Friday, July 21, 2023

THE JESUITS' SLIMY COURSE IN HISTORY: "The land of the free should never be the home of the serpent crew"

"The historian Hume says that the assassination of Protestant rulers was the most meritorious of all acts, in the eyes of the Jesuits. A large number of Jesuits, together with many ship loads of instruments of torture, accompanied the Spanish Armada when it attempted to invade Great Britain, while "Father" Garnet endeavored to raise an insurrection among English papists. Nicoline asserts: "If they (the Jesuits) hated England and Queen Elizabeth in the sixteenth century, they bear no less hate to Queen Victoria in the nineteenth. . . . The riots, that blood spilt at Stockport, Dublin, Belfast and elsewhere—the attempted beginning of civil war—believe me, is due to the Jesuits." ...


"While we do not like some of the sharp expressions in the above, we have the following to say on its closing sentence: Not only will he shortly go from America, but also from every other country on earth, for Armageddon is coming on with a rush; and very shortly not only will through it Jesuitism be swept off the face of the earth; but also the Roman hierarchy and church with every other false religion. " 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished!"


audio/video "The Jesuit In History" and Sign of the Times"


THE JESUIT IN HISTORY


JESUIT! It is a term of reproach among papists and the synonym of all that is soulless, untruthful, inhuman, ungrateful, cowardly and serpentine throughout the nations of the earth. Of all the virtues it recognizes but one—obedience, but one doctrine—expediency, but one end— power. As the tool it is the friend of the despot; as the master, his terror. It is the slave of the wealthy until the family skeleton has been brought to light, when it becomes the despot. Like a serpent it coils itself in the halls of the commonwealth ready to strike the hand which gave it succor. In the unfriendly monarchy it is republican or socialistic. In the republic it is anarchistic or communistic. It whispers greed in the ear of capital and inflames the blood of labor to rebellion. It thrives upon anarchy, rebellion, dissension and strife as vultures fatten upon carrion. It recognizes but one master—force, and bows to but one condition—necessity. It divests itself of all that is human, that it may dehumanize humanity. It is the foulest, blackest, most soulless essence ever distilled from all that is most foul in mortality. It is the serpent of Eden; the devil of Scripture; the Pandora of mythology, without any of their redeeming qualities. The arch conceiver of the Society of Jesus was Ignatius Loyola, a Spanish soldier of noble birth, who, given to the excesses of his class during the most immoral period of the middle ages found his career as a gallant soldier suddenly cut short by a wound which rendered him a cripple for life. He was born in the year 1491, at Guipúzcoa in Spain [and was active] at a time when Martin
Luther had awakened the world to the vileness and corruption existing in the papal church.
Ostensibly to reform the church, but in reality to establish an independent hierarchy of his own, he formulated the principles which afterwards, with modifications, became the law of the Society of Jesus. Acting upon the theory that a despotism is potent only in such ratio as its elements are individually impotent, he constituted obedience the watchword of the society of which he subsequently became the regular head, thus forming an imperialism over body and mind unexampled in human history. "Ad majoram Dei gloriam" (to the greater glory of God) was the device with which he sought to delude the world and to silence his opponents, he being the self-constituted interpreter of the will of God. Allied with him a few years later, were Francis Xavier, Peter Lefevre, James Lainez, Claudius Le Jay, Paschasius Brouet, Alphonso Salmeron, Simon Rodrigues, Jean Codure and Nicholas de Bobadilla. The constitution of the society, composed by Loyola himself, may be comprehensively condensed into one word "Obedience." In this all other principles and considerations were submerged. The constitution was written in Spanish, and assumed its present form in 1550. It was translated into Latin by the Jesuit Polanco in 1558, and was kept religiously secret until 1761 when it was ordered published by the French government.

Owing to lack of space, which prohibits the publication of the document in full, we select a few passages as samples of the whole: In part VI, chap. V, sec. 1, the constitution says: "No constitution, declaration or any order of the living, can involve an obligation to commit sin, mortal or venial, unless the superior command it in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, or in virtue of holy obedience." After decreeing that the Jesuit must surrender all property to the society, the constitution goes on: "And that his better example may shine before him, he must put away all strong affection for his parents, and refrain from unsuitable desire of a bountiful distribution arising from such disadvantageous affection."— Const. part iii, chap. 1, sec. 7-9 and Examen, IV, sec. ii. Again: "As for holy obedience, this virtue must be perfect in every point—in execution, in will, in intellect—doing what is enjoined with all celerity, spiritual joy and perseverance, persuading ourselves that everything is just; suppressing every repugnant thought and judgment of one's own in a certain obedience . . . and let everyone persuade himself that he who lives under obedience is moved and directed under divine providence, by his superior, just as if he were a corpse (perinde acsi cadaver esset), which allows itself to be moved and led in any direction."—Const. part VI, chap. 1, sec. 1. Rule 34 for the government of novices, says: "At the voice of the superior, just as if it came from the Lord, we must be ready, leaving everything whatsoever, even a letter of the alphabet, unfinished though begun." Again: "I should regard myself as a dead body, without will or intelligence, as a little crucifix which is turned about unresistingly at the will of him who holds it, as a staff in the hands of an old man, who uses it as he requires it, and as it suits him best."—Bartoli, vol. II, p. 39. "To believe that a thing ought to be because the superior orders it, is the last and most perfect decree."—Bartoli, vol. II, p. 94.

Paul III approved the society in 1540, and immediately afterwards Ignatius scattered his emissaries throughout the world. Lefevre was sent to Spain, Lainez and Le Jay to Germany, Bobadilla to Naples, Brouet and Salmeron to Ireland and Rodrigues and Xavier to Portugal. Under Loyola the Inquisition was reorganized, and the fires of persecution relighted, acts which the Jesuits of today count as their chief glory. Salmeron and Brouet remained in Ireland only 34 days, during which time they stirred up enough revolution to last for several years. In his advice to these Jesuits Loyola said: "When the devil attacks a just man, he does not let him see his snares; on the contrary, he hides them and attacks him only indirectly; without resisting his pious inclinations, feigning even to conform to them; but by degrees he entices him, and surprises him in his snares. Thus it is proper to follow a similar track to extricate men from sin."—Orlandi. Much advice of similar and more deadly import to honor and morals was given at the same time. Before visiting Ireland the two Jesuits visited Scotland where they stirred up the Scotch king, James, against Henry, the result being a bloody war in which thousands of lives were sacrificed. Three Jesuits, Sanci, Capella and Turrian, went to Salamanca in 1548 to establish their society in defiance both of the law of the state and the church, and after being mobbed by the populace and banned by the archbishop, through their intrigues with the crown succeeded in establishing themselves. In Toledo, where they were graciously received, they became so insolent and corrupt that they were put under the ban. At Saragossa also, in spite of a prohibitory law, they established themselves against the will of the civil authorities and amid the curses of the priests, but not until the Jesuit intrigues at court had compelled the people to submission. In Portugal, where Rodrigues was kindly received, the Jesuits, becoming enormously rich, gave themselves up to a life of debauchery and immorality. Such was the scandal that Rodrigues was removed. While Henry II, eminently desired the Jesuits in France, the better to suppress the spirit of liberty which had commenced to take root there, the parliament refused to sign the decree of admission. In the end Jesuit intrigue won, and the massacre of St. Bartholomew followed. On July 31, 1556, Loyola died at the age of 64. Francis Xavier, in India, turned the Christian religion into a mixture of heathen rites and papal ceremonies, yet of all Jesuits Xavier stands out upon the pages of history as the most human. In 1606 Francis Nobili took Xavier's place in India, and in order to establish Jesuitism, became a Brahmin and conducted the ceremonies of that faith. Towards the end of the sixteenth century Ricci, a Jesuit priest, crept into China and into the Emperor's favor under the guise of a mathematician and subsequently caused the upright bishop of Tournon, who opposed the Jesuits' idolatrous rites and immorality, to be cast into prison, where he was so fearfully tortured as to die shortly after his release.

