p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 30. (7/24/1901)

Earlier text: THE MISSION OF THE PANSIES

“YE DID IT UNTO ME.”

“And He said, ‘The sin is pardoned, But the blessing is lost to thee, For failing to comfort the least of Mine, You have failed to comfort Me.’”

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Important Articles in the Next Issue

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Our next issue is a continuation of this number. We know that all our readers will want it. Many important items pertaining to wealth and war and labor are crowded out of this. Articles entitled, “Perils Imminent and Ominous” and “Called to a ‘Conflict’” are also left over of necessity. The study in our Faith Series is also omitted this week. All these will appear in our next number. You will also wish to read the next paper by Alonzo T. Jones. Be sure to get our next issue.

Righteousness and the Right to Reign

The right to reign eternally is the right of righteousness, literally the “survival of the fittest.” In the mart of the world might makes right, and might just now is the synonym for money. For the present it seems to triumph over right, but it never can survive the final test. Its promise is wholly of the life which now is, and it often fails of that. Righteousness has a passport to the life beyond; for “in ‘the way of righteousness is life, and in the pathway ‘thereof there is no death.” All the death it meets God has mercifully changed to a “sleep in Christ.”

The Cruelty of the Wealth Pursuit

Doubtless there are many of the rich men of commerce who in business parlance are honest. They would not stoop to do a mean, petty act. But many are controlled by a system, and practise methods, that are unjust and cruel. A goal must be reached, an object attained, and the project of wealth sweeps forward, absorbing, sweeping away, or crushing all that is in its path. Men are lost sight of in the struggle, only as they hinder or help; and then they are counted not as men, but as things. The principals do not see this; the work is done generally by agents who desire to stand well in the eyes of their employers. But in God’s court men will be held responsible for the acts of their heartless agents when it was in their power to effect a change.

The Golden Rule in Business

There is no oppression in the Ten Commandments or in the Golden Rule. Why not take them as the norm of business? “It would work a revolution ‘in the business world,’” you say. But that would not be a bad thing, would it? It needs a revolution. Again you say, “It is impossible.” Yes, it is without the Spirit of Christ; and this clearly shows that the world has not the Spirit of Christ.

Millionaires Charter the Deutschland

Ten Millionaires from America recently surprised England by the royal magnificence of their special train from London to the seaboard: and when they embarked for New York at Southampton, they chartered the entire promenade deck, with its magnificent suites of rooms, of the Deutschland, for $22,000, that they might be exclusively apart from others. The leading spirit among them was Mr. J. P. Morgan, who it is said presented some huge designs in international trade.

The Strenuous Life.

The acme of the strenuous life is the army, the worst school that earth knows. The jingoist editor, M. Drumont, of the Libre Parole, Paris, said recently in a public address, as quoted by the Springfield Republican of June 21: “Some of the very worst evils of which we complain in these days are directly traceable to the barracks. Compulsory military service, far from being a school of morals, is a school of drunkenness, of idleness, and debauchery. It is depopulating our fields, and it is overcrowding the cities. It has gone a long way toward ruining our peasantry, and to a large extent it has already debased them. No young man, however clean he may be upon entering the barracks, can leave them without being more or less tainted. I deem the universal military service one of the greatest, as it is sometimes one of the saddest, sacrifices that our country calls upon us to bear.” Yet in the face of this experience both England and the United States are talking conscription, or enforced military service. It is one of the necessities of commercialistic imperialism.

Selfishness Behind Labor and Trade Monopolies

The desire to be rich at any cost is evil in the poor as in the rich. In the former it develops in the labor union, which demands that all labor and capital shall be subject, and those who do not submit are pressed to the uttermost, the union only restrained by men better than its spirit and by fear of the law; in the latter the same spirit develops in the trust, which “freezes out” or absorbs all competition, restrained only by force of circumstances and perhaps some fear of the people. Labor monopoly and trade monopoly are one in spirit. Selfishness, dear reader, lies at the root of both. Only the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ received by faith can eliminate the baleful evil. Filled with His Spirit, we shall look upon every other soul as equally entitled to the same rights, the same free choice as ourselves. In short, we shall adopt the Golden Rule, in which oppression from either rich or poor, collectively or individually, can have no place. “All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them; for this is the law and the prophets.”

Take Courage

Take Courage.—Not long since we received the following letter, signed “Backslider”:—

Dear Christian Friends,—I implore you to pray for me, a backslider, who has grieved the Holy Spirit. Ask Him still to be merciful, and bear with me, and help me to come to Him aright.

