Data publicării
15.11.1902
Volumul
23
Numărul
22
Turnul de veghe
Views from the Watch Tower
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N 
OVliMBIlR 
15, 
1902 
ZION}S 
WATCH 
TOWER 
(341-342) 
The 
industrial 
boom 
of 
recent 
veal'S, 
combined 
with 
the 
phenomenal 
crops 
of 
this 
favored 
land. 
have 
tpndNPd 
to 
dose 
the 
eyes 
of 
the 
world 
to 
the 
fact 
that 
the 
conflitions 
of 
the 
gold 
~tandard 
are 
unfavorable 
to 
the 
agriculturists. 
As 
al­ 
ready 
pointed 
out, 
from 
Scripture, 
these 
conditions 
will 
not 
be 
changed 
by 
any 
political 
party; 
but 
will 
eventuate 
in 
the 
cry 
of 
the 
reapers, 
the 
agriculturists; 
and 
be 
followea 
by 
anarchy. 
which 
shall 
cau"E' 
"all 
fares 
to 
gatlwr 
blacknpqs" 
and 
"the 
mighty 
man 
shan 
weep 
there 
bitterly;"-the 
time 
described 
as 
the 
"time 
of 
trouble, 
such 
as 
was 
not 
since 
there 
was 
a 
nation," 
in 
view 
of 
which 
the 
Apostle 
says: 
"Go 
to 
now 
ye 
rich 
men. 
weep 
and 
howl 
for 
the 
miserics 
which 
shall 
come 
upon 
you."-James 
5:1-4; 
Joel 
2:6-11; 
Zeph. 
1:14-18; 
Dan. 
12: 
1. 
A 
few 
years 
ago, 
during 
the 
congressional 
recess, 
all 
of 
the 
wise 
men 
of 
this 
latitude 
were 
habitually 
ndlculing 
the 
idea 
that 
Congress 
could 
take 
any 
action 
regarding 
the 
duly 
elected 
representatives 
from 
the 
~tate 
of 
Utah. 
These 
WIse 
men 
went 
Into 
dISCUSSIOns 
of 
the 
con"tltutlOnal 
pha"'ll:l 
of 
the 
questIOn, 
and 
of 
how 
Impossible 
it 
would 
be 
to 
do 
anything 
consistent 
with 
our 
fundamental 
law 
and 
the 
rIghts 
under 
It 
of 
a 
sovereign 
State. 
Any 
man 
who 
ventured 
to 
dIssent 
from 
this 
predlCtlOn 
had 
but 
one 
argument: 
"Do 
not 
forget 
the 
Southern 
Presbyterianism. 
Brigham 
H. 
Roberts 
must 
look 
to 
his 
Democratic 
associates 
of 
the 
South 
for 
support, 
if 
he 
IS 
to 
have 
any, 
but 
they 
can 
not 
forget 
the 
rugged 
Presbyterian­ 
ism 
of 
a 
large 
share 
of 
their 
constItuents." 
The 
predIction 
was 
entirely 
sound. 
There 
was 
lIttle 
constitutIOnal 
ground 
for 
throwing 
Mr. 
Roberts 
out, 
but 
he 
had 
to 
go, 
and 
tlllS 
velY 
Reform 
Bureau 
played 
no 
small 
palt 
in 
brillglllg 
that 
result 
to 
pass. 
Seven 
bills 
have 
been 
pas"ed 
as 
drawn 
by 
the 
Bureau 
and 
introduced 
at 
its 
request, 
including 
the 
new 
and 
drastic 
d:­ 
vorce 
law 
of 
the 
District 
of 
Columhia. 
which 
wIll 
",eemIllgly 
compel 
the 
establishment 
of 
a 
divorce 
colony 
at 
Chevy 
Chase, 
across 
the 
Maryland 
line. 
