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ZION'S
WATCH
TOWER
ALLEGHENY,
PA
The
lesson
to
all
who
seek
to
be
in
harmony
with
the
Lord
is
that
they
are
not
to
follow
the
course
of
the
great
and
the
influential
of
Christendom,
but
to
follow
the
Lord,
to
hearken
to
his
Word,
and
to
humbly
follow
in
the
foot
steps
of
our
dear
Redeemer.
"Be
thou
faithful
unto
death,
and
I
will
give
thee
a
crown
of
life."
VOL.
XXIX
ALLEGHENY,
P
A.,
OCTOBER
15,
1908
VIEWS
FROM
THE
WATCH
TOWER
No.
20
ENGLAND
FACE
TO
FACE
WITH
SOCIALISM
One
hundred
and
fifty
archbishops
and
bishops,
a
multitude
of
minor
clergy,
and
an
assemblage
of
laymen
and
laywomen
outnumbered
any
hitherto
gathered
in
Albert
hall.
The
bishop
of
Birmingham,
who
was
scheduled
to
preside,
was
absent
owing
to
illness.
He
sent
a
paper,
which
was
read
uy
his
substitute,
the
bishop
of
Manch('ster,
the
keynote
of
which
was
the
injustice
of
the
existing
c1idsion
of
the
profits
of
industry.
After
contrasting
the
gnnding
poverty
of
the
workers
with
the
extravagant
luxury
of
the
idle
rich,
he
ae·
manded
flOm
the
church
"a
tremendous
act
of
penitence
for
having
failpd
so
long
and
so
greatly
to
champion
the
oppressed
and
weak."
RISING
TIDE
OF
SOCIALISM
The
Rev.
J.
G.
Simpson,
principal
of
the
clergy
school
at
Leeds,
assured
the
vast
audience
that
all
over
the
north
of
England
they
were
face
to
face
with
the
rising
tide
of
Social
ism,
which
they
were
powerless
to
stem
even
if
they
wished
to
do
so.
Countless
workers
in
the
forges,
furnaces,
and
mills
of
the
north
had
adopted
the
Socialistic
idea
and
held
to
it
like
a
religion
and
loved
it
like
a
bride.
He
demanded
that
the
church
give
free
field
to
Socialism.
He
appealed
to
it
to
try
to
understand
it
and
not
hasten
to
discount
it.
More
significant
than
the
speeches
themselves
was
the
keen
interest
shown
in
the
Socialistic
pleas
and
earnest
enthusiasm
with
which
such
points
as
those
given
were
greeted
from
all
parts
of
the
halL-Chicago
Daily
Socialist.
"MEN'S
HEARTS
FAILING
THEM"
"Daily
it
becomes
more
manifest
that
political
America
is
s('parating
into
two
camps-the
Individualists
and
the
Social
ists
.
.
.
A
new
party
has
been
created,
and
it
is
not
extravagant
to
intimate
it
will
poll
two
million
votes
next
November.
It
thr('atens
to
destroy
the
Democratic
party
(though
that
is
a
job
the
Democratic
Party
has
already
ac·
complishNl
to
all
intents
and
purposes),
and
will
then
strive
for
the
mastery
against
the
Republican
Party.
That
would
fetch
the
new
alignment
of
conservative
vs.
liberal,
of
Indi
vidualism
vs.
Socialism.
That
is
what
is
coming.
"-Washing·
ton
Post.
THE
JEWISH
OUTLOOK
The
recent
quiet
Turkish
revolution,
which
has
brought
to
the
front
the
"Young
Turk"
party,
is
said
to
be
favorable
to
the
hopes
of
the
Jews
in
respect
to
their
securing
some
kind
of
a
footing
in
Palestine
with
a
subordinate
self-govern
ment.
The
new
government
is
credited
with
being
quite
liberal
toward
Jews
and
Christians.
Rabbi
Judah
Leon
Mages
says:
"Since
Titus
razed
Jerusalem
thousands
of
years
ago,
Israel
has
been
a
wand('rer
among
foreign
nations,
an
alien
among
strangers;
at
first
bitterly
persecuted,
then
barely
tol
erated,
and
latterly
beginning
to
be
respected
and
honored,
but
still
an
outcast,
with
no
home
toward
which
to
turn
his
wandering
footsteps.
And
yet,
remarkable
as
is
the
fact,
he
has
T'reserved
his
indidduality
through
it
all.
Whether
he
is
a
professor
in
a
German
university,
or
a
banker
in
France,
or
a
statesman
in
England,
the
Jew
is
a
Jew
still,
and
under
the
veneer
of
environing
social
life
lies
the
tearful
yearning
for
his
native
land.