We bid this soul to take courage. “No man can ‘come to Me,’ says Jesus, ‘except the Father which ‘sent Me draw him.’” It is God that gives repentance. And God never works by halves. He has touched your heart, Backslider; He has made you see, to some extent at least, your sins; He has awakened within you the desire to return to God. God has done all this by the Spirit that you grieved. He has done it all that He might restore you to Himself. Heed the Spirit’s call. At whatever cost to self, at whatever humbling of pride, confess all your sins where they should be confessed, and by faith (not feeling) know that they are forgiven. Praise Him that it is so. Take up every forgotten or neglected duty, and joyfully go forward in new service for Him. Do not look to others; do not look to the past. Study the Word. Take that alone as your guide, Jesus alone as your example, His life alone as your power, and slide back no longer, but in His name go forward.

The Curse of Tyranny

The greatest curse of tyranny comes not upon those tyrannized over, but upon the tyrants. To the former the trouble is not necessarily more than temporary; to the latter, who persist in their course, the curse is eternal. Better to suffer wrong than do wrong.

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The Corrupting Love of Money

A striking example of the corrupting use of money is seen in the doings of the political boss of Pennsylvania. Thirteen of Philadelphia’s public franchises were recently delivered to him, and the facts and conditions warrant the statement that is current that there is not a city in the entire State that is not under his control. It is because men are fairly being consumed by the love of money that they will thus sell themselves, both body and soul. In the greed for money they seem to be callous to every sense of shame. The seed-sowing of boodle and bribery is rapidly ripening unto its harvest. Necessity demands that the hand of the infinite One must soon turn into that field the sharp sickle of retributive justice.

Not in Italy Alone

Not in Italy alone is it true. A prominent religious paper of the East says: “A tidal wave of crime seems to be sweeping over Italy at the present time. The total number of persons arrested last year was nearly twice as large as in the year before, the numbers being, respectively, 530,000 and 280,000. The principal increase is in murders and assassinations, and the police seem unable to check them.” Why does not the Catholic Church, so almost universal in that country, and which Dr. Conaty of Washington, D. C., tells us is “the great bulwark against anarchy,” stop this crime, check this tidal wave? Italy is a good place to begin. Surely the effects of her teaching during all these centuries should be manifest in Italy.

Exports.

The advance reports of the Treasury Department of the United States show that the exports for the year will exceed a billion and a half. That is an increase of $110,000,000 over the preceding fiscal year, and during the last five years the exports of the country have about doubled. These figures are held up as a great evidence of prosperity. They should be pointed to as a danger signal. By far the greater part of the profits from this immense commerce goes into the coffers of a few big trusts, and the people generally are benefited but a comparatively small sum. The result is a widespread feeling of bitterness that will soon burst into flames that will rapidly consume all this appearance of prosperity. This is no theory; it is a statement of facts. The great and final crisis in the world's history is right at hand; we should not be deceived by superficial appearances; we should look at things as they really are.

The “Bulwark.”

At the recent laying of the corner-stone of a church in Washington, D.C., by Cardinal Martinelli, Dr. Conaty of the Catholic University preached the sermon. In it he said:—

We are living in an age when men are reckoned, not as men made in the image of Christ, but as producers of wealth. Money is the thought that holds sway, and many seem to forget the beautiful doctrine of brotherly love. If shock ever comes to our republic, if turmoil and disturbance should threaten our beloved land of liberty, it will be found that the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, and the gospels it has ever preached, will be the great bulwark against anarchy, corruption, and treason. While millions of our citizens, like those who are here to-day, believe in her teachings, there is no fear for the republic.

We wish that all men could see what is most emphatically true, that the same spirit of imperialism rules in wealth to-day that rules in the Catholic Church. In one it is using man to support a religious autocracy and hierarchy, in the other a plutocracy with its hierarchy. The Gospel as preached by Christ and His apostles, knows naught of the nature of imperialism at all. It is that which has ruined the nations of the past. It is that which will ruin both the Catholic Church and this republic.

EMPIRES OF THE BIBLE

Probably no living man has made so exhaustive a study of history, with a view to the solution of present-day problems, as Alonzo Trevier Jones. With this object in mind he has made, for many years, most thorough search for each and every fact in the records of men and nations which will shed light on the questions, social and political, of to-day. The results of this study have been embodied by Mr. Jones in the books mentioned in the following notices. We commend them to the careful consideration of every person who would be prepared to meet the crisis now confronting us.

EMPIRES OF THE BIBLE

FROM THE CONFUSION OF TONGUES TO THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY

The origin of nations; the beginnings of kingdoms; the Egyptian Empire; the exodus and the kingdom of Israel; the rise of Assyria and Babylon; the fall and captivity of the Jewish Empire. This sketches the line of history considered in this book to the intent that the living may “know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men.”

