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The Washington Sanitarium

By W. A. B.

“If there is any place in the world that should have the full rays of present truth, it is Washington, the city that is the very heart of the nation. . . . God has looked with displeasure on the neglect that has been shown to this city.

“Since medical missionary work, when carried on as God has appointed, is indeed the helping hand of the third angel’s message, we should without delay take advantage of the favorable openings for beginning this work in the vicinity of Washington. If there is one place above another where a sanitarium should be established, and where gospel work should be done, it is in this city. We can not estimate how great an influence would have gone forth from Washington in favor of the truth had a sanitarium been established there twenty years ago. . . . Above all other places the capital of our nation should now have an opportunity to hear the message for this time.”—Testimony, July 17, 1903.

In harmony with this instruction, early in the spring of 1906 the trustees of the Washington Sanitarium Association planned to go ahead at once and erect the sanitarium buildings.

The size of the building is forty-four by one hundred and twelve feet, with an extension on the back of forty-four by fifty-two feet six inches. The entire building has a basement under it ten feet in depth. The basement and first story are of cement, and the remainder of the building is of wood.

There will be accommodation for about forty patients, and twelve or more helpers.

The builder’s estimate on the cost of the building is fifty-five thousand dollars. This may vary more or less, in the neighborhood of ten thousand dollars. This does not include the furnishings. The plan is to have this building completed by April 1, 1907, if possible.

From time to time we hope to furnish illustrations of our sanitariums, giving short accounts of the same for the information of our people throughout the world. Each institution is asked to furnish a half-tone cut containing not more than twelve square inches, together with a short description of the institution and its work. We prefer cuts 3½ or 4⅝ inches. W. A. B.

Experience with Hydrotherapeutic Methods in Chile

By W. A. R.

ARNOLD KRUMM HELLER, physician of the German Sanitarium in Santiago, Chile, writes as follows:—

“When I came to Ariquipa on the first of March, 1905, I took a small apartment in the central part of the city. I then sought patients for massage. I found several sick persons for hydrotherapeutic treatment. Some of these were very bad cases, but I restored them to health. This came to the ears of the prefect (first political authority in the department); and at this time the bubonic plague was in Port Molendo.

“Accepting the invitation of the prefect, I gave a public lecture at Ariquipa, and about four thousand persons attended. As a result, the other doctors began using the water treatment, and they had the victory over the plague in the Port.”

“The day after the speech, and as long as I was in Ariquipa, I had an income of four pounds daily, and in addition to this forty or fifty persons were treated free of charge. The largest number of patients treated in one day was one hundred and forty, and the least was one hundred and thirty.”

“The prefect decreed that I could employ the nature-cure as a hydrotherapeutic physician, so the field in Ariquipa is open to any one of my colleagues.

“Ariquipa is, in consequence of its peculiar climate and the attitude of the people, one of the best cities for our system that I have ever seen. In spite of the opposition of the doctors, and the small fees that I asked for my services, I received two hundred pounds, not counting one hundred pounds that I paid for my expenses.”

The preceding is quoted in the hope that it may inspire some of our medical workers to make Chile their field of labor. It gives a good idea of the opening there is for hydrotherapeutic effort in the South American field.

W. A. R.

Commencement Exercises of the Nurses' Class at Keene, Tex.

By Clarence Santee

THE evening of Dec. 15, 1906, through mud and rain, about two hundred brethren, sisters, and friends gathered at the Keene church, to attend the exercises connected with the graduation as medical nurses of Misses Lulu Darnell and Ethel Findley. These sisters have proved faithful under especially trying circumstances, and we were pleased to see the tokens of faithful service and competence granted to them.

The exercises were simple, but appropriate. The service was opened with singing, and a prayer was offered by Elder Andrew Nelson, of Oklahoma. An interesting program followed, participated in by Elder C. Sorensen, Bible teacher in the Keene Academy and the Sanitarium, and Elder Clarence Santee. Dr. D. C. Ross, under whose instruction the course had been completed, presented the diplomas, after a short talk upon the duties and responsibilities of a nurse, and a charge to faithfulness. A selection, calling to trust in God, was sung, and God's blessing was invoked upon all, and especially upon those accepting the sacred duties of a missionary nurse for God. We believe that these gatherings, where the glory of God is in view, can be made of lasting benefit.

