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

VOLUME 5. NEW YORK, MARCH 20, 1890. NUMBER 12.

The kangaroos are all vegetable feeders, browsing States, the support and maintenance of such a The 11nel/inn Sentinel. on grass and various kinds of herbage, the smaller system of free public schools as is herein provided. species also eating roots. They are naturally timid, The analysis of these sections is this :— PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY THE inoffensive creatures, but the larger ones when hard pressed will turn and defend themselves.— A system shall be established which PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY. Encyclopedia Britannica. shall embody " the principles of Chris-

No, 48 NOM) ST., New Yonx, The Sunday-law folks are as badly mixed tianity." in their zoology as they are in their Sabbath The United States shall guarantee the UDITORS, theology. And their characterization of maintenance of such a system. E. J. WAGIOONttt, ALONZO T. JONES. the "infidel cry, ,gown with the Sabbath," Therefore this resolution does propose is just as wide of the mark as is their zo- that the United States Government shall TH 'German emperor has no small idea ological idea of the kangaroo. No better maintain an establishment of Christianity. of hiS position. Nothing but his own ex- description was ever given of the nature Now Christianity is the expression and position of Scripture will express it to his of the opposition to Sunday legislation embodiment of a religion. satiSfaction: As thus set forth it is de- than is given in the above true statement This resolution proposes to pledge the scribed as follows :— of the disposition of the kangaroo. Yes, United States Government to the mainte- I see' in the people and the land intrusted to me sir, the kangaroo is an innocent creature nance of an establishment of Christianity. by God, a talent which, as the Bible says, it is my if you let him alone, and so are we. Therefore this resolution does propose duty to increase. I mean with all my strength to to pledge the United States Government so trade with my talent that I will be enabled to to the maintenance of an establishment of That Revolutionary Resolution. add map.y another thereto. Those who help me I religion. heartily welcome; those who oppose me I dash to pieces THERE is a point in that religious amend- Again: Section 4 of the resolution says :— He is not the only one who holds such ment to the Constitution that has not been Congress shall enforce this article by appropriate legislation when necessary. a view of the " talent " of government and made as much of as it ought to be. The governing. It is common ,to those who title of the proposition is this As the preceding sections of the article hold that governmental authority is of Joint resolution proposing, an amendment to the provide for and guarantee an establish- Constitution of the United States, respecting estab- ment of religion -- of Christianity ; and divine .right. - National Reformers and lishments of religion and free public schools. the American Sabbath Union in this as this section provides that Congress shall Now set that alongside of this clause of country hold it in common with the Ger- enforce the article by appropriate legis- the Constitution as it is, and consider lation; therefore the resolution does pro- man emperor and the Papacy in Europe. them together. vide that Congress shall make laws re- Congress shall make no law respecting an estab- specting an establishment of religion. The KangarooKapgaroo and Other Stories. lishment of religion. The analysis of the whole resolution, If the purpose of this proposed Amend- therefore, is this :— IN our report of the Washington City ment is not to annul that clause of the It proposes that the United States Gov- Sunday-la* Convention a few weeks ago, Constitution as it is, and so open the way ernment shall establish a religion; and we mentioned the reference of Rev. James for a national establishment of religion, that Congress shall make laws respecting Stacy, D. D., of Newman, Georgia, to the then what can possibly be the purpose of it? that establishment of religion. kangaroo. We could not, however, give This being, logically, the purpose of the But the Constitution as it is says, " Con- the exact words. We have them now. resolution as defined in the title, a further gress shall make no law respecting an ItiS address was written when it was question is, Does the body of the resolution establishment of religion." delivered in the Convention, and it has bear out the logic of the title ? Let us see. Therefore, both in its title and its pro- since been printed in the Christian States- Section 2 says :— visions the Blair resolution to amend the man of February 20 and 27. In that of Each State in this Union shall establish Constitution of the United States is dis- the 20th- is: the zoological specimen, in and main- tain a system, of free public schools adequate for tinctly a proposition to annul that clause thes words :— the education of all the children living therein, be- of the Constitution as it is which forbids The infidel cry, " Down with -the Sabbath," like tween the ages of six and sixteen years, inclusive, an establishment of religion. the bounding :kangaroo springing from his lair, has in the common branches of learning, in virtue and fastened .,itself upon an unsuspecting people, and morality, and in knowledge' of the fundamental That clause of the Constitution is, and with Iniyieldipg pertinacity and without any evi- and non-sectarian principles of Christianity. was intended to be, the declaration of one dence of satiety contillueS40 qraw its life blood. And section 3 says:— of the fundamental and distinctive princi- That the reader may see how perfectly The United States shall guarantee to every State ples of our form of government. exact is Mr. Stacy's figure we quote and to the people of every State, and of the United The Blair resolution being a proposition 90 THE AMERICAN SENTINEL,. to annul that clause, is a proposition to stuffed with. apers, the reading -of which McKenzie he did the best he'could. What destroy one of the distinctive features of he has just dropped to go in to say his seems queer to us is that men' with the in- our form of government. and is therefore prayers." The Doctor had just before re- telligence that the. Sunday-law managers REVOLUTIONARY. ferred-to the work that is done on Sunday are supposed to have, will so presume upon And let all the people know it. in making- and distributing the Sunday the stupidity of the public as to,think that, A. T. J. papers. He said the work done on Sunday to save their pretense -of anxious care for in making the papers was not so mach to- the "enslaYed toilers," they can stick up a be objected to as the work made necessary figurehead " workingman " at every one of Another Sunday-law Meeting. in distributing it. But, as above, all this their meetings without the transparent Tuesday evening, March 11, there was work is almost as nothing compared to the -trick being detected. held in Association Hall, this city, a Sun- enormous iniquity of the- interference with Bishop Andrews, dealt the civil and day-law meeting. It was under the man- the worship. Yet it is the civil Sunday physical rest day a heavy -blow in saying agement of Rev. J. H. Knowles, Corre- they, want all the time. that "in China (from which he had lately sponding Secretary of the American Sab- Then, in addition to all this, and more returned) they have no septennial division bath Union. The speakers were Rev. R. S. in the same line, he strongly and impress- of time, no weekly rest-day, merely annual MacArthur, of Calvary Baptist Church, ively declared: "The man who lifts his festivals.