American Sentinel, Vol. 11, No. 24 (June 11, 1896) | AdventAI

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RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN ARMENIA.37 paragraphs
METHODISTS AND THE “CHRISTIAN AMENDMENT.”S.7 paragraphs
NO COMPROMISE WITH THE SALOON.7 paragraphs
THE CALIFORNIA SUNDAY LAW.17 paragraphs
ONE DAY'S RELIGIOUS PETITIONS.18 paragraphs
IS IT TRUE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR?S.14 paragraphs
“NATIONAL CHRISTIANITY.”S.50 paragraphs
AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION.6 paragraphs
"NATIONAL REFORM" ARGUMENT USED IN ECUADOR.4 paragraphs
PROHIBITIONISTS AND THEIR PLATFORMS.24 paragraphs
A CLERGYMAN'S DAY.5 paragraphs
THE SCHOOL QUESTION IN CANADA.8 paragraphs
A Valuable Review.3 paragraphs
FROM A MEMBER OF THE PROHIBITION CONVENTION.G. H. Lyon8 paragraphs
Neander's Church History.2 paragraphs
THE STOMACHJohn Harvey Kellogg10 paragraphs
Waterman's \ Ideal \ Fountain \* Pen18 paragraphs
NOT satisfied with depriving J. W. Lewis of his liberty for exercising his God-given and constitutional right to labor on Sunday, the authorities of Lake County, Tenn., propose to require him to work. The County Court arranged to hire him out about a week since to a farmer. But Mr. Lewis told the sheriff that as soon as he passed into private hands he should consider himself free and act accordingly. The farmer thereupon declined to have anything to do with the matter, and the “criminal” was remanded to the custody of the sheriff. The chairman of the County Court remarked, however, that “this jail business must stop. When we have only one we cannot afford to hire a guard,” said he, “but when we have as many as two or three we will work them.”2 paragraphs
CALIFORNIA is a bad State for Sunday laws. In declaring the Sunday Barber Law unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of that State said:—4 paragraphs
The address of G. H. Lyon, author of “The Only Alternative to Success,” noticed in these columns last week, is Sistersville, W. Va., instead of Virginia.1 paragraphs
'THE “National Bureau of Reforms,” Mr. Crafts’ latest contribution to National Reform auxiliaries, has been incorporated. It is nothing more nor less than an incorporated National Reform lobby.1 paragraphs
MR. ISAAC BAKER, another Seventh-day Adventist has been arrested at Ford's Store, Md. We have not heard the particulars. His offense was doubtless violation of the statute-intrenched Maryland “sabbath.”1 paragraphs
The recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States affirming the constitutionality of the “law” of Georgia which prohibits the running of freight cars on Sunday, does not of course touch the question of the right of the State to forbid Sunday labor by private parties; but it does show a tendency on the part of the Court of last resort to sustain Sunday legislation as a whole. We shall have more to say on this subject as soon as we shall have procured a copy of the decision.1 paragraphs
THE Sunday-law question is being vigorously agitated in Louisiana. It seems that a movement is on foot to secure the repeal of the “law,” and the Sunday-keeping churches are rallying to its support. Memorials to the legislature are being circulated and signed asking not only that the “law” be maintained, but that it be enforced. This fight was not inaugurated by the International Religious Liberty Association, but now that it is on, representatives of the association are doing all they can to render the people intelligent in regard to the principles underlying all religious legislation.1 paragraphs
Press dispatches announce that Mr. W. E. Gladstone, the English ex-premier, has come forward as an advocate of “Christian unity,” by means of papal recognition of the validity of Anglican orders, having written a long letter on the subject to Cardinal Rampolla. The Pope, it is said, has directed an inquiry into the subject, whereupon Mr. Gladstone declares that he regards this gracious attitude on Leo’s part as “in the largest sense paternal, and one which he will ever cherish with cordial sentiments of reverence, gratitude, and high appreciation.” It would be needless to state who is the gainer in such transactions.1 paragraphs
As we note the fact brought out by a press reporter in connection with the Fleming murder trial, now in progress in this city, that the prosecution refused to call upon the stand the young daughter of Mrs. Fleming as a witness against her, we call to mind by way of contrast the course pursued by the prosecution in the trial of W. D. Dortch, a Seventh-day Adventist, of Springville, Tenn., for having done secular work on Sunday. In the former case the prosecution said it would be inhuman to make the child testify against her own mother. But in the case of the man arrested for desecrating Sunday, the prosecution made every effort to compel Mr. Dortch’s young son to act the part of a witness against his father.1 paragraphs
Of the same decision referred to in the preceding note, a weekly paper, published in this city, says:—4 paragraphs
Now that the supreme courts of three States, California, Missouri, and Illinois, have seen and declared the injustice of such laws may we not hope that still others will see it?1 paragraphs
A CORRESPONDENT asks us to state “why idleness cannot be enforced on a certain day on purely civil grounds.” We reply, simply because no civil reason exists for such prohibition.7 paragraphs