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ANGELS, Their Nature and Ministry.
Revised by the late J. H. Waggoner. In two parts. Part Two considers some hints on the Origin, History and Destiny of Satan, as gleaned from the Scriptures. Bible Students’ Library No. 83. 140 pages. Paper covers. Price, 20 cents.
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Boodle or Bulldozing
By Editor
“Boodle” or “Bulldozing.”—We like neither of these terms, kind reader. They sound harsh on the refined ear; and yet they forcibly express in the current political slang of the day the two ways by which Dr. Cantine says the legislators of California may be worked. (See report of California “State Sabbath Association” on another page.) The Sunday-law reformers have not used the former; at least, we do not believe they have; but the latter has been used. It was used in the Congress of the United States in putting through the World’s Fair Sunday-closing measure, till grave senators admitted that it was not safe in a political sense to oppose the friends of the measure. Those who did would never come back to Congress. See the shameful evidence in Congressional Record of May 25, 1892, and July 13 of the same year, and also in the Daily Post, of Chicago, April 9, 1892. Which is worse—Boodle or Bulldozing? Either have no part in genuine Christianity, or free government.
Petitions Galore.
The religious people in various States seem to have a great burden for the District of Columbia. There seems to be a prevailing sentiment that the people of that particular region, ten miles square, do not know how to take care of themselves. They are assumed to be especially imbecile in the matter of Sunday observance; they either do not know what they want, or what is good for them, or else they do not know how to ask for what they want. All through the Congressional proceedings are injected such items as this: “Mr. Sewell presented petitions of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, of the Emanuel Baptist Church, and of the Christian Citizenship Union, all of Camden, N. J., praying for the passage of Senate Bill No. 2485, to further protect the first day of the week as a day of rest in the District of Columbia.” Such petitions are sent to Congress from nearly all the States. But while the people of the States are particularly solicitous for the religious condition of the people (as to outward observance), there are other points in which the citizens of the District of Columbia are deemed incapable of self-government; for instance, “Mr. McMillan presented a petition of the Michigan State Board of Health, praying for the passage of Senate Bill No. 1552, for the further prevention of cruelty to animals in the District of Columbia.” Again, petitions come from the presidents of colleges and universities, the bishops of dioceses, and various other sources, asking for a law to restrict vivisection in the District of Columbia. And many other measures are continually being made the subjects of anxious petition on the part of residents of remote localities for the benefit of the people of that District. If the various churches and temperance and humane societies of the District were to send out floods of petitions to the various State Legislatures asking for legislation on this, that, and the other subject, it is just possible that they would receive some strong hints to attend to their own business.
Measure by God’s Standards
MEASURE things not by human standards, but by God's standards. Before depending upon your conscience see that it is regulated by God's law.
What Liberty Owes to Rome
Dr. R. F. COYLE gave an interesting and forcible lecture on "What Liberty Owes to Rome," in the First Presbyterian Church of this city the 26th inst. We may reproduce a portion of it next week.
Missions in Colombia and Heathen Lands
By Editor
OUR Missions department has two articles of interest, the first, an article on the type of “Christianity” prevalent in the Roman Catholic country of the United States of Colombia, and the other on the effect of the Parliament of Religions in heathen lands.
Work To-day
When Jesus calls men to his service it is not to work next week, or to-morrow. It is, “Go work to-day in my vineyard.” “Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” Then, brother, sister, go to work now. Leave the selfish pleasure, the selfish pursuit of gain, the selfish dignity, and work for souls to-day, now. Those needing help may be in your own household, may be your own neighbors, your own relatives. Help them to-day. Speak the helpful word, do the helpful deed, now.
Boulder Sanitarium as a Health Resort
The Sunday Chicago Inter Ocean of January 10, with other things of interest, has a well-written article on “The Rocky Mountain Region as a Health Resort.” Prominent among institutions builded for the treatment of the sick, helpers to Nature’s air and sunshine, is mentioned the Boulder Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, fully equipped with a complete corps of physicians, male and female, general and special, with all modern health-building remedies, at the head of which is W. H. Riley, M.D. Those needing the invigorating air of Colorado to restore wasted nerves or lungs could not do better, in our opinion, than to correspond with Dr. W. H. Riley, Boulder, Colo.