—They work right along all the this city; and Bishop Andrews, of the hand against the American Sunday is an time with no day of rest as such; yet they Methodist Episcopal Church. Besides enemy of the Republic. He is an enemy live to a very advanced age. This fact these, the management rung in "a work- of the RACE. He is an enemy of GOD." has lead one of the most careful thinkers ingman" as a figurehead. Rev. W. J. R. Taylor said that "it is who has ever been sent as missionary to As usual, the whole meeting—speeches wonderful how near the spiritual and the China, to raise a serious question, whether and all—was one straight ahead religious material run together in parallel lines, and the great purpose of the Sabbath is not effort in behalf of the religious Sunday, they sometimes cross." Yes, it is. for worship and communion with the with the word "civil" thrown in occa- Then he said that "Sunday is an insti- other world." sionally to save appearances. tution,— a religious, a civil, a social, a na- It would seem that people who read the The chairman, in opening the meeting, tional, a Christian, and a personal institu- Bible ought to have been able to find that said there were many important questions tion." out, without having to go to China for being discussed, but "the one question The next speaker was Mr. Kenneth the discovery. Yet, it is good that they above all others, is the one to be discussed McKenzie, a book-binder. He said: "In do find it out, even by such means. And here to-night. What shall we do to pre- this city the people seem to be getting we shall not complain. serve and protect the Christian Sabbath?" worse. They run down because they have Next the Bishop said there are two lim- Dr. MacArthur said, "This is confes- their own way. Sabbath-breaking leads itations to legislation on this subject. (1) sedly a difficult subject." Yes, it is, for to depravity, A little child in one of the Men cannot be compelled to religion, and those who are on the wrong side of it. low parts of the city wandered away, and (2) there must be no union of Church and He said the difficulty would be relieved was hunted high and low for three weeks, State. But both of these he said they if there was uniformity of views in regard when finally one day it was seen sitting utterly disavow. And having made the to it, and "if all men would take the word on the steps in one of the worst regions of disavowal, he proceeded to justify legis- of God as the rule of their faith and prac- the city, with a number of other children, lation that pass both the limitations. He tice we might expect uniformity." As- in front of a place where drinking and ca- said: " If it be made to appear that the suredly; especially when everybody has rousing were going on. The child was stability of Government depends upon the the example of such delightful uniformity perfectly contented, and considered itself conscientiousness and sobriety of life as among the churches, all of which profess at home because it seemed so like the home inculcated in the religion of Jesus Christ, faithfully to take the word of God as their where it belonged. A man said to me that then the majority may assert its will in only rule of faith and practice. for ten months he had not seen daylight: this and compel respect to it." That ar- He said, "It is only to be expected that he had not seen the sun. He was a gam- gument will justify every form of oppres- the Lord's people will observe the Lord's bler, and had to carry on his business in sion, and of the union of Church and day, and observe it as the Lord's day. And secret. A man said to me the other day, State, that has ever been inflicted upon a all-American citizens ought to observe the These women are curious creatures, ain't people. American Sunday. And we have the right they? I stayed home last Sunday, and it He said: " We must insist that the to oblige them to do it. If the American was jaw, jaw, jaw. I said, " Mag, what's Government shall absolutely refrain from Sunday becomes a holiday and not a holy the matter with you? It 's nothing but 'work on the Sabbath. That six dayS shall day, then the right- of the workingman to jaw, jaw, jaw, all the time, and I-haven't be for the six day's work and the Sabbath any day will be destroyed." But a civil said a word." Said she, " Well, why don't for worship. It is the conviction of a rest-day is only a holiday, nothing more you say, something? You sit round here large number of us that upon 'religious nor less : while a holy day- is religious, and and don't say anything.. If you was n't bases rests our public welfare. Over the nothing else. here you would be off with your cronies."' whole land there should be enforced the He said, " I would make the observance In my regular mission work, I have been a quiet peace of God's holy day." of the day one of joy." But that cannot kind of prison chaplain, where there are The Doxology was then sung, and so be done by law. That is what it must 'be thousands of prisoners, and I have had a passed this, another meeting, in behalf of to be Sabbath observance at all, but that chance to know something of what comes the civil Sunday.. A. T. J. can be secured only by the bye -of God as of people having their own way. If we -4w manifested in the grace of Jesus Christ. talk to the workingmen they say, `Oh, we othing can be plainer than that the Sun- don't want any of your ghost-stories.' " THE observance of Sunday should be a 4- question of conscience.- and not of law. day-law movement is directly contrary to But as to how a Sunday law was to help the There is one thing the American eitizen the eternal counsels of God. gamblers to see the sun; or the working- feels especial pride in, and that is the He' said that in the observance of Sun- men to hear "ghost-stories ;" or those "cu- religious freedom vouchsafed to us in the day "much must be made of the public rious creatures " to be less, curious, he did Constitution. Let us keep this intact and worship of God. And here is where the not in- any way explain. not entrust our representatives of State or Nation with questions concerning our excursion and the Sunday paper are most And that was the workingman's part of spiritual welfare, but leave that matter objectionable. Little good will worship the meeting. We have not stretched the to- ourselves and our God. — Colorado do to that man who comes with his pockets story a particle. We do not blame Mr. Graphic._

