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THE WATCHMAN
NASHVILLE, TENN., OCT. 29, 1907
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER
POETRY. PAGE
To the Backslider, E H MokroN...... 691
Some Mother's Child.................. 695
GENERAL ARTICLES.
Living for Christ, Mrs I G Waite. ... 091
The Rule of the Judgment, C SANTEE. . 692
To Whom Should We Listen? C I
RENTFRO viii een 093
Fulfilling the Law, H W CorrreLL.... 093
THI; HOM. —Be Cheerful, D HH Kress,
M. D.— Menu for November, Mgs
M HH Tuxrorv — The Cripple’'s Gar-
dell vr 694, 095
EDITORIAL.-—The Seventh-Part-of
Time Folly, ¢. 1. B.— Entirely too New,
L. A. $.— The Zenith of the Papal Em-
pire, r. 1. M.—Good Testimony on Sun-
day Laws, 1. A. s.—By What Author-
HY? Lo A Serine nnn 090 - 698
LDITORIAL NOTES ......... ..... 608
FROM THE FIELD. —A Just Judge —
Rome in the West Indies, W Jay Tan-
NER—Philadelphia, O O BERNSTEIN —
Chile, South America, W J WESTPHAL
— A South Pacific Volcano, LiLy M
052 10):3 3 CX 699 - 702
THINGS HERE AND THERE. —Monte
Carlo ooo a 702
OUR SCRAP BOOK.—Repudiating the
Declaration of Independence — The
United States as a World Power...... 702
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RECENTLY a great Sunday-closing campaign
was inaugurated in Kansas City, Mo., the
movement having the active support of Gov-
ernor Folk. Doubtless the latter would have
no sympathy with the prosecution of Christian
people who for conscientious reasons based
on the plain wording of the fourth precept of
the decalogue, make the seventh day the day
of rest instead of the first; but he 1s
drawn into this movement because it has the
appearance of being in the interests of good
government. Its real nature is not shown on
the surface, and many good people are de-
ceived into giving it their support. To know
what is really in it and to what results it
must lead, one must read the Bible and the
history of Sunday legislation.
THE WATCHMAN
WE would again invite our readers to for-
ward to us matter suitable for our Scrap
Book Column. Many have expressed their
interest in this department of the WATCHMAN,
and we know they are not unwilling, but only
forgetful, to lend us their assistance in raising
this department to the highest degree of in-
terest and value.
WE expect soon to begin in the WarcuMan
a series of articles relating to special features
of life mm the South, and their bearing upon
the prosperity of our work in this part of the
United States.
cial interest and value to our readers in the
North. Further
these articles will be given later.
These articles will be of spe-
announcements regarding
How much truth can there be in the asser-
tion that this is a Christian nation when it
spends its money, as this nation does, after
this fashion? “ For chewing gum, $15,000,000;
for ornamental jewelry, $60,500,000; for coffee
and tea, $98,229,310; for soft drinks, $r107,-
536,000; for confectionery, $178,000,000; for
tobacco, $949,500,000; and for whisky, gin,
rum, and beer, $1,744,447,0672; and for foreign
missions the insignificant sum of $7,500,000.”
Tur series of valuable historical articles
by Prof. P. T. Magan will soon be brought
down to our own time, and then the writer
will take up the subject of the Eastern Ques-
tion, for which the preceding articles will
have laid the historical foundation. ‘These
articles will add greatly to the value of the
WATCHMAN as a missionary paper. Almost
everybody is interested in the Eastern Ques-
tion, and we know of no other journal which
is giving particular attention to this great sub-
ject. Many thousands of the papers contain-
ing these articles ought to be used in mis-
sionary work.
IN a report of the closing exercises of the
Lipiscopal convention at Richmond, Va., it is
stated that “Rev. Dr. Wilmer, of Georgia, a
deputy, rising to a question of personal priv-
ilege, declared that he never said, as reported,
that ‘the Bible is the most fruitful source of
infidelity in the world” What he said was
that ‘calling the Bible the word of God is
the most fruitful source of infidelity in the
world.”
When the very ministers in the pulpits de-
clare that the Bible is not the word of God,
is it any wonder that spiritual declension pre-
vails in the churches, and that spiritual re-
vivals come no more? Read 2 Tim. 3:71-5.
To know and to love the truth is not merely
to know and love an abstract sentiment or
fact. No person can love a mere abstraction.
Love always centers on a person; and to truly
love the truth is to love Him who said, “I am
the way, the truth, and the life.” We cannot
truly know the truth unless we know him.
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“The truth as it 1s in Jesus” is the real truth,
and the only saving truth. All gospel truth
exalts Jesus as the Saviour of sinners. We
may know the truth intellectually as a theory,
and yet not have the love of the truth in our
hearts, because we do not have the ‘love of
Christ. And if we love not the truth, we
shall be overcome by some strange delusion
(2 Thess. 2: 10-12), the intellectual light that
1s m us will turn to darkness, and we will
abandon even the theory of the truth. We
cannot be saved by mere knowledge; we can
obtain salvation through Christ alone.
PriesippNT Roosgverr made a visit to the
city of Nashville Tuesday, the 22nd, and made
a speech in which he said that the govern-
ment’s investigation and prosecution of some
of the great corporations in this country “rep-
resents the effort to punish successful dis-
honesty.” He stated that he was responsible
for turning on the light (over the doings of
these corporations), but he was not respon-
sible for what the light revealed. It is not
at all likely that any successor of the present
chief executive will more vigorously seek to
defend the interests of the people against cor-
porate dishonesty, and when the present effort
to curb the selfish exercise of the power of
wealth fails, and the people realize that they
cannot depend on the power of the govern-
ment to save them from being exploited by
the trusts, then what will come? The Bible
and history both answer this question. To
the righteous who suffer from such condi-
tions the word of inspiration is, “ Be patient
therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the
Lord.” James 5:7. The coming of the
Lord — that is the thing that is going to right
the wrongs that triumph over law and justice
in this world.
REceENTLY quite a discussion has been
started by Collier's Weekly over the question
of the propriety, from a moral standpoint, of
giving space in periodicals to the advertise-
ments of quack medicines. Many religious
journals print such advertisements, and at-
tempt to justify themselves by the plea that
it is no business of theirs whether the things
advertised are good or bad; they are merely
selling space to the advertiser, etc. We wish
to say to the readers of the WATcHMAN that
we would not knowingly, on any consideration
whatever, allow in this paper any advertise-
ment that is not of a strictly honest char-
acter. Any paper that will lend itself to
furthering the sale of so-called medicines
which are intended only to enrich the manu-
facturer by creating an appetite on the part
of the user for alcohol, morphine, cocain, and
similar drugs, returns cvil for good by scek-
ing to deceive and injure the very people who
support it by their subscriptions, and is not
one whit better morally than the evil business
which it thus fosters, no matter how high its
pretensions or denominational standing. Back
of all the excuses made by religious editors
for such advertising, is simply that love of
money which is the root of all evil.