Others 
are 
the 
new 
f!lvorce 
law 
in 
the 
Territories, 
the 
anti-cantepn 
law, 
the 
resolutlOll 
IJI 
(J­ 
posing 
a 
treaty 
to 
prevent 
the 
s<11e 
of 
into·dcant., 
,lIl,l 
opIum 
to 
native 
races 
of 
the 
South 
Spaq, 
and 
the 
::::;unday-clo'\ing 
amendment 
to 
the 
Ft. 
Louis 
fair 
bill. 
The 
Bmeau. 
by 
sllllilar 
activities, 
doubtless 
prevents 
the 
p~ssage 
of 
such 
legislation 
as 
might 
otherwisc 
get 
through.-N. 
Y. 
EV6J1!Ilg 
PU8t. 
AUSTRIA'S 
TROUBLES 
It 
is 
stated 
that 
the 
Austrian 
Government 
has 
grave 
rca­ 
son 
to 
fear 
an 
agrarian 
rising 
in 
Galicia, 
where 
in 
the 
L1~t 
rising 
nearly 
two 
thousand 
landlords 
were 
mUl'llerefl. 
The 
landlords 
of 
Galicia 
are 
Poles. 
and, 
being 
doubtlpss 
prpssed 
by 
the 
low 
prices, 
are 
reducing 
wages 
already 
too 
low 
for 
even 
tolerable 
existence. 
The 
peasantry, 
who 
are 
Ruthenians, 
and 
have 
a 
traditional 
quarrel 
of 
race 
with 
the 
gentr;', 
al 
e 
therefore 
rioting 
in 
all 
directions; 
and 
there 
is 
a 
d('mand 
from 
the 
nobles 
that 
the 
province 
shall 
be 
placed 
in 
a 
state 
of 
siege. 
The 
demand 
will 
probably 
be 
granted, 
anc1 
the 
peasantry 
cannot 
resist 
the 
troops; 
but 
unless 
its 
vie\' 
3 
h.1 
ve 
greatly 
altered 
of 
late, 
the 
Government 
of 
Vienna 
will 
be 
greatly 
annoyed 
and 
perplexed, 
the 
Ruthenians 
being 
f[l 
I' 
more 
loyal 
to 
the 
house 
of 
Hapsburg 
than 
the 
Polish 
aristocracy 
are. 
This 
question 
of 
tenure 
is 
becoming 
a 
very 
serious 
one 
throughout 
Eastern 
Europe. 
From 
till' 
Ural 
to 
thp 
Dannbe 
the 
actual 
cultivatonl 
of 
thf' 
soil 
han!]v 
!!et 
enough 
to 
live 
on, 
and, 
partly 
from 
suffering, 
partly 
from 
a 
growing 
con­ 
sciousness 
that 
others 
are 
bappier, 
are 
beginning 
to 
demand 
proprietary 
rights. 
A 
wealthy 
Governmpnt 
poulfl 
manage 
a 
compromise 
through 
large 
loans, 
but 
in 
Eastern 
Europe 
there 
is 
no 
money 
to 
spare, 
and 
the 
policy 
adopted 
both 
in 
Russia 
and 
Austria 
is 
to 
enforce 
a 
nearly 
impossible 
8tatus 
quo.­ 
London 
Spectator. 
mortality" 
will 
be 
instantaneous 
at 
the 
second 
advent 
of 
the 
Redeemer 
for 
the 
establishment 
of 
the 
kingdom 
of 
heaven 
in 
the 
earth.-Rom. 
2:7; 
8:17,28,29; 
2 
Tim. 
2:11,12; 
1 
Pet. 
4:12,13; 
1 
Cor. 
15:51. 
52; 
1 
Thess. 
4:15-17. 
Upon 
these 
scriptural 
premises 
the 
entire 
fabric 
of 
Chris­ 
tianity 
was 
built, 
and 
in 
proportion 
as 
anyone 
of 
them 
is 
either 
denied 
or 
omitted 
"the 
faith 
once 
delivered 
to 
the 
saints" 
is 
lost, 
and 
the 
door 
is 
opened 
to 
false 
beliefs, 
and 
ultimately 
to 
utter 
unbelief 
i-cutting 
the 
cables 
by 
which 
the 
anchor 
of 
faith 
serves 
securely 
to 
hold 
us 
to 
heavenly 
hopes. 
