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War, Labor Troubles, and the Philippines

This nation and government has all it can attend to. The great strikes in Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Colorado, and the labor troubles in the mining regions of Montana and Idaho, have been more than serious, not so much in the immediate consequences, but in the intense feeling excited and engendered by friends, enemies, and a pandering press, in all parts of the country. A large standing army has been called for by many; it looks as tho it might be needed at home. In the Philippines matters seem no nearer a settlement than at the close of the war with Spain. The news accounts from them under the press censorship in vogue seem to be about as reliable as were the news from the Spanish-Cuban War under the Spanish control of the press. Many Filipinos, fighting for liberty, have been slain; whole parts of the islands ravaged; but there has been no gain in territory, and in the wet season, loss. The last estimate of needed troops by a trained soldier is 150,000; but it is not promised that this shall end the war. This government paid twenty million dollars for the Philippine Islands in the first place; one hundred million more has been expended in prosecuting the war against their rightful inhabitants; seven hundred men have been killed or have died in the hospital; ten times as many more are wounded or sick, subjects of indefinite pensions; and the war has just begun. The only party that seems to be losing nothing but gaining much out of this war is the Roman Catholic Church. She has well trimmed her sails to meet the changing winds of unstable earthly governments. But this is not a novel experience to the Papacy. “Through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand.” But this is not all.

The Separation of Religion and the State

By Editor

We begin in this issue an important series of articles on “The Separation of Religion and the State,” from Alonzo T. Jones. They should not only be read but studied, and then widely circulated.

Education, True and False

The special articles on "Education, True and False," will close with next issue. Following that will be published five articles on "Roger Williams, the Luther of America," by Prof. P. T. Magan.

A New Arrangement of Pages

By Editor

Our first and second pages are somewhat different than heretofore. This is not designed to be permanent, but occasional, perhaps once a month. Our "Pebbles" department will furnish useful illustrations to Gospel workers, and emphasize to others important truth.

The True Relation of Church and State

The picture on the first page is in itself a sermon. It shows the true relation of Church and State. The former is represented by a pure woman holding aloft the Gospel, and beseeching souls to come to Christ. So has the Lord said, “I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.” The State is represented by a public building. The motive power of the true church is love and persuasion; that of the State is law and force, represented by the cannon. There can be no true union between them. To establish an unlawful union is to destroy both. This is a lesson to be heeded.

The Secret Spring in the Dreyfus Case

“The Secret Spring in the Dreyfus Case,” Prof. Cesare Lombroso, of Turin, Italy, in the Independent of June 22, declares to be the plotting of the Jesuits to turn France back under the control of the Roman Church. While the Jesuits did not create the Dreyfus intrigue, they have used it to further their ends, to represent the Hebrews as enemies to France, to pave the way for the same sort of thing with Protestants, “and thus they meant to end by having France united in the Roman Catholic faith, and, what was of the greatest importance to them, in blind, supine subjection to the church.” Professor Lombroso finds his evidence for this in the nature of Jesuit plotting, in money furnished Esterhazy, presumably by the priests, in the intrigues of the generals with a priest of that church, in the sermons of another priest, and in the attitude of the young men tutored by the clericals; and he recalls the words of Gambetta, “Clericalism—that is the enemy.” And what is true of France is true of every land of importance not under papal control.

The Troubled Outlook of the World

The outlook of the world is not cheering from whatever standpoint we view it. It is everywhere perplexity and trouble.

The Partitioning of China

While the Peace Conference more or less amicably confers, the plans, the plots, the counterplots, the intrigues for the partitioning of China still go on. Poor China is like the man which went from Jerusalem down to Jericho. She is now well on the Jericho road, and if not stripped and naked, it is only because the thieves can not agree as regards the spoils.

The Disappointing Peace Conference

The Peace Conference is disappointing to those who hoped for much. This is recognized by the most candid writers. The "dum dum" bullet may be set aside as too cruel, but as for taking any decisive step toward universal peace or disarmament, the conference is accomplishing nothing. That this is recognized by the papers at large is shown by the many jokes and cartoons at the expense of peace. And now the czar wishes it to be emphatically retold and clearly understood that he did not ask or expect disarmament, but that armaments should not be increased. The swords are not yet beaten into plowshares, nor the spears into pruning-hooks, nor the cannon cast into church-bells.

