Earlier text: A Message of ReconciliationRiots, at Home and Abroad
By L. A. S.
A riot in Shanghai, or Peking, is a vastly different thing in the view of American citizens from a riot in one of their home cities, but when we examine the two side by side, what is there found to justify the outbreak in this country and condemn it in China? What is there which entitles rioting to more favorable consideration in this country than it merits in a foreign land? In The Outlook, some recent articles by George Kennan, the well-known traveler and writer, describing “China in Transition,” set forth very clearly the causes which underlie the existing feeling against alien races in that country. The Chinese have real grievances. There has been direct and wanton and grievous infringement of their personal and political rights by the subjects of foreign powers residing in Chinese territory. In the treatment of Chinese men and women accused of crime there has been clear violation of treaty rights. The Chinese have been subjected to humiliations to which the people of this country would not submit for a moment. From this have come the recent outbreaks of the mob spirit in China. Just now, at home, we have before us the spectacle of a mob taking possession of the city of Springfield, Ohio, overpowering the local officials, and being kept in check only by the presence of armed troops. Two negroes had murdered a white man, and the smoldering fires of race hatred at once blazed into a conflagration. There may be apparent cause for the feeling which has prompted this outbreak in Springfield, but the fact remains that mob violence is no more edifying a spectacle in Ohio than it is in China, and the people of this civilized land have no occasion to cast stones at the heathen inhabitants of Asia. The same savagery is exhibited here as there; for when the mob spirit gets hold of a person, he becomes at once neither Christian nor civilized. The mob spirit brings the people of all countries down upon a common level of savagery. The Bible is right in dividing the people of all lands, of whatever nationality or citizenship, into but two classes—Christian and heathen. L. A. S. Eugene Debs Calls for Revolution
THE following language, which is attributed to Eugene Debs, the socialist leader, amounts to nothing less than a call for another civil war and a revolution in this country. In reply to a telegram from the editor of the Toledo Socialist, asking for an expression from Mr. Debs regarding the recent arrest of the president and secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, charged with complicity in a number of murders in Idaho and Colorado, Mr. Debs is quoted as saying:— What I have to say about the latest and boldest stroke of plutocracy will require but little space. It is not talk that is wanted, but action. The issue is clear. The labor leaders that can not be bought or bullied must be ambushed or murdered. How shall we meet that situation?—We must fight. Another Haymarket will precipitate a revolution. If murder must be committed, it will not be the working class alone that will furnish the victims this time. A million of men will meet the issue with guns.
All working men and others who have red blood in their veins will rise up against this murderous plot of the plutocracy against two innocent men. They have stolen our country, debauched our politics, defiled our judiciary, and now they propose to murder those who will not abjectly surrender to their brutal dominion. We have no courts to appeal to; they belong to the plutocracy, and I am opposed to spending our means going up against a brace game judiciary.
Let mass-meetings be held all over the country, and the workers aroused. If they put our leaders in the penitentiaries without trial, we will pull them down, as they did the Bastile in France. The issue is the workers versus the plutocracy. If they strike the first violent blow, we will strike the last.