,
'When
we
turn
our
footsteps
toward
Zion,"
continued
the
doctor,
his
eyes
kindling
with
enthusiasm,
"we
shall
number
among
the
citizens
of
the
renewed
Jewish
commonwealth
some
of
the
most
famous
men
of
modern
times,
men
who
are
en·
gaged
in
creating
the
world
history
of
today.
Our
govern
ment
will
serve
as
a
model
for
the
whole
world.
And
in
the
arts
and
crafts
Jerusalem
will
be
a
standard.
I
have
no
small
faith
in
Israe!.
What
he
is
doing
now,
scattered
throughout
the
world,
he
will
be
able
to
do
tenfold
when
he
is
united,
safe
from
the
fear
of
hate
or
prejudice.
PURCHASING
PALESTINE
HOLDINGS
"This
is
not
all
purely
visionary.
The
work
is
already
~oing
on
rapidly
in
Palestine.
We
have
acquired
extensive
tracts
of
land
from
the
Sultan
of
Turkey,
and
we
are
con
stantly
increasing
our
holdings.
Very
soon
we
will
be
in
a
position
to
ask
for
a
release
from
the
authority
of
the
Sultan.
England
favors
the
project,
and
we
are
sure
of
the
assistance
of
the
United
States.
Large
areas
of
land
are
already
unner
cultivation,
and
we
are
planting
an
immense
grove
of
olive
trees,
to
be
called
the
Theodore
Herzl
Memorial
Grove,
m
memory
of
the
revered
founder
of
Zionism.
"Israel
was
originally
a
farmer.
It
was
only
upon
his
expulsion
from
his
native
land,
forbidden
to
hold
territory
in
any
of
the
countries
he
sought
to
make
his
home,
that
he
became
a
trader,
and
by
his
native
wit
became
su
apt
at
it
that
it
has
almost
become
a
characteri
stie
of
the
race.
Now,
however,
in
his
own
home,
at
peace
with
all
nations,
and
with
the
latest
inventions
of
science
at
his
command,
he
will
make
the
beautiful
valley
of
the
Jordan
to
'blossom
as
the
rose.'
And
there
under
the
serene
eastern
sun,
he
can
let
his
soul
drift
back
softly
into
the
meditations
of
his
beloved
religion
and
live
out
his
days
'a
blessing
and
a
comfort
to
the
na·
tions.'
"
REVULSION
AGAINST
HELL
TORMENT
TOWARD
FAITHS
WITHOUT
FOUNDATION
The
Rev.
J.
R.
Hutton,
D.D.,
of
Glasgow,
preaching
in
New
York
City,
said:-
"We
hear
much
in
these
days
of
the
fascination
which
Roman
Catholic
or
High
Church
views
are
having
for
many
minds.
Now,
the
claim
that
these
churches
really
put
forward
is
that
the
church,
through
its
sacraments
and
prayers
of
the
saints,
will
take
the
responsibility
for
the
souls
of
its
members
and
so
relieve
them
of
a
certain
'intolerable
strain.'
We
hear
that
the
claim
is
proving
the
attraction.
I
think
the
significance
is
just
this,
that
these
systems
put
the
accent
and
emphasis
not
on
what
the
worshiper
does
for
himself
but
on
what
God
has
done
for
him
and
is
prepared
to
do.
t'Take
another
movement
which
I
think
has
a
very
close
resemblance
to
this
drift
toward
the
Roman
Catholic
attitude
in
England.
I
mean
the
movement
originating
in
America,
but
which
has
its
agents
in
all
cultured
lands,
which
goes
variously
by
the
name
of
Christian
Science,
Mind
Culture
and
the
rest.
It
has
succeeded
because
with
a
certain
passion
and
unfairness
it
rejects
from
the
entire
life
of
the
soul
such
words
as
'striving,'
t
wrestling'
and
'fighting.'
The
move
ment
has
won
a
success
just
because
it
promises
to
take
the
strain
off
our
minds,
because
it
bids
men
to
stop
thinking
about
themselves
and
begin
thinking
out
of
themselves
toward
the
infinite
peace
of
God.
All
that
is
true
in
both
these
move
ments
is
not
new,
and
all
that
is
new
is
not
true.
There
arf'
signs
that
the
human
soul
is
tired
of
the
ethical
whip,
tired
of
the
summons
to
strenuousness,
and
is
determined
now
to
try
the
life
of
faith."
*
*
*
What
man
really
needs
is
the
Bible
faith,
the
faith
once
delivered
to
the
saints,
but
now,
alas!
obscured
to
almost
all.
