on the Sabbath day, com- to, " What next ?" be the enforcement by objection. The resolution is adopted," monly known as Sunday." Suppose, in the the central Government of that religious and then sign himself as representing a interests of accuracy, it were proposed to tenet? W. H. M. hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand, or amend this to read, "on Sunday, errone- more, according to the size of the organ- ously called the Sabbath," would the Unmasking. ization, and his official position in it. framers of the bill accept it? By no This looks like a very easy way of roll- means. Why not? Because it would de- MR. CRAFTS and the American Sab- ing up immense petitions, does it not ? cide that Sunday is not the Sabbath. bath Union have persistently repelled, And so it is, for it involves the most What, then, does , it do in its present with an air of injured innocency, the stupendous system of repeating ever in- form ? It asks Congress to decide that Sun- charge that their desired Sunday legisla- vented. Take, for instance, to exemplify day is the Sabbath. It is a religious bill. tion was in any sense religious legislation. this, the results obtained from the delib- W. H. M. The writer heard Mr. Crafts, in a speech erate (?) vote of the gatherings named in at Lakeside, Ohio, last summer, ridicule description of the " new method." A "Vital to the Sunday Question." Seventh-day Adventists and others, for citizens' meeting will be representative, entertaining any such fears regarding his and composed of men from all the differ- IN its issue of April 14, THE SENTINEL movement. To make the deception more ent churches, all the different labor published, under the title, " The Supreme successful, he denounced all compulsion lodges and organizations, young men Court and a National Religion," a com- in religion as wrong. After the lecture, from all the different Sunday schools, ment upon a portion of Justice Brewer's Professor Coleman, a prominent National Christian Endeavor Societies, Epworth decision in the case of the Rector of Holy Reformer, was asked why in his opinion, Leagues; women from the Woman's Trinity. The article closed with the the speaker advocated the secular theory Christian Temperance Union, Christian words, " So the Supreme Court of the only as a basis for his desired Sunday leg- Endeavor, Epworth Leagues, King's United States champions an establishment islation. He replied that he supposed it Daughters, Sunday schools, etc. Here in of religion. What next ?" It has been was done to "escape the criticism which this citizens' meeting they have all peti- said of this expression that it was too would result from placing his desired tioned once. That is one tote. But the sweeping and would not be borne out by legislation on a religious basis." matter is presented before a labor lodge, the conclusions of others as to the mean- Now that Mr. Crafts thinks the United and if a vote is taken, those who were ing, scope, and effect of the decision. As States Supreme Court has declared our present at the citizens' meeting are to whether this is so or not let the Pearl Nation to be a Christian Nation, he com- counted again. The repeating has begun. of Days answer when it says, May 7, of pletely unmasks in the Christian States- Different meetings and councils of this Judge Brewer's decision, that it man of April 30, by commenting on the organization are called, and each one of decision as follows:— these votes is counted as represented by establishes clearly the fact that our Government is the authority of the officers or delegates Christian. This decision is vital to the Sunday It is therefore legitimate to close the Exposition question in all its aspects, and places that question gates, not only because of Sunday toil and traffic present at their different councils, grand among the most important issues now before the and turmoil the opening would cause, but also be- councils, etc., up to the highest represen- American people. Similar decisions have been cause " this is a Christian Nation." tative body of the organization. But the given by highest judicial authority, from time, to time, but the new form in which it was recently No intelligent observer will be surprised repeating continues. Many of those who presented gives the conclusion of the court in- at this sudden change; the civil Sabbath are members of labor lodges are also creased emphasis. . . . And this important mask has always been exceedingly transpa- members of churches. Their church sends decision rests upon the fundamental principle that in a petition; they vote again. The religion is imbedded in the organic structure of the rent, and at times, extremely chafing to American Government—a religion that recognizes, the wearer. A. F. BALLENGER. ministers' meeting of their town sends in and is bound to maintain, Sunday as a day for rest a petition ; they are represented again. and worship. The repeating goes on. Their Sunday While the Christian Statesman, of May 7, Champion Repeaters. school petitions; they vote again. The says of what it calls a sophistical petition county Sabbath school association mem- THE Congressional Record orializes Congress; again they are counted. " against the commitment of the United States of May 5, Government to a union of religion and the State under petitions and memorials presented Their churches convene their different by the passage of any bill or resolution to close the in the Senate the day previous, contains presbyteries, synods, conferences, ecumen- World's Columbian Exposition on Sunday or in a record of memorials praying that Con- ical councils, etc., in them all they are any other way- committing the Government to a gress take some action to close the World's represented again and again, over and course of religious legislation." We would refer any one in or out of Congress who is deceived by Fair on Sunday, and that no further ap- over. The multiplicity of the repeating this chaff to the two unanimous opinions of the propriations be made for the World's becomes bewildering. But the Evangeli- United States Supreme Court on this subject, one Fair except upon guarantee of Sunday cal Alliance may vote them again, and . delivered by Mr. Justice Field on March 16, 1885 closing, from one church of Missouri; four scattering congregations of repeaters may • (113 U. S. 10), the other by Mr. Justice Brewer on February 29, 1892, the last of which shows that churches of Virginia and West Virginia; be gathered at almost any extra religious the Sabbath laws are a part of our American Chris- thirteen churches of Michigan; thirteen service, revival, or union meeting. tian institutions, etc. churches of Nebraska ; twenty - seven Through the organizations of the Chris- It was very largely on the ground of its churches of Indiana; thirty churches of tion Endeavor Society and the Epworth accord with this decision of Justice Brew- Illinois.; two hundred and fifty-one League the same process is followed. er's that Elliott F. Shepard pleaded before churches of Ohio, an Evangelical Alli- But to the women are vouchsafed un- the House Committee on the World's Fair ance, representing all the churches in usual privileges. Their suffrages having that Congress should condition its appro- Cincinnati, a District Epworth League; been recognized at' every polling, where priation upon the Sunday closing of the and a County Sabbath School Association; the votes of the men have been counted World's Fair, saying, " It will be in ac- and petitions from the Woman's Chris- heretofore, except perhaps the labor lodges, cordance with the Constitution and laws tian Temperance Union, containing 223 where really but little of this voting has of this country to provide by act of Con- individual signatures,—all these last also been done, again they are counted and gress that the Columbian Exhibition or of Ohio. recounted, throughout the different or- Columbian Exposition shall not be opened This style of memorializing Congress, ganized grades of the Woman's Christian to the public on Sunday," and, as evidence by wholesale, is what the Christian States- Temperance Union, the King's Daughters, that it might properly so do, quoting the man boasts of as " the new method of etc. line of commissions, colonial grants, and petitioning," and says :— This is the apotheosis of repeating. 156 TAB AMERICAN" SENVIEL.