The 
cutting 
of 
these 
faith-cables 
means 
the 
temporary, 
if 
not 
the 
eternal 
los" 
of 
vital 
union 
with 
our 
Lord 
the 
Life­ 
giver. 
The 
growingly 
popular 
evolution 
theory 
is 
diametri­ 
cally 
opposed 
to 
all 
these 
fundamentals 
of 
ChrIstianity, 
and 
that 
is 
warning- 
eTlfJug-h 
to 
tIl(' 
WIse, 
hut 
no 
others. 
FORTY 
MILLION 
DOLLARS 
FOR 
RELIGION 
At 
the 
beginning 
of 
the 
twentieth 
century, 
an 
interde­ 
nominational 
movement 
was 
orgardzed 
in 
England 
and 
this 
country 
for 
the 
purpo-e 
of 
raising 
$50,000,000 
as 
a 
special 
fund 
to 
be 
devoted 
to 
various 
projects 
for 
the 
furtherance 
of 
religion, 
such 
as 
the 
payment 
of 
church 
debts, 
home 
mis­ 
sionary 
work, 
the 
endowment 
of 
religious 
instItutions, 
etc. 
The 
Ohurch 
Econom~st 
(New 
York), 
which 
has 
been 
making 
an 
investigation 
into 
the 
present 
condition 
of 
this 
fund, 
finds 
tkat 
about 
$40,000.000 
has 
already 
been 
raised. 
"If 
it 
be 
true 
that 
money 
talks," 
comments 
the 
Chicago 
Tnbune, 
"then 
it 
is 
talking 
in 
a 
mO,3t 
convincing 
way 
as 
to 
the 
great 
inter­ 
e,t 
at 
prf'sent 
in 
the 
cause 
of 
religion 
and 
the 
fundamental 
plO~peet 
of 
the 
churches." 
Fully 
half 
of 
this 
great 
total, 
declares 
The 
Ohurch 
Eco­ 
rlOmtSt, 
was 
raisea 
in 
thi" 
country, 
the 
Methodists 
North 
alone 
claiming 
~17 
,000.000. 
The 
Canadian 
:Methodists 
and 
Presbyterians, 
each 
of 
which 
bodies 
set 
out 
to 
raise 
$1,000,­ 
000, 
have 
colleetea 
rf'spectively 
$1,21)0,000 
and 
$1,430,000. 
The 
English 
\Y 
e"leyan" 
have 
seemed 
$4-,500,000; 
and 
the 
English 
Congregationalists 
$3.312.000. 
Congregationalists 
in 
'Vales 
have 
raisf'd 
$860,000: 
in 
Australia 
$415,000.-Digest. 
RELIGION 
MIXING 
IN 
POLITICS 
The 
National 
Rf'form 
Bureau 
has 
established 
what 
carre­ 
spends 
to 
a 
mercantile 
agency 
concerning 
the 
leading 
people 
in 
ewry 
town 
in 
the 
United 
States, 
except 
that 
their 
religious 
status 
instead 
of 
their 
financial 
capital 
and 
resources 
is 
the 
suh,lect 
of 
the 
work. 
Old 
telephone 
books 
have 
been 
secured 
of 
every 
town 
in 
the 
United 
States 
having 
a 
telephone 
sys­ 
tf'm, 
and 
these 
books 
have 
a 
large 
share 
of 
the 
people 
of 
prominence 
on 
their 
rolls. 
This 
is 
the 
nucleus 
of 
the 
index. 
Then, 
through 
trusted 
confidential 
helpers 
in 
each 
town. 
the 
names 
are 
checked 
off 
with 
signs 
showing 
what 
each 
indi­ 
vidual 
can 
be 
depended 
on 
to 
do. 
Perhaps 
one 
man 
will 
be 
decidedly 
irreligious, 
and 
not 
interested 
in 
[political] 
re­ 
forms, 
but, 
for 
personal 
or 
family 
concerns 
may 
be 
greatly 
agitated 
over 
the 
que"tion 
of 
temper~nre. 