TFIV AMV,RiICAN S.ENTINVL. 01. z- National Righteousness. Going back to the last century, we find it cation, or previous political persuasion. was these bishops and clergy who, in the The latter embraced all dissenting classes. TIiERE is'iio theory so unsound, no argu- words of a leading statesman, "hounded The wealthy merchant and the poor boot- anent so ritterlY baseless, as the one which on George III. and Lord North in their black trudged side by side through the declares that national righteousness can stupid and unrighteous resistance to the mud and rain ; the Democrat and the Re- be acquired by a State religion, either in claim of our American colonies to honest publican helped to bear the " Liberal " name or in fact. Whether it is "putting representation and fair taxation." The banner; the native-born but apostate son God into the Constitution," or putting the bishops earnestly supported every measure of Utah, and the adventurer, had but one Church into the State, or in any way con- for carrying on the American war. When emblem—the carpet-bag. The East, the necting the two, it is equally false. Yet. Europe was horrified at the wanton greed West, the North, the South, all aided in such a theory is advanced, under various of gain and at the hypocrisy shown by the fight and rejoiced in the victory. The guises, by many well-meaning persons. Christian England in forcing opium on naturalized citizens seemed to be moved They say that by connecting religion China at the cannon's mouth, no word of by the same spirit, and as the vast proces- with the State it tends to make the State remonstrance—not a grunt of disapproval sion passed one would often see the Ger- more. Christian; that is, more jug and —came from this bench of bishops. And man carrying a torch, and the Scandina- gentle, more merciful and peaceful. Now in all our dreadful foreign policy, in all vian bearing the motto. we WiSh to: show how entirely condemned the incessant and unnecessary wars that The political speakers were character- is this false principle by its own actual England has waged in all parts of the istic of the two parties. The " People's experience., world, this great influence of the Church Party " meetings were addressed by the For instance, in England we unfortu- has not been used to check or to condemn " apostles," " prophets," and " elders," nately haire a direct union of Church and a policy so fearful. The bishops have too only they were always introduced as Mr. State.' By thiS union religion is repre- often fanned the fierce desire for blood- These meeting were not religious ; they sented in the Government. The bishops shed instead of pointing to a more excel- were civil and political, but it was often of the Established Church have a seat in lent way. hard to see the distinction between "Apos- the House of Lords. It is fair to assume Thus we see that by actual test the Church tle " A's sermon in the Tabernacle on Sun- that these Men are—most certainly should has failed—most miserably failed to make day, and " Mr." A's political speech on be—the most learned of all the clerical the State more righteous by being united to Monday. Yet, like the National Reform order, and are esteemed as the most devout it. When it has used its influence, it has Sunday, you must call it civil because and the most Christian. Being thus in invariably done so on the side of wrong. that is its name. The " Liberal " speakers, the Legislature they are in a position of When the State has endeavored to reform, on the other hand, were from all classes vast -influence; and we might expect, if the the Church has opposed it; but when the except the " Saints." To say that they underlying' principle were true, that, this State has done wrong then the Church were all good men and actuated by noble influence :would do much in making the has either remained dumb or else most motives is to affirm more than could State Inere,righteous. But, alas, what do valiantly cheered it on. And wherein lies be expected. we actually find ?t We find that this vast the fault, not that the bishops were sin- The tickets presented by the parties influence has invariably been used on the ners above all other men, but the fault lies will bear the closest study. While the side of wrong; and that the Church, in- in the principle which declares that the " Liberal " ticket, like the party, was of stead of making the State better, has by Church can make the State more righteous all classes, good, bad, and indifferent, ir- the union been the means of making it by being united to it when as a matter of respective of race, nativity, - or religious more barbarous and devilish. We find by fact the Church, by such a union, becomes belief, the " People's " ticket contained examining the votes of these unfortunate the bond-slave of the State. only the names of those who were mem- tpis14 that they have steadily opposed " History repeats itself." The moral of bers of the " Church of Jesus Christ of those reforms which to-day are looked this is; let the clergy of any country in- Latter-day Saints." . True, the tickets upon ns most necessary and Christian. sinuate themselves into Government affairs were formed in open convention by dele- For example, ,about a century ago our and their influence will prove a curse to that gates from the various precincts. Yet criminal code was most wicked and cruel. Government. Allow certain religionists the careful observer noted the fact that Men,and boys were hanged .for such petty to shape the Government and Constitution although no one pretended to know who larcenies as are now punished by a few of America to their liking, a condition of would be nominated by the "Liberals," a days' imprisonment. During the reigns of things will then be produced similar to daily paper published the " People's " the. Georges there were added 156 new the palmy days of the Papacy. ticket twenty-four hours before the caucus crimes to which the death penalty was FRANK HOPE. convened. It was no mere guess-work. attached: In 1810 a bill was introduced London, England. Every man was named for his respective into the House of Lords to the effect that office, and when the delegates assembled to form the tickets the nominations were ten- persons should not be killed "for the crime Letter from Salt Lake City. of stealing. property to the amount of five dered to the very men named. One gen- shillings" ($1.25). This bill was rejected, EDITORS AMERICAN SENTINEL : There tleman, however, declined and another and an archbishop and six bishops voted is such a general interest in the recent name was put in his place. it clown. Then we find the Church