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THE GREAT EMPIRES OF PROPHECY

FROM BABYLON TO THE FALL OF ROME

Babylon, Media and Persia, Grecia. The causes which led successively to the fall of one and the establishment of another, and finally to the establishment of Rome, first the Republic and afterwards the Empire. Its persecution of, and later its union with, the Christian Church, and the rocks upon which it was wrecked are given prominence, also its final division into the ten kingdoms. In these ten kingdoms are found the beginnings of the great nations of to-day.

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ECCLESIASTICAL EMPIRE

FROM THE FALL OF ROME TO THE PRESENT DAY

The reign of ecclesiastical power during the middle ages forms one of the most important and interesting periods of history. That the church, established by the Saviour himself and fostered by His personal associates should, in so short a time, descend to such depths of infamy, is a startling record, and worthy of serious consideration and study. Though covering oft-trodden ground, the matter presented in this volume is new, interesting, and valuable. After treating of the Reformation, the scene is transferred to the New World, where the beacon light of liberty, civil and religious, was reared. The closing chapter considers the national apostasy from republican principle of the present day, and its tendencies.

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THE TWO REPUBLICS

ROME AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

“The knowledge of it [history] is valuable only as it leads us to form just calculations with respect to the future.”

—MACAULAY.

With this idea in view, the author has presented a comparative study of these two nations. A proper understanding of the causes that led to the overthrow of the Roman Republic should enable us to avoid these mistakes in our own country. Such knowledge is especially valuable as we see our nation drifting perilously near to the rocks of Imperialism.

Ex-Senator W. T. Tolley, of Tennessee, says: “If I had ten thousand dollars to devote to the cause of popular intelligence and sound wholesome reading, I would freely give it in aid of the circulation of this masterly work.”

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THE GREAT NATIONS OF TO-DAY

Ten thrilling chapters trace the mighty events which have produced the great nations of to-day, and brought them to the position where they now stand, facing the woe of the seventh trumpet which will be “not only the shipwreck of nations, but of the great globe itself.” The remaining thirteen chapters consider the “Third Angel’s Message,” which to-day calls all men to the keeping of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, that they may be delivered in the “time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation, that is now impending the great nations of to-day.”

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CHRISTIAN PATRIOTISM

In view of the wide-spread corruption of government and the forsaking of republican principle, what attitude should the Christian assume toward his country? The principles of true “Christian Citizenship” are set forth.

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What the Bible says about to-day’s great problems

That stupendous problems, both social and political, now confront the world, no one can doubt; that even nature herself is participating in the general unrest as manifested in storms, cyclones, tidal waves, and almost unbearable seasons of heat, is everywhere apparent.

But that the Bible has definitely spoken of all these and clearly indicated their significance is not so generally recognized. To make this fact perfectly plain, Asa Oscar Tait, of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES editorial staff, has written a book entitled Heralds of the Morning. It contains nearly three hundred pages, is beautifully and strikingly illustrated, and issued in both English and German.

It first sets forth the present conditions of men and nations in a few clear-cut and powerful paragraphs, and follows with Scripture statements, showing that these conditions are signs of our times—heralds of the morning.

A chapter on the

Great Deceptions

which are becoming more and more numerous, is especially interesting and profitable. After speaking of

This Remarkable Century

and its wonderful inventions, the progress of art and literature, and the significance of it all, the author speaks of Crime under the heading of

Prevalence of Crime a Sign of Our Times

Associated with this there are chapters on “Judgment Is Turned Away Backward” and “The Earth Is Filled with Violence.” All these subjects are vividly illustrated.

Ye Have Heaped Treasure for the Last Days

This chapter touches on the Capital and Labor Question, and introduces Scriptures which directly state that the amassing of wealth is a sign of the end. The facts and figures brought out here are startling and deserve most serious consideration.

The Social Vice

Under the above caption, the prevalence of licentiousness and the terrible evils connected with it are dealt with.

The Nations Are Angry

A two-page representation of a naval duel—a study in itself—introduces this division of the book. The author brings in facts concerning the war spirit and war footing of the nations of to-day that may well appall the stoutest heart. However, the significance of all this preparation for war is the special object of the chapter, and that significance is made perfectly plain.

Following this, attention is directed to

The Voice of the Elements

in which the terrible devastations caused by storms, tidal waves, and like phenomena are treated. This chapter will appeal to every one, because all are well aware of the increasing frequency of such things.

Many other phases of the one great subject, the signs of our times, are treated in this book, but they can not be recounted here. It is a work which will richly repay careful study. Sample pages will be sent free to those desiring them.

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