Under the tutelage of political religion, gamblers, prostitutes, etc., to break down all re- in competition with church attendance, for gard for the Christian Sabbath, and to overthrow religious repeating has achieved a multi- all laws for its protection as a legal rest day. . . . the money, influence and worldly power plicity of voting to a fraction of which If the Seventh-day Adventists or their friends are they are seeking to get through the not even the wildest imagination of the ashamed of the company they are in, let them re- church. ward heeler could ever have attained. member that we did not put them there. We only Seventh-day Adventists oppose, not the pointed them out. They and not we are responsible It is no wonder that it has attracted some for the wretched company they keep, and the bad closing of saloons on every day, not attention. The Washington Post has been work they are doing. church attendance on any day, nor the giving a little study to these petitions, protection of Christians, the same as all and states the result in an editorial para- But it now turns out that these Sunday others, in the exercise of their inalienable closing advocates are favored with some rights; but the union of religion and the graph, in its issue of May 5 :— of this same kind of " wretched com- In their efforts to close the World's Fair on Sun- pany." As a matter of retaliation for the State; the enforcement of religious insti- days, the good people who are so careful of other tutions and customs by law, with all the people's morals seem to have temporarily forgotten closing of saloons on Sunday in Sioux evil results which must inevitably follow their own. They have been working the various City, Iowa, the saloon keepers of that such a union and such legislation, and the States with petitions, and getting signatures with a place recently assumed the burden of en- zeal that is literally appalling. The Michigan petition forcing the Christian (?) Sunday law of insult which such a dependence on civil has just reached the Chicago managers, and upon law casts upon the power of the gospel examination is found to represent 800,000 more peo- Iowa, and succeeded in so rigorous and unto salvation. ple than the last census discovered in the State. general an enforcement of it that the best Reader, which class do you think is on The inference is that the propaganda, so far as Sunday-law friends in the place com- the right side of the question ? Michigan is concerned, at least, includes not only plained. Milk wagons, street cars, local the grown folks, but the babies, the yellow dogs, W. A. COLCORD. the wolves, and the catfish. There is no other way trains and everything were tied up so to account for the size of that petition. tight that not a wheel could squeak. A A similar growth is indicated in Ohio, and per- most Puritanic Sunday, Sioux City had, The Establishment of Religion by Co- haps in other States. But the feature of real inter- and all to the credit of the saloon keepers est is the astonishing disclosure of ardor on the lonial Grant and Charter. part of persons who constitute themselves guard- and the Iowa Sunday law I ians of their neighbors' consciences. It suggests a Then again, the brewers and liquor IN an article in a preceding issue a num- great many ideas which we can not fully catalogue dealers of Chicago have expressed their ber of early statutes were quoted from the in the limited space at the disposal of a daily news- desire that the World's Fair be closed on paper. It occurs to us to inquire, however, whether legislative proceedings of the Colony of it be worse in morals to look at an industrial ex- Sunday—just what the Sunday-law advo- New Plymouth, which showed conclu- hibit on Sunday than to concoct and utter false- cates are putting forth their utmost efforts sively that the Pilgrims who landed from hoods during the week ? to secure. Director-General Davis re- the Mayflower, not only intended, as According to this record the percentage cently stated before the .congressional shown by their compact made previous to of the standing of Michigan as a " Chris- committee that the brewers and distillers landing, to establish a religion, but actu- tian State " on the books of the Sabbath would willingly pay a large bonus to have ally did very early in the history of the Union and National Reform Association the Fair gates closed on Sunday. Uneasy Colony, establish a religion according to must be 1004--, that is about 800,000 plus. at having such company as this, the edi- the forms and tenets professed by them- This second exposure of fraudulent peti- tor of the Christian Statesmen, comment- selves. The legal enactments, by which tioning forever invalidates any claim to ing upon Mr. Davis's statement, says:— these forms and tenets were enforced, respect which the petitions of these or- This idea may possibly lead some persons to were augmented from time to time as the ganizations might otherwise have had, think that temperance and Sabbath observance are Colony increased in number and lack of from Congress or from the country. on opposite sides of the Sunday closing question. unanimity began to appear, and certain W. H. 1VI. This is simply another and a-little more frivolities and negligence of religious polite way of stating that intemperance forms to show themselves. In the records In the Same " Wretched Company." and Sunday observance by law are on the of the proceedings " att the general court same side of the Sunday closing of the holden at New Plymouth, June 6, 1651," THE advocates of Sunday laws have World's Fair question, which is a fact. this is found :— been guilty of classing the Christian body It is now in place to observe that the ad- It is ordered that whatsoever person, or persons, of believers known as Seventh-day Ad- vocates of Sunday closing are "fighting shall neglect the frequenting the public worship of that is according to God in the places wher they ventists with saloonists, gamblers, and side by side, and hand in hand, with sa- live or doe assemble themselves upon any pretense generally disreputable people, because loonists, atheists, agnostics, infidels of whatsoever, in any way contrary to God and the they, as well as some of these latter classes, various forms and colors, prostitutes, etc." allowance of the Government tending to the sub- have opposed Sunday legislation, though (for the saloon element includes largely version of religion and churches, or palpable pro- phanacon of God's holy ordinances being duly con- for very different reasons. Their object all these other classes); that if they are victed ; videlicet every one that is a master or a in doing so has been to cast an unjust re- ashamed of the company they are in, let dame of a family, or any other person at their flection upon 'a people who religiously and them remember that the opposers of own disposing, to pay ten shillings for every such conscientiously oppose that which they Church and State union "did not put them default. -It is ordered that if any, in any lazey, slothful, or believe ever has resulted and always will there; " that they and not these are re- prophane way doth neglect to come to the publick result in evil—religious legislation. sponsible for "the wretched company worshipp of God shall forfeit for every such default One of these Sunday law advocates, they keep," and the "bad work" they ten shillings, or bee publickly whipt. Rev. W. F. Ware, Field. Secretary for the and their