THE JESUITS' SLIMY COURSE

Shortly afterwards, at Montepulciano, the Jesuits became so notoriously immoral that the college at that place was suppressed. Accusations of a similar kind of unnatural offenses were made at Milan, and but for the intervention of Pius IV, the same results would have followed. Borgia, the third general, and lineal descendant of the incestuous and bloody Alexander VI, became the power behind the throne which conducted the massacre of the Huguenots, promoting, witnessing and enjoying the miseries and tortures inflicted upon the Protestants. In 1572, the Jesuit Gandon went to Scotland and stirred up those elements of strife which ultimately cost Mary, Queen of Scots, her head. In 1576, the Jesuits were driven from Donay and their college was looted by the populace who hated them. The Jesuits, under Parsons and Campion, two English perverts, landed in England in 1580, and immediately commenced to sow discord among the English people. Campion was at last captured and executed. It is worthy of note that no papist had been executed for high treason until after the landing of the Jesuits. The famous William Parry, after being pardoned by the queen of England, was persuaded by the Jesuit Palmio to return to England to assassinate Elizabeth. He was caught, confessed and was beheaded. A law was then enacted expelling the Jesuits from England. The historian Hume says that the assassination of Protestant rulers was the most meritorious of all acts, in the eyes of the Jesuits. A large number of Jesuits, together with many ship loads of instruments of torture, accompanied the Spanish Armada when it attempted to invade Great Britain, while "Father" Garnet endeavored to raise an insurrection among English papists. Nicoline asserts: "If they (the Jesuits) hated England and Queen Elizabeth in the sixteenth century, they bear no less hate to Queen Victoria in the nineteenth. . . . The riots, that blood spilt at Stockport, Dublin, Belfast and elsewhere—the attempted beginning of civil war—believe me, is due to the Jesuits."
In Portugal, the Jesuits became the confessors and advisers of royalty. They tore the crown from the head of Don Sebastian and placed it upon their creature, Phillip II, the bloody tyrant. In France, the council of sixteen, headed by the Jesuits, kept up a bloody rebellion against Henry IV because the latter was a Protestant, until they were defeated. Pasquier says, "the colleges of the Jesuits were, as was notorious, the general rendezvous of persons hostile to the king." One Barriere, who was sent to Melun to assassinate the king, acknowledged that he was a tool of the Jesuits. Chastel, a Jesuit student, also attempted Henry's life. For this attempted crime the Jesuits were expelled from France by a parliamentary decree enacted Dec. 29, 1594. This decree asserted the doctrine of the Jesuits to be: "As perverse, destructive of every principle of religion and even of probity, as injurious to Christian morality, pernicious to civil society, seditious, dangerous to the rights of the nation, the nature of the royal power, and the safety of the persons of sovereigns, as fit to excite the greatest troubles in states, to form and maintain the most profound corruption in the hearts of men." Whole regiments of Jesuits supported by a papist army spread themselves over the German empire in the middle of the sixteenth century, and drove the Protestants to death or perversion. They acquired immense wealth and became the real rulers of the country.

In Austria—also under the heel of the Jesuit—under Rudolph II, the bitter persecution of the Lutherans began in 1578. The most fearful atrocities prevailed, in which the Jesuits were the ringleaders, who were invested with absolute powers. In 1574, the Jesuits secured a foothold in Freiburg and Lucerne. For a hundred years thereafter the fires of the Inquisition were kept alight and the best blood of hundreds of thousands of Protestants was shed under the direction of the Jesuit monster, Posseoin, who, sword in hand, hunted down the inoffensive Waldenses, like wild beasts, slaying, torturing and ravishing the young and the old alike with savage and lustful fury. In Spain, the Jesuits ruled with an iron hand and subordinated all things spiritual and secular to their own interests for many years. With the coronation of Louis XIV began the real reign of the Jesuits in France. Louis delivered a decree of extirpation against the Jansenists and to his Jesuit friends gave the power to enforce it. Pere La Chaise, the confessor of the king, was charged with the mission and the blood of the Huguenots once again flowed in torrents and the atrocities of St. Bartholomew were repeated a hundredfold, while the [seemingly] saintly La Chaise sat at the side of the king and smiled approval, directing the massacre. Under Philip IV of Spain, the Jesuits stirred up a bloody revolution, because he refused to be ruled by them. The gunpowder plot of England, was conceived by the Jesuits and known to their general. The Jesuits were the advisers and confessors of the ill-starred monarch, Charles I of England, and through their advice he oppressed the people and subsequently lost his head. It is asserted by Jurieu that the Jesuits afterward betrayed and deserted Charles in order that the kingdom might be disintegrated by civil war and render the Jesuit conquest sure. Through his rascally intrigue with them, James II of England lost a kingdom.

In the early part of the eighteenth century, the Jesuits had become so corrupt, overbearing and treacherous in their immense power that the popular voice and hand was raised against them almost throughout Europe. The richest banking houses, the most prosperous mercantile companies were entirely under their control, and large revenues were derived therefrom. It may be added that the same conditions obtain today. They own millions upon millions of stock in commercial concerns and newspapers, both in the old world and the new, and in this way control, to a large extent, the commerce, finance and journalism of the world. Driven from the old world, they have taken refuge in the new. If you would find them, go to the National Capitol. They are to be found among your Congressmen and Senators, your heads of newspaper syndicates and railroad corporations; among many of your secret societies, labor unions, and anarchistic organizations; their presence and object, the dismemberment of the Republic and the enslavement of free men to the conditions of Spaniards and Portuguese in the sixteenth century. If we would remain great, if we would remain free, if we would retain those glorious principles for which our forefathers gave up their lives and bathed our fair nation in an ocean of loyal blood, we must drive these excrescences back to the foul pit from whence they emanated and obliterate their slimy trail from the face of the fair earth. In the disunion of nationalities is their strength, in the destruction of the peoples their glory, and in the fracture of the fraternal ties their boast and delight. Slavery, ignorance and unnaturalness are their allies, black is their banner, and darkness their bloody field of victory, illuminated only at intervals by the torch of the Inquisition. What they were in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they are today in spirit. Their constitution, laws and enslaving methods have not changed a particle. They have been driven at various times from [practically] every country upon the habitable globe, as the history of nations testifies.
The Jesuit has cursed the earth too long. The land of the free should never be the home of the serpent crew. The Jesuit must go—bag and baggage—root and branch: Selected.

