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Sabbath Keeping and God’s People
By Editor
SAID a clergyman to a seventh-day friend: "If you like to keep Saturday instead of Sunday, I could not say you would be breaking the law of God; but the people of God are against you." Well, that is a little strange. If God is not against us for keeping the seventh day, how can his people be against us? Are not the people of God those in whose heart is his law, and who do his will? God's people are those who walk with him; and two cannot walk together except they be agreed. Consequently his people cannot be against Sabbath-keeping. Moreover, if God is not against the keeping of the seventh day, then it cannot be wrong; for he is against all wrong; and if he is not against it, and it is not wrong, it must be right, and in harmony with his law, and so it is. See Ex. 20:8-11. And if God is not against seventh-day Sabbath-keeping, because it is in harmony with his law, and is right, he must be against Sunday-keeping, and it must be wrong; for two opposite practices cannot be right. We choose every time to be on the side of the Lord, even though we should be opposed by thousands calling themselves his people.
The Great Body of Humanity
By Editor
The Rev. Hugh O. Pentecost, of Newark, N. J., preached on a recent Sunday evening on Henry George. Said he: "For my part it is clear that Henry George is in the straight moral position; and since the great body of humanity always ends in doing what is right, the time will probably come when all rents will go to the general Government." We care nothing about his indorsement of Henry George, but we do object to the idea that "the great body of humanity always ends in doing what is right." We are sorry to see people give assent to such a sentiment. There has not been a century since the fall, in which the great body of humanity was not wholly wrong. Unless people submit to be directed by the law of God, they must go wrong. And we have not much reason to hope that the great body of humanity will make great progress toward the truth of God, when those who should lead them in the way preach on Henry George and kindred subjects, instead of preaching Christ and him crucified.
The Oakland Enquirer of February 20 said: "Last night's Sunday-law meeting excited considerable enthusiasm among those present, but it would be a difficult thing indeed to pass an act compelling those who regard the seventh day as the Sabbath to observe the first day. This is what all the speakers advocated, but they did not take counsel of discretion in doing it. There is a powerful element in the Christian churches, which would fight to the death against such a proposition." We would fain believe that our contemporary is correct in its estimate of the feeling in the churches in regard to a Sunday law. But whether the speakers took counsel of discretion or not, in their demands that Sabbath-keepers should also keep Sunday, we are very sure that they did not take counsel of justice and religious liberty.
Spiritual Manifestations on the Pacific Coast
By Editor
It seems that the Pacific Coast is destined to be the place where spiritual manifestations shall most speedily attain the highest development. The Golden Gate says:—
"Certain it is that California, and especially the region along the coast, is remarkably favorable for spiritual and mediumistic development. There is probably right here in San Francisco a larger proportion of mediumistic persons than in any other city in the Union, and some of these mediums are equal to the best in the world."
We presume that this is so; but we regard it as anything but a compliment to California to be told that the devil can work through people here better than he can anywhere else.
The Prospects for Suppressing Socialism
By Editor
The Interior sometimes views things just as they are, and when it does, the prospect which it sees is not very flattering. Following is an instance:—
"The hope for the suppression of Socialism in Germany obviously does not lie in the Roman Catholic Church. Just now it is not easy to discover where it does lie. It might lie in the Protestant church, if that church would unite, and then, by works of humanity and love, prove that it had not lost both its life and its power. Of such a union and of such efforts there seems to be no immediate prospect."
The same thing might be said of almost any other country.
Senator Crockett’s Speech Against Sunday Legislation
By Editor
The speech of Senator Crockett, which we print this week, is such an able presentation of the curse of Sunday legislature that we have decided to issue it in tract form for general distribution. It should be circulated wherever the matter of a civil Sunday law is being agitated, and that is everywhere. The tracts will be furnished by the Pacific Press at the rate of one dollar per hundred, with the usual discount for large quantities. Send in your orders.
California State Board of Health Report
By Editor
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of the Ninth Biennial Report of the State Board of Health of California, for which we are indebted to our friend, Hon. N. A. Young, of San Diego. This report contains some valuable temperance matter, of which we shall give the readers of the Signs the benefit.
Address for the North Pacific Conference
By Editor
ALL communications for the President of the North Pacific Conference or Tract Society, should be addressed to Elder John Fulton, box 18, East Portland, Oregon.
Elder C. L. Boyd’s Address
By Editor
For the present, the address of Elder C. L. Boyd, is Battle Creek, Mich., care of Review and Herald.