saloon associates are doing; and Thus, in "language more or less em- American Sabbath Union for Michigan, that we have ".only pointed them out." phatic " do these colonists declare the es- who has of late been casting considerable In view of all this the advocates of Sun- tablishment of religion to be their pur- of this sort of reflection upon this people, day closing will now perhaps admit that pose, and still continue so to do. A decree was recently quite roundly reprimanded an individual can not always be honestly of date June 5, 1652 reads :— for his course by an editor of a secular characterized by the bad traits of those It is enacted by this court that henceforth the paper (the Allegan, Michigan, Journal), who for various reasons may perchance Indians within this jurisdiction bee not permitted upon which he offered the following apol- fall in with him. A man is known by the to do any servill work on the Lord's day, as by fishing, fowling, planting, and carrying of bur- ogy in his paper, the Michigan Sabbath company he chooses to keep, and not by dens, etc , and if any doe, after notice given them Watchman, for April :— the company he may be accidentally thrown hereof, they shall bee warned to the next generall In moral character the Seventh-day Adventists into. To take advantage of the accident, court by the constable of the place where they are deserve and have our respect, and morally they and judge or cast reflections in conse- transgresse. do not deserve to be placed with the foregoing quence of this, is a course worthy only of Thus do the heathen begin to have the classes. It would be a piece of rank injustice to established religion of Plymouth Colony do so—a downright outrage. those whose cause admits of no defense. Honesty demands and will resort to no preached to them, and again, in still more But for all this—for all that morally such policy. Fair minded men will in- unmistakable terms on June 5, 1655, they do not deserve to be placed with quire why each class assumes the attitude when— these classes—this representative of the it does. it was enacted that such as deny the Scriptures American Sabbath Union persists in doing Saloon men favor the Sunday (and to bee a rule of life, shall receive corporal punish- them this moral injustice. Continuing in ment according to the discretion of the majestrate, every other day) opening of saloons and so as it shall not extend to life or limb. his paper he says:— Sunday closing of everything else that And again in 1656 when it was decreed— But we did say, and still affirm, that the Seventh- will turn patronage saloonward, for the day Adventists-are among the organic foes of the money there is in it. And likewise, that noe Indian shall discharge Christian Sabbath, and are among the bitterest any gun on the Lord's day att anything to the foes of this day, and that they are fighting side by Sunday law advocates favor the Sunday breach of the Sabbath and desturbance of the side, and hand in hand with sajoonists, atheists, opening of churches, and the Sunday English; as they will answer it att their perill. agnostics, infidels of various forms and colors, closing of everything else they consider But previously, in 1655, steps had been THE Am- Ei?icAN 157 taken to establish a church as well as a Baptists has opened the eyes of the with a gigantic army of operatives to do their bid- to the folly of legislation, by ding. religion, for it was then decreed that— Cynosure There are others who would put the utterances WHEREAS, There hath been many complaints of city or State, on the ground of religious of the newspapers under the censorship of the Gov- want of due maintenance of the ministers as some preferences, perhaps it will have less ernment, and paralyze the right arm of civil liberty have reported; It is therefore enacted that noe to say than formerly about legislation in by suppressing the freedom of the press. pastor or teacher of any congregation shall remove There was a large section of the party in power before his complaint hath been tendered to the favor of Sunday. And perhaps it will two years ago, and possibly is now, in favor of majestrates, and they have heard both sides; that not, How different would it sound if establishing unrestricted suffrage in the several upon such complaints, if there appears to bee a Congress, or any other body with legis- States by shackling the States themselves with reall defect in the hearers of the ministers soe com- lative power, should order all places of Federal statutes that it would breed a revolution to plaining, the majestrates shall use all gentle means enforce. to persuade them to doe their duty heerin. But if business, within the limits of their author- There are still others who would establish a any of them shall not heerby be reclaimed, but ity, closed on Sunday in deference to the national bureau of supervision, to regulate, through shall persist through plaine obstinacy against an wishes of a certain class of religionists a legion of paid inspectors, spies, and informers, ordinance of God, that then it shall bee in the who demand it ? Then let some Henson the character of the food we eat, of the beverages power of the majestrate to use such means as may we drink, of the medicines we take, as though the put them upon their duty. frame a resolution that the same body pass States of the Union were so many institutions for a law that all places of business be closed feeble-minded children, incompetent to manage These are some of the foundation stones. on the seventh day in deference to the their own affairs. There are more. Mr. Justice Brewer says religious preferences of Seventh-day Bap- There is a disposition in all directions to shift they are the polished corners of the perfect upon the Government responsibilities and duties tists, Seventh-day Adventists and Jews, that belong primarily to the citizen, and which he structure of a Christian Nation, and Mr. and on Friday in deference to the consci- can not evade without the sacrifice of everything Justice Brewer and his associates are the entious practices of the Mohammedans, that gives strength, vitality, and value to his Supreme Court of that Nation. etc. Would not the satire be as timely, citizenship; a disposition on the part of the legisla- W. H. M. tors to impose the obligations which they are pointed, and deserved ? When will well- elected and sworn to perform, upon all sorts of meaning men learn that all religious legis- commissions, trusts, and subordinate agencies, that lation is class legislation and is a menace are drains upon the treasury and sappers of the Appropriation for Sectarian Purposes. to all religious and civil liberty, and so is public virtue; to establish, in a word, a system of a direct sword thrust at the foundation bureaucracy akin to that of Russia, wherein the ACCORDING to Judge Brewer's decision will of the people becomes a helpless and inappre- principles of our Government ?