HOMING
THE
ARK
AT
JERUSALEM
2
Samuel
6:1-12.-0CTOBER
4.
Golden
7'cxt-"
Enter
into
his
gates
with
thanksgiving,
and
into
his
courts
with
praise.
"-Psa.
100
:4.
The
Ark
of
the
Covenant,
wherein
was
deposited
the
tables
lected
and
in
considerable
degree
the
religion
of
the
nation
of
the
law,
the
basis
of
God's
cov('nant
with
Israel,
and
had
likewise
been
neglected,
though
it
is
presumed
that
their
Aaron's
rod
that
budded,
and
the
goMen
pot
of
manna,
was
devotions
as
individuals
were
not
entirely
forgotten,
even
as
the
most
sacred
article
of
typical
Israel's
religious
emblems.
in
David's
case,
we
note
his
continued
reliance
upon
the
Lord
Its
lid,
consisting
of
a
golden
plate
surmounted
with
two
and
appeals
to
him.
cherubs,
constituted
the
mercy-seat-the
meeting
place
between
It
will
be
rememhered
that
the
ark
was
in
the
Taber-
God
and
the
officiating
pri('sts,
who
acted
as
mediator
betw"en
nacle
of
the
Lord
at
Shiloh
when
Samuel
was
a
boy
and
Eli
God
and
the
nation
of
Isra,,!.
When
in
the
Tabernacle,
the
was
high
priest,
and
that
later,
when
the
latter
was
aged
and
divine
presence
was
manifested
upon
the
mercy-seat
between
Samuel
was
grown,
in
a
battle
with
the
Philistines
the
sons
of
the
cherubim
by
a
miraculous
light
eall"d
the
shekinah
glory.
Eli,
who
were
disreputable,
self-seeking,
grasping
character~,
For
seventy
years
prior
to
our
lesson
the
ark
had
been
neg-
took
the
ark
into
battle
as
a
talisman
or
mascot,
believing
[4258J
(307-308) ZION’S The lesson to all who seek to be in harmony with the Lord is that they are not to follow the course of the great and the influential of Christendom, but to follow the Lord, WATCH TOWER ALLEGHENY, Pa to hearken to his Word, and to humbly follow in the footsteps of our dear Redeemer. ‘‘Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.’’ Vou. XXIX ALLEGHENY, PA., OCTOBER 15, 1908 No. 20 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER ENGLAND FACE TO FACE WITH SOCIALISM One hundred and fifty archbishops and bishops, a multitude of minor clergy, and an assemblage of laymen and laywomen outnumbered any hitherto gathered in Albert hall. The bishop of Birmingham, who was scheduled to preside, was absent owing to illness. He sent a paper, which was read by his substitute, the bishop of Manchester, the keynote of which was the injustice of the existing division of the profits of industry. After contrasting the grinding poverty of the workers with the extravagant luxury of the idle rich, he demanded fiom the church ‘‘a tremendous act of penitence for having failed so long and so greatly to champion the oppressed and weak.’? RISING TIDE OF SOCIALISM The Rev. J. G. Simpson, principal of the clergy school at Leeds, assured the vast audience that all over the north of England they were face to face with the rising tide of Socialism, which they were powerless to stem even if they wished to do so. Countless workers in the forges, furnaces, and mills of the north had adopted the Socialistic idea and held to it like a religion and loved it like a bride. He demanded that the church give free field to Socialism. He appealed to it to try to understand it and not hasten to discount it. More significant than the speeches themselves was the keen interest shown in the Socialistic pleas and earnest enthusiasm with which such points as those given were greeted from all parts of the hall.—Chicago Daily Socialist. ‘‘MEN’S HEARTS FAILING THEM’’ ‘‘TDaily it becomes more manifest that political America is separating into two camps—the Individualists and the Socialists . . . <A new party has been created, and it is not extravagant to intimate it will poll two million votes next November. It threatens to destroy the Democratic party (though that is a job the Democratic Party has already accomplished to all intents and purposes), and will then strive for the mastery against the Republican Party. That would fetch the new alignment of conservative vs. liberal, of Individualism vs. Socialism. That is what is coming.’’—Washington Post. THE JEWISH OUTLOOK The recent quiet Turkish revolution, which has brought to the front the ‘‘ Young Turk’’ party, is said to be favorable to the hopes of the Jews in respect to their securing some kind of a footing in Palestine with a subordinate self-government. The new government is credited with being quite liberal toward Jews and Christians. Rabbi Judah Leon Mages says: ‘‘Since Titus razed Jerusalem thousands of years ago, Israel has been a wanderer among foreign nations, an alien among strangers; at first bitterly persecuted, then barely tolerated, and latterly beginning to be respected and honored, but still an outcast, with no home toward which to turn his wandering footsteps. And yet, remarkable as is the fact, he has preserved his individuality through it all. Whether he is a professor in a German university, or a banker in France, or a statesman in England, the Jew is a Jew still, and under the veneer of environing social life lies the tearful yearning for his native land. ‘*When we turn our footsteps toward Zion,’’ continued