While we do not like some of the sharp expressions in the above, we have the following to say on its closing sentence: Not only will he shortly go from America, but also from every other country on earth, for Armageddon is coming on with a rush; and very shortly not only will through it Jesuitism be swept off the face of the earth; but also the Roman hierarchy and church with every other false religion. " 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished!"

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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES


DO YOU KNOW that Judge Cohalan, formerly of the N. Y. Supreme Court, laments Romanism's lack of leadership in the higher things of American life, not realizing that this condition is due to the blighting effects of Romanism on genius and progress?

Do you know that the Romanist district attorney of D. C. by refusing to call favorable witnesses for bishop Cannon succeeded, as a part of the hierarchy's political strategy and revenge, in getting the grand jury to indict him under the corrupt practices act?

Do you know that the Romanist Union and Times, diocesan periodical of Buffalo's bishop, editorializing on the appalling loss of Romanist members, attributed it to mixed marriages, birth control, spirit of the times, lack of priestly zeal, clerical monetary hunger, etc.?

Do you know that the same magazine announces a decline in K. C. members of 228,000 the last eight years?

Do you know that Vice-chancellor Bigelow of N. J. signed a decree on Sept. 8 forcing priest Griffin and mother superior Dolorosa of Morristown, N. J., to surrender Kathleen, the 15 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Meehan, Jersey City, N. J., to her parents, from whom despite repeated requests they withheld her, as a prisoner in a convent, not letting them see her?

Do you know that the policy of the department of labor in greatly restricting immigration and in energetically deporting criminal and smuggled-in aliens is greatly angering the hierarchy?

Do you know that the hierarchy's overturning so many Latin American governments and its attempting but failing to overthrow others are good reasons, in addition to Romanists' double allegiance, why its subjects should be kept out of public offices in the U. S.?

Do you know that the many deaths due to Romanist firetrap eleemosynary buildings, called again to mind by the disastrous burning of the Romanist Pittsburgh Home For The Aged, conducted by the Little Sisters of the Poor, resulting in the death of about 50 and in the injury of about 200, instead of being permitted to be made, as it was, the occasion of the hierarchy's press, according to its habit in such cases, capitalizing the fire for Rome by extolling the alleged heroism of the nuns, should be made the occasion of penalizing the hierarchy for building such firetraps in non-use of legally required safety devices?

Do you know that Romanist Judge, Jean H. Norris of New York, an appointee of Mayor Walker, was deposed from office by the unanimous decision of the appellate division of N. Y.'s Supreme Court for cruelty and gross injustice to the real and framed fallen women of New York for whose help she was designedly appointed?

Do you know that the gang wars and murders of New York, like those of Chicago, are engaged in almost exclusively by Romanists and that their victims' funerals are usually conducted with much pomp by Romanist priests to, in and from Romanist churches?

Do you know that there is a direct connection between N. Y. and Mass. legislatures memorializing Congress to arrange for the abolition of prohibition on the one hand, and the Romanist majorities in those States on the other?

Do you know that the legislative investigation into corruption in New York is showing that Tammany, the hierarchy's political arm in New York, is very corrupt?

Do you know that every height in and about Washington, D. C., selected by Union commanders as fortifiable places for the capital's defense during the Civil War, is now in the hands of the hierarchy, which has erected fortress like stone buildings on every one of them?

Do you know that under Rome's schools 77% of Porto Ricans were illiterate and that under American schools their illiteracy has been reduced to 44%, the bulk of whom are leftovers of those illiterate in Rome's heydays?

Do you know that the hierarchy boasts of having 2,600,000 pupils in its American parochial schools?
Do you know that our schools for Indians have proven a failure, largely because they are mainly nun-taught?

Do you know that the work of raising $20,000,000.00 for additional endowment of the Catholic University at Washington is growing apace all over the country under the hierarchy's pertinent drives?

Do you know that through a recent loan of $30,000.00 by Mr. Rascob the National Democratic Committee has had its debt to him increased to over $600,000.00, which means that this puts him into a position to dictate the 1932 Democratic platform and presidential candidate?

Do you know that he, a chamberlain of the pope and chairman of the National Democratic Committee, stands for Al Smith as the 1932 presidential candidate?

Do you know that "Barcus is willin", therefore, as is evidenced, despite his post election announcement in 1928 that he was "through with politics," by his strenuous denial of the statement of a close friend to the effect that Al Smith would not be a candidate in 1932?

Do you know that Gov. Roosevelt is believed to be a Rome and Rascob-Smith decoy as a presidential candidate, to be turned down at the fit time by the convention in favor of Al Smith?

Do you know that the merger of the two leading antipolitical-Romanism magazines—The Protestant and The Fellowship Forum—will strengthen greatly the fight against political Romanism in America?

Do you know that other ably edited magazines, particularly the American Standard, now a year old, with the support of its two radio stations, are likewise mightily shaking political
Romanism in America?

Do you know that Methodist bishop Dubois, accused like others, e.g., bishop Cannon, through hierarchical manipulation by Al Smith's supporters for his 1928 activities against their favorite candidate, was tried on, and acquitted of their charges?

Do you know that whereas the U. S. population increased 40-fold from 1775 to 1930 that of Romanists increased 800-fold during that time, this increase being largely due to heavy Romanist immigration, as can be seen from the fact that it all occurred before 1920, since which time restricted immigration reduced their increase to 14% whereas the nation's increase as a whole was 16%?

Do you know that the various bureaus of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the American hierarchy politically organized, prove it to be a political, not a religious organization, as the names of these bureaus suggest: Bureau of news, of immigration, of historical records, of publications, of publicity and information, of motion pictures and of business and accounting?

Do you know that the National Council of Catholic Women in their recent annual convention at Washington, D. C., sent the pope-king the assurance of their allegiance to him, declared their loyalty to the entire program of the Catholic Action (political Romanism), their condemnation of our public school system, their approval and support of Rome's parochial school system and their opposition to the establishment of a department of education in the president's cabinet, deplored, the attendance of Romanist children at public schools, pledged their efforts to undo it and planned a proselyting program for public and non-sectarian orphanages, hospitals, sanitariums, homes for the aged and reformatories?

Do you know that the hierarchy is seeking to capitalize the sesquicentennial of Yorktown, though Romanists were almost entirely absent from the besieging American and French armies, the French being mainly anti-Romanist?

Do you know that despite papacy's age-long disapproval of the rule of the people— Democracy—Romanist beauty parlor experts are dolling up antitypical Jezebel, the Romanist Church, as the source of the declaration of independence, falsely alleging that Jefferson plagiarized it almost word for word from the alleged democratic writings of cardinal Bellarmine, Rome's champion controversialist against Protestantism and defender of autocracy?