against " Liberal " or " Gentile " victory in this It is not just to say that these delegates the abolition of the slave trade. It was city, that it may not be out of place to ad- intentionally betrayed their sacred trust. opposed: to the education .of the poor when dress a few words to your valuable paper The fault is in the system. These men, that question was first agitated. It was on that subject. The writer had the privi- many of them of unquestioned integrity, against Parliamentary Reform; against lege of seeing the entire campaign and at- believed, with the National Reformers, Catholic Emancipation; and when the tending the ward meetings, grand rallies, that " the kingdom of Christ must enter British and Foreign Bible Society was and parades of both parties, and he faith- the realm of law through the gate-way of formed, it was against that.; In fact, it is fully improved the opportunity. politics," and they embraced the oppor- hard to find any salutary reform which it In this campaign, so long and fiercely tunity of carrying their belief into prac- did ,not oppose 'by its representatives in contested, all old party lines were laid aside tice. The result is, they have a theocracy the House of Lords. and the two factions assumed the names of with an infallible (9) man at its head, and Then, again, on the other hand, when the " People's Party " and the " Liberals." the Church dictates every political move the State has done wrong. the' Church has The former embraced the faithful of the even while she denies any connection with either been dumb or else egged it on. Mormon Church, irrespective of race, edu- the State. 92 Ti4V- AAMIRWAN

The " Liberal " victory means a Gov- governing the District of Columbia, over or legal incapacity to meet the require- ernment of the people, by the people, for which Congress has sole jurisdiction. ments of the law ? If the incapacity arise the people. In many respects the Mormon Therefore, if this measure has in view the within the domain of conscience, it is rule was.good. It is safe to say that the establishment of the observance of a re- without the civil sphere, and the necessary officials were as honest as the average ligious dogma, or the enforcement of re- conclusion is, that the legislation is outside politician ; yet their administration can ligious reverence for a particular day, the jurisdiction of human law. never be called republican government. because of the supposed divine origin of These three points might be elaborated. The Church ruled the State, and her favor- the observance required, or because a further, but this statement of them is suf- ites and interests received the first atten- larger or smaller proportion of citizens ficient to show that the bill bears within tion: observe the day religiously, it is a religious itself conclusive evidence of its religious There were loud cries of fraud oh both measure, outside the pale of civil legisla- character, and, if religious, it is not within sides, but the election passed off very tion, and Congress is incompetent to en- the purview of Congressional legislation, quietly and every candid man must admit tertain it. as contemplated by the Constitution. that the victory was honestly won. Un- Three points of internal evidence prove In measures, as in men, there is an doubtedly there were unscrupulous men the bill to be religious in its inception, and ancestral spirit by which we may know in both parties and on both tickets, but in its intent. them. What is the heredity of this bill ?— there were also men whom even their po- First, the word " secular," in the phrase Its progenitor in the Senate, is the Blair litical enemies acknowledge as worthy of "to perform any secular labor or business," Sunday-rest bill, which, on its first intro- the highest trust and confidence. It is betrays the reverential spirit in which the duction in the Senate of the Fiftieth Con- very probable that this defeat of the Mor- bill is framed. The incongruity of the gress, was plainly entitled, " A bill to mon hierarchy will be lasting. The effort word, in such a connection, in a purely secure to the people the enjoyment of the was not to overthrow the religion but to civil statute, will be perfectly patent, if first day of the week, commonly known as break the union of Church and State which applied to a supposed measure " to pre- the Lord's day, as a day of rest, and to was enslaving minds and blighting the vent persons from being forced to labor on promoteits observance as a day of religious Government. Let us not censure the men the 4th of July," on " to prevent persons worship;" and in the Fifty-first Congress, who have been educated to believe they from being forced to labor on the 22d of it is called, "A bill to secure to the people are doing God service in following the February." 'The various antonyms—reg- the privileges of rest and of religious wor- dictates of an ambitious and unscrupulous ular, religious, monastic, spiritual, clerical ship, free from disturbance by others, on priesthood. Let us pity their condition; —of the word " secular," show the char- the first day of the week." The body of condemn their religio-political system, acter which this term gives to the bill, the two bills is the same, except that the and try to avoid repeating their mistakes. and unavoidably. No stronger circum- incongruous nomenclature in the first has D. G. HENRY stantial evidence could possibly be required been harmonized in the second, and "First Salt Lake City, February 28: than the unconscious testimony of this day," "Lord's day," and " Sabbath," made • -* • expression. to read, " First day " and " Sunday." Logic and Law. Second : The words " except works; of Although in the last section of the former necessity or mercy," are subject, in a lesser bill, the expression " religious observance WE here present to our readers the mat- degree, to the same construction. The of the Sabbath day " is omitted, in the ter contained in the Brief upon the subject character of phrases, as well -as of human second, a neutrality clause, for it is nothing of the District of Columbia Sunday Bill, beings, may be determined by the company else, is inserted which declares, that "this submitted by Prof. W. H. McKee, secre- they keep, and this phrase is one which act shall not be construed to prohibit or tary of the National Religious Liberty As- carries the mind immediately to the con- sanction labor on Sunday, by individuals sideration of religious and Biblical excep- who conscientiously believe in and keep sociation, Washington, D. C., to the Con- tions, made to the strict application of the any other day, as the Sabbath," etc. It is gressional Committee at a hearing Feb- divine law for the Sabbath. That is the the same bill resurrected, and attempts ruary 19, 1890. It is worthy of careful source of the expression, and its course the mingling of incongruous elements, study ; and it will bear the most critical may