CLARENCE SANTEE.

Notes

By W. A. R.

DR. R. R. HILBORN is just recovering from a six weeks' siege of typhoid fever. This has left him in such a weakened condition that it is necessary for him to disconnect from the Maplewood Sanitarium at Defiance, Ohio, with which he has been connected for some time. He will rest and recuperate for the winter, after which he will be ready to go wherever God's providence may direct.

DR. S. P. S. EDWARDS, superintendent of the Tri-City Sanitarium, Moline, Ill., and vice-president of the Illinois Conference, in answer to an urgent request from the Washington Sanitarium board, came to Washington Dec. 26, 1906, to counsel with the board regarding the best appliances and apparatus for the new sanitarium, which is now nearing completion. Dr. Edwards has had a wide experience in planning new sanitariums, and his services and advice are invaluable in connection with our work here at the present juncture.

The Caterham and Purley (England) Weekly Press, in its issue of November 17, has this note: “The Christmas number of Good Health (London), in addition to a large view of the Surrey Hills Hydro, contains a picture of Mr. Alix Wright, one of the Valley postmen, loaded with Christmas packages at the entrance of the sanitarium.” On another page of the same issue almost a column is devoted to food reform, containing the following: “Mr. Kenneth Scott, M. D., Edin., of London, in an address before the Caterham Branch of the Good Health League, spoke in favor of food reform as advocated by the league. . . . Dr. A. B. Olsen delivered a stirring address on the Essentials of Food Reform.” W. A. R.

Medical Missionary Department

Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference

W. A. GEORGE, M. D., - - - Chairman

W. A. RUBLE, M. D., - - - Secretary

Current Mention

— On December 13 the German emperor dissolved the Reichstag because it voted against the appropriation of funds for carrying on the war against the natives of southwest Africa.

— As a result of gratuitous distribution of samples of whisky among children near Henrietta School, New York City, fully a dozen pupils were in attendance quite drunk. The authorities are investigating.

— For the first time since the second occupation of Cuba by the Americans, it has become necessary for the troops to undertake themselves the suppression of disorders, instead of leaving the task to the native Cuban Rurales. In some quarters this is regarded as an indication of the inability of the Cuban civil authorities permanently to maintain peace in the island.

— Count Alexis Ignatieff, a member of the council of the Russian empire, fell by an assassin’s bullet December 22.

— The total embezzlements in the United States during 1906 have amounted to $14,736,653. Of this $10,745,387 was stolen by bank officials.

— A passenger-train making up lost time crashed into a switch engine near Enderlin, N. D., December 23, thereby killing nine men, and injuring thirty-one, six of the latter probably fatally.

— Race troubles during the week in Wahalak, Miss., made it necessary to call out the troops; but fifteen lives were sacrificed before order was restored. Six lynchings were reported within forty-eight hours.

— A famine produced by flood in China has brought 15,000,000 persons to the verge of starvation. President Roosevelt has issued a proclamation calling upon the people of this country to contribute money for the purchase of necessaries for the sufferers.

— A violent earthquake shock lasting one and one-half minutes was felt at Kopal, Asiatic Russia, the night of December 22. This shock was registered in many parts of the world, and scientists are saying that the quake was fully as severe as that of April 18, last, which destroyed San Francisco.

— Even the police department and school-teachers of Chicago seem to have imbibed the spirit of trades unionism. An editorial in a leading paper says that “the non-union teachers are prepared to testify, if assured of proper protection, that they are being constantly intimidated by agents of the Teachers’ Federation.”

— A gigantic oil trust has been organized in Europe, backed by the Rothschild family, which will control fields in Russia, Austria, and Rumania, producing more crude petroleum than the United States. This combination will be in direct competition with the Standard Oil Company, and with the resources of the Rothschilds as capital, may invade this country.

— Heroic performance of duty on the part of officers and crew of a burning coast steamer, the “Strathcona,” prevented loss of life, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, during the night of December 22. Although almost enveloped in flames, the men stayed at their posts until the vessel was beached on the rocks in attempting to enter Port Dufferin, Nova Scotia. The vessel carried 380 passengers, all of whom were safely landed by the crew of sixteen.