Do you know that American Romanist periodicals continually refer to Mexico's defensive measures against the political aggressions of the Mexican hierarchy as attacks on Christianity?

Do you know that the Mexican hierarchy sought in vain to secure the intervention of the Federal Government to prevent the operation of the Vera Cruz law limiting priests to 1 for each 100,000 people in the state?

Do you know that Vera Cruz has dismissed all Romanist teachers from her schools on the ground that double-allegianced teachers do not make pupils patriots?

Do you know that the Romanist College at Atemajac, Mexico, was closed for teaching religion in disregard of the law that confines such teaching to church edifices?

Do you know that hierarchical disregard of Mexico's laws is arousing Mexicans to burning and bombing Romanist Churches, etc.?

Do you know that Gov. Valdes of Durango, Mex., was ousted from office, because he allowed 209 priests to operate in his state, whereas the law allows only 25?

Do you know that Cuba's Liberals, defeating the late papally brewed rebellion, have added another victory to patriotism against papal meddling in politics everywhere, all the time and by all means?

Do you know that resentment at Romanist objection to Masonry, voiced by the administration's war minister, aroused the storm that led to the fall of the Ayora government in
Ecuador, which is another example of Rome's getting her fingers burned by dabbling in politics?

Do you know that shearing Rome of her powers and privileges in various countries is in part directly due to the nations' distrust of the pope as a temporal ruler?

Do you know that the tiara of the pope, the pretended vicar of Christ, who had nowhere to lay His head, is made of gold cloth and consists of three crowns, containing 252 pearls, 228 diamonds, 32 rubies, 19 emeralds and 11 sapphires?

Do you know that the pope, renewing his fight against religious liberty in Italy, is proving himself to be a bigot, and a hypocrite in making platitudes on tolerance?

Do you know that the pope rules that a civil marriage of a Catholic before or after a religious marriage is sin?

Do you know that a pamphlet entitled, Away With The Pope, and written by five Italians, was circulated in Italy advocating the arrest and trial of the pope as an enemy of the State and resulted in their arrest and trial?

Do you know that the pope and Mussolini agree to the pope's accepting Mussolini's contention that the Italian Catholic Action abandon politics and work exclusively in religion as the condition of Italy's legalizing again the closed Catholic Action Clubs?

Do you know that the following are the terms of surrender that the pope has accepted: The Italian Catholic Action must remain out of politics, have purely religious aims and activities, adopt Italy's, not the papal flag as its banner, abstain from trade union activities, bar athletics from their programs and limit their activities to educational, recreational and religious meetings?

Do you know that thus all is happy again between the pope and Mussolini after their "steenth" quarrel and reconciliation—until their next hair pulling contest, which may shortly be expected as the only logical result of the interrelations of two absolutists, like heavenly twins, pursuing conflicting purposes?
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Do you know that at Anticoli Corrada, Italy, the Romanist priest required the citizens to surrender to him the Bibles given them by Methodist evangelists and then burned them in public in imitation of the similar Romanist stunts enacted ever since the Reformation began?

Do you know that since the war only Romanist Chancellors have been saddled on Germany?

Do you know that at Nuremberg, Germany, a paper for printing a cartoon derogatory of Romanism was suppressed by the Romanist director of police, but was reinstated by a Leipsig Court decision?

Do you know that the Ulster minister of education declined the invitation of the hierarchy to order the school teachers of Protestant Ulster to attend the papal Eucharist congress in Ireland?

Do you know that Irish Romanists violently prevented the holding of an Orange meeting at Cootehill, Ireland, thereby provoking the Orangemen to retaliate on a Hibernian meeting at Armagh, those two episodes resulting in rioting of both societies in Portadown?

Do you know that in nine years—1921-1930—the Romanist population of Bohemia declined 3%, whereas in the same time Protestantism increased there rapidly?

SPAIN'S ANTI-CLERICALISM

Do you know that the wrath of the Spanish people against the hierarchy seems unappeasable?

Do you know that Spain's decree, forbidding the hierarchy's further forehanded sale of church property, designedly puts that country into a position easily to nationalize such property, which it plans to do?

Do you know that the Spanish hierarchy in a pastoral letter, approved by the pope, dated July 25 and released Aug. 16, as against the democratic aspirations of the Spanish constitutional assembly, condemned the following principles, which are also embodied or implied in the U. S. Constitution: (1) exclusion of the papal church from secular teaching, making laws and
governing the people; (2) the theory that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed; (3) separation of state and church; (4) freedom of speech, press, assembly, petition and conscience; and (5) equal legal rights for religions other than Romanism?

Do you know that this pronouncement, containing quotations in proof of these five positions from the ex cathedra utterances of popes, and undoubtedly expressing the official Romanist view on the pertinent subjects, proves that the contrary teachings of Jesuit, Paulist and other Romanist propagandists in America are deliberate deceptions intended to dope the American people into oblivion on Romanism's real political doctrines, until Rome gains the upper hand and can then easily subjugate the U. S. to Rome's control?

Do you know that Spain has had to suppress many Romanist newspapers for their anti-republican stunts?

Do you know that it persistently refuses at papal demand to apologize for its people's burning, etc. last Spring, Romanist churches, monasteries, nunneries, colleges, seminaries and other official papal buildings?

Do you know that it has not only adopted in its new constitution a clause abrogating the union of state and church, but also one expelling Romanist orders?

Do you know that thus Spain, as one of the ten horns of Rev. 17, is eating the symbolic harlot's flesh?
Do you know that such eating of her flesh is the immediate precursor of her annihilation?— Rev. 17: 16.

Published by PSL Johnson 1931  



Monday, July 17, 2023

The Wonderful Mechanical Inventions of this "Day of the Lord's Preparation"...RELIEF WILL COME ONLY WITH THE RETURN OF THE KING

The wonderful mechanical inventions of this "day of the Lord's preparation" for the Millennium (Nah. 2:3), the manufacture of which has for a time brought great prosperity to the whole world, once gave promise of great future blessing to all mankind, by a general increase of wealth, and lessening of the drudgery of earth. But the masses are awakening to the fact that they were dreaming when wasting good wages in extravagance or dissipation or sloth, thinking that the "good times had come to stay." There were others not so short-sighted, who, by economic prudence, temperance, etc., accumulated a little money, and who foresaw that machinery would make the best of all slaves—requiring less for maintenance and doing the work of many. Some of these frugal, thrifty, far-seeing ones, by the aid of their mechanical slaves, have become wealthy—immensely wealthy; and one half of the world is now striving to serve these and to manufacture more slaves for them. Thus after the point of demand has been reached there comes a halt all around—a stagnation. And since human muscle and brain cannot compete against these mechanical iron slaves, all are dependent upon these and their millionaire masters, that they may work with these slaves. Under these circumstances, nothing can prevent the decline of human labor in every channel to a lower and yet lower level, until the common, unskilled laborer will scarce be worth his board, and must be supported by the charity of his fellow-creatures better equipped for the battle of life. Unskilled muscle is being crowded out by mechanical slaves, and even skilled muscle is beginning to feel its pressure. Brains, backed by machinery and money, are already masters of the situation, and the increase of machinery and of wealth is marvelous. On the other hand, the population of the world is increasing rapidly, and the increase of intelligence increases the skilled workmen of the world and their competition with each other for the luxuries and necessities of life, to be had only by serving the slave owners, the world's masters.

