Oil quot JAMES WHITE LJERARY ANDREWS Mr apos BERRIEN SPRINGS M CHiGAN HERITAGE ROM apos MVO Nismrg amp Effects of flOventism REPLIES TO D M CANRIGHT apos S ATTACKS ON SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS IT is not pleasant to refer to personal matters in a public way yet there are times when one would be almost culpable to do otherwise When character is unjustly assailed and the cause of truth thereby injured it becomes a duty to speak plainly for the benefit of t
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ASS OC/ A/ WHO DO MEN SAY THAT I AM A NEW and astonishing answer to the above question is found in the writings of a certain so called Reform party in our land in which they claim for Christ a political sovereignty We have wondered whether they really regarded Christ as the divine Son of God or as a scheming politician Two quotations will suffice to show that our query is well grounded The first is from a prominent writer in this party in the
NX RELIGIOUS LIBERTY apos c TION CONGRESS ON SUNDAY LEGISLATION DURING the years Congress was petitioned by certain religious bodies to pass a law prohibiting the opening of post offices and the transportation of mails on Sunday The petitions were referred to the proper committees and a report upon the question was returned to the Senate Jan The report was made by Colonel Johnson of Kentucky subsequently Vice President of the United States
GIOUS LIBERTY ss WAS ISRAEL A REPUBLIC Turs question must sound strange to the ears of every reader of the Bible but it is the position taken by a certain party in our land who in their wondrous zeal for a religious government in the United States actually assert that the government of Israel instituted at Sinai was a republic The following from their organ the Christian Statesman may be taken as a sample of their utterances upon this point quot T
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY A c r riot/ u quot SHALL RELIGION BE TAUGHT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS THE question of the proper attitude of the State toward religion is one that is vitally and inseparably connected with national welfare That it has been so in the apos past all history attests and its importance as related to our own national prosperity and greatness no one can reasonably deny It is then not an insignificant fact that this question though logically settle
Lewis C. Wagner
Photograph
1890
Edward A. Williams
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Vesta Olsen's Diary 1890
Diary
1890
Farnsworth, Vesta Jane Cady 1855-1932
Center for Adventist Research
o ocoLto JAMES WHITE LIBRARY ANDREWS UNIVERSITY BERRIEN SPRINGS MICHIGAN HERITAGE ROOM CALENDAR FOR cr z O U H U z Ti O H I II TO II U ti ti H z I II I IS I II U
Testimonies on the Case of Elder E. P. Daniels
Tract
1890
White, Ellen Gould Harmon 1827-1915, Loughborough, John Norton 1832-1924
Center for Adventist Research
TESTIMONIES ON THE CASE OF ELDER E P DANIELS OAKLAND Cal l apos ebruary DEAR BRETHREN AND SrSTERS I regret the necessity of pre senting the following pages for your perusal They are personal testimonies from Sister White to Elder E P Daniels which she has been sending to him during the last four years I have deep sorrow of heart that he has not with steadfastness of purpose fully accepted and carried out these t estimonies but instead has becom
PUBLIC SCHOOLS WHAT ARE THEY FOR WHAT PURPOSE MAINTAINED Gun system of free public schools is now legally established in all the States and supported by a strong public sentiment The public school has myriads of friends and but few avowed enemies There is however a misconception on the part of some as to what they are and for what purpose they are maintained Some regard the public schools as semi religious originated and maintained for the purpose of teaching
THE CELEBRATED KING CASE WHAT THE PRESS SAYS OF IT Editorial in Chicago Tribune June RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN TENNESSEE AN important case involving religious liberty has recently developed itself in Tennessee It is invested with unusual interest because having run the gamut of the courts in the State up to the Supreme Court it will now be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States and will be the first case involving the constitutionality of Sunday l
Dedicatory prayer for the missionary ship Pitcairn
lt / STATE AND TAL cnac h FoREVERsgAiw apos apos apos apos apos apos SUNDAY LAWS THEIR ORIGIN DEVELOPMENT NATURE AND OBJECT IT is urged by some that we need a national Sunday law to make the State Sunday laws effective We ask Why so What is the need of Sunday laws at all What are they for Are they for the religious or the irreligious Law in civil government whether Sunday law or any other means compulsion Are Sunday laws to compel those who be
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ASSoci SUNDAY AND THE WORLD apos S FAIR Tux question of closing the World apos s Fair on Sunday is being agitaterat the present time It is insisted by a numerous and influential class of citizens that the Columbian Exposition to be held in Chicago in shall be closed to all the world on Sunday It is not the purpose of this leaflet to discuss whether the Fair shall or shall not be closed on Sunday but to inquire what motive prompts to the m
Pt LIBERTY Assor Niv keep THE OE AND In strARAMAPI THE BIBLE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN studying the subject of the Bible in the public schools there are two important questions to solve First Which if any of theBibles shall be used Second What are the public schools The Bible to many means only the Bible adopted by the Protestants or the King James version and in urging it to be read in the common schools they do not recognize the fact that the Catho
Arguments On the Breckinridge Sunday Bill
Before The House Committee On District Of Columbia, At Washington, D. C., Feb. 18,1890
I tLIGIOUS LIBERTY ASSOCI N ARGUMENTS ON THE BRECKINRIDGE SUNDAY BILL BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AT WASHINGTON D C FEB JANUARY Hon W C P Breckinridge member of Congress from Kentucky introduced in the House of Representatives the following bill A BILL TO PREVENT PERSONS FROM BEING FORCED TO LABOR ON SUNDAY Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress
quot GOD IN THE CONSTITUTION quot Tnis is a question that is being agitated at the present time It is urged by some that unless this nation makes a formal recognition of God in its Constitution it is destined to speedy and irretrievable ruin We ask if this position is well taken As respects this question the Government of the United States has existed for over a hundred years under its present Constitution as it is During this period its history has been one of un
Missionary ship, "Pitcairn", morning after the launch
Elder Daniels and the Fresno Church THE following testimonies of Sister White addressed to the officers and members of the Fresno church and which relate to the case of Elder E P Daniels are placed in this form by request of Sister White and sent to leading ones in our California churchesCAL CONF COMMITTEE BATTLE CREEK M i c h F e b I have a deep interest in the Fresno church I gave them counsel last winter when by letter I was solicited to use
ATE AND ThE THE TRUE STATESMAN THE true statesman is a man of principle He may be a man of great ability and possess great wealth but he will employ neither of these to secure the adoption of measures that he knows will deprive any citizen of his rights As the object of good government is to secure to men their rights not simply the rights of the strong but of the weak against the encroachments of the strong not simply to the many but to all so the purpose of
Missionary ship Pitcairn evening before the launch
Photograph
1890
Center for Adventist Research
Seventh-day Adventist Missionary ship Pitcairn crossing San Francisco Bay, California
POLITICS B RELIGION THE party who favor the proposed Religious Amendment to the Constitution put forth in support of their action the following theory quot The individual may confess Christ through motives of hypocrisy but not so of the nation Such a confession in its Constitution can only be made through the prevailing sentiment of the nation And therefore as true conversion in the individual so this Amendment in our national Constitution includes the tri
