NOT the doctrine of evolution, but the doctrine of unchangeableness, is the hope of the world to-day,—Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.”AMS May 12, 1898, page 289.6

BOAMST not thyself of loyalty to this Government if you are not loyal to the principles upon which it is based. Many who boast of their loyalty, it is certain, have not even a clear conception of what these principles are.AMS May 12, 1898, page 289.7

AMS well might this country be conquered by a foreign foe as that the people now here should change the institutions and principles of its government to correspond with those of a foreign land. Bad people do not need to be watched so carefully as bad principles.AMS May 12, 1898, page 289.8

PRESERVING a religious institution by legislation is like preserving a thing by pickling. At best only its form its retained. Its flavor, freshness, and power of growth are lost. It is a curiosity, not a thing of use. God’s word alone can preserve a religious institution in the condition necessary to supply continuously the spiritual wants of the people.AMS May 12, 1898, page 289.9

THE Government is making good progress in blowing up, sinking, and keeping away from our shores the Spanish war ships; not let us have something done to get rid of the Spanish ideas which have already invaded the country and apparently with success. The worst thing about Spain is its principles of government; and it is these, and not the Spanish ships, which constitute the chief source of danger to this country. We refer chiefly to Spain’s union of religion with the state.AMS May 12, 1898, page 289.10

“Archbishop Ireland’s Scheme” American Sentinel 13, 19, pp. 289, 290.

ATJ

ARCHBISHOP IRELAND has not yet published his promised “reply to the attacks upon him” in which he is to “go into details” about his manipulating the Government of the United States. However in his explanation to the effect that he is going to explain, there are statements sufficiently suggestive to cause serious thinking and careful watching on the part of all who care for true American liberty and independence.AMS May 12, 1898, page 289.1

Having failed to preserve peace in the interests of papal power and revenue, his plan is next to make the war turn to the credit of the papacy—and especially to the power of the papacy over the United States. The scheme announced in behalf of the archbishop and endorsed by “one high diplomat,” before the war was actually begun, is as follows:—AMS May 12, 1898, page 289.2

“He [Archbishop Ireland] expects to bring about a congress of nations. If this is considered impracticable, such a concert will be arranged that the possible elements and factors in the situation may be eliminated by friendly pressure upon Spain and upon the United States.AMS May 12, 1898, page 289.3

“It is possible and probable that a congress of nations will be called immediately after a positive declaration of hostilities.AMS May 12, 1898, page 290.1

“The whole matter will then be taken up and adjusted. Spain will receive some adequate compensation for the loss of the Island of Cuba, if the experiment now on trial fails through war, and at the same time Cuba will be put under stable rule and government, probably under the protectorate of the United States.AMS May 12, 1898, page 290.2

“In doing this the wisdom of the Monroe Doctrine will be acknowledged, but the incidental responsibility of the United States thereunder will be defined and demonstrated. This will work greatly for the preservation of the peace of the world. As matters stand now, there is constant danger that some puny nation may through braggadocio or truculence, involve some great powers.”AMS May 12, 1898, page 290.3

Thus the papacy is determined to make herself felt, and will force herself into recognition, in the affairs of the United States. Having failed to hold her power and revenue in Cuba by holding that suffering people under Spanish despotism, she now proposes to accomplish that purpose and a good deal more by engineering a settlement in which she will have to be recognized as a chief party to be reckoned with.AMS May 12, 1898, page 290.4

And notice how coolly her arrogant position is assumed. See with what an air of superiority it is that she announces that “friendship pressure” will be put “upon the United States” as “upon Spain”—as though the United States were her subject as Spain has always been.AMS May 12, 1898, page 290.5

Notice, also, and inwardly digest the deep and sinister meaning of it, how self-confidently it is declared that by this “congress” or “concert” of her calling, “the whole matter will be taken up and adjusted.” See the assumption of supremacy displayed in telling just how the parties interested will be dealt with—“Spain will receive some adequate compensation“: “Cuba will be put under stable rule and government” and “probably” this will be “under the protectorate of the United States.” Cuba declared, and made, “free and independent” by the United States; and the United States, professedly at least, free and independent in her own right, are to be taken charge of by the papacy and her “concert” and to be dealt with as she decides, as though they were her absolute subjects to be placed and moved like “men” on a chess-board! And then to cap it all “the incidental responsibility of the United States” under the Monroe Doctrine, “will be defined and demonstrated” for the United States.AMS May 12, 1898, page 290.6

There cannot be the least doubt that the papacy will do every possible thing to carry our this program announced from Archbishop Ireland.AMS May 12, 1898, page 290.7

And who is prepared to say that she will not succeed in having this program carried out according to her own ideas and wishes—if not in every detail, largely in very substance? Especially who is prepared to say that she will not succeed in it, when at her very first move she has been successful in gaining official recognition from the Government of the United States? when at her very first step she succeeded in having an official communication from her “secretary of state” officially received by the Secretary of State of the United States, and her “representative” recommended in this official communication, also officially received, through whom afterward “the official texts of the concessions which Spain was willing to make for the sake of peace” were “laid before this Government.” When she can do all that at the very beginning of difficulties, what will she not do before the difficulties are ended?AMS May 12, 1898, page 290.8

Another thing that just now makes all this worthy of only the more careful consideration is the movement to have the United States enter the lists as one of “the Powers,” and alliances and carry on intrigues with the “Powers” in the affairs of the whole world.AMS May 12, 1898, page 290.9

Just now is a time for deep study and careful thinking. A. T. J.AMS May 12, 1898, page 290.10

“Back Page” American Sentinel 13, 19, p. 304.

ATJ

IF the church had never gone into politics, religious persecution would never have been a political proceeding.AMS May 12, 1898, page 304.1

HUMAN nature moves a person to nothing more readily than to a usurpation of prerogatives which belong to no human power.AMS May 12, 1898, page 304.2

JESUS CHRIST, as he is to-day, is the divine standard of manhood. In the school of Christ, and that only, can that standard be attained.AMS May 12, 1898, page 304.3

“I DETERMINED,” said the Apostle Paul to certain of his converts, “to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified.” Not much politics or war would be preached by ministers to-day if they were like Paul.AMS May 12, 1898, page 304.4

WHEN the church leads the state, there is a fulfillment of the proverb of the blind leading the blind into the ditch. In such a case the church is blind to her true calling or she would never want to lead the state; and the state is blind to its proper mission on earth or it would not allow the church to be its leader.AMS May 12, 1898, page 304.5

MEN do not pay very much attention these days to the word of the Lord, except to pass criticisms upon it; but there is a time coming when their most earnest attention will be given it unasked. That time will be the day which will unmask its power over physical things. A great nation, with its power expressed in the ponderous guns of its battleships, is the most conspicuous thing before men’s eyes to-day; but the day cometh—and cometh soon—when “the Lord also shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people.” Joel 3:16. God’s Word is the most powerful thing in the earth to-day, and as such should receive the most earnest attention of mankind, for whose salvation it is now employed.AMS May 12, 1898, page 304.6

ROMAN CATHOLIC writers are in the habit of designating Protestantism as a mere negation; and some even of those who call themselves Protestants are inclined to consider Protestantism as being faulty in this respect. But such have only the most superficial view of what Protestantism is; so superficial, in fact, as to be altogether erroneous. Protestantism is truth, and truth is always first; error comes afterward and denies the truth, and then the truth also denies the error; but error is the negation, in the truest sense. Protestantism denies papal doctrines just as all truth denies error; but it is no less positive than as though there were no error for it to contravene.AMS May 12, 1898, page 304.7

LET your Christianity recommend your creed.AMS May 12, 1898, page 304.8

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