The sudden awakening of the long-slumbering nations of eastern Asia, is an event not reckoned on by the European nations when, during the last century, they had dealings with the Asiatics which violated every principle of justice; such, for example, as England's forcing of the opium trade on China. Now, when China is seen to be undergoing a rapid transformation which bids fair to make her a world power, there is arising in some minds in England a feeling of apprehension that England may erelong be called to account for the wanton perpetration of so great a wrong upon the Chinese nation. An English journal says:— With the arising of the Chinese empire out of its long sleep, there comes a conviction to many that England must yet face a day of reckoning for the crime of forcing opium upon the Chinese people. It is said that a hundred millions are suffering in China to-day from the opium curse. A C. M. S. missionary in Nanking says in the Christian: “In forcing this trade in a vile poison upon the formerly phlegmatic and pagan millions of the Chinese, merely for the sake of its paltry revenue, we have committed ‘commercial suicide,’ and that while in a state of unsound mind. This verdict is unanimous among the sanest and best-informed missionaries, consuls, and merchants in the far East.” The Superficiality of Modern Revivals
THE superficial character of much of the religious revival work of these times is indicated by the sensational methods of advertising which accompany it. A column of space is given to this subject in a recent issue of the Washington Post. It is stated that in Denver, Colo., “if the present rivalry among congregations in the matter of the conspicuous display of their advertisements is not soon abated, theater managers, who in the past enjoyed a practical monopoly of the billboard privileges, may be called on to pay an advance in the price of space on the boards.” The different denominational Sunday-schools have been taught religious jingles to be shouted in concert after the manner of a college yell. “Stickers” bearing the inscription, “Get right with God,” were introduced in a revival campaign in Colorado last spring by an ex-baseball player evangelist, Rev. “Billy” Sunday. “These were pasted,” it is stated, “on sidewalks, on lamp-posts, on the windows of street-cars—in every place where they would attract attention. One religious campaigner slipped into a fashionable hotel at Colorado Springs one night, and pasted a “sticker” on the bands of all the hats he could find while the owners were at dinner.” The weakness of all such campaigns is that the people are not taught to “get right with God” by ceasing to trample upon his holy law. Modern revival efforts are not based upon a presentation of the immutable character of God’s law. There is sensationalism and superficiality, and no deep penitence based on a sense of the “exceeding sinfulness of sin” as revealed through the law. The characteristics of modern popular revivals do not belie what is said in “Great Controversy” regarding their nature. National Reform’s Case for Religious Education
ASSUMING that the United States is a Christian nation, the Christian Statesman (National Reform organ) makes the following argument for a complete system of religious education in the state schools:— A republican people has an unquestioned right to teach republican ideas to her future citizens. A Christian nation has the same right to do so that she has to be Christian at all. If she has Christian laws on her statute-books, such as Sabbath laws and laws against blasphemy, she has the right to teach those laws, and the reasons which underlie them, and to prepare her future citizens for yielding an intelligent and loyal obedience to them. If the state maintains prayer in her legislative assemblies, and appoints an annual Thanksgiving day, and employs the oath as an appeal to God in her courts of justice, she has a self-evident right to teach to all her children the whole body of ideas which are involved in these institutions of government. Those who object to such teaching in her schools must also, if consistent, object to these Christian institutions, and favor the program of the secularists who would sweep them all away. In the presence of this natural and unquestionable right of the state, any objection from any church, and any demand that this work be turned over to her clergy, is a sheer impertinence. This is, of course, a straight argument in favor of a union of church and state. That is the form of government in which the Statesman party believes, and that is the end toward which their reform movement is working. But to one who does not believe in such a union, the Statesman's reasoning is a good argument in favor of the elimination of Sunday laws, Thanksgiving proclamations, and other so-called Christian features from the government, since these constitute a foundation upon which misguided reformers are seeking to erect a theocracy, in which there will be no place for freedom of conscience. A God of Knowledge, by Whom Actions Are Weighed
By Ellen G. White
The Lord is a God of knowledge. In his Word, he is represented as weighing men, their development of character and all their motives, whether they be good or evil. Hannah, the mother of Samuel, the child granted her by God in answer to her earnest petition, said, “The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.” David declared, “Men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.” Isaiah said, “Thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.” Solomon wrote, “All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.” It is for the eternal interest of every one to search his own heart, and to improve every God-given faculty. Let all remember that there is not a motive in the heart of any man that the Lord does not clearly see. The motives of each one are weighed as carefully as if the destiny of the human agent depended upon this one result. We need a connection with divine power, that we may have an increase of clear light and an understanding of how to reason from cause to effect. We need to have the powers of the understanding cultivated, by our being partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. Let each one consider carefully the solemn truth, God in heaven is true, and there is not a design, however intricate, nor a motive, however carefully hidden, that he does not clearly understand. He reads the secret devisings of every heart. Men may plan out crooked actions for the future, thinking that God does not understand; but in that great day when the books are opened, and every man is judged by the things written in the books, those actions will appear as they are. David in the Psalms writes, “O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my down sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thoughts afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. . . .” “If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.” The Lord sees and understands all dishonesty in planning, all unlawful appropriation in any degree of property or means, all injustice in man’s dealing with his fellow men. There are many who need now to consider the words, “Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.” God’s holy, everlasting, immutable law is the standard by which man is to be tried. This law defines what we shall do and what we shall not do, saying, Thou shalt, and, Thou shalt not. This law is summed up in the two great principles, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.” This means just what it says. O how few will be prepared to meet the law of God in the great day of judgment! If the work of individual preparation for which the Lord calls were carried on in the home circle and in the church, how much suffering, how much sin, would be avoided! My brethren, day and night, and especially in the night season, this matter is presented to me. “Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.” How do we stand before God at this time? We may be sincere, and yet greatly deceived. Saul of Tarsus was sincere when he was persecuting the church of Christ. “I verily thought,” he declared, “that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus.” He was sincere in his ignorance. But after Christ had revealed himself to him, he declared, “What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.” If we are not cleansed by the blood of Christ, we are altogether wanting. We know that there is no one, however earnestly he may be striving to do his best, who can say, “I have no sin.” He who would say this would be under a dangerous deception. “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” How then can we escape the charge, “Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting”? We are to look to Christ. At infinite cost he has covenanted to be our representative in the heavenly courts, our advocate before God. Weighed in the balances, and found wanting. Man, weighed against God’s holy law, is found wanting. We are enlightened by the precepts of the law, but no man can by them be justified. Weighed and found wanting is our inscription by nature. But Christ is our Mediator, and accepting him as our Saviour, we may claim the promise, “Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.” “Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. . . . Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.” “I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake. I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. I have written unto you, fathers,9 because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.” “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.” “Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us; but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.” How important that we, living as we are at the very close of this earth’s history, should be very careful to put away our own individual sins, so that we shall not grieve the heart of Christ. Let each one, old or young, be faithful in dealing with himself, lest he shall stumble along in darkness, making grievous mistakes, and thus helping others to make mistakes. “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father; [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.” “And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you in all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.” He who denies the personality of God and of his Son Jesus Christ, is denying God and Christ. “If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.” If you continue to believe and obey the truths you first embraced regarding the personality of the Father and the Son, you will be joined together with him in love. There will be seen that union for which Christ prayed just before his trial and crucifixion:— “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” Christ is glorified in his saints. He, the propitiation for their sins, will be glorified in all who believe in him as their Saviour, all who commit themselves and their interests to his guidance. They are on Christ’s side, known by the manifestation that Christ makes through them of his power to save. They obtain victory after victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. They are made perfect in their victory through Christ. Give Me Jesus
By C. H. KESLAKE
GIVE me Jesus, Rose of Sharon,
Lily of the valley sweet;
Give me Jesus, Bread of heaven,
Freely I this Bread would eat. Give me Jesus, gentle Shepherd,
Faithful Leader of the flock;
Give me Jesus, Rock of Ages,
Proof against sin’s rudest shock. Give me Jesus, Stem of Jesse,
Root of David, Morning Star;
Give me Jesus, Light of heaven,
Shining through the gates ajar. Give me Jesus, King of Salem,
Prince of Peace, of Righteousness;
Give me Jesus, he will gladly
Clothe me with salvation’s dress. Give me Jesus, Lamb most holy,
Gift of God before the fall;
Give me Jesus, slain for sinners,
Offered for the sins of all. Give me Jesus, only Jesus,
He alone can satisfy;
Give me Jesus, blessed Jesus,
Give me Jesus, or I die. Give me Jesus, interceding
Now for me at God’s right hand;
Give me Jesus, he will guide me
Safely to the promised land. Give me Jesus, Stone of Israel,
Rock of Ages cleft for me;
Give me Jesus, in his keeping
I am safe eternally. St. John’s, Newfoundland. Shall We Buy Mining Stock?