be followed through all the religious which cannot be assimilated—the Sabbath scrutiny. laws for " Sabbath observance," and the which is Divine, and the Sunday which is A judicial interpretation of them, which have human; Sabbath of the moral law, Sunday To the Honorable Committee on the Dis- been had. The effect of this phrase, in of the civil law; Sabbath of the Lord thy trict of Columbia :— connection with the preceding word " sec- God, Sunday a religious day by the enact- GENTLEMEN : In submitting to you this ular," is cumulative. ment of Constantine, and a dies non, in Brief, as a statement of some of the con- Third: The exemption clause contains the statutory nomenclature of the civil siderations why you are asked to report the language, " Who conscientiously be- law. unfavorably upon House Bill 3854, en- lieve in and observe any other day." The very next munch of this family titled, "A bill to prevent persons from What has a purely civil statute to do tree is entitled, " An act to punish blas- being forced 'to labor on Sunday," your with the conscience of man, as regards his phemers, swearers, drunkards and Sabbath- attention is called to these propositions :-- conscientious belief in, and observance of, breakers," which is openly a religious law. 1. The legislation asked, is unconstitu- a day of rest ? The moment the domain See laws of the District of Columbia,1868, tional, and contrary to the spirit of Amer- of conscience- is touched, as such, from pp. 136-7-8. The family likeness of these ican- institutions. that instant the measure is no longer three measures, the old Maryland law, 2, Waiving the question of unconstitu- civil. And if, as this exemption shows, adopted into the statutes of the District, tionality, Sunday laws F already exist in there be a class to whose conscience. this the Blair Sunday-rest bill, and the Breck- force and enforceable, in the District of bill would work a hardship, and to whose inridge local Sunday bill, is unmistakable, Columbia, and the measure is one of cumu- religious convictions it would stand op- and, if the original from which the latter lative legislation. posed, then per contra, there ,is another two are derived,. is a religious law, the two Article First, of the amendments to the class, the consciences of whomthe meas- descendants certainly must be. Constitution, declares that " Congress shall ure is intended to favor. It is, therefore, But, in the bill before this committee, make no law respecting an establishment not only legislation on matters of con- there has been an attempt to separate the of religion." science, but class-legislation as well. civil from the religious, and the claim is House Bill 3854 embodies a measure More than this : What does an exemp- made that this measure is consistently for which Congress is asked to adopt, as a law tion clause presuppose ? Is it not a civil a" civil Sunday." In making good this ItHE AMERICAN SEN'rTNEL. 93

claim; what is it necessary to show ?—It is Sunday in the California State Prisons. And as to the majority of the general necessary to show that the legislative and public believing that work on Sunday is public mind has' been entirely divested of THERE is considerable discussion in Cal- " open defiance of the God of conscience," the popular idea that Sunday is a day to ifornia on the question of Sunday work in every one knows that nothing like a ma- which a due religious observance is to be the State prisons, especially of the run- jority have any conscience in the matter paid. Both those who make the law, and ning of the jute mills at San Quentin. at all. those who are subject to it, must be shown There is, indeed, opposition to operating The last question quoted above implies to have placed themselves exactly in the these mills at all, as they enter into strong an impossibility of developing conscience mental position of the civilian whose mind competition with private enterprises of the in men who believe that Sunday work is has never harbored the thought of the same nature. But the fact that they are open defiance of the God of conscience. sacredness of one day above another. worked seven days in the week, while This is a pretty hard thrust at the Doctor's Then, no other legislative restrictions their competitors work but six, is an ad- co-believers, but it is one of the charac- would be ,attempted to be placed upon ditional cause of complaint. It is not my teristic muddles in which Sunday -law Sunday, than could be enacted for Monday purpose to discuss the merits of the ques- preachers invariably become entangled. or Tuesday, or any succeeding day of the tion as to the propriety of the State work- As he perhaps unwittingly assumes that week. But, read this bill, 3854, and in- ing its prisoners in competition with its obtuse condition for himself and them, sert fOr the word Sunday the name of a law-abiding citizens; but the assumed re- he must not call other folks hard names different day of the week, and consider ligious phase of the subject having been if they concede the proposition. low quickly the sense of the people would mooted, it comes legitimately within the Another extract contains a like piece reject it. Its propriety as a civil measure, SENTINEL'S purview. of logic :— *en.id be instantly denied. What should I have never known anyone, speaker or In order to reform a man you must get him off gi.ire it a 'different complexion when it writer, who undertook to sustain the one side alone, and give him time to think. In contains the: word Sunday ? What is the theory of the State's duty to support Sun- order to get such collected thought, men's hands day, who did not stultify his argument should rest, the ordinary course of activity should Magid i" presto change " in that name ?—It be interrupted. This is the very heart of God's is 'the: teligions association; the fact that before he got through. And there was ordinance for us all, and this, in the form of soli- the consciences of many men. for many no exception to the rule when, on Sunday tary confinement one day out of seven, broken only generations have been trained to reverence evening, March 2, Rev. Dr. Horton, of by attendance upon the chaplain, and by meals, is Sunday AS the holy day of God. this city, undertook to condemn the State's the most hopeful part of prison discipline. Many a jute mill policy from a religious stand- man had rather take his chances in a tiger's cage Sunday was first a holiday, dedicated than be left alone for a whole day with himself. as such to the sun and its worship. So point. Here is one specimen extract from Here is a wonderful idea of improve- a day, the the " prelude :"— that, in its inception, it was- ment in the poor prisoner's condition. It obserVance of which was based upon a Punishment is intended to make better men and is an awful thing to make him do ordinary religions idea; in the accommodation of women of the convicts. Now in order to reform a man two things