— Dr. Lyman Abbott, J. Pierpont Morgan, and other prominent citizens of New York have addressed a letter to Secretary of State Elihu Root regarding abuses in the Kongo. After recounting some of the abuses generally admitted to exist there, it said that “inasmuch as the United States gave its moral support to the establishment of the Kongo government, it is justified in giving its moral support to any undertaking to secure conditions in the Kongo that will not disgrace civilization.”

An Interesting Decision of a German Court

“THERE has recently been a rather remarkable decision in one of our German courts. Last fall one of our ministers baptized seven persons in a swimming-pool. He was arrested and fined for holding an ‘unannounced meeting.’ (You will remember that in most places here in the German empire, we must secure the permission of the police to hold meetings.) His fine was thirty marks. He protested against this, for he had not addressed the candidates for baptism, but had simply offered prayer at the beginning and end of the service; there had been no preaching service at all. The deputy was asked whether our brother had read the prayer from a book. As this was denied, the advocate stood up and made this plea: ‘As the minister had read no formal prayer, but prayed only from his heart, the paragraph in question can have no application in his case.’ After the judges had retired for a short time, they brought in a verdict of ‘not guilty.’ Of course this rejoiced our friends very much; and yet there is rather a queer question one can not help considering: In a union of church and state—such as we have all over Europe—do the lawmaking powers mean that prayer can only be considered as such when it comes, not from the heart, as in the case just referred to, but when it is read formally out of a prayer-book? But, after all, a man-made union of church and state can do nothing else than create formalists; for human laws can touch only the outward actions, and can not reach the heart.”

Christian Liberty

By K. C. Russell; W. A. Colcord

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience

Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau

K. C. RUSSELL. Chairman

W. A. COLCORD, Secretary

A Poor Sunday-Law Argument

A PROMINENT lawyer, who is a candidate for representative in the next legislature of California, has publicly expressed the opinion that the growing corruption in the State is due to disregard of Sunday. Therefore he is booked as a strong advocate of proposed Sunday legislation the coming winter. The argument that a stricter Sunday observance would work a cure of the many evils now extant is not new; it has been advanced for years in this State; but a new stress is laid upon it because a prominent legal light and prominent politician—not noted as a religious man—has given it utterance.

It is somewhat strange that one so well posted on the political history and condition of the country as this same attorney and politician, should advance such an argument. He certainly is not ignorant of the reputed character of political conditions in Pennsylvania. The situation in political circles in the Keystone State has been a byword for twenty years or more. Not a State in the Union has a more unsavory political record; and business conditions, especially concerning great corporate interests, are always affected by the political atmosphere, and vice versa. In fact, it has been through the corrupt business methods of the trusts that the political corruption of the country has been more especially realized.

But Pennsylvania is a special object-lesson illustrating the futility of the argument for a Sunday law in California. Why that State especially?—Because it has the most stringent Sunday law of any of the States; and that Sunday law has been in force for more than a hundred years.—Selected.

Religious Liberty Notes

By K. C. B.

The religious liberty secretary of the Colorado Conference announces that there is forthcoming another religious liberty number of their conference paper, Echoes from the Field.

Elder S. B. Horton, the religious liberty secretary of the Southern Union Conference, says: “We are expecting to have some interesting times here ere-long. The local ministers are itching to be “like the other nations”—National Reform communities of the North.

“And all the world wondered after the beast.” The Vatican authorities, through the Archbishop of Athens, have officially given permission to the king of Greece to visit King Victor Emmanuel on November 23 and remain four days. If King George desires to see the pope, the latter will willingly accede to his request.

Dr. Stanley, general secretary of the American Sabbath Union and also secretary of the New York State Branch of the American Sabbath Union, is in receipt of a letter from Senator Page of the New York State legislature, announcing his willingness to introduce a bill into the legislature this winter at Albany against the running of Sunday trains.

As the result of a series of meetings which have been held in Copenhagen, Denmark, there arose “some sharp conflicts with the Romanists; but God seems to have given a signal victory, as some of the authorities they had referred to as on their side proved, on closer investigation, to be strongly in favor of the truth as we understand it. And yet Roman power is fast reaching that position where all the world will wonder after it, and give it honor.” K. C. B.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By W. T. Knox; E. A. Chapman

Annual Meeting of the California-Nevada Conference

THE thirty-sixth annual meeting of the California-Nevada Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene at San Jose, Cal., January 25, at 7:30 P. M., at their church near the corner of Colfax and Delmas Ave., continuing until Jan. 29, 1907.

