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THE WATCHMAN
NASHVILLE, TENN., MARCH 19, 1907
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.
Peotry. PAGE
What Does It Mean?..uouuuueenrneseseesenennnnnnne 179
What Is Your Life Aim?...uuessrsseessesnssnnneeses 182
A Temperance Psalm... ....ueeeeseesessesssesssnnnns 183
General Articles,
The Treasures of God’s Word, Mrs. E. G. WHITE.. 179
lsrael: the Return of the Jews-No.12, J] S WasHBURN 180
The Lord’s Day, FRANK PEABODY. verve eeseeeons ¥. 181
The Home. — Tuberculosis from Cow's Milk, LA s—A
Plea far an Overworked Organ— Shall We Eat Flesh
Foods? MRS. M. H. TUXFORD 1evessereaessnnnes 182, 183
Bditorial. — Organization No. 6, G 1 B— Spiritualism
and Spirituality, L A s— Russia Moving toward India,
LAs — Receiving the Kingdom, U SmiTH....... 184-186
Bditorial Notes ........... DT 185
The $150,000 Fund. — Donation — The Work in
Graysville and Huntsville, J] $ WASHBURN — May 4,
J 5 WASHBURN — West Indian Training School,
The GEN. CoN. CoMuuviniuninninrinnnnininnnn 187, 188
Prem the Field. — The South Carolina Institute, C F
DART — The Louisville Church Rejoices, CHurcH
CLERK — The South Carolina Canvasser’s Institute,
H G MILLER — Tried and Convicted on Sunday,
Cyrus S1MMONs—Missionary Report, SECRETARY 188, 189
Things Here and There.—Australia’s Wealth in Sheep
~— Chinese Burial Customs — Weather Forecasts All
the Way to Europe — A Slip on an lceberg......... 170
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“WHaicH of you convinceth me of sin?” said
Christ to the Pharisees. John 8:46. If Christ
had not been keeping the Sabbath, would not
the Pharisees have pointed to the fourth com-
mandment of the decalogue, and convicted him
of sin as a transgressor of the law? For “sin
is the transgression of the law.” 1 John 3:4.
Jesus Christ kept the seventh-day Sabbath, and
his life is given us as an example, that we
should follow in his steps. “He that saith
he abideth in Him ought himself also so to
walk, even as he walked.” 1 John 2:6.
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ANOTHER edition of our special WATCHMAN
is now on the press. We have added to this
edition two illustrations of the Kingston earth-
quake, with a description of that event and of
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other calamities coming in the early part of
1907, such as the Ohio River flood and the
great famines in China and Russia, bringing
the paper right down to date. And now why
cannot this special issue continue to be sold
in large numbers? Not a line of it is out of
date, and if those who have not yet done
anything at all will send in an order for ten,
twenty-five, fifty, or a hundred copies of this
special truth-laden issue, another 150,000 will
soon be sold. Is there any good reason why
this should not be done? Before the end is
reached, and it will be reached soon, every
person who has the approval of God will be
actively giving this message. Then is it not
high time to make a beginning? Do not put
it off; begin now.
THESE are good days for temperance in the
state of Tennessee. Under the Pendleton law,
which allows the issue of saloons or no saloons
to be decided for any locality by popular vote,
the towns and cities of Tennessee have one
after the other voted to abolish the drink shop,
so that the prospect is fair that in the near
future the sale of intoxicating drinks will be
legal only in the cities of Memphis, Nashville,
and Chattanooga. ‘There would then remain
but three counties out of ninety-six in the
whole state where the sale of liquor is sanc-
tioned by law. That this consummation may
be reached is the devout wish of every Sev-
enth-day Adventist in good standing in the
state. We believe in prohibition of this de-
moralizing traffic, regarding the liquor saloon
as a natural outlaw that is no more deserving
of legal sanction than is an epidemic of yellow
fever. A breeding-place of crime and lawless-
ness, of sorrow and want, is certainly no more
desirable than a breeding place of disease; in
fact, it is far less desirable. The real root of
temperance, however, consists in temperate eat-
ing as well as temperate drinking. Meat,
spices, condiments, tobacco, and other stim-
ulants create a thirst which leads to the use of
strong drink. The Christian rule of temper-
ance 1s given us in the words, “ Whether there-
fore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do
all to the glory of God.” 1 Cor. 10:31.