---Sabbath ciable factor, over-sloughed by an autocracy that Christianity is recognized by our na- Recorder. is fatal to genuine independence and a mockery of tional Government. The City Council of popular government. Omaha, Neb., must have been reading the Such being the situation, and its outlines are in learned Judge's decisions, for as reported no wise overdrawn, the robust and patriotic philip- Paternalism in Government. pic of the Wisconsin orator is no less timely than by the Omaha daily Bee of April 20, 1892, true. It carries with it a weighty admonition. It the City Council passed a resolution appro- THE Post, an independent paper of is a note of warning against the dangers that men- priating the sum of $275 to defray the ex- Washington, D. C., has the following ace the Republic. It should not fall upon one ear, pense of a reception to be given the min- to lightly pass out of the other. It is a call to article under the heading, " The Cancer arms for the public safety. isters composing the Conference of the of Paternalism " :— The evil of which this article treats is Methodist Episcopal Church, to assemble Robert Lees, as temporary chairman of the Dem- in that city some time in May. The ocratic State convention of Wisconsin, on Wednes- a most serious one. Nor is it confined to Mayor opposed the resolution as being day made what the dispatches call a "remarkable one political party. It may be that in illegal, and proposed to raise the amount speech " in his opening remarks to the assembled certain lines the Republican Party is Democracy, and remarkable it was for its vigorous more inclined to ultra paternalism than is by private donations, and gave his check denunciation of the growing spirit of paternalism for $25, as a starter, but the Council im- in the Government, and for the wholesome truths the Democratic Party, but in the main bibing the spirit and theory of National he told concerning a matter that is far too seldom there is little difference, and these two Reform unanimously passed the resolution made a topic of public discussion. parties are the conservative forces of the Whether Mr. Lees is right in charging our prog- over the Mayor's veto, and returned the ress toward paternalism wholly to the Republican Nation. The so-called reform parties are Mayor his check for $25. Thus as our Party is immaterial ; it was but natural that he should the very embodiment of paternalism. Supreme Judges recognize Christianity do so in addressing a Democratic convention. But But neither Mr. Lees nor the Post points as the religion of the General Govern- wherever the responsibility lies, and both parties out the most serious menace to popular are more or less at fault, the evil is the same, and freedom to be found in the paternal ten- ment,. the City Council of Omaha goes it calls for remedy, if the self-respecting people of one better (and a logical step too) and rec- this country desire to preserve their independence dencies of the times. It is in the various ognizes the Christianity of Methodism as and individuality. measures of religious legislation that the the religion of the great State of Nebraska, Mr. Lees, who is evidently no believer in the greatest danger lies. too, by supporting it out "divine efficacy of law, whether it be in the en- and is consistent actments of Congress or State legislatures," is of the public funds by equal taxation. Let verging close upon grave and dangerous facts when Women and the World's Fair. every liberty loving citizen of Nebraska he says:— protest. J. J. HUGHES, " We no longer trust the people with any power. We treat them as though they were children and JUST now much is being said both for Brownville, Neb. incapable of exercising ordinary discretion in con- and against the closing of the World's ducting their own personal affairs. If a man is Fair on Sunday, and among the recent A Timely Satire. involved in a difficulty with his neighlictr, he can utterances in favor of open doors are those only obtain redress by engaging the services of an attorney duly admitted to practice in the courts of of several prominent women, and their THE Christian Cynosure, of Chicago, the State, and holding the certificate of a commis- arguments display their large knowledge last week contained this paragraph :— sion created by law. He can only be poisioned by of the world and human nature, as well a druggist duly licensed, or become intoxicated in as their philanthropic motives. They are The Chicago City Council, with its customary a duly licensed saloon. His food has to be examined effrontery, instructed the Mayor to close all the all deep thinking, intelligent women, wo- offices of the City Hall on the 17th of March (St. by State authorities. For fear that he may not Patrick's day) and to declare it a holiday; and the know what is wrong with his horse when it is sick, men who have the good of humanity at Mayor obeyed. At the Baptist Ministers' meeting the State steps in and informs him of the nature of heart, women who take a broad, far-reach- the disorder. He is not even allowed to let the ox- ing, view of matters, women who do not on the 4th instant, Dr. P. S. Henson presented a eyed daisy grow in his field without incurring the resolution, that " this conference of Baptist minis- believe in dipping out vice by the spoon- ters imperatively demands that, if the precedent risk of a visit from that latest impersonation of the thus established by our City Council is to be fol- majesty of the law, a weed commissioner. Ere ful while so many men are pouring it in lowed in the future, St. Andrew shall have a long, at the present rate of progress, one dare not by the bucketful, but rather in stopping memorial day in deference to the feelings of our die without procuring the services of a duly li- the cause thereof. censed physician, or be buried by any one but a Scottish fellow-citizens, and that William Penn One of these women is Mrs. May Wright shall be similarly honored in deference to the duly licensed undertaker." Quakers, and Roger Williams in deference to the Paternalism he holds to be the natural outgrowth Sewell, of the World's Fair Commissioners Baptists, and John Wesley in deference to the of a greed for power, which threatens to engulf the of Indiana, who at their last week's meet- Methodists, and John Calvin in deference to the liberties of the people unless it be checked. Mr. ing discussed the matter of Sunday closing Lees is not to be understood as decrying any of the Presbyterians, and Martin Luther in deference to of the great Fair. During the discussion, the Lutherans; and if there be any other race or safe-guards to social order or calling in the name of religion that can claim enough voters to be an anarchy for the overthrow of law. His illustrations Mrs. Sewell said she thought that the Ex- influential factor at the polls, then the representa- are simply designed to show the increasing ten- position should be open, since the back tives of such a race or religion shall each have the dency of the times toward dependence of the people doors of saloons and other iniquitous upon the Government, rather than the subordina- privilege of naming any patron saint or reverend places would be open. She believed that ecclesiast in whose honor the city offices shall be tion of the Government to the will of the people. closed once a year—if there be days enough in the It is thus the citizen, who should be the creator safe and beneficial entertainment should calender to serve the purpose." The satire of this and shaper of his own destinies, is fast being made be provided for the thousands who will resolution is as timely as it is pointed and deser- the mere creature of centralized authority. be drawn to Chicago then, and included There is a demand in certain quarters for the ved. conversion of the railroad and telegraph systems of among these were the poor who were Now that this resolution of the Chicago the country into great governmental machines always there, and who could not afford to 158 THE