The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-06-19

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ious legislation are forging the chains OF
their own captivity.
In the evening the speaker gave a brief
exposition of the 18th and 14th chapters
OF Revelation. Commentators generally
agree that the Dragon and Beast apply
to the Pagan and Papal forms OF the Ro-
man Empire. Adventists have taught
for. more than forty years that the Two
Horned Beast is the United States, which
is to IN, Ike an in. age to the Papal Beast,
and that this country would eventually
adopt religious legislation and enforce
the observance OF Sunday.
In a work published in 1885 occurs
this passage: To secure popularity and
patronage legislators will yield to the de-
mand for a Sunday law" How strik-
lngly has this been fulfilled in the &C
tion OF congress in connection with the
worlds fair. Resolutions and pretended
petitions, demanding a Sunday closing
proviso in the appropriation for the fair,
and threatening a loss OF patronage if
they refused to vote for it, were poured
in upon congressman, and for fear that
church people would "knife them at the
polls" and they would not get back"
there, many did o dare do otherwise
than vote for it, some even against their
own expressed convictions.
In another work published about the
same time, it was predicted that Protest
antism would "reach over the abyss and
clasp hands with the Roman power"
For years the national reformers, in their
efforts to secure legislation in behalf of
Sunday, have been counting the aid of
the Catholic church, publishing their
readiness to cooperate" ito strike
hands" and "to join hands with them
And these advances have 30 far sue
ceeded that at a Congress of Catholic
laymen in Baltimore, in 1889, they de-
clared 1--WE should seek alliance with
non-C Catholics for proper Sunday OBJ
servance." Thus is our, once boosted
land of freedom being delivered into the
hands Of the most oppressive power the
world ever saw, and what shows the
blindness OF these so-called reformers is
the fact that what are aus OF sadness,
humiliation and alarm to every lover Of
truth and justice, becomes to them a
matter exultatlon and boosted power.
Following the passage of the Sunday
closing measure, Rev. III. HI. George,
Field Secretary Of the American Sabbath
Union, at Patterson, N. j., said: II have
learned that we hold the United States
senate in our hands," Again at Lansing,
Mich: "We can hold congress in our
hands, and WELD this country just as We
please" That the spirit of force and
oppression is behind this movement, the
utterances OF it's leaders plainly show.
When the Central Labor Union OF Chi
cage proposed to work Sunday and lay
off Saturday to attend the fair, one Of
Chicago diylnes said. IF the union is
in earnest let them try it. Then we will
see if there 10 any law in this country
When 1T seemed likely that the fail
would be opened IN Sunday, appeal was
made to the president to use force te
prevent it. A Presbyterian mass meet
ing held in Boston, May 18, thus tele
! graphed to him: "In this serious crisis
we rely upon the national government tt
prevent notification through it's execu
tive or it's judiciary" The First Presby
: terrain church OF Boston likewise tele
graphed: "We appeal to you to sup
( press Chicago notification with Jackson
i ian firmness and to guard the gate
next Sabbath, with troops il necessary.
) The Boston Evangelical Alliance sen
: this: "The presence of the Unite
States troops at Fort Sheridan hold
Chicago anarchists in check. Cannc
], the administration notify the director
that those troops will be promptly uset
il necessary TO maintain i~nyiolate th
b national authority and keep the Ia
o closed on the Lords day?'
o How this spirit is regarded by some
n seen by the following from the u
Moines Leader OF June /: s'The boo
which says remember the Sabbath ds
W also says thou shalt not kill, yet 80 fur
n Gus is the zeal OF the closers to keep Il
i. gates shut to show the world that v
10 are q Christian nation that they eve
10 appeal to the president to enforce clio
p ing, il need be, by military force. WI
- could doubt our Christianity after visl
ing Chicago some fne Monday mornin
. and finding the outer walls OF the "a
grounds piled high with bloody corps
ut otmen deliberately shot down like dog
'r- that, forsooth, we might show to Il
III heather world there assembled, that
oil are a Christian nation y'0 IL this q
he peal should not succeed they then pl
in pose TO lead q Colossal boycott" OF :
re- fair by the Christian people of the cou
OF try, and the fearful Judgments Of @
scr tha ntfar dAstructl0n of the wick