are necessary. He must first be work on Sunday,—it is " treating him the forms and observances of the pagan like a whipped slave." But alas ! the ter- and Christian churches which, for the inspired with a sense of manliness He must then be encouraged to cultivate a good conscience. But rible alternative, "solitary confinement," sake of temporal power and success, was how can men be inspired with manliness when we to " give him a chance to think." And brought about in the reign of Constantine, treat them like whipped slaves, and drive them to this, " the most hopeful part of the prison the Church found it politic, from the toil upon seven days in each week ? How can we discipline," is acknowledged to be worse point of view which then prevailed, to develop conscience in these men when the great majority of them believe with the vast majority of to many of them than being placed in a adopt the pagan holiday and did so, con- the general public, and believe rightly, that the en- " tiger's cage." This is prison reforma- secrating it anew, with all the sacredness forcement of work on the Sabbath-day is an open tion with a vengeance ! If that would not of the religious forms and beliefs of the defiance of the God of conscience, as well as of all " inspire a man with a sense of manli- Church, transferring to it the awful humanitarian and physiological teachings ? ness," his case must indeed be hopeless. sanctity involved in the Commandment of This is one of the Doctor's character- And this is not the worst of it. If this God, -" ReMember the Sabbath day to istic extravaganzas. It is entirely aside Sunday proposition only affected the State keep it holy," and adding to that all the from the real issue between the State's prison convicts, those outside might rest holy sentiment which can be invoked for jute mill and those of private enterprise. comparatively easy. But, says the Doctor, a day, commemorative of the resurrection It is on a par with his utterance in 1885, " this is the very heart of God's ordinance of our Saviour. when preaching on the Sunday question, of the Sabbath for us all." Thus eurciulatively religious is the his- that " the workingmen of California are It seems to me that I have before read tory of this, day. The religious idea has in a State of worse slavery than ever ex- somewhere of persons in past centuries never been separated from it. No en- isted in the Southern. States." Mark, it is who were placed in solitary confinement,' forcement of its observance, distinctively not the character of the work, or the fact shut off from every one but the chaplain; from other days, can be divorced from that they have to work, or the competition and it was said to be for the purpose of that inbred religious idea, any more than with other institutions, that is drawn into "encouraging them to cultivate a good the physical and moral characteristics of the odious comparison; but it is the seven conscience " toward certain church dog- the father and mother can be eliminated days' work, that is, the Sunday work, that mas. And there is no doubt that many froni the child. This child of the Church makes their labor like that of " whipped of them would rather have taken their and a religious holiday (" the Venerable slaves." chances in a tiger's cage. Day of the Sun ") is, by birth, by inher- But the alleged general belief in the Sun- The preacher made a slight reference itance, and by unbroken habit throughout day institution, not only .of the prisoners to " another side of.this question,"—to the but of the public, is indeed astonishing. its existence, a religious day,—nothing " outrage on free labor that convicts should Such exaggeration sounds strangely odd else. be employed in the San Quentin jute mill (To be continued next week.) coming from the pulpit. That a majority any day of the week; " but his main la- of these prisoners were averse to work ment was in behalf of Sunday. That was County [Michigan] points with on any day, before they got into prision, BARRY the beginning and the end of the prelude. pride to the fact that her court house can and are so yet, is probably true; but that Here is another piece :— be freely used for any purpose other than their opposition to labor on Sunday arises When shall we cease standing out against the for a meeting of the opponents of the from a belief that it is an " open defiance wisdom, piety, and experience of the entire sister- Blair bill.—Hastings, Michigan, Plain- of the God of conscience," is too absurd hood of States and enact suitable Sabbath laws, dealer. for utterance before intelligent people. giving every man emancipation from toil one day 94 THE AMETICAN

in seven, making him a free man one-seventh of i4t.A.•riorT.A.r.; and the NatiOiaal Sunday Law to read; and his time, as much his own master as is the million- again visited him. He received Me cordi, aire upon that day. He may wisely choose to go RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ASSOCIATION. to church thereon, or he may prefer to go to the ally, and stated that he had read theni groves, or to the sea, or into some quiet nook for with interest and profit. He Said he was reading and meditation; he is a free agent and may himself opposed to all forms of State re- do as he chooses with his time, always knowing ligion, and should be strongly opposed to that having chosen his way, he must meet its out- the Blair bills. He also said he corre- come at the end. DECLARATION of PRINCIPLES. We believe in the religion taught by Jesus Christ. sponded with one of our State Senators, This mild admission that every man " is We believe in temperance, and regard the liquor traffic as a curse to society. and would write him his views in regard a free agent and may do as he chooses We believe in supporting the civil government, and submit- ting to its authority. to the bills in full. with his time," does not accord very well We deny the right of any civil government -to legislate on religious questions. " I realize that this is an important with the general appeals for Sunday laws, We believe it is the right, and should be the privilege, of every man to worship according to the dictates of his own con- work, and it needs much wisdom and the which nearly all advocates, including the science. We also believe it to be our duty to, use every lawful and help of God, to conduct it aright." Doctor himself, base upon the custom of honorable means to prevent religious legislation by the civil government; that we and our fellow-citizens may enjoy the in- Such an expression of their experience, estimable blessings of both religious and civil liberty. men doing as they please on Sunday. That and the result of their work, as this, is is just what Sunday laws are designed to OFFICES. desired by the Secretary of the Associa- prevent,—in fact it is their prime object. tion, from the workers throughout the But there .are times in the discussion of 43 BOND STREET, NEW YORK CITY ; 