AMERICAN SENTINEL. lose time through the week to see the The American Sabbath. to vote for Sunday opening it would be these threats to defeat him in case he did so. Mr. Mor- Fair, w,hich should be accessible to all. rill, of Vermont, who is 81 years old, stated in the Another member of the Board of Com- A CORRESPONDENT of the Sabbath Re- Senate the other day that these petitions did not missioners, Mary W. Krout, coincided corder, writing from Oroville, Cal., says frighten him, and that he was in favor of Sunday with Mrs. Sewell, and advocated the open- that there are some very strange ideas opening as a matter of justice to workingmen. ing of the art and similar departments, so advanced concerning Sunday and the The opinion is also expressed that owing that the working classes might enjoy World's Fair, and gives for an example to the bitterness already engendered Con- them without losing a day's wages, which this from John V. Farwell, of Chicago:— gress will take no action whatever on they could ill afford. She said that the As the Fair is national, to which our Government Sunday closing. Senate officials estimate majority of petitions against opening the has invited all nations as participants, I think it that the petitions and memorials so far Fair came from the small towns and coun- eminently appropriate that we exhibit an American presented on this subject represent about try districts who know nothing about the Sabbath along with our multiform products of labor. two million signatures. But as has been heartless methods of conducting business shown in the case of the petitions from which prevails in large cities. The Recorder's correspondent then com- Michigan and Ohio, many of these so- Here are the opinions from two other ments as follows :-- called signatures are beyond a doubt fraud- women, who are not members of any Now if, as Mr. Farwell says, this is an American ulent. In the case of the two States Board of Commissioners, but whose opin- institution, it must have been made by Americans. named the census returns exposed the ions, nevertheless, are good and have due I understand that anything made by Americans as the result of their labor, should by all means have pious fraud. But whether exposed or not weight and influence. Mrs. Elizabeth the right of exhibition in this great Fair. He every petition is fraudulent which assumes Cady Stanton, of New York : " It is said rightly claims that it is purely American; surely to represent whole organizations when that those who watch the exhibits and the French do not claim it; they never had any only a fraction of the membership have serve the public through the week should hand in its manufacture, and no other nation sets up any claim to having made it. Neither does signed the petition or voted in its favor. have one day of rest. As the labors will God set up any claim to it. Then, surely, the be transient, only lasting a few months, thing must be of American manufacture. Then, and as their surroundings will be varied, let the Americans put it on exhibition, place it Are There Worse Evils? beautiful and entertaining, the tax on among the plants as an American mushroom. Why not? I think it would look well there. The their time and patience would be light idea of an American Sabbath being put on exhibi- ACCORDING to the St. Paul Dispatch, of compared with the dreary monotony of tion with "our products of labor " ! Surely, if it is April 25, the ministers of that city have ordinary laborers' lives, who spend year one of our products of labor, and is to be exhibited inaugurated a crusade against " the cor- after year in dingy workshops and dreary with our other products of labor, then there is no harm in placing it there as a mushroom. There ruption prevalent in official circles." The offices, or with multitudes of young men is not, nor can there be, anything sacred or holy meeting was a private one, and " a consid- sitting with bent shoulders writing by art- about an American made Sabbath. No, let it go erable portion of the morning's meeting ificial lights,—a class more to be pitied on exhibition, and let the Commissioners, by all was devoted to injunctions to secrecy and than those who dig in mines, scarcely ever means, open the gates on Sunday, for an institution thus made would show to better advantage on admonitions to ' keep this out of the pa- seeing the light of day. Those who can Sunday than any other day. pers," but " no adequate precautions had dispose of their time as they see fit can It looks t6 me that this Sunday-closing business been taken, to keep the papers, or their hardly appreciate what a Sunday at the is going ta seed; it puts one in mind of the boy- representatives, out of the meeting." A World's Fair would be for a large class cotting times we had here in California a few years ago, when the Chinese question was to be crammed Dispatch reporter was present. He was, of their fellow-men. Gifted orators might down our throats at all hazards. I do not know as he says, "thoughtfully provided with a speak to the multitudes on popular reform it would be any great damage if those Christians, chair, and it was not until the meeting or religious questions, for their are no or those who are professing to be Christians, should began to thoroughly warm up that he dis- meetings more impressive than those held stay away from the Fair as they threaten to do. The thing would probably be a success without covered that he was not really supposed in the open air." them. to be there. He felt a trifle uncomfortable Another is Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby, of when he first made this discovery, but he the Woman's Tribune, who says editori- Droll Law Makers. stayed on because he was so deeply inter- ally :— ested in the meeting, and because he was To the Tribune the arguments for opening the THE New York Legislature is a droll really gratified to know that it couldn't Fair appear •to have the weight of reason, justice, body of lawmakers. It has passed a bill be told by his looks that he was the only and brotherly kindness on their side. So far as its appropriating $300,000 for a World's Fair layman present." The reporter was hon- seeming irreligious or unchristian to open the doors orable, however, and did not reveal the on Sunday, it appears to the Tribune to be carrying exhibit, but commanding that the exhibit out in the highest degree the spirit of him who be closed on Sunday. Immediately after secrets, so we are left to surmise what said, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not this display of Puritanism the same Legis- they were. The fact that such meetings man for the Sabbath." The opportunities for hold- lature appropriated $50,000 annually to- are held, is, however, significant in itself. ing the great religious and reform meetings on the grounds will be enlarged on, as it will afford the ward the maintenance of the Natural His- Another significant thing is that the min- occasion of the century for bringing spiritual in- tory Museum in New York City upon the isters determined not to make the saloon struction to the masses who never go to church, express stipulation that it should be kept issue prominent, believing that there were and for whom no church privileges are provided, open on Sunday. Explanations are in worse evils, They are probably gunning or are at present possible. With the best sermons, lectures, and sacred concerts, what might not the order.