p. 16 | Review and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 17. (4/24/1900)

The Constitution Extended to Hawaii

CONGRESS gives to Hawaii a Territorial government, with a delegate in Congress, “extension of the Constitution” and all. Hawaii is an island possession about three times as far away from the United States as is Porto Rico. If the Constitution can be “extended” that far from the western shore of the mainland of the United States, why is it that it can not be extended one third as far from the southeastern shore?

The Ameer Calls for British Action

The ameer of Afghanistan has grown tired of Britain’s “aloofness and reserve” as to Russia’s designs on Herat, and in a published autograph letter sounds to Britain the following rallying note:—

Now, when Afghanistan is overwhelmed on all sides, the British government does not seem to take any interest, but enjoys the pride of aloofness and reserve. Whenever I have suggested a check to Russian aggression, I have had no response from the government of India, except the suggestion that Afghanistan might consent to the construction of railways and telegraphs. This is impossible, as the Afghans consider that such a step would mean their ruin. Notwithstanding all these troubles, I have proved for the last twenty-one years the firm ally of Great Britain. But now, at the last moment, I must inform my powerful ally, the government of India, that the present is the time for deeds and not for talk.

United States-Turkish Indemnity Dispute

THE United States is considering an ultimatum to the Turkish government demanding the payment of a claim of about eighty-eight thousand dollars, which has been for some time recognized, but not paid, by Turkey. If an ultimatum should be sent, and then the claim is not paid, all the diplomatic world is wondering whether the United States will really attempt to collect it by force. The Washington correspondent that reports it says, “A presidential election is pending in the United States, and the dispatch of a white squadron to the Dardanelles to bring the Turk to time would be one of the most popular things an American administration could do.” It is admitted that “the United States might unwittingly plunge itself into no end of trouble by using force to collect this indemnity.”

REMEMBER

By Editor

that the Beast is the result of the union of church and state with the church supreme and using the state for her own worldly, ambitious purposes. An understanding of the making of the Beast therefore calls for a consideration of the elements and the conditions in the church, in the state, and in society in general, in the times when the Beast was made. It is necessary to know this concerning the Beast, in order to be able to recognize the Image of the Beast. Accordingly next week, and for several numbers following, the studies in the Third Angel’s Message will be studies of the elements that entered into the making of the Beast: first on the side of the church. Whoever reads these studies will have no difficulty in detecting the like elements prevailing to-day; this simply because now is the time of the making of the Image to the Beast. Therefore you can not allow your subscription to expire now: you must read these coming articles. Also you can not allow your friend or neighbor to go without an opportunity to read these studies: be sure to give him an opportunity to have the paper four months (fifty cents), or at least two months (twenty-five cents) either by himself subscribing, or yourself investing that much in causing the truth to reach him. This is important. It is giving the Third Angel’s Message. We print it. Will not you help to spread it abroad?

Catholic Support for Sunday Law Enforcement

The Wisconsin Sabbath [Sunday] Association publishes from Archbishop Ireland the statement: “I have noticed with much regret that in movements of citizens to enforce the Sunday laws of the country, Catholics are not in large numbers among the foremost combatants.” This, with Apostolic Delegate Martinelli’s special call to Sunday observance, would suggest that the Catholic hierarchy in the United States is making a concerted move to engage the Catholics in the enforcement of Sunday observance here. This sign is ominous enough.

Bible Society Circulation

The official reports show that the British and Foreign Bible Society, organized in 1804, has circulated one hundred and sixty million copies of the Bible, or some portion thereof; and the American Bible Society, organized in 1816, has issued about sixty-seven million copies. The total issues of all Bible societies during the century is not less than two hundred and eighty million copies, in addition to what has been done by other agencies, which, it is said, “would doubtless reach a total of at least one-half billion copies.”

A Twofold Apostasy Twice Repeated

ELDER H. F. PHELPS has published a small twenty-page tract entitled “A Twofold Apostasy Twice Repeated.” It presents in brief form the apostasy that made the papacy, and the apostasy from which comes the image of the papacy. It certainly can be nothing but a help in spreading the Third Angel’s Message wherever the tract itself may be spread. Therefore everybody who wants the Third Angel’s Message to be spread can help to have it so by scattering this tract. The price is two cents and a half a single copy; but all who will scatter fifty or more can get them for one cent each. Address Elder H. F. Phelps, 1624 Carroll St., St. Paul, Minn.

Dedication of the Woodland School Building

By Editor

That notice of the dedication of the Woodland school building in Wisconsin is having a hard time: first it was sent in as a part of a report of labor, and was printed accordingly in the Review of April 10. Then we were informed that the notice of dedication of the school building had not appeared. Therefore we took the notice from the report of labor, printed April 10, and reprinted it last week in the Special Notice department. But there it was printed under the heading “Dedication,” without any intimation as to what State of the American Union Woodland might possibly be in. Now to make sure that the notice of this dedication shall be given, we write it down here: The dedication is to be in the State of Wisconsin. It is to be the dedication of the new school building built by the Seventh-day Adventists of that State. It is to be held on Sunday, May 6. Those who may go by railroad must go to Marshfield on the Wisconsin Central, or Chicago and Northwestern, or Marshfield and Southeastern Railway; or to Pittsville on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul; and then by team or afoot, as they may choose, to the Woodland school building. For further information address Prof. J. E. Tenney or C. H. Mikkelsen, not at Marshfield, not at Pittsville, nor yet at Woodland; but at Arpin, Wis. We sincerely hope that hundreds of persons will go, and that every one of them will have a better time in getting there than this notice has had in “getting there.”

REVIEW AND HERALD

By Editor

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