We have lately received questions signed only with the initials of the questioner. The persons sending them have doubtless supposed that nothing more is required, because in publishing the questions we print only the initials. This is a mistake. We print only the initials, but we require in every case the full name. We wish to know who we are answering.
Please Fold Manuscripts Properly
By Editor
We have some valued correspondents whose manuscript always comes rolled as compactly as possible. If the editorial room were furnished with the proper utensils, we might, by ironing the manuscript, get it into such shape that the compositor could keep it on his case; but under present circumstances, it is a source of great annoyance. Now don't fail to write; but after you have written, fold your manuscript and put it in an envelope as you would a letter. The larger the envelope the better. Do this, write legibly, with ink, on one side of the paper, with plenty of space between lines and words, and the editors will thank you from the heart.
The Sabbath and the Law
THE attention of the reader is called to the article on the second page of this paper on the Sabbath and the Law, in which it is most conclusively proved that according to the law of God nothing but the seventh day of the week should be observed as the Sabbath. The writer is one of the leading men in the body known as Disciples, and does not believe that the law is binding on Christians. However, his argument ought to be convincing to those who do profess to revere God's holy law. As for the law of God itself, nothing is easier than to show that it is as unchangeable as are the goodness and mercy of God, and as unending as the days of eternity.
Cardinal Gibbons’s Blasphemous Address
The new cardinal, Gibbons, in his address to the Ablegate, who brought to him the insignia of his office, felt it incumbent on him to render to his lord and master the following bit of blasphemous palaver:—
The Whole World Is Their Home
“But, in truth, distance, howsoever vast, cannot deter those who are charged with a mission from the Vicar of Christ, whose is the earth and the fullness thereof. For such the whole world is their home.”
The Pope Exalted Above God
thereof. For such the whole world is their home.
This speech is reported in the Catholic Mirror of July 3, 1886. David said, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” The Catholic says that this applies to the Pope, thus exalting the Pope above God. And Catholics claim for the Pope only what he claims for himself.
Religious Persecution Revived
By Editor
THE Stockton Evening Mail of July 16, has as its leading editorial an article over half a column in length, entitled, "Religious Persecution Revived." The article is devoted to an account of the trial of Seventh-day Adventists in Arkansas and Tennessee for not resting on Sunday. It gives a clear and impartial statement of the case, clearly showing that the prosecution of those men was persecution, inasmuch as they were conscientious observers of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, while thousands of others have done all manner of work and play on Sunday and have not been molested.
We are pleased to see so candid a statement of the case in a secular journal. Ere long the attention of the whole country will be diverted to the movement that is on foot by the "National Reform Association," the object of which is to make persecution for conscience' sake a feature of this Government.
Increase of Work.
THIS office has been running to its full capacity the most of the time during the year, but the past week has been one of more than usual activity, and we have been obliged to run presses night and day, and this will continue for some time to come. More work has been turned out the past week than ever before during the same length of time. To give our readers some idea of our facilities, we would say that an order was taken to print and bind (in cloth) ten thousand copies of a book of 200 large pages, and within three days from the time work was commenced on the job, complete bound copies were in the hands of the author. Other large jobs were also being carried right on during the same time.
Over one hundred hands are now employed in the various departments of the office, and our pay-roll amounts to $1,000 a week. The prospect was never better for a large run of work, and we look for continued prosperity.
A Child’s Death from Alcoholic Poisoning
LAST week there was a death in Oakland which should, but probably will not, serve as a warning at least to parents. A woman left a glass of sherry wine standing on the table, and her four-year-old son, finding it there, drank it. Two or three hours afterwards his mother noticed that he “acted as if he was ‘tight,’” and put him to bed. In a short time the boy was attacked with tetanic spasms, and in spite of all efforts, soon died. The symptoms were those of poisoning by strychnia, but an examination of the wine in the bottle showed no trace of poison, other than the alcohol which it contained. The verdict is that the boy died from alcoholic poisoning. This will probably make no difference in the amount of wine that will be drank, either by the young or the old, for we have been solemnly assured again and again that wine is a harmless drink.