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    THE ADVENTISTS IN POLITICS

    The Unfortunate Sunday Plank in
    the Prohibition Platform Has
    Routed That Party From Their
    Stronghold in the Adventist Denomination.

    It has ever been the custom of the Adventists to take no active part in the political issues of the day. They have been divided as to the relative merits of the different parties in times past. The Republicans out-numbered the Democrats considerably, while the Prohibitionists exceeded both put together. All this changed this year, however, and present indications are that more attention will be paid to national politics than ever before. The Prohibitionists are the cause of all this activity, and it will not be to their interest either. The third party people stirred up a hornet’s nest when they put the plank in their platform advocating an enforced observance of Sunday. This struck the Adventists right under the fifth rib. They are bitterly opposed to all church legislation or intermingling of the affairs of church and state. The enforcement of such a law as this would, of course, knock them out of their Sabbath entirely, or else they would have to keep two days in the week holy instead of one. As the result of this break by the Prohibitionists the whole sect has made a political change of front, and are going to work heart and soul against the third party. In the state of Michigan, where they can throw several thousand voters, this cuts quite a figure. The Republicans will be the great gainers by the change. It is thought that fully three-fourths of the Adventist vote will be cast for the Republican nominee for president. On local issues the two great parties will have about an equal thing of it. An extra issue of the Sentinel, the Adventist paper published at Oakland, is being sent out by the thousand all over the land. This is a campaign document. It is given up mainly to a discussion of this subject, and urges the faithful to knife the Prohibition party to a man. It says nothing as to the merits of the other two parties, leaving it to each one to decide for himself.MMM 584.1

    n. a., “Verging on Politics” St. Paul Pioneer Press, (10/24/1888), p. 6.MMM 586.1

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