Each church should at once select its delegates at the ratio of one delegate for the church and an additional one for every twenty members. A full delegation at this session is earnestly desired.

W. T. KNOX, President, E. A. CHAPMAN, Secretary.

Business Notices

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WANTED.—Printers: one job compositor, one linotype operator, and one make-up and stone man. Must be Sabbath-keepers. Good wages, eight hours a day. Address Recorder Press, Plainfield, N. J.

FOR SALE.—Vegetable cooking oil; nothing can beat it for shortening. Prices: 1 5-gal. can, $3.85; 2 cans, $7; 3 cans, $10, till further notice. Between Colorado and Ohio, freight prepaid. Address R. H. Brock, Arkansas City, Kan.

WANTED.—Seventh-day Adventist girls for factory work. Girls between the ages of sixteen and thirty preferred. Wages reasonable. Board not high. Town very pretty, and two thousand inhabitants. Address Three “B” Duster Co., Buchanan, Mich.

WANTED.—By first-class printer, who understands job work and proof-reading, a position among Seventh-day Adventists, not particular whether in State conference or private office. Address N. W. Klopfer, 85 New York Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C.

SPECIAL NOTICE.—Order a large supply of our rancid-proof peanut butter immediately—as only 10 cents a pound—as peanuts have advanced 50 per cent. Purest cocoanut oil, 13 cents in 50-pound lots. Order to-day. Address Vegetarian Meat Company, Washington, D. C.

THE Iowa Sanitarium Bakery, Des Moines, Iowa, carries a full line of cereal and other health foods, also a good cooking oil. The Iowa Sanitarium Bakery is not a private concern; it is a denominational institution, run by the Iowa Conference, and in harmony with the general work. We solicit your correspondence as to prices, discounts, etc.

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.—Waldens Ridge fruit farm, 300 acres; seven miles west of Graysville. One half improved, rest timber. About three thousand bearing apple-trees, three hundred pear-trees (500 bushels pears this season), grapes, cherries, plums, etc. Freestone and chalybeate springs, a flowing well, a large house and barn. Address B. O. Everett, Brayton, Tenn.

Obituaries

ZOLLINGER.—Died at his late home, in Spring Hill, Kan., May 24, 1906, of chronic ulcers, Samuel Zollinger, aged 88 years, 4 months, and 3 days. He was a member of the Adventist church at Kansas City, and had always lived a faithful Christian life. The funeral service was held from the Presbyterian church, Thursday afternoon, and was conducted by J. W. Norwood, assisted by Rev. C. R. Green, of the M. P. church of this place; text 2 Sam. 14:14. Burial was made in Spring Hill Cemetery. TINA SUTCLIFFE.

TOWNSEND.—Died at Escondido, Cal., Oct. 21, 1906, Sarah S. Townsend. Sister Townsend was born in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1822. For twelve years she had been an invalid, the past four of which she was confined to her bed. During these years of suffering she was cared for by her daughter, Mrs. Hughes, whose husband we laid to rest but a few weeks ago. The twenty-third psalm was always a chosen source of comfort to her. The funeral service was conducted by the writer; text, Ps. 23:4. I. A. CRANE.

FILLOON.—Died at her home near Melrose, Ill., Nov. 1, 1906, Sister Martha Filloon, aged 76 years, 3 months, and 1 day. She with her husband accepted the truths of the advent message under the labors of Elders Colcord and Bliss in 1871. Her faith never wavered, and she peacefully fell asleep, to rest as she had desired through the time of trouble, then to have part in the first resurrection. Sister Filloon was a great Bible student, having read that Book through twenty-one times. In speaking of the REVIEW, which she had taken for thirty-five years, she said, “O, I could not do without it! It is my only companion since father [her husband] died.” She leaves two daughters, one son, three stepdaughters, grandchildren, and great grandchildren to mourn their loss. MRS. W. HANDLEY.

CRAWLEY.—Died at her home near Michaels, Ind., Aug. 12, 1906, of diphtheria, Norme Gail Crawley, aged 5 years, 5 months, and 4 days. She was a loving and obedient child. Her death was a sad blow to her parents, brothers, and sisters. Her friends believe that when the trumpet sounds on the last great day, she will come forth from the tomb glorified. JOHN F. STEELE.

