The above is the title of an important new pamphlet which we have just issued.
The object of the work is "to defend the faith of Seventh-day Adventists on the single point of the change of the Sabbath, and who is responsible for that change."
All the evidence is from those who favored the observance of Sunday. Here will be found a strong array of testimony against the idea that there is any Scriptural authority for Sunday keeping, and all this evidence is given by those who
Believe in the Observance of Sunday.
In reading this pamphlet one cannot but wonder how any one will persist in keeping Sunday when its own friends give such overwhelming testimony against it.
"The Origin and Growth of Sunday Observance" contains 96 pages, and has a neat cover. Price, POSTPAID, 10 CENTS. Buy it! Read it! Circulate it! Address.
Pacific Press Publishing Company,
Or 43 Bond St., New York. Oakland, Cal.
The Teachers' Outlook
By Editor
Published by the Teachers' Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa. A monthly magazine for teachers and pupils that proposes to supplement other school journals rather than to occupy the same field. It will seek to provide an OUTLOOK upon affairs of life and facts in science and nature which illustrate and test theories; to stimulate thought and give the teacher's mind a fresh source of inspiration.
A review of current events, civil and industrial problems, inventors, discoveries, etc., will be an important feature of the magazine, and a complete review of current literature will also be given by competent critics.
ANOTHER AND VERY IMPORTANT FEATURE of the magazine will be that all teachers and students are invited to join its circle of writers, out of which it proposes to draw its corps of future contributors. On this point it has some original plans of mutual helpfulness to carry out.
WANTED, ESPECIALLY—Writers of short, realistic stories and articles on natural history and social science from the Pacific Coast on terms given in OUTLOOK. Sample copies 20c; none free.
Views of National Reform.
By Editor
Series One, 151 pages; Size 4 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches; price 15 cents.
This pamphlet contains thirteen treatises on the various phases of the National Reform Movement. The following are the subjects of the various chapters, each of which is complete in itself: Religious Liberty; National Reform Is Church and State; The Republic of Israel; Purity of National Religion; What Think Ye of Christ? Evils of Religious Legislation; The American Papacy; National Reform and Rights of Conscience; Bold and Base Avowal; National Reform Movement an Absurdity; The Salem Witchcraft; National Reformed Constitution and the American Hierarchy; National Reformed Presbyterianism.
Address, AMERICAN SENTINEL,
1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal.; 43 Bond St., New York.
A New Signs of the Times
By Editor
WE have received a copy of No. 1, Vol. 1, of a paper published in Chicago, entitled Signs of the Times. It is against Romanism from first to last. The editor says, "We propose to hit hard enough blows to make Rome howl." We hope these blows will prove effectual, but we almost fear that it is enmity against Rome which animates and actuates our contemporary. Rome is one of the dangers of our times, but we fear that the outcome of the struggle will be as represented in our contemporary's cartoon which shows the pulpit-muffled, black-robed priests mocking, the daily press sealed, a large serpent—Rome—entering the central door of the public school, her adherents the side door, while from another side door, America and her children walk with downcast and despairing faces, and from the school building the stars and stripes float half-mast to the breeze.
The design is striking and forcible.
The editor says: "This paper will be published as we have opportunity and it looks as though the opportunity would be frequent."
That looks as though it might be rather irregular. And say, neighbor, why didn't you take another name? You may not wish to be confounded with us; we do not wish to be with you, however much we agree. As we were here first hadn't you better change your cognomen.
SABBATH-SCHOOL LESSONS.
By C. H. Jones
A SERIES of lessons on the book of Hebrews has been written for use in the senior division of our Sabbath-schools. The first thirteen will be published in pamphlet form the same as heretofore, and will follow the present series on "Tithes and Offerings." The book of Hebrews is one of the most interesting and comprehensive of all the epistles. It is a masterly argument on the divinity of Christ, the perpetuity of the law, and the plan of Salvation. These lessons are taken up in the form of a running commentary, bringing in parallel passages and followed by copious notes. They have been thoroughly examined and criticised by a large committee of ministers and Sabbath-school workers, and we anticipate much profit from their study.
There are many advantages in having the lessons issued quarterly in advance in pamphlet form, and we trust that the officers of our State Associations will encourage all to procure these pamphlets, and to study the lesson from the pamphlet and from the Bible instead of reading it from the SIGNS or Review.
This lesson pamphlet will contain 48 pages beside the covers, and will be issued as No. 20 of the "Bible Students Library." Price seven cents per copy post-paid, and is therefore within the reach of all.
Address all orders to Pacific Press Publishing Co., or to your State T. & M. Society. Order at once, so that the schools may all be supplied before the first of October.
C. H. JONES.
REMAINING CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1889.
By Editor
[A star (*) indicates that the meetings thus marked will be preceded by a worker's meeting.]
FOR reduced fare to the Oakland camp-meeting, see preceding page.
C. B. Driver Sails for Australia
By Editor
Bro. C. B. Driver, who for several years has been connected with the Pacific Press Publishing Co., sailed for Australia on the steamer Mariposa which left San Francisco August 24. Machinery for a complete stereotype foundry for the Bible Echo office goes forward on the same boat, and Brother Driver is to take charge of this branch of the work in connection with that office. His long experience in connection with the foundry at the Pacific Press eminently qualifies him for the position. May the blessing of God be upon the work and the workers in that field.