War Impends in South Africa

War impends in South Africa between England and the Boers. England counts the Transvaal Republic as a vassal government, herself the suzerain power; while Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal Republic, holds it to be independent. The Uitlanders, largely composed of British, to the number of 21,000, have petitioned Great Britain to assist them in obtaining what they demand as rights from the Dutch Republic. They claim that while they pay the most of the taxes in certain districts they have no voice in their expenditure; that their water supply is poisonous, compelling them to drink mineral waters, specially taxed by the republic; that dynamite, a necessity in mining, is monopolized beyond the reach of the poor man; that citizenship in the republic is attainable only after fourteen years on the condition of forswearing all allegiance to England, the suzerain government, and even at that time uncertain; and that many other grievances exist. It is believed by some that unless England takes a firm stand, she will lose prestige and power in all South Africa, but if she does speak and act decidedly, President Kruger will yield. Others are of the opinion that the Boers will fight rather than yield. And so all South Africa is in a ferment over the uncertain outcome.

The Dreyfus Affair

There has seemed to be rejoicing by the French Republicans and their friends for some time that each recurring morning found the republic still in existence. About the most unsettling thing which has occurred is the Dreyfus affair. The honor of leading men connected with the government and army has been seriously compromised; two of the witnesses against Dreyfus have either committed suicide or have been killed; a ministry or so has fallen, and the man who in seeming innocence caused it all—guilty only of being a Jew—has suffered terrible punishment in prison and exile. Now as he returns to France, granted a new trial by the supreme court, he must be carefully guarded to preserve his life.

Signs of Christ’s Coming

Look where we will, it is uncertainty, unrest, perplexity. Even so Jesus declared it would be in the days of His second coming. Looking down the stream of time to that great event, He foretells: “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.” Luke 21:25–27.

The Church and the Stage

“The Church and the World walked far apart” at one time, but it is no longer thus; and one of the most striking unions we have recently seen is that recorded in a New York paper of June 20. The Actors’ Church Alliance invited the church people to meet with them at the Berkeley Lyceum. The Lyceum was crowded. Bishop Potter, Father Ducey, Dr. McGlynn, Revs. John P. Peters, R. Herbert Newton, Thomas R. Slicer, Percy C. Grant, Joseph Reynolds, and Rabbi Silverman, were among the speakers. Bishop Potter presiding. The bishop “said that while he himself had never been in a theater before, he was heartily in sympathy with the members of the profession, and would be glad to see the church and the stage brought closer together. The attendance and enthusiasm were so encouraging that at the next meeting, which will be called within a month, the alliance will take palpable form. The main object of the alliance will be the establishment in every theatrical center, of a chaplain who shall visit the different members as temporary parishioners. Not only will the temporal welfare of the actors be looked after, but if they are ill or in need, their more material sufferings will also be alleviated. The alliance will also make a vigorous fight against theatrical performances on Sundays.” In the final conflict over the pseudo-sabbath, theatre-goers and saloon-keepers will be found on the Sunday side.

Multiplying Ceremonies

Multiplying Ceremonies.—It has ever been true that the farther away from God a people drifted, the more they multiplied religious ceremonies, the more ostentatious and ornate their forms of worship. This is especially marked in Catholic countries. The April Wide World magazine, of London, publishes a series of photographic views of a procession on Good Friday, in Seville, Spain. In this procession is depicted the last days of Christ upon earth, from the driving out of the money-changers, to the judgment hall, the crucifixion, and resurrection. It is a blasphemous prostitution of Christianity. Those who have Christ enshrined in the heart, would never consent to personate Him in this fashion.

TRACTS WORTHY OF CIRCULATION.

“What Is Patriotism in the United States?” by A. T. Jones. Religious Liberty Library, No. 55. This is an address delivered to a large and enthusiastic audience in Metropolitan Temple, San Francisco, June 14, 1896. It is as timely now as then.

“The Present Peril of Liberty and Equal Rights,” by Geo. B. Wheeler. Religious Liberty Library, No. 56. It presents an array of evidence showing the imminent peril to Church and State.

“Return of the Jews,” by H. P. Holser. Apples of Gold Library, No. 62; 32 pages, price 2 cents. This meets the great delusion respecting the Israel of God from the standpoint of the Gospel. Illustrated.

“The Seal of God and Its Counterfeit,” by J. O. Corliss. Bible Students’ Library, No. 157. Illustrated. This shows what the seal of God is, and its importance, in such scriptures as Rev. 7:1-3.

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