225 A ST., N. E. WASHINGTON ; 28 COLLEGE PLACE, CHICAGO . field generally. the question when it is expedient to put a mild phase on this ideal reform. It will C. ELDREDGE, President. not do to keep the " solitary confinement " W. H. 1VIcKEE, Secretary. WHILE the Blair Sunday-observance idea too exclusively in view. bill now before Congress is drawing the W. N. GLENN. Petitions Presented in Congress. attention of church people that way, the Oakland, California. Legislature of South Dakota is kicking up ON Monday, March 3, and Wednesday, a rumpus with the prohibition bill it is March 5, monster petitions were presented considering. The objectionable feature of The Blair Sunday Bill. in the House and Senate against the pas- the latter bill is that it prohibits the use THERE are several semi-religious organ- sage of the Blair Sunday-rest bill for the of fermented wine for sacramental pur- izations and numerous newspapers de- District of Columbia, the Blair amendment poses. The- writer is one of a large class voted to the work of procuring legisla- to the Constitution, embodying the en- that believes that the Bible does not re- tion, State and national, in the interest of forcement of the principles of the Chris- quire that fermented wine be used at the religious dogma and ecclesiasticism. The tian religion in the public schools or any communion table. We understand, how- entering wedge is whittled down to a very other measure of religious legislation. ever, that the rules of the Catholic Church fine point and presented as the Blair Sun- In the House the petitions were presented require fermented wine, and the clergy- day-rest bill. This measure proposes ab- by Representative O'Donnell, and in the men of the Episcopal Church are divided solute restriction upon all manner of sec- Senate by Senator Stockbridge. The num- on the subject. This being the case, it ular work upon Sunday in the Territories, ber of individual signatures to the House seems as though the bill if passed, would the District of Columbia, interstate com- petition amounted to 253,227, and to the be declared unconstutional, on the ground Senate 308,377. merce, the mail service, and such other that it interfered "with the religious .places and branches of service as are under Individual signatures of residents of the rights and privileges of the Church and in- Government jurisdiction. District of Columbia, numbering 7,945, dividual." These words were taken from The Blair bill is the mildest form yet were presented in the House against the an interview of Bishop M. N. Gilbert, proposed for religious legislation; but its Breckinridge local Sunday bill for the of the Episcopal Church, a pronounced true significance lies in its being an in- District. temperance man. It seems to us that troduction for a system of statutory re- the Dakota prohibitionists are carrying ligion that would neutralize our free in- Experience in the Field. things too far. Every temperance man, stitutions and substitute therefor an ec- with the exception of extremists, is satis- clesiasticism that would re-inaugurate a W. C. WALSTON, of Vermont, writes, in fied to confine his opposition to the liquor business to the abuse of liquor, and does reign of bigotry and persecution. Eter- the Review and Herald: "My work con- sists in circulating the petition, circulat- not care to interfere with its legitimate nal vigilance is the price of liberty; and use. So long as the use of fermented we had better put up with some incon- ing subscriptions for the AMERICAN SEN- wine for sacramental purposes is at least venience than to encourage a policy that TINEL, selling Civil Government and Re- an open question, it does not seem like is in its nature and all its developments ligion, and the National Sunday Law, and quite the proper thing to decide with such positiveness. When the abuses of liquor inimical to the religious freedom that we circulating other literature in opposition to religious legislation.- I have a variety are among the things of the past, it will now enjoy at such a vast expenditure of be time enough to so regulate its use.— life and treasure. There are two enemies of experiences, as I meet persons of differ- Litchfield, Minnesota, Review. to free government ; one is despotism, and ent minds and views ; but it is most aston- ishing how few there are, who are in- another is anarchy, but an equally fatal THE friends of liberty must not for one formed in regard to the Blair bills. * * * tendency is that of bigotry and intoler- moment forget that the advocates of Na- " The first field I canvassed was my old ance, and the latter shows out prominently tional Sunday legislation are working home town. I took nearly every leading in the spirit and management of those night and day to secure the enactment of person's subscription for the SENTINEL, who are pressing the Sunday laws upon the Blair Sunday-rest bill. This bill is and sold several copies of Civil Govern- Congress.---Osborne, Kansas, News. really in the interest of the Church and of ment and Religion. I have sold this the Church only, but the crafty schemers pamphlet to every clergyman I have engineering it have done all they could to A CHURCH which has not enterprise visited, with one exception, and to nearly deceive the people into the belief that its enough to teach its own religion, in its every lawyer. I first -visited a man of object is "to secure to the people the priv- own way, in its own hours, on Sunday, and large influence, who said his attention had ileges of rest and of religious worship" on in its own households, and through its not been called particularly to the Blair Sunday, "free from disturbance by others," just as though existing laws did not guar- own missions, does not deserve to be bills, and he should want to consider the antee this freedom from disturbance on all allowed to tack itself on the State.—New matter fully, before making any move. I days of the week ! Beware of the Protest- York Independent. left him Civil Government and Religion, ant Jesuits !—Fair Play. THE _AMERICAN SENTINEL. 95

