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THE WATCHMAN
Nashville, Tennessee, December 3, 1907
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER
Poetry. PAGE
Gethsemane .. ....................... 771
Her Malady. .......................... 774
General Articles.
Love One Another, Mrs E G WHITE.. 771
Creation or Evolution — Which? R HARE 772
The Daily Sacrifice, A I, MANOUS.... 773
The ..bsurdity of Unbelief............ 773
“Think It Not Strange,” J S WASHBURN 773
Things Good to Keep, Nettie E GRAVES 774
The Home~—~A Word to the Girls—
House-bound, Mrs E E KzLLocc — Real
or Sham — Let the Children Help —
Home-making .................... 774, 775
Editorial — The Time of the Lord’s Com-
ing, 6 1 B— A Firm Platform, 1, A s—
Religious Liberty in Two Countries, LAS
— The Deceptions of Satan, s N H 776 - 778
Editorial Notes. ...............cc.ccuvn.. 778
The Mission Field — Bahia, Brazil, F W
Spies — Ponoka, Alberta — Malaysia, C F
JoNEs — Abyssinia and the Sabbath. C E
RENTFRO — Developments in Kansas
City i 779 - 782
Our Scrap Book.— Christian Science in
Its Home............................. 781
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WE are obliged to omit this week the reg-
ular article in the “Tent-Meeting” series.
Dip the world come into existence by crea-
tion, as the Bible says, or by evolution, as
“science” declares? Some evidence worth
reading on this subject is given on page 772.
Tue week ending December 21 will be a
period of special prayer by Seventh-day Ad-
ventists throughout the world, to the God of
THE WATCHMAN
the Bible, for the advancement in all lands of
the great Bible message of his glorious ap-
pearing and of preparation for that event
which they have been commissioned to pro-
claim.
A CORRESPONDENT asks us why we do not
say less about the law of God and the differ-
ences of people as regards their attitude to-
ward it, and dwell more on the subject of
charity. Possibly we say less about charity
than we should, but charity which is not in
harmony with the keeping of God’s law is not
worth saying anything about.
AN incident of life in one of our large cities
appears in the press telegram that “thirteen
persons lost their lives and several others were
injured early to-day [Nov. 25] in a tenement-
house fire at One Hundred and Nineteenth
Street and Second Avenue,” New York. The
fire was incendiary, and several of the dead
were children. Life in such places is beset
with a hundred perils unknown to the country
dweller.
THE special issue of the WATCHMAN is now
being sent out to our workers who have or-
dered it, and will reach all who are on our
list in due time, as it will be the regular issue
of December 24. But just now is the time to
do some work in its circulation. And surely
the question is not whether you can help cir-
culate this special issue, but only whether you
will. When will there be a better opportunity
than just now to get out among the people of
your commiumity and say a word or two to
them on the grand and all-important themes
treated of in this issue?
Tur latest applications of modern science to
the problem of locomotion have narrowed the
Atlantic Ocean to a mere strip of water which
can be crossed in about four days’ time, and
have reduced Alpine mountain climbing to a
mere matter of riding in a railway car. Five
railway lines are in course of construction or
already in operation, we are told, which carry
the mountain climber to the highest Alpine
regions, and now another is projected which
is to reach to the top of the famous Matter-
horn. Some Alpine enthusiasts are shocked
at the idea, and have combined to prevent its
accomplishment if possible.
“‘PresipDENT RoosevErr and the United
States are favoring anarchy,” was the startling
announcement made by Rev. Dr. Mutchler at
the annual meeting of the International Sab-
bath Alliance, of which he is president,” says
a press dispatch from New York City. “The
denunciation of the president and the govern-
ment is based,” it is added, “on the fact that
the sailors at League Island Navy Yard near
Philadelphia were allowed to play baseball on
Sunday in spite of the protests of the Alli-
ance.”
Such utterances as this of the Rev. Mutch-
ler’s show what is in the minds of the leaders
in the crusade for compulsory “sabbath” ob-
servance. To treat Sunday as a secular day
will be regarded as anarchy, than which there
is nothing worse in the eyes of the govern-
ment. Governments are not very lenient with
anarchy, and when the crusade for a legalized
sabbath is carried to the point at which the
Rev. Mutchler and his associates aim, the civil
power will lay a heavy hand upon such as
teach and practice contrary to the doctrine that
Sunday is a sacred day. Let it be remem-
bered by those who would join in the move-
ment for enforced “sabbath” observance that
they are following the leadership of men who
want secular work and recreation on Sunday
to be viewed as anarchy.
ALABAMA joined the concert of prohibition
states November 19. That the prohibition
wave is a national and not merely a sectional
one is indicated by many signs. ‘The New
York Sun goes so far as to say to one of
leading political parties: “Pick out a
clean man and nominate him on a prohib g
platform, and he will be elected overwt
ingly. He will sweep with him every Sc
ern state and two thirds of all the re
is reported that a grand rally is nc
made by the prohibition forces to \.
empire state of New York.
Mirrrary conscription in this country in
time of peace is a thing not heretofore though*
of by American citizens, but it may not |
far away after all, according to the report st
mitted to the Secretary of War by the Ac
tant-General. A Washington dispatch sa
“The difficulty of securing recruits for
army; the prevalence of desertions with t
reasons therefor, and an unwelcome sugge
tion that the decadent European system
conscription or compulsory military ¢
may become necessary to maintain the
ican army at its maximum strength, ar
features of the annual report of Adjutant
eral Ainsworth to the Secretary of W
The present strength of the military estat
ment is 19,671 men below its autho
strength.
ON page 782 of this issue we present st
interesting facts relating to the situation wh
has developed from the movement to m
Sunday-keeping compulsory in Kansas Ci
Mo. We are further informed that Judy
Wallace has announced that any persons claim-
ing exemption under the provision of the law
which exenipts observers of the seventh-day
Sabbath, must show that they have habitually
observed that day; their observance must have
covered a considerable period of time. A
new convert to seventh-day observance would
therefore fail under this ruling to benefit from
the exemption, though he would be as sincere
as any other in his belief. Such rulings, and
the intimation that the exemption clause in
the law might be declared unconstitutional and
repealed, allowing the rest of the law to re-
main in force, show that the protection af-
forded by exemption clauses in the Sunday
statutes is at best an uncertain quantity.