THE trial is pending in the Idaho courts of
president Moyer and secretary Haywood of
the Western Federation of Miners, and another
member of the organization named Pettibone,
for alleged complicity in the murder of ex-
governor Stunenburg, of Idaho. For more
than a year these men have been in jail await-
ing trial, and an effort to secure their release
on a habeas corpus writ, which was carried
to the Supreme Court at Washington, failed.
One member of the court, however, Justice
McKenna, dissented from the views of his
fellow members, and expressed the opinion that
the accused men were being deprived of a
Constitutional right, and that their arrest with-
out having been indicted constituted a case
of kidnaping. This dissenting opinion has
been made the battle-cry of the labor organiza-
tions, and Social-Democratic members of the
Wisconsin Legislature have presented resolu-
tions asking Congress “to immediately insti-
tute an investigation, and ascertain by what au-
thority, or through what influence, if any, the
United States Supreme Court can set aside
the Constitution of the United States and le-
galize the crime of kidnaping.” The United
Mine Workers of America have declared:
“We ... do not believe that it is the in-
tention of the courts of Idaho to give Moyer,
Haywood, and Pettibone a fair and impartial
trial.” The temper of some of the miners is
further shown by the following paragraph from
‘a speech made by a member of the organiza-
tion before a large gathering of coal miners at
Pittsburg, Kansas: —
“The time has come for rebellion. The
courts have refused us a fair hearing; the right
of petition has been refused us, and we must
now prepare to use the last recourse — force
of arms. The Dred-Scott decision was fol-
lowed by the Civil War. The Moyer-Hay-
wood-Pettibone decision will be followed by a
rebellion of the working class. Arm your-
selves, keep a steady nerve, and get some-
thing to kill squirrels with; for the woods are
full of squirrels, and there is going to be a
killing.”
The conviction of these men and their sen-
tence to the gallows would doubtless do much
to intensify the bitter feeling between capital
and labor in the mining industry. The pend-
ing trial is one of far greater interest and im-
portance than the one now being concluded in
New York, which has been absorbing the at-
tention of so many people on both sides of the
Atlantic.
Dr. I. K. Funk, of whose work as an in-
vestigator of modern Spiritualism we speak
elsewhere in this issue, believes he has found
a point in favor of Spiritualism as a religion
which its opponents will find difficulty in over-
coming. He says that a communication has
been received from the spirits exhorting an in-
dividual to prayer. The case was that of two
friends, Dr. Hyslop and Dr. Hodgson, both
materialists, the latter of whom recently died,
and (it is alleged) sent the communication to
Dr. Hyslop. Dr. Funk says: —
“Prayer implies faith in the All Creator.
Can the church afford to overlook anything
that brings materialists to their knees in this
sadly materialistic age? Just how will my
Seventh-day Adventist critics and other good
church people, who have been writing me warn-
ing letters, reconcile exhortations of this sort
with their theory of ‘evil spirits’ as the source
of all spirit communications?” Dr. Funk does
not think the devil could afford to take the
risk of exhorting anybody to prayer, and es-
pecially an irreligious person.
This alleged communication brings out, by
contrast, the fact that Spiritualist literature has
heretofore been wholly devoid of any recog-
nition of the virtue of prayer to God. Even
if the communication be genuine, it would re-
quire more than one such instance to offset in
any degree the whole record of Spiritualism
as an influence which is opposed to prayer, to
the Bible, and the most vital tenets of the
Christian religion.