Conditional Immortality and Eternal Punishment
By Editor
THE Christian Union of August 1, in speaking of Orthodoxy, says: "Dr. Dale, of England, late lecturer at Yale Theological Seminary, is orthodox, and he believes in conditional immortality, not in eternal punishment. Now it is not the orthodoxy of Dr. Dale that we question, but the statement of the Christian Union. If a man believes in conditional immortality, that is, that those who do not accept of Christ will never possess it, he certainly does believe in eternal punishment. He may not believe in eternal torment, or eternal punishing, but he believes in eternal death; and as death is the wages of sin, and as there will be no resurrection from that death, it is therefore eternal death, or, eternal punishment. And this is in harmony with another scripture statement, "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction." Those who believe in conditional immortality are the only ones who do believe in scriptural eternal punishment.
The Census and Roman Catholics
By Editor
THE hope has been expressed that the census of 1890 will afford some reliable information relative to the number of Roman Catholics in this country. The number of Romanists is now variously estimated at from six to eight millions. The appointment of Dr. H. K. Carroll, of the Independent, as religious statistician would seem to give some guarantee that the forth-coming census will at least contain some important facts not to be found in any previous census report.
Fresno Meeting Opposes Sunday Law
By Editor
The Examiner of the 23d ultimo has the following item:—
"Fresno, August 21.—A rousing meeting was held in front of the Grand Central Hotel to-night by the Seventh-day Adventists and others opposed to the passage by Congress of the proposed Sunday law. Ex-Judge Firman Church presided, and Alonzo T. Jones was the principal speaker. The law will partly exempt the Adventists and the Jews from its provisions, but the Adventists oppose it because they believe it to be a step towards the union of Church and State, to which they are opposed. Great enthusiasm prevailed."
The Bible Does Not Forbid Sunday Work
By Editor
IN his speech on "Liberty and the Sabbath," quoted in special document of American Sabbath Union, entitled "Reply to Misrepresentations Circulated by Advocates of the Saturday Sabbath," Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, says:—
"Of the ten commandments there are several which forbid the same things as are forbidden in the laws of our land—murder, theft, adultery, false witness, Sunday work."
We do not know how to characterize the statement that the ten commandments forbid Sunday work. Is it "criminal inaccuracy," "malicious slander" against the Bible, or is it "invincible ignorance?" Whatever it is which prompted Mr. Crafts to say this, the statement is not true. The ten commandments not only do not forbid Sunday work, but they inculcate Sunday work. "Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work." Sunday is the first day of the week, as attested by all history. It seems as if Mr. Crafts ought to know this. What he may say against us does not hurt half so badly as does this perversion of Bible truth. It may deceive some poor soul into the belief that God requires us to keep Sunday. But, notwithstanding the entire American Sunday Union, it is still true that the Bible does not forbid Sunday work.
SENTINEL NO. 32.
By Editor
THE regular American Sentinel, No. 32, contains the following interesting articles: "Teach Them to Be Men," "That Gracious Change," The Oakland Morning Times on "Sunday Laws," "Tennessee Follows Suit," "The Declaration Denounced," "Mr. Crafts and His Oath," fac-simile of the original letters of Rev. W. F. Crafts in his challenge to Professor Jones. Also the correspondence concerning the debate, including a fac-simile of the Resolution passed by the Illinois Sabbath Association. This Sentinel will be sent post-paid for $1.50 per hundred or $10 per thousand copies. It, in connection with the "Special Sentinel" of August 7th, is good seed to scatter where the American Sabbath Union is operating, or where Mr. Crafts is advertised to lecture. Address American Sentinel, 1059 Castro Street, Oakland, Cal.
HOW TO GET TO THE NEBRASKA CAMP-MEETING.
By John M. Morrison
BUY your tickets from the place of starting to Fremont, pay full fare, and take a receipt of the same, which with my signature will entitle you to return on one-third fare. Now where it is not possible to get through tickets, take a receipt each time you buy a ticket. You will find street cars close to either depot upon which arrangements have been made to transfer you to the line that runs within about three blocks of the camp-ground, which is about one mile west of depots in a nice grove.
JOHN M. MORRISON.
Essentials of the French Language
"ESSENTIALS OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE," is the title of a comprehensive little volume of 175 pages, recently published for the author, Prof. P. M. Clerc, 1240 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Cal. The author of this treatise correctly reasons that the most of those who study French do so for the purpose of learning the language primarily, rather than its usages, which will readily follow. He therefore has endeavored to bring out, more by example than rule, the fundamental principles of this beautiful language. The work presents in a clear and concise manner the essentials of the French language, and analytically, as well as by its methodical arrangement, leaves little but simple study for both teacher and pupil.
The Clarion Call
THE "Clarion Call," a collection of Prohibition and social songs, compiled by C. H. Mead and G. E. Chambers, has nothing which will commend it to lovers of good music more than its preface, containing the statement that the book consists of songs of the Silver Lake Quartette. Those who have heard this celebrated Quartette will need no further assurance as to the excellency of this work, while those who have not will find in the pages of the "Clarion Call" all that the most fastidious could desire in the particular field embraced in its scope. Price, in boards 30 cents. Funk & Wagnalls, New York.