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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, March 10, 1885.

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 10. Whole No. 1605.

MARKED PASSAGES.

GOVERNMENT SUNDAY-KEEPING.

In the Christian Statesman of Feb. 19, 1885, we find the following:—

“THE GOVERNMENT OBSERVING THE SABBATH.—It is a fact for which the whole country ought to be profoundly grateful, that although the New Orleans Exposition is open on the Sabbath, the government exhibit is closed. This is due to the influence of Secretary Frelinghuysen, whose representations on the subject prevailed with President Arthur to secure this result. This illustrates the importance of having God-fearing men in such positions. The influence of Secretary Folger, in securing the postponement until Monday of the Presidential trip to Louisville over a year ago, when it had been arranged to start on the Sabbath, will also be remembered. If one sinner destroyeth much good, one good man in high station accomplisheth much good. At the same time, on such a vital question as the Sabbath, the nation ought not to leave the action of government to the discretion of officials. If the President and his Secretary had been of another mind, the government exhibit at New Orleans would have been open on the Sabbath. The attitude of the nation to the Day of Rest should be determined by law, by constitutional law, so that, even if the officials should be personally careless of its obligation, their public action would be governed by the expressed will of the nation.”

A NEW “PRESENT TRUTH.”

In the same paper, W. J. Coleman, one of the district secretaries of the National Reform Association says:—

“Each time I have the opportunity to speak on the authority of Christ as the Ruler of nations, and of his will as law for moral issues, it seems to me not only that these ideas are true, but that they are present truth. They are the preserving salt of all the political theories of our time.”

A SUGGESTION.

Speaking of the lectures of Mr. Coleman before the junior and senior classes of Muskingum College, H. Leiper, another secretary, says:—

“If I may be allowed to make a suggestion to the Executive Committee of the National Reform Association, it will be that Brother Coleman be assigned the duty of visiting the ‘Pierian Springs’ of this country and of impregnating them with the principles of true national life. There can be no more effectual nor speedier way of bringing to a successful issue the great cause for which we are laboring.”