By Francis M. Wilcox
These are days of peril; not alone in so-called spiritual ways, but in every phase of human experience. The spirit of speculation is rife in the land. Speculative philosophy is seeking to turn away thousands from the truth of God. We see the same spirit of idle speculation in the commercial world. As never before, men are investing their money in idle schemes which hold out great promise of sudden wealth. And this temptation assails the believers in this message as well as the men and women of the world. Every device will be invented by Satan whereby the means of this denomination shall be tied up, and thus our needy missions be robbed of the support which God designs his people to afford them. If Satan can induce Seventh-day Adventists to invest their means in some patent right, some new invention, some mining scheme, or in the thousand and one worldly inducements which present themselves, he is most highly pleased. And the fact that thousands have invested their means in such ways, and lost their all, seems to have no deterring influence in preventing others from rushing heedlessly on in the same worldly ventures. We are forcibly reminded of this by letters recently received from some of our conference officers in the East, making inquiry as to whether it is advisable for our brethren and sisters to invest their means in mining interests in Colorado, in answer to alluring advertisements which are being sent to them. We have responded to these letters, advising that under no circumstances should investments be made in these enterprises until our brethren had satisfied themselves by thorough personal investigation as to their reliability. But a thorough investigation would be difficult for the majority of our brethren to make. Totally unacquainted with mining operations, they would therefore be almost wholly dependent upon the representations made by others; thus they would be largely at the mercy of wild speculators, who, while perhaps perfectly honest in their faith in the outcome of the venture, and perhaps members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, would be so drunken with the spirit of speculation that they could not carefully and correctly weigh the question in all its bearings. We have known Seventh-day Adventists to withdraw thousands of dollars from our institutions, where they were receiving a reasonable rate of interest, and where their money was accomplishing good for the cause of God, and invest it in mines in Colorado, with no returns whatever except mining stock, which is absolutely worthless. The fact that these mines were operated by Seventh-day Adventists, did not make the investment one whit more safe or successful. Hence we wish to say to our brethren and sisters throughout the country everywhere, Beware of every scheme and representation which would lead you to withhold or withdraw your money from the cause of God to invest it in mines or other questionable enterprises, where in the majority of cases you will be sadly disappointed in the realization of your hopes. Says our Saviour, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” In harmony with this plain scripture injunction, much has been said in the writings of the spirit of prophecy on this subject. While many quotations might be made, the following extract from page 665, Vol. II, of “Testimonies for the Church,” contains the central thought of all:— “A flattering prospect may be presented to invest in patent rights, or some other supposed brilliant enterprise, around which Satan throws a bewitching enchantment. The prospect of getting more money, fast and easily, allures them. The reason that, although they had resolved to put this money into the treasury of God, they will use it in this instance, and will greatly increase it, and will then give a larger sum to the cause. They can see no possibility of a failure. Away goes the means out of their hands, and they soon learn, to their regret, that they have made a mistake. The brilliant prospects have faded. Their expectations are not realized. They were deceived. Satan outgeneraled them. He was more shrewd than they; and he managed to get their means into his ranks, and thus deprive the cause of God of that which should have been used to sustain it in extending the truth, and saving souls for whom Christ died. They lost all they had invested, and10 robbed God of that which they should have rendered to him.” Please read also the chapter entitled “Speculations,” page 225, Vol. I, “Testimonies for the Church.” May God make us wise and sensible men and women in these days of peril, not allowing ourselves to be outgeneraled by Satan, and thus be brought into places where he shall triumph over us in entailing regret and discouragement, and also robbing the cause of God of the help which it is within our power to bestow. Is the Bible Becoming Obsolete?