the doctor, his eyes kindling with enthusiasm, ‘‘we shall number among the citizens of the renewed Jewish commonwealth some of the most famous men of modern times, men who are en gaged in creating the world history of today. Our government will serve as a model for the whole world. And in the arts and crafts Jerusalem will be a standard. I have no small faith in Israel. What he is doing now, scattered throughout the world, he will be able to do tenfold when he is united, safe from the fear of hate or prejudice. PURCHASING PALESTINE HOLDINGS ‘‘This is not all purely visionary. The work is already going on rapidly in Palestine. We have acquired extensive tracts of land from the Sultan of Turkey, and we are constantly increasing our holdings. Very soon we will be in a position to ask for a release from the authority of the Sultan. England favors the project, and we are sure of the assistance of the United States. Large areas of land are already under cultivation, and we are planting an immense grove of olive trees, to be called the Theodore Herzl Memorial Grove, in memory of the revered founder of Zionism. ‘‘Tsrael was originally a farmer. It was only upon his expulsion from his native land, forbidden to hold territory in any of the countries he sought to make his home, that he became a trader, and by his native wit became sv apt at it that it has almost become a characteristic of the race. Now, however, in his own home, at peace with all nations, and with the latest inventions of science at his command, he will make the beautiful valley of the Jordan to ‘blossom as the rose.’ And there under the serene eastern sun, he ean let his soul drift back softly into the meditations of his beloved religion and live out his days ‘a blessing and a comfort to the nations.’ ’? REVULSION AGAINST HELL TORMENT TOWARD FAITHS WITHOUT FOUNDATION The Rev. J. R. Hutton, D.D., of Glasgow, preaching in New York City, said:— ‘¢We hear much in these days of the fascination which Roman Catholic or High Chureh views are having for many minds. Now, the claim that these churches really put forward is that the church, through its sacraments and prayers of the saints, will take the responsibility for the souls of its members and so relieve them of a certain ‘intolerable strain.’ We hear that the claim is proving the attraction. I think the significance ig just this, that these systems put the accent and emphasis not on what the worshiper does for himself but on what God has done for him and is prepared to do. ‘*Take another movement which I think has a very close resemblance to this drift toward the Roman Catholic attitude in England. I mean the movement originating in America, but which has its agents in all cultured lands, which goes variously by the name of Christian Science, Mind Culture and the rest. It has succeeded because with a certain passion and unfairness it rejects from the entire life of the soul such words as ‘striving,’ ‘wrestling’ and ‘fighting.’ The movement has won a suecess just because it promises to take the strain off our minds, because it bids men to stop thinking about themselves and begin thinking out of themselves toward the infinite peace of God. All that is true in both these movements is not new, and all that is new is not true. There are signs that the human soul is tired of the ethical whip, tired of the summons to strenuousness, and is determined now to try the life of faith.’’ * * * What man really needs is the Bible faith, the faith once delivered to the saints, but now, alas! obscured to almost all. HOMING THE ARK AT JERUSALEM 2 Samuel 6:1-12.—ocTosEr 4. Golden Text— ‘Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise.’’—Psa, 100:4. The Ark of the Covenant, wherein was deposited the tables of the law, the basis of God’s covenant with Israel, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the golden pot of manna, was the most sacred article of typical Tsrael’s religious emblems. Its lid, consisting of a golden plate surmounted with two cherubs, constituted the mercy-seat—the meeting place between God and the officiating priests, who acted as mediator between God and the nation of Isracl. When in the Tabernacle, the divine presence was manifested upon the mercy-seat between the cherubim by a miraculous light called the shekinah glory. For seventy years prior to our lesson the ark had been neg lected and in considerable degree the religion of the nation had likewise been neglected, though it is presumed that their devotions as individuals were not entirely forgotten, even as in David’s case, we note his continued reliance upon the Lord and appeals to him. It will be remembered that the ark was in the Tabernacle of the Lord at Shiloh when Samuel was a boy and Eli was high priest, and that later, when the latter was aged and Samuel was grown, in a battle with the Philistines the sons of Eli, who were disreputable, self-secking, grasping characters, took the ark into battle as a talisman or mascot, believing [4258]
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