Poor world! This is a gloomy outlook, yet one which all who can and will reason must see is a true view, if something does not occur to alter results by changing conditions or causes. All thinking people see this; but many stifle reason and reflection, and swim along as near to the cream and as far from the dregs of society as they can get. ...

...Just so it is in the world to-day. Earth's rightful King is not upon its throne, nor has the world recognized his right to it or desired his return. Men have been busy with their own schemes and plans of government. They have anointed various kings of their own choosing: in fact, they have tried every experiment of self-government; and, one after another, all have ended in failure. And now, after six thousand years of human experiment, the whole world is on the verge of a revolution, in the outcome of which they have nothing to expect but anarchy. ...

...THE RELIEF WILL COME ONLY WITH 
THE RETURN OF THE KING, IN POWER AND GREAT MAJESTY. ...
CT Russell, Aug. 15 1894
R1690 : page 259] See entire article below

VOL. XV. AUGUST 15, 1894. NO. 16.

BRINGING BACK THE KING.

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"WHY ARE YE THE LAST TO BRING BACK THE KING?"

"And King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house. Ye are my brethren; ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore, then, are ye the last to bring back the king?"—2 Sam. 19:9-12.

IN the scrap of history here recorded we find an illustration of a very similar condition of things in the world to-day. The kingdom of Israel had been thrown into a state of confusion, threatening anarchy, in consequence of being left for a time without any official head or king, by the rebellion of Absalom and the divided sentiments of the people.

Absalom had cunningly managed to alienate the hearts of the people from his father David, and had finally headed a revolt. And David, in fear of the consequences, fled from the city and country to the region beyond Jordan, accompanied by a few loyal and faithful subjects. A great battle took place, which resulted in the prompt subduing of the rebellion and in the death of Absalom, the would-be usurper.

Afterward King David did not attempt to repossess himself of the Kingdom, but waited until the desire of Israel for his return should be expressed.

Meantime, says the record, "All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom. And Absalom whom we anointed over us is dead in battle. Now, therefore, why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?"

Just so it is in the world to-day. Earth's rightful King is not upon its throne, nor has the world recognized his right to it or desired his return. Men have been busy with their own schemes and plans of government. They have anointed various kings of their own choosing: in fact, they have tried every experiment of self-government; and, one after another, all have ended in failure. And now, after six thousand years of human experiment, the whole world is on the verge of a revolution, in the outcome of which they have nothing to expect but anarchy.

In times past the civil and religious powers of the world have been yoked together for mutual support, and have defended each other. It mattered not, so far as the state was concerned, whether the religion was a true or a false one, so that it kept the people in subjection to the ruling powers. Civil rulers have always favored most the religion that best served this end. Ecclesiastical rulers have also in turn looked to the State for compensating favors; and in the days of their power they exacted much. Thus the two were in close affiliation. Around each there has always gathered a privileged aristocracy of wealth and brains and education, which has ever kept them at the head of social influence and power. But the overruling providence of God has in recent times [R1690 : page 260] been bringing about a change, so that knowledge and general enlightenment have been brought within the range of the common people. The printing press, common schools, daily newspapers, the multiplicity of books, cheap and rapid means of travel and communication by steam and electricity—all of these and minor influences have waked up the masses of the people and set them to thinking and planning and studying and traveling and acquiring and aspiring to higher if not to better things.

So general has this tendency of the people become, that the favored aristocratic classes, who have long enjoyed a monopoly of this world's good things, are in fear lest their glory may suddenly depart. And well indeed they may be; for the struggling masses are determined to reach the top rounds of the ladder of fortune, no matter what hoary-headed authorities may stand in their way. The struggle is already on, and the threatening aspect of things forebodes an early fulfilment of that prophecy of Daniel (12:1), "There shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation."

The Scriptures also indicate the character of the trouble—that it will be one in which the animosities of the masses will be exercised with violence against the rich, and the specially favored aristocratic classes,—political, social and religious. (Jas. 5:1-6Ezek. 7:19, etc.) And what intelligent observer of the signs of the times cannot see the rapid development of just such a trouble in the present proportions of the socialistic and anarchistic movements, and their aggressive disposition? Indeed, the civil and social condition of the world is appalling, from every standpoint, whether it be that of politics, social order, finance or religion.

In every land the tendency of politics is to corruption, both in civil and ecclesiastical circles; not because people are really worse than formerly, but because enlightenment is so much greater and more general, that temptations to cupidity are a hundred times greater than ever before. Social order is continually menaced; the strain between capital and labor is unprecedented; and true religion, the religion of the cross, is at a very low ebb. Many who begin to realize the seriousness of the present situation, as they forecast the outcome of all these things, in substance disconsolately say, as the Prophet Jeremiah (8:15-19) foretold they would—"We hoped for peace, but no happiness is here; for a time of cure, and behold here is terror. When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. Is the Lord not in Zion? is her King no more in her?"

In the religious situation there is little to be seen in the way of encouragement: the clash of conflicting creeds and their discord with the notes of divine revelation are most painfully manifest. In consequence of this, and of the general awakening and mental activity of our day, we find Infidelity, bold and outspoken, rampant in every denomination of "Christendom;" the truths and the errors of hoary creeds of men are being discarded in fact (though not by admission, for fear of the effect); and the general tendency is to ignore the Bible doctrine and terms of salvation, and merely to hold our morality as the hope of everlasting life, alike to believers in Christ and to unbelievers. A proposition so much in harmony with the pride of the natural man (which always prefers to pay its own way, and feels that it is "nearly good enough") is bound to be popular; while the cross of Christ has always been a stumbling-block, and its preaching unpopular and a cause of division to them that stumble at the word, being disobedient.—1 Pet. 2:8.

Infidelity—i.e., unbelief in the sound doctrine taught by the Lord and his inspired apostles—sits in the pews, declaims from the pulpits, rules in the assemblies, and is even finding its way into the Sunday School literature—in the interpretations of the International Lessons. It is ably seconded by Doubt or Agnosticism; and together these strike with increasing determination against the very foundation doctrines of Christianity—the fall of man and his redemption by the vicarious sacrifice of Christ. Discrediting the Bible account of the fall of the race in Adam, and hence the necessity of its redemption through Christ, it substitutes the entirely antagonistic theory of Evolution—that man was evolved from lower animal forms, by his own effort, that he has now reached a higher plane than was ever before realized, and that he [R1690 : page 261] will continue to so make progress indefinitely.