By Wm. Penniman
We quote the following from the Globe-Democrat of Jan. 21, 1906: “President G. Stanley Hall, of Clark University, in a lecture in Clinton, said the Bible was becoming more and more obsolete. Subsequently he gave out the following at his home: ‘There have been within the last five years a number of questions printed and sent broadcast to high schools and Sunday-schools to test the knowledge of the Bible of high-school and Sunday-school students. All the questions have shown the school students to be amazingly defective in their knowledge, and particularly of the Old Testament. The reason has been discussed a great deal, and it seems to be that the Sunday-school and home influence is diminishing. The Bible is less read in the home than it was a few years ago, and the number of children who have a fair knowledge of it is growing less and less. This shows that the Bible is becoming obsolete.” “Professors of literature even in colleges have complained that students who have matriculated show an amazing lack of knowledge of the Bible. The Bible is becoming obsolete, and this fact has been exploited many times in the last ten years. In my opinion a knowledge of the Bible should be made a requirement in English of all colleges.” “When the Bible was translated, English was virile and vigorous. It was short and terse. To my mind the Bible is as good a standard of English as those now commonly accepted, if not better.” Another proof (and many can be given) that President Hall is right as to the disuse of the Bible is the following from the Globe-Democrat of Feb. 9, 1906:— “INDIANAPOLIS, IND., February 8.—The faculty of Depau University at Greencastle, the oldest Methodist institution in the West, has surprised the students by dropping the study of the Bible from the list of required subjects.” The only required work is language, science, and rhetoric. We say, then, Why drop the Bible when it truly is the very foundation of science? The Bible should be taught in the colleges and in all the schools except the common, or public, ones. But, says one, why not in the public school?—Because it will surely lead to sectarianism and the teaching and adoption of human creeds, as it has already done. The home, the Sunday- and the Sabbath-school are the places where the Bible should be taught. Christ said, “Search the Scriptures,” and Paul said to Timothy, “Study to show thyself approved unto God.” The Scripture says that the wicked shall wax worse and worse. Crime of every description is on the increase, and this proves the Word of God true. We are glad to note that President Hall speaks of “the Bible as a good standard of English.” Rather than adopt the theory of the “higher critics” who attempt to soar higher than heaven by “getting wise above that which is written,” we prefer the language of John Locke, who said, “The Bible has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error for its motive.” The Metropolis of the Scriptures
A YOUNG man had been preaching in the presence of a venerable divine, and after he had done, he went to the old minister, and said:— “What do you think of my sermon?” “A very poor sermon, indeed,” said he. “A poor sermon?” said the young man. “It took me a long time to study it.” “Why! Did you not think my explanation of the text a very good one?” “O, yes,” said the old preacher, “very good, indeed.” “Well, then, why do you say it is a poor sermon? Didn’t you think the metaphors were appropriate, and the arguments conclusive?” “Yes, that was very good, so far as that goes; but still it was a very poor sermon.” “Will you tell me why you think it was a very poor sermon?” “Because,” said he, “there was no Christ in it.” “Well,” said the young man, “Christ was not in the text; we are not to be preaching Christ always; we must preach what is in the text.” So the old man said, “Don’t you know, young man, that from every town and every village and every little hamlet in England, wherever it may be, there is a road to London?” “Yes,” said the young man. “Ah!” said the old divine, “and from every text in Scripture there is a road to the metropolis of the Scriptures—that is, Christ. And, my dear brother, your business is, when you get a text, to say, ‘Now what is the road to Christ?’ and then preach a sermon running along the road to the metropolis—Christ. And,” said he, “I have not yet found a text that hasn’t a road to Christ in it. If I should, I would make one. I would go over hedge and ditch, but I would get at my Master, for the sermon can not do any good unless there is a savor of Christ in it.”—Selected. Evils of Religious Legislation
By H. W. Reed
MANY and varied are the means and ways resorted to by the federated churches that religious legislation may become established in this nation. Little do such seem to realize that our national existence is based upon the heaven-born principle of the equality of human rights as the only just foundation upon which to build political governments. The State of Wisconsin has a strong Federation of Churches and Christian Workers, and from the seventh annual report of Secretary H. A. Miner, rendered at the Sparta convention last October, I will quote as follows: “It has furnished a strong backing to the Anti-Saloon League and the Sunday Rest-Day Association, constituent members of this body, in their legislative work to secure laws restricting the liquor traffic and giving better protection to the Sabbath as a day of rest.” In the closing part of his report the secretary said: “Brethren, our State federation, now entering upon the eighth year of its history, the oldest of State federations, while it has not accomplished all we had fondly hoped it might, yet as leading all other States in point of time and in the breadth and character of its work, and receiving, as it does, the approbation of the leading and most intelligent membership of at least ten denominational and six reformatory State bodies, deserves our continued and enthusiastic support.” Thus a people are fulfilling prophecy on the wrong side, and soon the evil results of religious legislation will be experienced. Those who have started out to enforce religion by legislation will never stop short of obtaining a Sunday law with a death penalty attached thereto. This is the terminus of the way in which they have started. Religious legislation is not a plant that springs forth from the virgin soil of freedom, as the United States when established by our forefathers; but an enemy to liberty sowed that evil seed, and it is fast growing up and choking out the good plant of liberty, until to-day it is sickly and nearly ready to die. For any one to drink in the principle of religious legislation as the federated churches are now doing, is but to drink from the stagnant pool from which the Roman Church drank before she drank the blood of martyrs. Now beware, federated churches, how you hover over and around this polluted pool, breathing its poisonous miasma, and drinking its deadly, malarious water. In the light of the past, it is surprising that ministers of the gospel can work for and vindicate religious legislation, which is the masterpiece of evil in a nation depraved and forsaken of God. They are prophetically spoken of, and this awful work they will do. They will just as surely do it as the Jewish church crucified the Saviour, and they will bring irretrievable loss and ruin upon great numbers. May God help us to do all in our power to prevent religious legislation. The Patent-Medicine Evil
By L. A. S.