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developed without a distinctive theological dominated he could observe Saturday, training. It is a fact that, in these days though he would prefer Sunday; and that of increasing subserviency to man-made in this country, as Sunday is the day ob- theology, and of dangerous tendency to served, people ought not to object when centralization in Church and in State, with required to observe it. Yet he insisted a view to future coalition, the broadly that the Sabbath is of divine and everlast- educated men and women of such institu- ing obligation. NEW YORK, MARCH 20, 1890. , tions as the Michigan University are needed The same day, in the City Court, a to maintain the social, political, and moral Chinaman, about to be sworn as a witness, NOTE.—Any one receiving the AMERICAN SENTINEL without having ordered it may know that it is sent to hira by some equilibrium of national affairs. when asked what form of oath he would friend, unless plainly marked " Sample copy." It is our invari- able rule to send out no papers without pay in advance, except • 10 consider most binding, replied :.— by special arrangement, therefore, those who have not ordered the SENTINEL need have no fears that they will be asked to pay Here in America I believe in the Bible, but in for it simply because they take it from the post-office. THE annual Convention of the National Reforin Association is to meet in Lincoln China I would believe in idols and my ancestors. FOR a living illustration of the influence Music Hall, Washington City, April 1, and Dr. MacArthur's views of moral obliga- of ecclesiastics in legislation, please read continue three days. Rev. Jonathan Ed- tion match quite well with those of that and inwardly digest the article by our wards is announced as one of the speakers, Chinaman. London correspondent, page 91. and he is to speak on the same subject that he did in the Convention of 1873. THE attempt to shut all places on Sun- Hon. W. C. P. Breckharidge, who framed day except those which are run in the in- A NEW edition of the pamphlet ' Civil the Sunday bill 'for the District of Colum- terests of religion and the Church, has led Government and Religion " is now ready. bia is to preside at one of the sessions and an enterprising proprietor in Boston to It contains the new Amendment resolution make a speech. label his dime museum on Sunday as fol- and the new National Sunday bill, with Of all days in the year, the first day of lows 1---- discussions of them which brings the pam- April is the only one on which that ASSo= Eibientifie Oltureh, (strand _Wilbert and lectufa phlet up to date. Let it have the widest biAti.Ori ban With pbtfObt boiisistbncy meet, possible circulation, bn bid niaicis seed pkiib-Aght@is: doii@ctioit id mitg, The genuine churches ought to he N a speech in the United. States Senate ashanied ofSUch Company as that. It Timm was laid on our table this Week a ; Mardi. in Opposition to the Blair Edu- may be replied that they are ashamed of copy of a German edition, illustrated; of dational bill, Senator Plumb, of Kansas, it. Hardly; if they were ashamed of the pamphlet " Civil GoVernitieht and Re- gave expression to an immense truth, and such company they would be ashamed to ligion," We are glad to see it. It supplies as important just now as it is immense, create it, as they do by the laws which a need that has been seriously felt for when he spoke the two following sen- they demand shall be enacted and enforced. some time. We hope the friends of truth tences :— So long as -they are not ashamed to create and good government will bring this to the Whatever domain Government invades it domi such company, it cannot be said that they notice of the German people as promptly nates. The jurisdiction which it takes it keeps. are ashamed of it after they have created and as widely as possible. 229 pages. Let the people attach these two sentences it. Price, 35 cents. to the Sunday Bills that are now before Congress, then carefully study the whole, SUNDAY evening, March 9, there was The Gospel in All Lands for March is and they will get a view of what the re- a Sunday-law meeting held in Bedford one of the best numbers of that monthly sult would be if they became lays. By Street Methodist Episcopal Church, this which has ever been issued. Mexico is the this too, those who favor these measures city, Colonel Elliott F. Shepard was one of subject of the "Monthly Missionary Con- can see what they ask when they petition the speakers, and his speech was charac- cert," which is especially interesting and for the passage of such bills teristic of himself and of the body of cannot fail to increase the interest now felt which he is president, as the following ex- in this country in Christian missions in that republic. "The Jesuit Campaign and tract will show. This is all of his speech IN the United States Senate March 3, Our Danger," by Charles J. Little, LL, D,, •that needs to be reported :— Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, very should be read by everybody, and the England and the United States. are the greatest justly remarked that " the tendency of warning which it contains should be Nations in the world because they keep the . fourth this day is too much to paternalism in heeded. The author truthfully remarks commandment. Germany conquered France be- government." This is too true. The evil cause she was a better Sabbath-keeping Nation, and that " the real danger- lies not so much in tendency seems to be in the very air. It by this standard a Nation's greatness may be judged. the Jesuitism of Catholicism as in the crops out "here and there and everywhere. Jesuitism of Protestantism," by which he It cannot be too carefully watched nor too AT the annual meeting of the alumni means the adoption by Protestants of strictly guarded against. Mr. Spooner and alumnae of Michigan University, resi- Jesuitical practices, traditions, and meth- further said that " no man can sit in Con- dent in Washington, which was recently ods. held 'at Willard's, Representative Allen, of gress without being conscious of the fact that very often petitions come here for leg- Michigan, made a ringing after-dinner THE AMERICAN SENTINEL. speech. He declared that the University islation on •topics which are not justly the owed much of the marvelous progress subject of legislation." Sunday legisla- AN EIGHT-PAGE WEEKLY JOURNAL, which it has made to the fact that it has tion is a sample of this, therefore let the DEVOTED TO petitions be rolled up by the thousands of always maintained the proper distinctions The defense of American Institutions, the preserva- between religion and the State. names against such legislation. tion of the United States Constitution as it is, This great institution of learning has so far as regards religion or religious tests, - and the Maintenance of - human kept an even course, in respect to these IN a Sunday-law meeting in this city, rights both civil and religioug. queStions, through much adverse criticism, Tuesday evening, March 11, Rev. R. S. - It will ever be uncOmpromisinglYopposed to anything tending But, by the character of the men Whom it MacArthur, ,pastor of Calvary _Baptist towards *ice of Church and State; either- in name or in'fact. has sent out to participate in, the public Church, said, as 'to the keeping of the 'Smoot COPY, PER 'YEAR, POET-PAID, . . . . $1;00. councils of the States and of the. Nation, In clubs of ten or more conies, per year, . . , 75e. - Sabbath, that if he were ire a Mohammedan To foreign coutatrie.4,' single subscription, post-paid, 4s. it has proved most conclusively that a country he could observe Friday; if in a Address, AMERICAN SENTINEL.' noble and intelligent Christianity can be country where Seventh-day Baptists pre- , 48 'BOND STREET, NEW. YDER,