It institutes what it is pleased to term a "higher criticism" of the Word of God, by which the sacred record is being gradually whittled and trimmed to fit the present state of development of human philosophies and science—often falsely so called—thereby to lend its seeming sanction to the idea that the philosophy and science of the nineteenth century are the very climax of perfection and the essence of wisdom. It slashes its ruthless scissors into miracles, calls them all incredible, and believes only those things for which it has tangible evidence. It claims that at most the apostles and prophets of the Bible had an inspiration of thought, which they clothed more or less imperfectly in language of their own choice; and that therefore each reader has the liberty to whittle out of their words such thoughts as best suit his own conceptions of truth, relying on an inspiration of his own mind, equal to theirs with the advantages of present-day higher criticism. The apostles tell us, to the contrary, that they were inspired as to the words they spoke and wrote, and not as to the thoughts or sentiments. (See 2 Pet. 1:211 Pet. 1:12.) It places the Bible and its writers on a par with all profane history and historians, and says that much of the Bible is fiction, and that it is impossible to discover the dividing line between truth and fiction.

Under the various disintegrating influences of our peculiar day the old creeds are fast crumbling into ruin, and the old institutions which they held together are being terribly shaken; and the various attempts at reorganization on other grounds are all open to a thousand objections. The faith of all is being tested, and many who really care to have a faith, and who long for a firm establishment in divine truth, are indeed in dismay.

Nominal Christianity is fast losing its power over the masses; for the general awakening of the human mind has loosened the reins of superstition, so that the most illiterate begin to realize that they are men, with all the prerogatives of men, and that the king and the priest are nothing more, except as the superior advantages of wealth and education have developed in them the faculties which are common to all mankind. And the unreasonable and unscriptural doctrines of the divine right of kings and [R1691 : page 261] of the eternal torment of a large proportion of humanity, and kindred absurdities, are coming more and more into disrepute, and have less and less of a restraining influence upon the masses of men, who rightly reason that since "the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof," and since "God is no respecter of persons," the peasant has an equal right with the king or the priest to share its bounties.

To the awakening masses the only apparent way to obtain their ends is by revolt against the existing arrangements;—they see not the Jubilee of "restitution times" which God has promised. (Acts 3:19-21.) And the hearts of all classes being under the control of selfish principles, it is only a question of increasing unrest from increasing knowledge and liberty, and of divine permission (Rev. 7:1-3), when the terrible crisis of trouble will consume the present order of society.

It is in view of this clearly discernible trend of present events that the thrones of earth are trembling, and that statesmen are greatly perplexed in seeking measures of policy to avert the impending disaster. The sea and the waves (the restless masses of humanity) are roaring, and the mountains (kingdoms) are shaking with the swellings thereof.—Psa. 46:3.

Six years ago Prince Bismark called attention in the German Reichstag to the fact that great national crises occur about every twenty years, and urged that such contingencies should be prepared for. And more recently, in justification of the last army bill, he recounted the special dangers to Germany, lying, as she does, in the center of Europe, exposed to the hostile powers of France on the east, and of Russia on the west, as well as to the dangers of their coalition, and the lack of cohesion among her own people. Again he said, "European countries have something more important to attend to than making war upon each other. They should unite in suppressing the crime of socialism." But that is more easily said than done; for the nations are not ready to unite on any thing. And where is the power of resistance which the [R1691 : page 262] rulers would call to their aid in such a contingency, when the armies upon which they depend are permeated with socialistic sentiments? The power of the churches was relied upon once, when the churches demanded and got a superstitious reverence for civil potentates and ecclesiastical dignitaries; but that day is almost past; and the reins of superstition are growing more and more slack. The time was when a German Emperor stood for three days and nights barefoot in the snow, waiting for Papal absolution, that the dreaded Papal interdict might be lifted and his authority in the empire established by the word of the Pope. And glad indeed would some of the crowned heads be to-day to see that power restored to the control of the public mind, for the support of kingly authority. This is illustrated by the fact of Germany's repealing the law that expelled the Jesuits. Although those infamous allies of Papal power have been a menace to good government in every land, and have been alternately expelled and re-instated again and again in almost every land, their influence is felt to be a necessity now against the increasing influence and power of Socialism and Anarchy.

Dynamite plots and assassinations are getting to be common occurrences. Several bills have been presented and favorably considered in the French Chamber of Deputies looking to the suppression of Socialistic movements. And since the assassination of President Carnot one of the most stringent of these has passed into a law. Similar regulations are before the governments of Austria and Spain; the latter, indeed, proposes to all civilized governments common laws for the suppression of Anarchists, their literature and their sympathizers.

The wonderful mechanical inventions of this "day of the Lord's preparation" for the Millennium (Nah. 2:3), the manufacture of which has for a time brought great prosperity to the whole world, once gave promise of great future blessing to all mankind, by a general increase of wealth, and lessening of the drudgery of earth. But the masses are awakening to the fact that they were dreaming when wasting good wages in extravagance or dissipation or sloth, thinking that the "good times had come to stay." There were others not so short-sighted, who, by economic prudence, temperance, etc., accumulated a little money, and who foresaw that machinery would make the best of all slaves—requiring less for maintenance and doing the work of many. Some of these frugal, thrifty, far-seeing ones, by the aid of their mechanical slaves, have become wealthy—immensely wealthy; and one half of the world is now striving to serve these and to manufacture more slaves for them. Thus after the point of demand has been reached there comes a halt all around—a stagnation. And since human muscle and brain cannot compete against these mechanical iron slaves, all are dependent upon these and their millionaire masters, that they may work with these slaves. Under these circumstances, nothing can prevent the decline of human labor in every channel to a lower and yet lower level, until the common, unskilled laborer will scarce be worth his board, and must be supported by the charity of his fellow-creatures better equipped for the battle of life. Unskilled muscle is being crowded out by mechanical slaves, and even skilled muscle is beginning to feel its pressure. Brains, backed by machinery and money, are already masters of the situation, and the increase of machinery and of wealth is marvelous. On the other hand, the population of the world is increasing rapidly, and the increase of intelligence increases the skilled workmen of the world and their competition with each other for the luxuries and necessities of life, to be had only by serving the slave owners, the world's masters.

Poor world! This is a gloomy outlook, yet one which all who can and will reason must see is a true view, if something does not occur to alter results by changing conditions or causes. All thinking people see this; but many stifle reason and reflection, and swim along as near to the cream and as far from the dregs of society as they can get.

It is useless to reason with the wealthy owners of these iron slaves, for they will get the best of the argument,—reasoning upon the generally accepted basis. Their answer to those who would reason with them is a correct one. They say:—

We are acting upon the same principles upon [R1691 : page 263] which you act;—we are no more selfish than you;—we give more generously than you to the support of educational and benevolent institutions;—we pay our employees better wages than others can afford to pay;—we pay more taxes than do others;—indeed, as society exists at present, our brains, capital and iron slaves are necessary to the well-being of the world;—we could get along without others, but they cannot get along without us;—if we, the masters of the world, should combine to stop our iron slaves, and close our establishments, the world's affairs would be thrown into chaos. We do not claim to do our business on principles of love and benevolence any more than do the farmers and mechanics. Each is trying to do the best he can for himself. We, like others, are ruled by selfishness; but a selfishness less narrow and mean—more generous—than that which is exercising many of our employees and others less successful than we. You can make no laws to hinder our success; for of necessity such laws would injure others as much as they would injure us, or more. We are independent, others are dependent. So long as selfishness is recognized as the rule of life, we must be conceded to be as generous under that law as any.