Further Testimony About Liquozone
THE advertisements put out by the Liquozone Company are prolific in testimonials, which on investigation are found in every instance, as Mr. Adams sets forth at some length in Collier’s, to be garbled or faked. Of the pretended indorsements from physicians, Mr. Adams says:— “Having a professional interest in the ‘overwhelming number of medical indorsements’ claimed by liquozone, a Chicago physician, Dr. W. H. Pelton, went to the company’s offices and asked to see the medical evidence. None was forthcoming; the lists, he was informed, were in the press, and could not be shown. He then asked for the official book for physicians advertised by the firm, containing ‘a great deal of evidence from authorities whom all physicians respect.’ This also, they said, was ‘in the press.’ As a matter of fact, it has never come out of the press, and never will; the special book project has been dropped.” An investigation of the “scientific evidence” surrounding the “discovery” of liquozone develops an interesting tale. “In a pamphlet issued by the company and since withdrawn,” says Mr. Adams, “occurs this sprightly sketch:— ‘Liquozone is the discovery of Professor Pauli, the great German chemist, who worked for twenty years to learn how to liquefy oxygen. When Pauli first mentioned his purpose, men laughed at him. The idea of liquefying a gas—of circulating liquid oxygen in the blood—seemed impossible. But Pauli was one of those men who set their whole hearts on a problem, and follow it out either to success or to the grave. So Pauli followed out this problem though it took twenty years. He clung to it through discouragements which would have led any lesser man to abandon it. He worked on it despite poverty and ridicule,’ etc. Liquozone Kills a Great German Scientist
“Alas for romance! The scathing blight of the legal mind descended upon this touching story. The lawyer-directors would have none of ‘Professor Pauli, the great German chemist,’ and liquozone destroyed him, as it had created him. Not totally destroyed, however, for from those rainbow wrappings, now dissipated, emerges the humble but genuine figure of our old acquaintance, Mr. Powley, the ex-piano man of Toronto. He is the prototype of the Teutonic savant. So much the liquozone people now admit, with the defense that the change of Powley to Pauli was, at most, a harmless flight of fancy.” Finding that they were raising a storm which they were unprepared to meet, the company revised their advertising system, so that, as now conducted, all direct intentional misstatements about their product are carefully eliminated, but the same impression is conveyed to the reader’s mind as formerly regarding the wonderful curative virtues of liquozone and overwhelming evidence in its support. Mr. Adams states that he recently received from the company a copy of a new booklet on which all their future advertising is to be based. He finds that “the most important of their fundamental misstatements to go by the board, is, ‘Liquozone is liquid oxygen.’ ‘Liquozone contains no free oxygen,’ declares the revision frankly. No testimonials are to be printed. The faked and garbled letters are to be dropped from the files. There is no claim of ‘overwhelming medical indorsement.’ Nor is the statement anywhere made that liquozone will cure any of the diseases in which it is recommended. Yet such is the ingenuity with which the advertising manager has presented his case that the new newspaper exploitation appeals to the same hopes and fears, with the same implied promises, as the old. ‘I’m well because of liquozone,’ in huge type, is followed by the list of diseases ‘where it applies.’ And the new list is more comprehensive than the old.”