The 
same 
may 
be 
true 
with 
divorce 
legislation, 
and 
with 
Sunday 
queqtions 
of 
all 
kinds. 
The 
bureau 
has 
twelve 
lines 
of 
work, 
but 
it 
does 
not 
limit 
its 
requests 
for 
assistance 
to 
persons 
who 
happen 
to 
sympathize 
with 
it 
in 
all 
of 
its 
lines. 
Of 
course. 
the 
rec­ 
ords 
show 
a 
large 
number 
of 
names 
as 
in 
favor 
of 
everything. 
The 
Congressman 
who 
is 
"shaky" 
on 
any 
vital 
measure 
finds 
himself 
deluged 
with 
communications. 
Perhaps 
the 
churrhes 
in 
his 
district 
adopt 
resolutions 
which 
are 
forwarded 
to 
him. 
Petitions 
from 
the 
Women's 
Christian 
Temperance 
Unions 
are 
hastily 
transmitted. 
And 
there 
is 
no 
overesti­ 
mating 
the 
influence 
of 
such 
things 
on 
the 
congressional 
mind 
. 
. 
. 
. 
Senator 
Blackburn, 
of 
Kentucky, 
once 
said 
to 
Dr. 
Crafts: 
"Why, 
you 
have 
put 
my 
whole 
state 
in 
a 
turmoil 
over 
this 
matter. 
I 
would 
wager 
that 
I 
have 
got 
as 
many 
as 
twenty 
letters 
about 
it." 
Since 
twenty 
votes 
would 
not 
be 
a 
large 
percentage 
in 
Kentucky, 
the 
impression 
which 
a 
few 
letters 
make 
can 
not 
be 
better 
illustrated. 
• 
• 
• 
"MY 
COVENANT 
WILL 
I 
NOT 
BREAK" 
"My 
covenant 
will 
I 
not 
break, 
nor 
alter 
the 
These 
words 
of 
Jehovah 
God 
are 
very 
comforting 
and 
satisfying 
to 
his 
faithful 
children. 
As 
faith 
becomes 
a 
basis 
for 
things 
hoped 
for, 
so 
confidence 
and 
experience 
constitute 
a 
basis 
for 
faith 
to 
rest 
upon. 
The 
unchangeableness 
of 
our 
God 
is 
one 
of 
the 
attractive 
features 
of 
his 
character: 
his 
assurance 
is, 
"I 
am 
the 
same, 
I 
change 
not." 
Even 
when 
the 
Lord's 
word 
or 
sentence 
is 
against 
us-as 
in 
the 
case 
of 
his 
pronouncement 
against 
sin 
and 
sinners-and 
even 
though 
his 
unchangeableness 
will 
not 
permit 
him 
to 
excuse 
sin 
or 
clear 
the 
guilty, 
this 
very 
constancy 
becomes 
an 
assurance 
to 
u" 
that 
as 
God 
has 
been 
strict 
and 
unchangeable 
in 
regard 
to 
the 
penalty 
pronounced, 
he 
will 
be 
equally 
strict 
and 
thing 
that 
is 
gone 
out 
of 
my 
lips."-Psa. 
89:34. 
equally 
unchangeablE' 
ronrerning 
:111 
thE' 
goofl 
pf(lml~CS 
and 
covenants 
which 
he 
has 
made 
to 
u". 
As 
an 
illustration 
of 
this 
unchangeableness. 
we 
note 
the 
fact 
that 
under 
the 
death 
sentence 
six 
thousand 
veal'S 
have 
elapsed, 
and 
over 
50.000.000.000 
of 
our 
rare 
have 
gone 
into 
the 
prisonhouse 
of 
death 
;-yet 
God 
has 
not 
relented 
or 
shown 
the 
slightest 
sign 
of 
change. 
Hiq 
sentencp 
was 
a 
just 
one, 
and 
it 
could 
not 
be 
revoked. 