Socialism and Nationalism reply that the remedy is to do all large business on a communistic scale for the public benefit. But they fail to see that selfish ambition for wealth, power and honor, which at present is pushing the world with lightning speed, would, by their program, be set aside—with nothing in its stead to take its place. It is but a chimerical fancy, that if selfish ambition were rendered powerless, loving benevolence would step forward in its stead and push the world along. Alas! too few of the human family have any knowledge of love as a motive power. Indeed, we may be sure that if selfish ambition were bound hand and foot, selfish indolence would take its place amongst poor and rich, until necessity would complete the release and re-enthronement of selfish ambition to keep society from miserably perishing in sloth.

Indeed, the Scriptures indicate that this will be the very course, and that anarchy will finally result, and that

THE RELIEF WILL COME ONLY WITH THE
RETURN OF THE KING, IN POWER
AND GREAT MAJESTY.

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We wait not for the King as the sweet babe of Bethlehem, nor yet as "the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all;" but we wait for him who, having been "put to death in flesh, was quickened [made alive] in spirit"—who was raised from death a spirit being—highly exalted above his condition as a man, higher even than his condition as a spirit-being before he humbled himself to become a man,—highly exalted, even to the divine nature, far above human nature and angelic nature and every other nature. Such is the nature and majesty of the King for whom we wait, and whose presence and Kingdom we are assured can and will bring order out of earth's confusion, and bring to the world the blessings purchased with his own precious blood, given when he was a man, once for all and forever as man's redemption-price.

The same King whom Herod and his soldiers crowned with thorns, and in mockery clothed [R1692 : page 263] in royal robes, and hailed, "King of the Jews!" the same whom Pilate crucified between two thieves, and over whose head he placed the inscription, "Jesus, the King of the Jews"—this same King we look for now, but no longer in a body of flesh, a body of humiliation, a body prepared for our sin-offering. He comes in power and great glory, the express image of the Father's person, and in the glory and majesty of the Father's person, and in the glory and majesty of the Father, "whom no man hath seen, nor can see" (1 Tim. 6:16), the same whom Saul of Tarsus saw, but whom his companions saw not. The same wise, sympathizing, loving soul (person) that wept and died; but greatly changed—resurrected and glorified by divine power; a new organism, but the same being; not flesh, but spirit; not weak, but powerful; not corruptible, but incorruptible; not dishonored, but honored;—possessing "all power in heaven and in earth."—See 1 Cor. 15:20,42-44,50Phil 3:10Matt. 28:18.

Some have dreamed that selfishness is being rapidly swallowed up of love, throughout the world; but not so: it alters its outward form to meet [R1692 : page 264] changed circumstances and conditions, but under the surface selfishness is still to be found everywhere; and in almost every heart it is the actual motive power of life. And so strong is the selfish power in mankind, so deep seated, that it is a vain delusion to presume that the preaching of the gospel will ever convert the world from the motive power of selfishness to that of love.

True, some are thus converted; but altogether these are but a "little flock;" and so different from the masses that they are and always have been "peculiar people," zealous, not for self-interest, but for good works, for God's glory and for the welfare of others, regardless often of personal prosperity or interest.

Man's experience is now being so arranged for him as to bring to the masses the proof that selfishness is not the proper motive power, the welfare of all being considered; because, in the present condition of physical and mental inequality, the mentally and physically strong would get all there is, while the weaker and imbecile would be wholly dependent upon their charity for existence; and as the ratio of difference would continue to increase, it would mean that ultimately the wealth and government of the world would all be in the hands of a few intellectual giants. And even if all men were mentally and physically perfect and equal, the result of the operation of selfishness would mean a continual strife for mastery, greatness, power and advantage, which would mar the bliss of a Paradise.

The light of invention in this, our day, is intended to have this very effect;—to let things take this course and to let people see what would be the result if selfish principles were allowed to go to seed. Many whose senses are exercised can already foresee the result, and many are seeking the remedy, but in a wrong direction. They want the motive power of love substituted for the motive power of selfishness in those who have control of governments and large enterprises. They are seeking in others the character and methods of Jesus, but have never adopted his character and methods as their own. They admit the superiority of love over selfishness, and would like to have the wealthy adopt the principle of love, while they would, for a time at least, continue the policy of selfishness, until they too had become wealthy.

They forget that love cannot become an element of daily life, and its controlling force, until it has first become an element of character in the individual heart. Only those whose hearts have been thoroughly converted to the Lord, and who are seeking and praying to be dead to self, realize what a fight is necessary to keep this strongly entrenched element of the fallen character under the control of the Word and spirit of Christ, our Redeemer and Pattern. Others see not the folly of their hopes to introduce by laws the rule and motive power of love, and to oust the rule and motive power of selfishness, while the hearts of the vast majority know nothing whatever of such a change of principle as a personal experience. As men come to realize, by further experience, the folly of such hopes and efforts,

THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO WILL SPEAK
OF BRINGING BACK THE KING
WILL INCREASE.

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Ah, yes! That is the remedy, and the only remedy at all adequate to the cure of the disease of selfishness, its eradication from the body—social, political and financial.

But while the King of earth (whose right the government is, and who will shortly take unto himself his great power and reign, and bring order out of confusion) is called the "Good Physician," let none assume that by this is implied that he will cause his patient no pain when he lances his boils, amputates those parts where mortification has set in, rebreaks bones previously improperly set by the patient himself, or when he cauterizes the proud flesh of his sores: let him not suppose that he will give no bitter medicines. To be a Good Physician and a Great Physician means that he will cause no needless pain; but it also implies that he will spare no pains to make the treatment effective to the patient's recovery to perfect health.

And so with Christ's rule and Kingdom: it will first of all lay bare, and cut, and scrape, the evils of selfish society, down to the very bone, exposing depths of corruption never before [R1692 : page 265] realized by the patient; and it will be a fearful ordeal—"a time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation." The patient (the world) will suffer and groan, and for a time prefer the disease to the cure, and seek to be released, but he will be helpless, bound hand and foot; and the exposition and eradication of selfishness must progress until the patient shall have fully realized the sinfulness of sin and the selfishness of selfishness. Then the balms and ointments of love and righteousness will be applied; and although they will smart, they will begin to heal and strengthen. Then the cooling, refreshing, "peaceable fruits of righteousness" will begin to be relished, and the patient will soon be on the way to recovery and prepared for the stronger meat of knowledge of God's perfect will.

