(351 355) ZION’S Dewie’s Zion work, and wiote to Dowie, but as yet I have recerved no reply: but since reading “Dawn,” I feel that the Lord has another way for me, and other duties. My desire at present is—I should hke to have a year for quiet and study, to search my Bhle and spend a prayer, and thoroughly study “Darren? When I am thus prepared of the Lord, I would lke to preach the truth, as it is now due, in the cities of Germany and Switzerland. After Paul’s conversion he had time for quiet and study; but I have been a minister for seventeen years, and in the entire period have had no opportunity for rest and study, though I preached from four to ive times a week, Through the study of “Dawn,” there has been a revolution in my Biblical and theological opinions, and I must have time to become established before I can publicly expound these doctrines, though I have a deep conviction of their truthfulness. As Tam entirely without means, I must look to the Lord to provide the means to support my family, and this he will WATCH TOWER Autrentny, Pa, do if he wishes me to have the time for study. I wait for his direction. Of this I am thoroughly convinced, I cannot longer be a Baptist minister. Permit me to enclose a photo of my wife and myself. I am torty-tour and my dear wife thirty-seven. Our only concern is that we may attain the high privileges to which we are called, and that we may be co-laborers during the short time that remains, in gathering the elect. Should you consider it wise that I should go to you in America for a short time (without my family) I am ready to do so. I would be very thankful to receive an ansver as soon as possible, in German writing, as October is approaching, when I must leave my home and field of labor. My desire is that God’s will may be done in me and through me. May he also direct you in the advice you may give me. In Christian love and esteem, yours, Jan Kradolier, Minister,—Switzerland. Voi, NNIT ALLEGHENY, PA., NOVEMBER 15, 1901 No. 22 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER HUMAN FORCES BURSTING ALL BONDS AND BARRIERS Justice Brewer, of the Supreme Court of the United States, was one of the speakers at the recent Yale bi-centenary celebration, and he made some statements which were extremely startling as coming from one in his high judicial position. The Piayune epitomizing his speech says: “Commenting on the extraordinary results attained in scientific discovery and mechanical invention, and their use in all the business and economies of daily life in a country inexpressibly rich in natural endowments, and inhabited by a vast and rapidly increasing population of the most enterprising and intelligent races of men, he said: “-These various causes are operating in our midst to produce wealth, consolidation, centralization. The rapidity and multitude of mercantile transactions are seen in colossal fortunes, in gigantic undertakings, in enormous financia] consohdations, and corresponding organizations of labor. Local self-control is giving way before the pressure for centralized power. The town meeting is supplanted by the State Legislature, while the latter in its turn is yielding to the expanding power of Congress. Political parties are largely under the management of bosses, and the whole great forces of industry. business and politics seem passing under the domination of single central control.’ “The eagerness with which the physical forces brought into play hy scientific discovery and invention have been adopted and enlisted in every branch of industry and business is not more remarkable than is the tendency towards the concentiation and centralization of human forces and agencies. On one side capital is concentrating. On the other labor is combining, Each 1s mustering all its forces so that each may work with the other with completer system and to better advantage, and, in case of a conflict, each will be able to hurl itself against the other with all the great energy and eflectivencss, and the prospect is that, sooner or later, both sides will attain conditions of such formidableness as that the shock, should they come in full collision, will destroy the existing social and political organization of the Republic, unless the masses of the people, who will not be bound to either side shall rally to crush out the combatants and save the country’s institutions. ‘Tt has heen declared by jurists that there is no evil which can ocenr im human economy that cannot find its remedy in the courts. but Justice Brewer does not agree with any such doctrine Ile said in his Yale address: “-You cannot stay this movement towards consolidation and centralization. It is a natural evolution. The commervlal spirit 1s taking advantage of the wonderful facilities given by steam and electricity. Injunction against strikers will not stop it: legislation against trusts will not. Attempting to stay the movement of its chariot wheels by injunction or statute i= lunacy compared with which Dame Partington’s «fort to stop the Atlantic with a mop was supreme wisdom.’ *fhen the last appeal is to the court of public opinion, and it mu-t be a court independent of the contending parties. Not all the people of the United States belong to the privileged class of combined capitalists any more than they are members of labor organizations. The aristocracy of capital 1s made up of only a few thousands at the most. Organized labor may embrace a few millions of men not yet united under a central power. But although they may be so combined when the great conflict shall come, they will only make up a minority proportion of the entire population. There will be a great body of the people, to the number of tens and scores of millions, who will to a greater or less degree be independent, in sentiment at least, of both concentrated capital on one side and combined labor on the other, and this great majority will sit as a court to judge and determine what ig necessary to protect the people’s liberties and their free institutions from the aggressions of either or both of the combinations.” * * * The thinking people of the world all perceive that the great day of trouble is approaching,—very much as we have shown it from the Scriptures in The Day of Vengeance and The Divine Plan of the Ages. Yet, as above stated, they hope that the masses will at the proper moment save society from complete wreck and ruin in anarchy. It is well for mankind that hope occupies so large a place in the natural heart which has nothing else to lean upon. But if the Scriptures forbid us to exercise such hopes they give “us who believe” a still better hope of blessings to follow. The learned Justice hopes for the farming element, which heretofore has always been the conservative one, to preserve society and to enforce law and equity. But the Scriptures show the reverse of this. They show that it will be the reapers, the farmers, who will specially suffer and cry out at this time, and be specially instrumental in bringing about the anarchy. Already the “Agrarian Party” (the farmers) of Europe are now causing kings and emperors serious trouble They ery out that they cannot make a living at present prices and want prohibitive tariffs which would so increase the cost of living for laborers and mechanics as to seriously disturb manufacturing and all foreign commerce. This is the result of the demonetization of silver—farmers of gold standard countries being obliged to compete with farmers of silver standard countries, while manufacturing is all done in gold standard countries and has no such competition with the cheap labor of heathendom. Phenomenal conditions have given American farmers great prosperity—at the expense of millions in India and Russia, who have suffered from famine. But we are not to expect bountiful harvests here, and famines elsewhere to keep up prices, always. When the reverse movements come, the farmers of this favored land will also begin to cry out as represented in James 5. A NEW CHEMICAL AGENT “The first milestone on the journey toward bloodless surgery has been reached. Its name is Adrenalin, that being the title of a chemical composition recently discovered by Dr. Jokichi Takamine, a well known and highly educated Japanese, who is connected with a chemical house that has a local office in this city. Adrenalin is to medicine what liquid air is to science, the only difference being that the chemical is under complete control, with unlimited possibilities before it. “By the local application of Adrenalin, in solution of one part to 5,000, operations may be performed on the nose, ear and eye without the spilling of a drop of blood. Such operations have also been performed with Adrenalin in solution of one part to 10,000. [2906]
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