WEST.—Died at the home of his nephew, in Bartow, Fla., Nov. 22, 1906, of la grippe, Brother West. He was born in Alfred, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1821. He kept the Sabbath for many years, and although a member of the Seventh-day Baptist Church, the last few years he was a regular attendant of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. His aged wife died one year ago. They had traveled life’s journey together for fifty-nine years. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. R. G. SPRINGER.

CUMMINGS.—Died at St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 7, 1906, Mrs. Cynthia M. Cummings, wife of Edward H. Cummings. She was born in Springfield, Pa., Sept. 29, 1842. She became interested in present truth in 1870, and identified herself with this people a few years later. Her hope was in God until the last, and those who know of her last days feel that she awaits the first resurrection. She leaves a husband, one son, and one daughter to mourn for her. C. L. EMMERSON.

BOOTH.—Died at Anacortes, Wash., Oct. 15, 1906, of cancer of the stomach, my beloved mother, Mrs. Nancy Almira Tenney Booth, aged 68 years, 8 months, and 10 days. When quite young, she with her husband accepted the advent message under the labors of I. Sanborn, and joined the Hundred Mile Grove church of Wisconsin. She was a faithful witness for Christ, and died with a firm hope of being raised in the first resurrection. She leaves five sons and four daughters and many friends, who deeply mourn their loss. A. H. BOOTH.

HUNTER.—Died in Hickory, N. C., Oct. 23, 1906, of membranous croup, Sarah Margaret Hunter, daughter of John and Nellie Hunter, aged 4 years, 4 months, and 22 days. Little Margie loved the Sabbath-school, and her childish faith grasped the truth of Jesus’ coming and of the new earth. While her death was a severe shock to her parents, they are comforted with the thought that she will come up in the first resurrection. She was laid to rest in the little graveyard at Hildebran, words of comfort being spoken to the parents and friends by the writer. J. W. BEACH.

HUDSON.—Died in Garden Grove, Cal., Nov. 18, 1906, Charles Hudson, aged 81 years, 10 months, and 26 days. Brother Hudson was a pioneer in Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska in the early years of those States, and the same spirit of advancement placed him among the pioneers in the third angel’s message, which he accepted forty-one years ago. During these years his faithfulness was a constant witness to his sincerity, and he leaves behind the record of an earnest Christian experience. He sleeps, and his loved ones sorrow, but not as those without hope. B. E. FULLMER.

MERCER.—Died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 12, 1906, Sister Margaret Mercer, of Arcata, Cal., aged 72 years. Sister Mercer and three of her daughters accepted present truth about ten years ago. Her husband died about twelve years ago, and since that time she has made her home with her children, mostly with her daughter in California. While visiting her children and friends in the East, she was taken sick, and died six weeks later. The body was brought to Hartford, Conn., for burial. She was the mother of twelve children, ten of whom survive her. She also left thirty-four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The funeral service was conducted by the writer at the home of her son, and we laid her to rest in Spring Grove Cemetery, to await the voice of the Archangel. W. R. ANDREWS.

_Publications Wanted_

[SPECIAL NOTICE.—We learn that objectionable literature is being sent in response to these requests, and urge all to examine with special care any periodicals or pamphlets received outside of our well-known denominational publications. Be sure that the literature which you distribute teaches the truth.—ED.]

The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:—

C. R. Conger, Towanda, Ill., periodicals.

A. T. Mundell, Lascruces, N. M., Signs, Instructor, Little Friend, etc.

Ruth Wightman, 28 State St., Watertown, N. Y., Signs, REVIEW, and tracts.

Mrs. F. S. Leatherbury, Ladysmith, Wis., Instructor, Life and Health, Little Friend, and tracts.

C. D. M. Williams, Honolulu, H. I., Signs, Watchman, Instructor; could use many copies in prison work, and among the ships that fill our harbor.

La V. Beulah Henry, R. F. D. 3, Box 73, Prague, Okla., Life and Health, Liberty, Life Boat, Arbeiter, Hausfreund, Hlasatel Prawdy, etc., and tracts.

Addresses

BROTHER S. D. HARTWELL'S post-office address is 335 John St., Charlotte, Mich.