The Failure of Modern Missions
By Editor
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Observer makes this confession, which must be very discouraging to those who are looking for a temporal millennium, when all men will be converted:—
“We are compelled to believe by the stern array of facts and figures that at the end of this boasted century of missions, while not 3,000,000 converts, nominal and real, have been won to Christianity in pagandom, the heathen and Mohammedan are 200,000,000 more than they were at the beginning of the century; that the votaries of these faiths increase seventy times faster than the followers of Christ. The church is outstripped on its own methods. They evince in these modern days a propagandism and aggressiveness far superior. The necessity in the foreign field cannot be overtaken on the present line of church work.”
Yet many church people will persist in saying that the world is growing better.
Misleading Claims About Sunday and Sabbath Laws
By Editor
"Against a Sunday Law, but in favor of enacting a Sabbath Law," is the heading of an article that appeared in the Oakland Tribune one day last week, protesting against the proceedings at the recent Sunday-law meeting. The heading is most misleading. We do not know of any man or body of men who are in favor of enacting a Sabbath law. The Sabbath is upheld by the law of God, and needs nothing more. If it were proposed to enact a law enforcing the observance of the Sabbath, and there was any probability of its carrying, we should vigorously oppose it. Our opposition to the enactment of Sunday laws is not alone on the ground that Sunday has no divine sanction, and is a working day as much as Monday or Tuesday, but because we are against the principle of the State legislating in matters of religion. The enactment of Sunday laws stands for union of Church and State, and this should be opposed by all Christians.
Confused Ideas of Religious Liberty
By Editor
SOME people have queer ideas of what constitutes religious liberty. Here in California the good people are trying to get a law that will compel all people to keep Sunday, even though some conscientiously keep another day; yet the Sunday people do not see in that any infringement upon religious liberty. And now comes the Christian Church News, and claims that a constitutional amendment prohibiting the "manufacture, gift, or sale of spirituous, malt, or vinous liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical, or scientific purposes," is oppressive because it does not provide for the use of intoxicating wine at communion. The editor says: "It is clearly an infringement upon religious liberty, and an attempt to set aside the conscientious convictions of men." All of which causes us to conclude that with very many people "religious liberty" means liberty for themselves to do as they please, and compulsion for others to do likewise.
Papal Influence in German Politics
By Editor
OUR readers are aware that a few weeks since the German Parliament refused to pass the Government measure known as the Septenate, a bill to provide for a large increase in the German army, and to provide for its maintenance for a period of seven years. Immediately upon the defeat of the bill, Prince Bismarck dissolved the Reichstag, and writs were at once issued for the election of a new Parliament.
The members of this new body have now been elected, and a majority is assured for the Government bill. This was accomplished, however, by the direct interference of the Pope himself. Hitherto the Papal influence has not been wanting in political matters even in our own country, but it has been exerted secretly through bishops and priests; but in this instance the "holy father" himself addressed a brief but mandatory letter to his vassals in Germany, directing them to support the Government candidates; hence Prince Bismarck's victory.
The question of passing the Septenate bill was purely a political one, and concerned only the German people, who will be taxed to raise the immense sums which the new Reichstag will be asked to vote, and from whose ranks will be drawn the many thousands of additional men which the iron chancellor demands. And yet the lawful electors of the empire were not left to decide the question; it was decided not in Germany but in Rome; not by the people of a sovereign State but by the foreign head of an alien church. The fact is most significant, and shows how entirely even the great powers of the earth are at the mercy of the Papacy.
A Plea for Justice
By Editor
We hope that no one will delay to read the article beginning on the third page of this paper, entitled, "A Plea for Justice." The article is a speech by the Hon. Robert H. Crockett, of Arkansas, delivered in behalf of the bill which he had introduced into the Legislature of that State, allowing observers of the seventh day immunity from the penalties of the Sunday law. For two years a rigid Sunday law has been in force in Arkansas, with the result that religious persecution was rampant. We have mentioned this persecution several times, and have given some of the particulars; but we are glad to be able to give this testimony from a disinterested person. We hope that the people of other States where Sunday laws are being pressed, will consider well the experience of the people of Arkansas. Notwithstanding the intolerance of the law, and the persecution which it engendered, there were not wanting professed ministers of the gospel, who wished to have the law remain unchanged. Colonel Crockett, who, by the way, is a grandson of the famous David Crockett, gave the bill in favor of liberty his personal attention in both Houses, and by his energy and eloquence secured its passage in the Senate by a vote of 26 to 2, and in the Assembly by a vote of 55 to 16. The cause of religious freedom is greatly indebted to him for his successful effort in its behalf.
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