—,Ottumwa World. for open fairs and Sunday papers. The blessed day do for the elevation and education of Apropos of the foregoing is the fact saloon always sinks into insignificance be- the masses Jackson Park, one of the two great that the same Legislature which was zeal- side "Sunday desecration." breathing places of Chicago, the only possible ous for Sunday sacredness in Chicago, le- chance for the poor to get fresh air and outdoor life, and of which they have always availed them- galized fishing in Jamaica Bay, L. I. It selves in summer, has been appropriated for the is still very naughty to fish anywhere in Inconsistency. World's Fair grounds, and if these are closed to New York State except in Jamaica Bay. them on Sunday it will be positive robbery to the Such facts illustrate the utter absurdity of INCONSISTENCY can scarcely go farther helpless, and great mortality, especially of children, than it does when those who advocate the will result. Every consideration of humanity and legislating upon such subjects. good order, seems to demand that there shall be Sunday-closing of the Chicago Exposition, even extra inducements to draw people out of the say, in one breath, that Christians in gen- crowded, heated city, and that the grounds should Congress Not Likely to Act. eral are increasingly lax and inconsistent either be open entirely free or at a much reduced in their personal habits concerning Sun- price. A RECENT despatch from Washington day-observance, and in the next, that the Nebraska can well feel proud of her concerning the contest over the question opening of the Exhibition on Sunday broad and generous Mrs. Colby, who has of the opening of the World's Fair, says : " will outrage the religious sentiment of surpassed all others in outspoken liberality So earnest has become this warfare that an effort millions of people." If Christians will and justice towards the great mass of la- has been made to swell the petitions by fraudulent read Sunday newspapers, ride on Sunday boring people in and about Chicago, inas- names. A petition came from Michigan claiming trains, and steamboats, patronize Sunday much as she would not only open the to represent the religious bodies of that State in camp-meetings, and share the profits with opposition to Sunday opening, which, on investi- grounds on Sunday, but would have ad- gation, was found to have more alleged signatures the railroads which make special provis- mission either free or at a reduced price than there were residents in the State. Lately, ion for Sunday worshipers (?) ; if Chris- for their benefit. She well deserves the apparently under Colonel Shepard's directions, pe- tian men will do all this, how is it that title, "Charity's Queen," which was be- titions against Sunday closing have embodied the opening of the Exhibition, five hun- threats to defeat any member of Congress who stowed upon her by White Cloud, the favored opening the Fair on Sunday. In present- dred or two thousand miles from their chief of the Chippewa Indians.—Kearney ing such a petition yesterday, Mr. Platt, of Con- homes, is such a sad shock to their piety ? (Neb.) Gazette. necticut, said that if anything would induce him —Sabbath Outlook. THE AlVIER ICAN SENTINEL. 159

THE Central Presbytery of Dakota is reported as State in the passage of any bill or resolution to FATHERS having memorialized the Presbyterian General close the World's Columbian Exposition on Sunday, OF THE Assembly, which meets at Portland, Oregon, that or in any other way committing the Government "in case the gates should be opened on Sunday the to a course of religious legislation." Those who CATHOLIC CHURCH. Assembly should earnestly request all its ministers desire printed blanks can obtain them by writing BY E. J. WAGGONER. and people to absent themselves from the Fair." to A. 0. Tait, Corresponding Secretary National Tho Pittsburg Preachers' anarchistic brew, the Religious Liberty Association, Battle Creek, Mich. History repeats itself, because human nature is the same in organized boycott, is developing its poisonous fer- all ages of the world. Hence, he who would know ment far and wide. HOTV TO AVOID ERROR IN THE FUTURE ,IN the proceedings of the Senate, May 6, is the must know how errors have developed in the past. The THE Washington Post, of May 10, says that " the following :— "Fathers of the Catholic Church" shows the condition of the " Mr. McMillan presented a petition, signed by heathen world at the time of Christ, briefly states the princi- usual flood of petitions in reference to the World's ples of ancient heathen philosophy, and shows how the adop- the ice companies of the District of Columbia, Fair was poured into the regular channel of the tion of these principles by prominent men in the church, and Senate yesterday morning." The Post remarks praying for the passage of Senate bill 2994 to pre- the incautious lowering of the standard of pure Christianity, that the petitions were about equally divided in vent the sale or delivery of ice within the District developed the Papacy, which was simply a new phase of pa- ganism. The chapter on their .requests that Congress should, and should not, of Columbia on Sunday, and also praying for the SUN-WORSHIP AND SUNDAY take action to close the World's Fair on Sunday, early consideration of the bill by the Committee on the District of Columbia, and the privilege of being is alone worth the price of the book. Fine English cloth, sub- and suggestively notes that a "mass-meeting of stantially bound, contains about 400 pages, and will be sent Protestant clergymen, of Tennessee," arrays itself heard before that committee in behalf of the bill; post-paid for $1.00. in favor of enforced religion at the Exposition, and which was referred to the Committee on the Dis- trict of Columbia. He also presented the petition a company of "Sabbath-keepers," of Vermont, in SACRED CHRONOLOGY. opposition. of Rev. W. A. Bartlett, D. D., and other ministers of all denominations in the District of Columbia, BY SYLVESTER BLISS. THE Washington Evening Star says, "The ques- praying for the passage of Senate bill 2994 to pre- tion of Sunday closing of the World's Fair is one vent the sale or delivery of ice on Sunday; which This work treats of the Elements of Chronology, the different systems, and the various eras, and gives the chronology of the which should be decided in accordance with the was referred to the Committee on the District of principal events recorded in sacred history from the creation, popular preference." Does the Star mean to say Columbia." till the death of St. John. It also contains a vindication of the that whether Congress shall legislate to close it or numbers of the Hebrew Scriptures. As an aid to investigation not should be decided by the popular clamor ? it is invaluable. The book has been thoroughly revised, and an entire chapter added, on the Shall Congress give its sanction to any measure, FOUND AT LAST! however unconstitutional or vicious it may be, PEOPLING OF THE EARTH. provided only a "popular preference" be expressed This chapter is an exposition of the tenth chapter of Genesis, A POCKET SPELLER, DICTION- in its favor ? The Star would do well to consider and gives an outline of the beginning of history and THE ORIGIN OF NATIONS. whether or no principles should not govern in con- ARY, AND MEMORANDUM No student of history can well be without this book. gressional legislation rather than preferences. 300 pages, cloth binding, with side stamp, $1.00. BOOK COMBINED.