Yes, the coming of the King of Earth means much of trouble and a general overturning of the Kingdoms of this world, which, although nominally kingdoms of God, are really under the control of the prince of this world—Satan—who now worketh in the hearts of the children of disobedience. (Eph. 2:2.) It means the shaking of society in a manner and to an extent it was never before shaken, and so thoroughly that another shaking will never be necessary. (Heb. 12:26,27.) It means the breaking in pieces of the Kingdoms of earth as a potter's vessel. (Isa. 30:12-15Psa. 2:9Rev. 2:27.) It means the shaking and final passing away of the present ecclesiastical heavens, and the fall of many of its bright ones (stars), and the temporary obscuring of the true sunlight of the gospel and the moonlight of the Jewish law by the thick clouds of worldly wisdom. It means tumult and raging amongst the waves of the sea (the masses of mankind in anarchy). It means the shaking of all the mountains (kingdoms); and the melting of some to the level of the people (socialism); and the carrying of others into the sea (revolution and anarchy).

But while many would rejoice to see enemies bound and society relieved of many of its selfish, life-sapping ulcers, they seem to realize that so just and impartial a Judge and law might cut off some of their long-cherished sins, and might pain them by touching some of their personal selfishness. And they are right: He will bring to light all the hidden things of darkness, and correct private as well as public sin and selfishness. He will lay justice to the line, and righteousness to the plummet, and the hail [hard truths] shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters [of truth] shall overflow the hiding places [of error].—Isa. 28:17.

"BUT WHO MAY ABIDE THE DAY OF HIS
COMING? AND WHO SHALL STAND WHEN
HE APPEARETH?"—MAL. 3:2 .

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The coming of the King will mean a personal, as well as a national and a church examination, judgment and treatment. "Who may abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fuller's soap." (Mal. 3:2.) It will mean the curtailment of vice to a degree never attempted by any earthly reformer. There will be no license to be or to do evil in any form or degree. The only liberty will be to do right.

Ah! No wonder that so few to-day look and speak for the coming back of the King! To some it would mean the curtailment of present advantages over the remainder of their fellows. To some others it would mean to check their anticipated rising to a point of advantage or preference or honor above their fellows. To others it would mean the curtailment of sins now indulged and enjoyed.

Nevertheless, both the King and the Kingdom—for which the King taught his Church to pray, "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven"—are coming. In fact, they are here; and present troubles in church and state are the results of influences emanating from that King and Kingdom. Though men know it not, it is the smiting by this Kingdom of God that is even now preparing for the wreck of all the kingdoms of earth and the preparation thus of the hearts of men for the true King and his righteous government. Thus it was foretold by the Lord through the prophet.—Dan. 2:34,35.

Worldly men know not of this, because this Kingdom cometh not with outward show or display: because they cannot say, Lo here, or [R1692 : page 266] Lo there, they do not realize it at all. (Matt. 24:23.) But God's children, enlightened by his Word, know that thus it is written, and that [R1693 : page 266] the Day of the Lord will come as a thief and a snare upon the world; and that only God's people, his fully consecrated Church, will be in the light and will not be taken unawares. And many of these have been deceived by looking for the King again in the flesh—forgetting that his only object in becoming flesh was "for the suffering of death" as man's corresponding price; and that, this over now, he is highly exalted, and "dieth no more." They forget that "Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him [so] no more;" and that we must be changed that we may "see him as he is,"—not as he was. We now know him as the King of glory—the same who was dead, but who is now highly exalted—the same seen by Saul of Tarsus, a spirit being shining above the brightness of the noon-day sun. (See Heb. 2:9Phil. 2:92 Cor. 5:161 Cor. 15:511 John 3:2Acts 26:13-15.) Another matter which the Lord has permitted to becloud this subject of the Lord's second coming, so that none except those who hunger and thirst after the truth might know, is the translation of the Greek word, parousia, by the English word, coming, whereas it should be rendered presence; for that is the thought. Note the wide difference in the sense of the following texts where the Greek word parousia should be rendered presence in every instance:—Matt. 24:3,271 Cor. 15:231 Thes. 2:193:134:155:232 Thes. 2:1,8Jas. 5:7,82 Pet. 1:163:41 John 2:28.

True, there is to be an earthly phase or representation of the Kingdom of God, visible to the natural eyes of men, as the spiritual government will be recognized by the eyes of their understanding; but it will be established later, as it is written, Ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets—all the overcomers of the past—in the Kingdom. (Luke 13:28.) The unseen Kingdom will be Christ and the apostles, and all the faithful overcomers of the Gospel age—the body of Christ.

All that needed to be done to inaugurate the present strife for wealth and power, and to bring the festering sore of selfishness to a head, was to lift the vail and let men see the possibilities surrounding them. The lifting of the vail of ignorance from men's minds is a good thing of itself: only the selfishness of the human heart causes it to bring forth evil fruit. And the evil fruit is only partial and temporary: the sharpening of men's wits, possibly supernaturally as well as by the competitive strife for wealth, is preparing some of the inventions which will be ready for the quicker blessing of the world when the new King and his Millennial Kingdom shall have assumed full control.

But the King of Glory waits to be prayed to come and take control. He will let the various parties and factions of society cut and lance and amputate each others defects and prepare each others physics. But it will all be under the King's eye, and subject to his "all-power." And when all are thoroughly sick, and when he, as the Good Physician, does come in and offer "the balm of Gilead," he and his Kingdom will generally be hailed as "the desire of all nations." (Hag. 2:7.) The Jews will be first: "They shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only son." And when he shall reveal his presence and Kingdom, they will shout, "Lo! this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us." (Zech. 12:10Isa. 25:9.) Then "many people shall go and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain [kingdom] of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths."—Isa. 2:3.

Surely, those who know that the King and his Kingdom are the only remedy and the best remedy for all the wrongs and woes of men should be pointing the groaning creation to this, rather than to the poultices of their own contriving which can do no real good. Tell them about the Return of the King! Tell them that he is the Great Prophet and Great Priest, as well as the Great King: that as Prophet [Christ, the head, and his Church, the body] he will cause an accurate knowledge of the Lord to fill the whole earth; and that as Priest he will be ready to pardon and succor all who, under that knowledge, shall turn from sin to righteousness. Tell them that his death was the redemption price [R1693 : page 267] for all, and that the return of the King is to bind Satan and set free all of his captives who will accept the liberty of the sons of God under the conditions of the New Covenant.—Acts 3:22,23Gal. 3:291 Cor. 6:2.

"Tell the whole world these blessed tidings;
Speak of the time of rest that nears:
He who was slain on Calvary's mountain
Soon is to reign a thousand years.

"What if the clouds do for a moment
Hide the blue sky where morn appears?
Soon the glad sun of promise given
Rises to shine a thousand years.

"A thousand years! Earth's coming glory!
'Tis the glad day so long foretold;
'Tis the bright morn of Zion's glory,
Prophets foresaw in times of old."
—HYMNS OF DAWN.






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"It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household!" 
Matthew 10:25
"The just shall live by faith." 
Heb. 10:38