[Robert Treible in The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald]

Evolution leads to conclusions absolutely destructive of morality and fundamental Christian truth. The believer in evolution must finally conclude that there is really no difference between right and wrong, and that the moral law is mere arbitrary imposition; for he holds the sinful state to be merely a lower step in the evolutionary process. "Whatever is, is right." The sinner is simply a man in the irrational stage, and from him will evolve the righteous or rational man. Evolution brings the belief that might is right. If might is right, thee can be no justice, liberty, or morality. When men no longer respect the ten commandment law, there can be no peace nor safety. Men are taught that they are evolved from animals, that they are merely a highly developed form of animal life. Animals follow their instincts, knowing no difference between right and wrong, and need no ten commandment law to guide them. The human evolutionist animal comes to believe his inclination is the supreme and proper law to obey; hence desire leads him, and conscience is silenced as a childish fear.

Conscience or the ten commandment law should sift our desires, separating the good from the evil. Otherwise murder, adultery, and dishonesty will be unrestrained. The old-fashioned spiritual man held himself strictly accountable to his Maker for the deeds done in the body. The modern evolutionist has no god but himself. Might is right, and his pleasure is his guide. Morality means the square deal to the other fellow. Evolution means the survival of the fittest, that is, the strongest. Weakness is unfitness; so the unfit, or the weak, perish, as they ought to do, out of the way of the fit (the strong).

According to evolution, salvation will come to the race through education and gradual development. Preachers preach, teachers teach, and statesmen joyfully predict the approach of a better age. We are always progressing,—from snails to monkeys, to men, to supermen, to gods. The united voice of modern learning re-echoes the devil's first lie: "Ye shall not surely die: ... ye shall be as gods."

The miraculous, the mighty, the glorious creation about us speaks clearly of a creator. But the world, unwilling to acknowledge Him as creator, seeks to account for the universe by the evolution theory. But the very fact of an intelligible world, orderly, and moving according to fixed laws, proves that there is an intelligence constantly upholding it all, in whose image we are.

[The Public]

It came about that competition of advertisers for space, and competition of publishers for readers, reduced the price of newspapers below the cost of manufacture. The reader of a book expects to pay the whole cost of production; but the same reader would be shocked if asked to pay the coast of producing his daily newspaper.

This competition has made publishers more and more dependent upon advertisers. The big and indispensable advertisers, such as the retail merchants, and particularly the department stores, are themselves largely dependent upon the banks, and the banks in turn are controlled by great moneyed men who are interested directly or indirectly in securing legal privileges that are subject to public opinion. Thus the circle was completed. The citizen, called upon to vote on a traction franchise, or other delegation of public power to private individuals, looked to the great morning paper for information and counsel. The privilege seeker, aware of this fact, brought pressure to bear upon the publisher through the business department. If a big merchant hesitated to withhold advertisements from a recalcitrant publisher,—in consideration of admission to the financial "deal,"—a tightening of credits at the banks seldom failed to produce the desired effect. The publisher was helpless. He capitulated, or went out of business. The readers might curse him for yielding, but it never occurred to them to pay the full cost of making the paper, so that the publishers could be independent of advertisers.

Is it any wonder that the rights of the people are so rarely championed by the great dailies? No one short of a millionaire can start such a paper, or keep it going after it has been started. To oppose privileged interests means to have little advertising; to sell a paper without advertisements in competition with papers that have them, means, in the case of a metropolitan paper, a loss of from one hundred thousand to a million dollars a year.

[The Lewiston (Maine) Journal]

The issue of compulsory medical treatment has been brought into the Maine legislature and has been reported favorably out of committee, as a result of a bill requiring the application of nitrate of silver to the eyes of newborn infants as prophylactic treatment against possible blindness.

Optional medical inspection, in schools or factories or elsewhere, is one thing; compulsory inspection is quite another; and when it comes to forcing certain methods of treatment upon citizens of the United States, we have a degree of medical aggression which seriously threatens to invade the constitutional rights of individuals. The passage of this proposed bill, therefore, we deem a questionable precedent, quite apart from the contention of the medical profession that such treatment should be employed in certain cases. We believe that any measures advocating compulsory treatment should be quashed in their incipiency, while yet in committee.

Provision for compulsory inspection and optional treatment, even if this does not satisfy the medical profession entirely, ought to be recognized, once and for all in the state of Maine or elsewhere, as the limit of just and fair legislative action.

[Hilda Richmond in Home Department Quarterly]

One of the greatest proofs that the world is taking rapid strides forward in the manner of looking after the shut-ins is that so many of the Home Department workers are actively engaged in following the example of their Lord in urging their protégés to arise and walk. For too many years visitors to the sick and infirm and feeble exhorted them to heavenly patience and resignation, holding up bedridden persons as heroes and heroines to tired eyes. Now there is no doubt that many bedridden and feeble persons have exhibited wonderful patience in days gone by, but there is every reason to believe that many people who sat in chairs or lay on beds of affliction could have been restored to lives of usefulness, if the ideas of the times in which they lived had been healthy rather than sickly.