THE International Federation for the Observance MEMOIRS OF EDWIN BAINBRIDGE.— of Sunday, whose office is at Geneva, through their The subject of this memoir is the young It gives the right orthography of all secretary, who was also secretary of the Sunday words (over 22,800) in common use, and in English tourist who met his death at the Rest Congress held during the Paris Exposition, nearly every instance their definition. It dreadful volcanic eruption of Tarawera, New have sent a memorial to the directors of the World's also gives rules for the use of capitals and Zealand, on the 10th of June, 1886. 12mo, Exposition at Chicago. In this memorial they urge punctuation marks, abbreviations of names of States and Territories, letters of intro- 160 pages, fully illustrated, cloth extra, 75c. very earnestly that the Exposition be closed on duction and recommendation, definitions JAMES CHALMERS, Missionary and Sunday for the benefit of the large number of of commercial terms, forms of notes, due bills, receipts, letters Explorer of Raratonga and New employes, who will not only be allowed a time of of credit, orders for money, merchandise and goods Guinea—By Wm. Robson, of the London physical rest, but will be enabled thus to discharge stored, principal holidays, marriage anni- versaries, combination of shades, and Missionary Society. 12mo, 160 pages, fully properly their religious duties. 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IN the Senate, on May 5, when presenting "a pronounced alike but spelled differently, so they can be dis- memorial of citizens of East Hardwick, Vt., remon- tinguished at a glance; it shows where the letter e at the end of JOHN GRIFFITH, Founder of the Han- strating against the passage of any bill or resolu- a word is to be dropped when adding ed or ing; it gives a com- kow Mission, Central China—By Wil- tion to close the World's Columbian Exposition on plete list of the most practical business forms; it gives the laws liam Robson, of the London Missionary of etiquette in social and business life; these rules alone are society. 12mo, 160 pages, fully illustrated, Sunday, or in any other way to commit the Gov- worth the price of the Speller. ernment to a course of religious legislation," Senator This Speller is bound in leather, is of convenient size to cloth extra, 75 cents. Morrill said: "It is clear that this question is a be carried in vest pocket, and its price brings it within the THOMAS J. COMBER, Missionary Pi- reach of all. American Russia leather, gilt edge, 50 cents. mixed one. If the World's Fair should be closed Sent post-paid to any address on receipt of price. oneer to the Congo—By Rev. J. B. on Sunday, it would virtually exclude all the Address all orders to PACIFIC PRESS, Myers, Association Secretary Baptist Mis- workmen in Chicago from any reasonable oppor- 43 Boxy ST., NEW Youx. sionary Society. 12mo, 160 pages, fully il- tunity to visit it." While the Senator's remark as lustrated, cloth extra, price, 75 cents. to the workmen of Chicago may be true, that is HENRY M. STANLEY, the African Ex- not the ground upon which the legislation asked SAFETY PENCIL. POCKET. plorer—By Arther Montefiore, F. R. G. S. should be refused, but because it is asking Congress NEAT, CHEAP, SERVICEABLE Brought clown to 1889. 12mo. 160 pages, to interfere where it has no jurisdiction, and in fully illustrated, cloth extra, 75 cents. matters outside the sphere of civil legislation. It perfectly secures pen or pencil in the pocket, so WILLIAM CAREY, the Shoemaker who that it can not fall out when stooping. Can be easily became a Missionary—By Rev. J. B. THIS Congress has been besieged with petitions and safely attached to any part of the clothing. A small investment will prevent the loss of a valuable Myers, Association Secretary Baptist Mission- from the advocates of religious legislation begging pen or pencil. ary Society. 12mo, 160 pages, fully illus- for the passage of the different measures for the PRICES. trated, cloth extra, 75 cents. enforcement of Sunday observance before it, but No. 1. Russia leather, for 2 pens 10c. more especially that Congress should take some No. 2. 3 15c. BISHOP PATTERSON, the Martyr of action which would result in closing the World's No. 3. Sealskin, 2 15c, Melanesia—By Jesse Page. 12mo, 160 CC Fair on Sunday. Congressmen who recognize the No. 4. 3 25c. pages, fully illustrated, cloth extra, 75 cents. No. 5. Russia leather, for 4 CC 25c. impropriety of any such legislation by Congress No. 6. Sealskin, 4 CC 40c. CRUDEN'S CONCORDANCE—A diction have asked, "Are there no petitions in opposition ary, and alphabetical index to the Bible. to this ?" Of late such petitions have begun to be Sent by mail on receipt of price. We guarantee these pockets superior in every particular to sim- Cloth, $1. 25. Sheep, $2. 50. heard, mostly worded as follows, " We, the under- ilar styles formerly sold and still offered at much signed, citizens of the United States, hereby re- higher prices. g2B,-The above named books will be sent post paid on receipt spectfully but decidedly, protest against the Con- Address, PACIFIC PRESS PUB. CO., of price. gress of the United States committing the United 43 Bond St., New York. PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO. States Government to a union of religion and the Or Oakland, Cal. Or Oakland, Cal, 43 Bond St., New York City. 160 TT-4E AMERICAN' SENTINEL. Vol. 7, No. 20.

