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Our Next Issue.

By Editor

THE next paper will be the concluding number on the subject of Religious Liberty. It is often stated that history is continually repeating itself. But whatever we may think about the truth of this statement, we know from the prophecies that are to be fulfilled in these last days that the great principles of religious liberty that have been the bulwark of this nation and a blessing in all the world during the past century, are to be strongly attacked. The attack may not always be open, but it may come in the more insidious ways of indifference, and when the indifference is once established, then it is easy with the public in such a frame of mind to make the open attack. Hence the principles of true freedom should be kept alive in every Christian or patriotic heart. The themes for next week will be:

Inalienable Rights.

The Injustice of Sunday Laws. Sunday Laws Unchristian. Our Country—Its Dangers. The Powers That Be and Our Duty to Them.

The three issues of our paper on the subject of "Religious Liberty" are a valuable and quite comprehensive presentation of the principles of freedom. While any one of these three issues is complete in itself and may be studied to profit, yet a much broader and better view may be obtained by the study of the whole set.

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Trial by Technicality.

Any one who follows closely the procedure in the courts of this time will not fail to note that technicalities and mere quibbling of words take up much of the time. Questions of right and equity are not considered nearly so much as questions of precedent. It is not an effort on the part of jurists and lawyers to seek to secure justice, but it is rather a game between the lawyers on the opposing sides with the one thought of winning in the game regardless of justice. This perversion of justice and juggling with the law is one of the most crying evils of this time.

Much is being said at the present time on the "New Theology." Our readers may set it down as the old infidelity in a new dress. Of course loyalty to the Bible is claimed, but that means the Bible as measured by man. In the New Theology, as in "New Thought," man is his own deity. The origin and the originator of it is shown in Gen. 3:4, 5: "Ye shall be as God." And the Voice said, "Cry. And one said, What shall I cry?" And the Voice answered: "All flesh is as grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever." Isa. 40: 6-8. "And this is the word which by the Gospel is preached unto you." 1 Peter 1:25.

It Ought to Be Studied.

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Words and Meditations.

In the nineteenth Psalm, the first verses dwell upon the glory of God as manifested in the planetary heavens. Then the psalmist speaks of the law of God and its mighty converting power, and of the cleansing produced by the fear of the Lord, and by giving heed to the judgments of Jehovah. He concludes this wonderful Psalm with the earnest prayer, "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my Redeemer." He who sets a watch over both his words and the meditations of his heart so as to make them acceptable to the perfect Father in heaven is following in the only safe course. When the meditations are allowed to wander, then it is that we are drifting under the power of temptation and the task of breaking loose from the tentacles of sin becomes so indescribably hard and unpleasant. But right words, and right thoughts, and right meditations, keep us drinking all the time at the very fountain-head of God's power so that we may walk in the ways of right doing with strength.

Contained in this Issue.

WITH OUR INQUIRERS

Questions 2145 to 2149. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY SYMPOSIUM

Roger Williams, the Apostle of American Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Civility and Morality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

God and Cæsar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

The Kingdom of Christ Not of This World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

EDITORIAL

Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

The Golden Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

THE OUTLOOK

Pope and Priest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

The Game for Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Great Viceroy of Manchuria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Church and Stateism in the Navy Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

MISSIONS

India Mission Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Ship Mission Work in Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

HOME

Studies in the Christ-Life at Brother Eldred's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Hints to Young Married People with Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

POETRY

Hallowed Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Hallowed Ground.

By Thomas Campbell

What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker meant not should be trod By man, the image of his God, Erect and free, Unscourged by Superstition's rod To bow the knee?

What's hallowed ground? — 'Tis what gives birth To sacred thoughts in souls of worth! — Peace! Independence! Truth! go forth Earth's compass round; And your high-priesthood shall make earth All hallowed ground.

—Thomas Campbell.

New Theology in England

By Editor

Next week our Outlook Department will contain an article of striking interest from our London correspondent. Besides matters of general interest in England, it will present further developments along the line of the "New Theology" which is cropping up everywhere just now. Our readers will be interested in developments in the great Protestant country of the world, the one which hitherto has been regarded as the staunch conservator of Biblical fidelity.

The Peace of the World

By Editor

The Peace of the World.—Among the earlier governments to declare for peace, and the settlement of disputes by arbitration, were the Central American States as long ago and as recent as the Pan-American Congress; that kind of "peace" they have been exemplifying ever since, and especially just now. The United States has sent a gun-boat down there to see that the strenuous peace does not lull to death her citizens. "Peace, peace, when there is no peace." We expect soon to give reports on the great Hague Peace Congress from our own correspondents who are now on the ground.

E. R. Palmer Returns to Washington

By Editor

Elder E. R. Palmer, his wife and children and his wife's mother left Mountain View, Wednesday evening, June 26, for Washington, D. C., which will be Brother Palmer's future home and address. Brother Palmer, as secretary of the General Conference Publishing Department, was formerly located in Washington. But his health became poor and it was deemed advisable that he spend several years in the delightful and salubrious climate of this Coast. He has had his headquarters with us here in Mountain View since the fall of 1904, and the bloom of vigorous health having come back to him, he has been urged by our General Conference to return to his former location in Washington, D. C. We are sorry to miss him from our councils here, but are always desirous of submitting to what seems to be the best for the advancement of the general work.

Wherewithal the Cleansing

Wherewithal the Cleansing.—"Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?" is a question asked in the words of inspiration. The answer, plain and clear, immediately follows the question, and reads, "By taking heed thereto according to Thy word." Then the young man must take heed to his ways according to the word of God if he would make a clean path. If the young man or the older one either takes heed to his ways according to the word of God he must constantly study that word. God's word must be in his mind as his ever present guide. And the young man who will follow this course will live a life of constant power over every form of wrong-doing. Every one of the pitfalls that Satan has made for the entrapment of the youth will be seen and shunned. The young man is looking at his way thru the light of the word of God, and hence he sees clearly every stumbling-block that would trip his foot into the vortex of sin. He who would lead the life of the power of right doing must also lead the life of taking heed to the sacred word. It is the only way, but it is the sure way.