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It is openly charged that some of the leading educational institutions encourage a class of professional athletes who are students only in name, simply that the university or college may stand high in athletics. The reason of this seems to be that in the popular mind institutions of education are graded according to the standing of their boat crew, their football eleven, their baseball nine, their hammer thrower, long-distance runner, or something of that sort. Intellectual advancement in the popular mind seems a secondary consideration, and is made so by the press. The tendency of the world is to brutalism; but God has called us to peace and greater conquests than winning a boat-race or taking a city.
READ the story in our Fireside department; you may find your experience there.
Why?
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Why?—Accidentally we came across a copy of the Dixon (California) Daily Sun of June 11, in which is an article headed, "Challenge Is Sweeping; Elder D. W. Hudler Issues a Challenge to Seventh-day Adventists." The article states that he gave them until June 1, 1897, to secure a man to discuss the Sabbath question. This Mr. Hudler thus addresses the Seventh-day Adventist people:—
"Why are you so indifferent? If you believe that the seventh day is binding on all mankind, as you teach for doctrine, why do you not accept my challenge and proposition made in my reply to J. F. Henderson?
"I wish to say this: You should accept the challenge and proposition or publicly acknowledge that you have no Bible to support the observance of the seventh day or Sabbath under gospel age.
"I have sent the papers containing the challenge and proposition to Battle Creek, Mich., and Oakland, Cal., and I am confident that the Adventist people are aware of the challenge, and my proposition to Mr. Henderson, or any Adventist; and should you not accept I shall come to the conclusion that you are convinced of your error."
Well, in the first place, we never before heard, so far as we can remember, of Mr. Hudler or his worldwide challenge. And if we had, we do not know why we, or any of our ministers, should stop our work to please Mr. Hudler and give him added notoriety. Why should we accept his challenge? By what law are those sent of God bound to cease their work, and at the behest of every one who calls? And by what law of logic should Mr. Hudler or any one else conclude that any one is convinced of error because his challenge is not noticed? Here then are two good reasons why Mr. Hudler's challenge is unnoticed here at least: (1) We did not know that he lived, or, living, had issued such a challenge; and (2) in the language of one of old, "I am doing a great work, so that I can not come down; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?" The truth or falsity of any cause is not dependent on the willingness or unwillingness of its friends to debate with every one who demands it.
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We Can Not Do It.
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The Cuban League of the United States of America sends out an appeal to all "ministers and religious teachers of every creed throughout the land" to give "the principal service" of Sunday, July 4, "to the cause of God, liberty, and humanity as represented in the struggle of the Cuban people for independence," and to take up "a special collection" on that day "both to aid the cause of independence and to feed, clothe, and relieve the deserving men, women, and children of Cuba." Now the duty of every minister of Christ is to give every religious service to the cause of God, liberty, and humanity, not for Cubans particularly, but for all, including Cubans. It is the duty of every minister of Christ to preach the only liberty in which man can obtain true and perfect freedom, namely, freedom in Christ Jesus from all sin and sinning. While his heart sympathizes with the suffering Cubans, as well as the suffering everywhere, he can not preach the Gospel of force and of war without being false to his mission as an ambassador of Christ. He holds before man a false, or, at the best, a fleeting hope, and hides from him the only sure hope, Jesus Christ and eternal salvation. And yet many professed ministers of Christ will respond to the call of the League. But how can they so debase their own exalted mission?
Christians and Political Reform
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SOME professedly Christian people assume that Christians should hope for aggressive Christian work through the mediumship of politics. A late press despatch from Chicago shows how much there is to hope for from a political source. It says:—
"Here is the way the new council starts out: A gambler and saloon-keeper for leader and chairman of the Finance Committee. A saloon-keeper for chairman of the Committee on Streets and Alleys South. A saloon-keeper for chairman of the Committee on Streets and Alleys West. A saloon-keeper for chairman of the Committee on Election. A saloon-keeper for chairman of the Committee on Gas, Oil and Electric Light. A saloon-keeper for chairman of the Committee on License."
Would it not be better for Christians to "seek unto their God"? Would it not be better to seek counsel of his Word, and the aid of his Holy Spirit, than to trust in the arm of flesh ruled by the spirit of strong drink?
Sunday Banking Arrest in New York
Felice Sanito, cashier in G. Lordi's bank, at No. 62 Mulberry Street, New York, was arrested May 23 by detectives Coyle and Finn, of the Elizabeth Street Station, on a charge of violating the Sunday law. The detectives said that Lordi as well as other Italian bankers were accustomed to do a heavy banking business on Sundays, and that they wished to make a test case of Lordi's. Sanito admitted the charge to be true, but said he opened to accommodate out-of-town customers.
Catholic Progress Among the Colored Race
THE Catholic Mirror says that “Catholicity is making notable progress among the colored race in the New Orleans Diocese, as the following statistics show: The Catholic negroes number 75,000, and they have 4 churches for their own use. They have 42 schools, with 2,800 pupils. During the past year 556 adults were baptized.”
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
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IN a little from this the booming of cannon, the crack, and splutter, and fizz, and flame of Chinese fireworks, and the display of bunting, and spread-eagle, high-colored oratory, will announce the arrival of "Independence day," the "glorious Fourth." Against all these ebullitions from a purely human, patriotic, and political standpoint we have naught to say. But we wish to call the attention of our thoughtful readers to the vitally important fact that while all this outward pomp and show are observed, the foundation principles of this government, the principles which gave it greatness and worth, are lost sight of.
Two of the prominent foundation stones in the origin of the republic were the equality of men, and the absolute separation of Church and State, or religion and the State. Their voice was a reëcho of Christ's teaching through the great Reformation. They were new stars of hope in the political sky of the nation. They were magnets which drew the liberty-loving from the oppression of Church-and-State governments to "the land of the free." When the Civil War ended, the last blot was wiped from the escutcheon of national liberty.
But since the war two evils have rapidly risen, and are now assuming gigantic proportions, the one the power of wealth, which is fast enslaving men and forming the "masses" and the "classes," and the other a determined movement to unite Church and State under the misleading names of "National Reform," "Municipal Reform," and "Christian Citizenship." Of the two evils the greater is the last named. The professedly religious forces of the country, which ought to be the conserving forces in the light and influence of a godly life of loving service, in the uplifting of humanity by a pure Gospel, in being indeed the salt of the earth, have thrown themselves into the field of politics, have rejected the Gospel of love for the gospel of force, and are turning the boasted liberty of this nation into a legal fiction. The so-called "guarantees" of our constitutions read the same; the flag floats as proudly as ever in the breezes of heaven, but the liberty which these are supposed to guarantee and represent is gone, so perverted by the construction of courts and officials religiously prejudiced as to exist only in name.
The union of the Church and State will bring destruction to both. So it was in Rome. So it was in Judea. Form alone is not fact. Those who were most punctilious in observing the Passover crucified Him in whose honor the Passover was observed. It is possible for the very symbol of freedom to become the black beacon of hopeless tyranny.
The Turks and the Armenians
By Editor
In this issue will be found the first of a series of articles on "The Turks and the Armenians," by one who has made a study of the subject by both reading and observation. He is well qualified to speak.
The Everlasting Gospel
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WOULD you know what true Sabbath-keeping is?—Read the articles on the "Everlasting Gospel," by Prof. W. W. Prescott, beginning on page 5.