Nis,01110,5011 who are lovers of pleasure more than lov- well, to get their own dooryards ers of God, who have not the moral stam- thoroughly cleaned before they again ina to resist the attractions of the world, charge those who conscientiously oppose who, in short, are unconverted, and whose all Sunday laws with being allies of the affections are upon the things of the earth saloons. An applicant for a liquor license rather than on things above, would there might search the United States from the be this demand on the part of the churches Atlantic to the Pacific and from the lakes NEW YORK, MAY 19, 1892. for worldly assistance ? Is not this the to the gulf, but he would not find one

NOTE.—Any one receiving the AMERICAN SENTINEL without trouble with the churches ? Seventh - day Adventist willing to sign having ordered it may know that it is sent to him by some —0— his petition, yet, because of their opposi- friend, unless plainly marked "Sample copy." It is our invari- able rule to send out no papers without pay in advance, except SOME weeks ago we said : " Christianity tion to Sunday laws Adventists are classed by special arrangement, therefore, those who have not ordered fostered and supported by a civil govern- with about all that is evil. the SENTINEL need have no fears that they will be asked to pay for it simply because they take it from the post-office. ment ceases to be Christianity." Upon -0-- this one of our country exchanges, with THE Sunday Observance Committee of THE Manhattan, Kan., Mercury thinks National Reform proclivities, makes this Keyport, N. J., held a meeting recently, that "the cause of Christ is able to take inquiry : " Would you have the civil gov- at which reports from various commit- care of itself," and that "every true ernment and Christianity enemies with tees were listened to. The committee to American believes in the separation of one another ? " This is evidently intended wait upon Mr. Cornell, of the Keyport Church and State." as a squelcher. It serves, however, only Steamboat Company to ask him not to _0_ to reveal the colossal ignorance of our .run his boat to New York on Sunday, AN exchange remarks that it is signifi- querist upon this whole subject. during the summer, reported that Mr. cant that every dive-keeper in Chicago —0— Cornell claimed that the Sabbath commit- who is alive to his " business interests" GOVERNMENT, like marriage, is a divine, tee should see the farmers in reference to wants the World's Fair closed on Sundays. but not a Christian institution. Like the receiving and shipping of produce on Likewise the proprietors of all the near-by marriage, all are entitled to share its Sunday. The committee resolved to en- alleged " summer resorts." blessings. It belongs as much to the in- force the law upon those who had their —0— fidel and the atheist as to the Christian. places of business open the previous Sun- AN attempt was made on the 1st inst. to Government has nothing to do with reli- day. enforce the Sunday law in Saginaw, gion any more than it has to do with Odd- —0— Mich., "but," a dispatch to the Mail and fellowship or Freemasonry. It simply IN a recent meeting in this city in behalf Express remarks, " it was noticed that secures to all their natural rights, or of Sunday observance, Col. Elliott F. there was more excitement and a greater rather, the free exercise of those rights. Shepard, President of the American Sab- number of ' drunks ' than usual." The government knows, or at least should bath Union, is reported by the Mail and -0- know, neither Jew nor Christian, but Express as speaking "of the revelation REV. FRANCIS W. WARE, Field Secre- only citizens. The ideal human govern- and blessing contained in the fourth com- tary of the American Sabbath Union for ment would neither oppose nor foster mandment, that man ought to rest one the State of Michigan, says that the any religion, but simply let such matters continuous seventh part of time, and American Sabbath Union is " not alto- alone as entirely outside its sphere. would be rewarded with infinite blessing gether a religious organization," though —0— if he did." Had this appeared in any admitting it to be a creation of the different other paper there might be a suspicion WHILE in attendance at a meeting of branches of the "evangelical " churches. the International Executive Board of the that some reporter had played the Colonel These churches, then, have given birth to Knights of Labor, at Pittsburg, Pa., Mr. false, and put into his mouth words which something not altogether religious. God's Powderly said to a reporter :— he never uttered, but as his own paper says plan in the beginning was that every tree it we must believe that Mr. Shepard now I think the World's Fair should be as open on should bear fruit after its kind, and such Sunday as on any other day, as Sunday is the only advocates keeping " one continuous sev- is still the invariable law of nature. What day of leisure to a large majority of the working enth part of time." If by this he means can it mean that these churches are evolv- class.. all time, the thing is quite impossible; no ing something not altogether religious ? It is a significant fact that notwithstand- man lives long enough to do that. But if What is the matter with the churches ? ing the persistent efforts of the Sunday by his unmeaning jumble the Colonel in- —0— forces to make it appear that organized tends one-seventh of the life time of the IN explaining why the American Sab- labor demands Sunday closing, of all the individual, the difficulty is equally great, bath Union was called into existence, the petitions with which Congrees has been for no man knows the measure of his same gentleman, in a lecture delivered at flooded for Sunday closing of the Fair, days, hence could not keep one continuous Battle Creek, Mich., April 24, stated that but one has been presented representing a seventh part of his time. Any man who the Sunday Sabbath for some cause or body of laboring men. wishes can keep a definite seventh part of other has come to that pass that " the —0— his time, or a seventh part in regular churches can not handle it alone." That is THE Christian Advocate, of this city, succession, but to keep a continuous sev- to say that these_" evangelical " churches, has in its issue of March 24, this state- enth part of time is out of the question. some of which boast of several million ment by a correspondent The Colonel should not require of his members, are not now capable of perform- A man in this neighborhood, wishing to sell disciples impossibilities. ing their religious duties and maintaining whisky secured twelve persons to sign his petition. their religious institutions alone, but just Six belong to the Methodist Episcopal church. THE AMERICAN SENTINEL, now when they have become numerically It is but fair to say that the statement stronger than ever before, they must re- is merely made as the basis of a question, A WEEKLY PAPER Set for the defense of liberty of conscience, and therefore ceive assistance from the State; must have and that in replying to the inquiry the uncompromisingly opposed to anything tending some outside force to help them keep the Advocate says :— toward a union of Church and State, Sabbath they profess to so greatly love either in name or in fact. These persons violated the Discipline of the Meth- Single copy, per year, post-paid, $1.00. and revere. What, again we ask, is the odist Episcopal Church. They are subjects for the In clubs of less than 100 copies, per year, each, - - 00c. matter with the churches ? application of the Discipline. In clubs of 100 or more copies, per year, each, - - 75c. To foreign countries, single subscription, post-paid, - 5s. It might, however, be well for the Address, AMERICAN SENTINEL, IF' there were not many in these churches Methodists, and some other churches as 43 Bond Street. NeNv X9rix City,