Thpn 
rame 
in 
hl'3 
love; 
and 
without 
violating 
his 
;ustice 
he 
provided 
a 
great 
sin 
offer­ 
ing,-"a 
ransom 
for 
all." 
In 
connection 
with 
thi" 
manifesta­ 
tion 
of 
love, 
in 
man's 
redemption. 
the 
Creator 
gave 
rertain 
covenants 
and 
promises; 
and 
as 
we 
have 
learned 
of 
his 
un- 
[3107] 
NoveMBER 15, 1902 mortality’ will be instantaneous at the second advent of the Redeemer for the establishment of the kingdom of heaven in the earth—Rom, 2:7; 8:17, 28, 29; 2 Tim. 2:11, 12; 1 Pet. 4:12, 13; 1 Cor, 15:51. 52; 1 Thess. 4:15-17. Upon these scriptural premises the entire fabric of Christianity was built, and in proportion as any one of them is either denied or omitted “the faith once delivered to the saints” is lost, and the door is opened to false beliefs, and ultimately to utter unbelief;—cutting the ¢ables by which the anchor of faith serves securely to hold us to heavenly hopes. The cutting of these faith-cables means the temporary, if not the eternal loss of vital union with our Lord the Lifegiver. The growingly popular evolution theory is diametrically opposed to all these fundamentals of Christianity, and that is warning enough to the wise, but no others. FORTY MILLION DOLLARS FOR RELIGION At the beginning of the twentieth century, an interdenominational movement was organized in England and this country for the purpo-e of raising $50,000,000 as a special fund to be devoted to various projects for the furtherance of religion, such as the payment of church debts, home missionary work, the endowment of religious institutions, etc. The Church Economst (New York), which has been making an investigation into the present condition of this fund, finds that about $40,000.000 has already been raised. “If it be true that money talks,’ comments the Chicago Tribune, “then it is talking in a most convincing way as to the great interest at present in the cause of religion and the fundamental prospect of the churches.” Fully half of this great total, declares The Church Economist, was raised in this country, the Methodists North alone claiming $17,000,000. The Canadian Methodists and Presbyterians, each of which bodies set out to raise $1,000,000, have collected respectively $1,250,000 and $1,430,000. The English Wesleyans have secured $4,500,000; and the English Congregationalists $3.312.000. Congregationalists in Wales have raised $860,000; in Australia $415,000.—Digest. RELIGION MIXING IN POLITICS The National Reform Bureau has established what correspends to a mereantile agency concerning the leading people in every town in the United States, except that their religious status instead of their financial capital and resources is the subject of the work. Old telephone books have been secured of every town in the United States having a telephone system, and these books have a large share of the people of prominence on their rolls. This is the nucleus of the index. Then, through trusted confidential helpers in each town. the names are checked off with signs showing what each individual can be depended on to do. Perhaps one man will be decidedly irreligious, and not interested in [political] reforms, but, for personal or family concerns may be greatly agitated over the question of temperance. The same may be true with divorce legislation, and with Sunday questions of all kinds. The bureau has twelve lines of work, but it does not limit its requests for assistance to persons who happen to sympathize with it in all of its lines. Of course, the records show a large number of names as in favor of everything. The Congressman who is “shaky” on any vital measure finds himself deluged with communications. Perhaps the churches in his district adopt resolutions which are forwarded to him. Petitions from the Women’s Christian Temperance Unions are hastily transmitted. And there is no overestimating the influence of such things on the congressional mind. .. . Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, once said to Dr. Crafts: “Why, you have put my whole state in a turmoil over this matter. I would wager that I have got as many ag twenty letters about it.” Since twenty votes would not be a large percentage in Kentucky, the impression which a few letters make can not be better illustrated. ZION’S WATCH TOWER (341-342) A few years ago, during the congressional recess, all of the wise men of this latitude were habitually ridiculing the idea that Congress could take any action regarding the duly elected representatives from the State of Utah. ‘These wise men went into discussions of the constitutional phascs of the question, and of how impossible it would be to do anything consistent with our fundamental law and the rights under 1t of a sovereign State. Any man who ventured to dissent from this prediction had but one argument: “Do not forget