Famine and Pestilence
Famine and Pestilence still bear sway in India with increasing tyranny. Fearful as is the bubonic plague, it is said that the famine claims ten victims to one of the plague, while it leaves myriads of others so weakened and emaciated that they fall easy victims to the disease which follows. So it was that cholera followed famine in Russia three years ago. Reports now indicate that the fearful scourge will sweep over India. It is a time for those in plenty to give of their store for the people. May God pity the poor people of India. And yet the disease of sin is worse, more tyrannical, more deadly, than the bubonic plague; for the power of the latter ends with this life; the former if retained ends in eternal death. Christians should do all in their power to save souls from both.
THE TIME TO OPPOSE IS NOW.
The Oakland Telegram has the following liberty-breathing editorial on “Sunday Laws,” which is worth repeating. But the time for the opposition of these things is before the government, National State, and Municipal, in its supineness is bound hand and foot, committed to the wicked principle. Then it will be too late. Now is the time for California and Oakland to arouse:—
“The good people who are now pushing along with such zeal and energy the movement for the enactment of more rigid laws concerning the observance of Sunday, are likely to meet with strong opposition some of these days.”
“So far, the discussion has been nearly all on their side, but there is a growing feeling among a large and intelligent class of men and women that the time is near at hand when some attention must be paid to the principles of religious liberty upon which this government was founded.”
“The Constitution of the United States is supposed to vouchsafe to every citizen the right to worship the Creator according to the dictates of his own conscience, and to perform that homage upon any day that his creed or belief teaches him is right and proper.”
“The wise men who founded the government went further than this and absolved the citizen from any sort of religious worship whatever if he so elects.”
“The act of separating Church and State was to be full and final. In matters of religious observance the majority rule was forever barred, for that is a matter above and beyond the power of the State. The Jew and the Adventist have precisely the same right under the Constitution to set apart the seventh day of the week for rest and religious services as the Catholic or the Presbyterian, the Baptist or the Methodist, had to choose Sunday as the day for those purposes.”
Fact Versus Theory
Fact versus Theory.—Referring to the great so-called “discovery” that the Jewish week was movable, and that the Sabbath was not, therefore, the seventh day of our week, it is a sufficient reply to say that when the Jewish week came into contact with the fixed week of Rome and other western nations, the Jewish week was found to be identical with the Roman week with this simple difference: The Jewish or Bible week began at sunset Saturday night, while the Roman week began at midnight. The inevitable conclusion is, therefore, that the Bible week is a fixed week. The effort has been made frequently in time past to mystify the searcher after the true Sabbath by saying that in the change from Old Style to New Style time was lost, and no one knew the proper order of the week. It was only necessary to reply to the foolish statement that Russia reckons time by Old Style, while other European nations reckon by New Style, yet the week and the order of the days of the week are the same. The change from Old Style to New Style did not affect the order of the days of the week in the least. The two theories are parallel. The Bible week is a fixed week, and, with the exception noted above, is identical with the week common in all nations. An ounce of fact is worth a pound of theory.
McClure’s Magazine for February
“McCLURE’S MAGAZINE” for February is a most excellent number of an excellent magazine. It contains reproductions of thirty life-portraits of Washington, revising to some extent the common and traditional pictures, all taken from one painting, but not considered the best likeness of “the Father of His Country.” There is also a sketch of his career by W. P. Trent. An interesting article is “The Making of the Bible,” by H. J. W. Dam, showing how God has wondrously preserved his Word, and the number of Bibles now going to the world, especially through the famous Oxford Press. “The Bell-buoy” is a noble poem by Rudyard Kipling. Hamlin Garland furnishes an interesting paper on “Grant in the Mexican War.” This number contains a marvelous amount of information for ten cents. For sale by all news dealers. Price $1.00. Address, S. S. McClure Co., 141-155 E. 25th Street, New York City.
Preaching Through Complete Books of the Bible
DEAN FARRAR, the learned author and preacher, recommends, in an article in the Homiletic Review for January, that preachers should present the Bible in complete books from the pulpit. It is a timely word. Such a course of preaching would lead the people to study the Word of God, and the more the Bible is studied with humble hearts the more souls will be converted to Christ, and God will be glorified.