Elder J. J. Nethery requests his correspondents to note that his address is now 31 First Khedivé St., Alexandria, Egypt, instead of 90 Attarine St., as formerly.

The Best New Year’s Resolution

MANY a person, Christian and non-Christian, has resolved at the beginning of the new year to “turn over a new leaf.” They were dissatisfied with the record they knew they had made during the past year, and earnestly longed to live a better life. It is very probable that at the beginning of last year they made a similar resolution. It is very probable that at the beginning of next year they will do the same thing; and at the close of each year look back upon a life of regrets. What is the trouble? First, these resolutions have come year by year instead of day by day and hour by hour. They have been made in human strength, with little or no dependence upon the arm of God, when they should have been made with a full realization of human weakness and a knowledge of the fact that the flesh of itself is unable to carry out anything that the mind may will, and that God only can furnish the strength requisite for the undertaking. The best resolution we can make is to surrender our wills, ways, and our all to God, that he may use us as he wills, in his ways, and let that resolution go on from hour to hour, year in and year out. When that is done, self is dethroned, and we can look back without harassing regrets upon the way in which God has led us, and the things he has accomplished through us.

Books for Spanish and German Neighbors

We have received, fresh from the press of the Hamburg House, two books which we trust the friends of the cause in this country will make good use of among their Spanish and German neighbors. The first is entitled “La Gloriosa Venida,” a Spanish translation of “His Glorious Appearing.” It contains eighty-six pages, is well illustrated, printed on an excellent grade of paper, board binding; price, post-paid, twenty-five cents. The other is Sister White’s new book, “Ministry of Healing,” in the German language and without mentioning the truths it contains it is one of the most attractive books we have seen. It is well bound in cloth, beautifully printed on the best grade of paper, copiously and beautifully illustrated. No criticism can be offered either as to workmanship or contents. The book will speak for itself, and will sell itself if our brethren and sisters who have German neighbors will give it an opportunity. The book contains 525 pages, and the price by mail is $1.65. Orders can be filled from this office; Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal.; or International Publishing Assn., College View, Neb.; or Southern Publishing Assn., Nashville, Tenn.

The Year 1907

1907— May its close show a greater work accomplished for the cause of God than any year that has preceded it.

Safe Arrival at Yokohama

WORD was received from the editor on December 25, reporting his safe arrival at Yokohama, Japan, on that date, after a prosperous voyage.

Encouraging Reports from Mexico

ELDER W. A. SPICER returned from Mexico, December 29, and reports encouraging meetings and an excellent spirit among the workers in the Mexican field.

Missionaries Going to New Fields

By Editor

IT has been a pleasure to greet so many missionaries of late in Washington on their way to the fields. There has been a steady succession of workers going out during the last two months. As we note these departures, our readers will surely pray that the blessing of God may attend the laborers as they enter new fields, to meet with untried experiences. But it is the same message that they bear to all lands, and the reports which we publish from week to week show that it brings forth the same fruit of obedience in every place.

Instructions for Death Notices

By Editor

WILL those who send in notices of the death of friends or relatives kindly conform as far as possible to the form of the obituary paragraphs as published from week to week? This will greatly facilitate the work of preparing such copy for the compositor.

Religious Liberty Agitation in Elmira

By Editor

OUR readers will be glad to learn that the recent agitation in Elmira, N. Y., over the question of enforced Sunday observance has opened the way for the presentation of much truth, not only upon the principles of religious liberty, but upon the question of the true Sabbath and the soon coming of the Lord.

Sunday Laws Do Not Honor the Sabbath

By Editor

A NOTE in a recent issue of the United Presbyterian declares that “Georgia has honored the Sabbath,” and the proof of this assertion is the fact that the supreme court of that State has sustained a law prohibiting the running of freight-trains on Sunday. The Presbyterian is mistaken; the Sabbath is not honored in any such way. An attempt may be made to compel the recognition of Sunday, a rival institution established by human law, but that is far from honoring the Sabbath. Each individual is instructed to “call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable,” but this refers to the seventh day of the week, and there is no divine authority for thinking that compelling others to stop work on Sunday is honoring the Sabbath. We would be glad to have all men honor the Sabbath, but we see no occasion for rejoicing because a human law prohibiting the running of freight-trains on Sunday has been sustained. Comparatively few persons are honoring the true Sabbath of the Lord.

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