the Southern Presbyterianism. Brigham H. Roberts must look to his Democratic associates of the South for support, if he 1s to have any, but they can not forget the rugged Presbyterianism of a large share of their constituents.” The prediction was entirely sound. There wag httle constitutional ground for throwing Mr. Roberts out, but he had to yo, and this very Reform Bureau played no small part in bringing that result to pass. Seven bills have been passed as drawn by the Bureau and introduced at its request, including the new and drastie d:vorce law of the District of Columbia, which will seemingly compel the establishment of a divorce colony at Chevy Chase, across the Maryland line. Others are the new divorce law in the Territories, the anti-canteen law, the resolution pioposing a treaty to prevent the sale of intoxicants and opium to native races of the South Seas, and the Sunday-closing amendment to the St. Louis fair bill. The Bureau, by sunilar activities, doubtless prevents the passage of such legislation as might otherwise get through.—N. Y. Hvening Post. AUSTRIA’S TROUBLES It is stated that the Austrian Government has grave rcason to fear an agrarian rising in Galicia, where in the last rising nearly two thousand landlords were murdered, The landlords of Galicia are Poles, and, being doubtless pressed by the low prices, are reducing wages already too low for even tolerable existence. The peasantry, who are Ruthenians, and have a traditional quarrel of race with the gentry, aie therefore rioting in all directions; and there is a demand from the nobles that the province shall be placed in a state of siege. The demand will probably be granted, and the peasantry cannot resist the troops; but unless its views have greatly altered of late, the Government of Vienna will be greatly annoyed and perplexed, the Ruthenians being far more loyal to the house of Hapsburg than the Polish aristocracy are, This question of tenure is becoming a very serious one throughout Eastern Europe. From the Ural to the Danube the actual cultivators of the soil hardly get enough to live on, and, partly from suffering, partly from a growing consciousness that others are happier, are beginning to demand proprietary rights. A wealthy Government could manage a compromise through large loans, but in Eastern Europe there is no money to spare, and the policy adopted both in Russia and Austria is to enforce a nearly impossible status quo.— London Spectator. * * * The industrial boom of recent years, combined with the phenomenal crops of this favored land, have tendered to close the eyes of the world to the fact that the conditions of the gold standard are unfavorable to the agriculturists. As already pointed out, from Scripture, these conditions will not be changed by any political party; but will eventuate in the ery of the reapers, the agriculturists; and be followed by anarchy, which shall cause “all faces to gather blackness” and “the mighty man shall weep there bitterly;”—the time described as the “time of trouble, such as was not since there was a nation,” in view of which the Apostle says: “Go to now ye rich men, weep and howl for the miseries which shall come upon you.”—James 5:1-4; Joel 2:6-11; Zeph. 1:14-18; Dan. 12:1. “MY COVENANT WILL I NOT BREAK” “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the These words of Jehovah God are very comforting and satisfying to his faithful children. As faith becomes a basis for things hoped for, so confidence and experience constitute a basis for faith to rest upon. The unchangeableness of our God is one of the attractive features of his character: his assurance is, “I am the same, I change not.” Even when the Lord’s word or sentence is against us—as in the case of his pronouncement against sin and sinners—and even though his unchangeableness will not permit him to excuse sin or clear the guilty, this very constancy becomes an assurance to us that as God has been strict and unchangeable in regard to the penalty pronounced, he will be equally strict and thing that is gone out of my lips.”—Psa. 89:34. equally unchangeable concerning all the good promises and covenants which he has made to us. As an illustration of this unchangeableness, we note the fact that under the death sentence six thousand vears have elapsed, and over 50,000,000,000 of our race have gone into the prisonhouse of death;—yet God has not relented or shown the slightest sign of change. His sentence was a just one, and it could not be revoked. Then came in his love; and without violating his justice he provided a great sin offering,—“‘a ransom for all.” In connection with this manifestation of love, in man’s redemption, the Creator gave certain covenants and promises; and as we have learned of his un [3107]

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