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THE WATCHMAN
NASHVILLE, TENN., OCT. 15, 1907
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER
POETRY PAGE
Sufficient for the Day................. 659
Little Kindnesses .................... 663
GENERAL ARTICLES —
Pray without Ceasing, ‘Mrs E G WHITE 659
The Day of Atonement, C SANTEE..... 660
Spiritualism ............... 661
THE HOME —Autointoxication—Restful
People, Mrs M H TUXFORD....... 662, 663
EDITORIAL .— Idle Words, ¢. I. B—
“Graft” and Sin, L. A. s.—"That Woman
Jezebel,” pr. 1. aM. —The “Gift of
Tongues” Movement, L. A. S...... 564 - 566
FROM THE FILLD.—FEcuador, J W
WEstPHAL—An Experience of Seventh-
day Adventists in Peru, N Z Town
Dominica, P Gipnines — Power, T H
JEvs— Life in India— No. 3, J. S.
JAMES oo 667 - 670
THINGS HERE AND THERE. —A
God in the Making. .................. 670
OUR SCRAP BOOK.—Roman Catholic
Teaching Concerning the Power of the
Priest—The Right Attitude toward the
Truth «o.oo 670
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WE resume this week in our editorial de-
partment the instructive series of articles by
Professor P. T. Magan.
THE many friends of the senior editor of
the Warcaman, Elder G. I. Butler. will be
pleased to learn that as the result of a brief
ceremony performed before a few assembled
guests at the residence of his nephew, Dr.
F. A. Washburn of the Nashville Sanitarium,
on the evening of October 8, he is
again happy in the blessing of a com-
panionship which was interrupted by death
some years ago. The bride is the widow of
Elder W. C. Grainger, the last years of whose
life were spent in missionary labor in Japan.
All who know Elder Butler will join in ex-
tending him congratulations on the event,
which under Providence will be blessed to
his future happiness, and further usefulness
in the cause with which he has so long been
connected.
THE WATCHMAN
SoME interesting testimony is given in our
Scrap Book column as to what is taught in
Catholic literature regarding the power of
the priest. Where could there be a greater
power, the question is asked, than the power
of the priest, who pronounces a judgment
which God himself is compelled to sanction?
A fitting question, truly! God is almighty,
vet the priest can compel the Almighty to
sanction his decree, thus possessing even more
than almighty power! This is great power
indeed!
Tur following from the New York Sun,
which has no reputation for sensationalism,
12 worthy of note: —
“The navy is going to the Pacific Ocean
for war with Japan, and Japan recognizes
the fact,
it. Once the
ships to Pacific waters has been accomplished,
war is inevitable.”
and is energetically preparing for
operation of transferring our
The Washington Post scouts the idea that
this action of the navy will bring on war, but
says that war with Japan would be absolutely
certain if the
send the
government should exhibit a
Pacific. On
disquieting,
though we do not anticipate war just now.
to the
situation
fear to navy
the whole the looks
WHAT 12 to hecome of the Constitution of
the United States? It is proper to raise this
question, in view of the increasing sentiment
that the Constitution has become antiquated
and no longer fits the nation’s needs. This
sentiment was voiced in a recent speech at the
Jamestown fair grounds by President Edmund
J. James of the University of Illinois, who said
that "our present Constitution has heen so
changed hy and
construction interpretation
that its authors would never recognize it,”
and that three courses are open to the people,
—" one, tn observe the Constitution strictly,
which would be suicidal: second. to keep in-
terpreting it away, which will undermine the
respect of the people for all law; and, third,
to call a national convention and frame a
new Constitution.”
Tn any case, it is evident that constitutional
guaranties cannot he longer depended on to
safeguard American liberty.
“WE are informed,” savs the [ndependent,
“that in one of the small towns of Western
Pennsylvama as high as ten per cent. of the
population have become the slaves of cocaine,
because of the criminal connivance of one or
more drugeists mn the matter.” Such state-
‘ments remind us that the battle for temnerance
cannot be won by the prohibition of the liquor
traffic alone.  * Fven where prohibition pre-
vails by law.” the Independent continues, “it
1s the druggists who are responsible for such
violations, of the spirit of the law at least,
as in some places make it ridiculous.” In
some towns in the prohibition state of Maine,
store largely replaces the
the corner drug
saloon, and in nearly all prohibition territory.
there is a large sale of *pe-ru-na’ and other
patent medicines containing alcohol, to say
nothing of those “medicines” which contain
cocaine or opium. 1'he battle for temperance
is one that must be waged with ceaseless
vigilance and with the co-operation of every
agency of righteousness in heaven and earth.
THE questions remaining to be decided at
the Hague conference, are those relating to
compulsory arbitration, the collection of con-
tractual debts, and the establishment of a per-
manent court of arbitration. The last-named
protect has already been discussed to some
extent, and as it 1s opposed by several of the
powers represented at the conference, 1t 1s
not expected that an agreement on this ques-
tion will be reached. If the conference should
succeed in establishing compulsory arbitration
as the method of settling international dis-
putes, it will be a great gain for the world,
truly; but it remains to be seen whether the
delegates will be more successful in dealing
with this problem than they have been with
others. If they do not succeed here, the
whole conference will come little tf any short
of an absolute failure.
A NEw theory comes to us to account for
the things done by Spiritualist mediums. It
comes trom the camp of science, or what man
calls such. being put forth by Professor Fil-
ippo Bottazzi, head of the department of phys-
iology of the Royal University of Naples, “a
man whose position guarantees his good faith
and his scientific acumen,” says the Review
of Reviews.
a series of careful and very scientific exper-
Professor Bottazzi conducted
iments with a Spiritualist medium with a view
of determining the source from which the
manifestations proceeded, and sums up his
conclusion in these words: —
“ Mediumistic phenomena, when they are
not entirely hallucinations of those present
at the seance, are biological phenomena en-
tirely dependent on the organism of the me-
dium, and if so. they occur as if accomplished
hy prolongation of the natural limbs, or as if
hy additional limhs which spread from the
body of the medium and re-enter it after a
variable time, during which time they show
themselves, as far as the sensation they bring
about in us, as limbs differing in no essential
matter from natural or physical members.”
This theory, the professor says, printed over
his name and with all the weight of evidence
which he has collected back of it, cannet but
give food for thought to all except obstinately
incredulous skeptics who have no faith in the
methods of science.
With all respect to scientific authority. how-
ever. we find it very much easier to believe
the Scriptural explanation of the phenomena
of Spiritualism, which ascribes them to the
agency of unseen evil spirits. It requires
much less credulity to believe the Bible than
to believe that which contradicts the Bible.