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Show Food! For THnomigM Under the Babylonic system there never can be any true justice, any equality, or any lasting peace. As long as the - weak are ground down by the strong, and the teeming millions mil-lions forced to live in constant fearof want and destitution conditions can never be right. This old and dying system is the main cause of war and strife and oppressions. "Its sins have reached unto heaven." While the Allies are and will fight desperately to save it they will find out in j time that they are not fightin so much for it as they I ' are fighting to bring in a New Order. That's the handwriting hand-writing on the wall of the world's destiny. It is not the mission of the Axis to set up the New Order; their mission is to wreck; they are the wreckers of the old and out moded. Tt is a sad mistak to believe that injustice and wrong can injure only the poor and the weak. Every mean word ; I and narrow thought and selfish act degrades the agressor, leaves its mark uuon his soul and its penalty in his life, so too, no good effort is really lost, however it may seem to be. The kind word may be spoken to the deaf, the righteous right-eous effort be wrongly directed, the alms unworthily bestowed, be-stowed, but the heart that feels and the soul that tries has grown greater by the act, A3 the shadows lengthen and J the daylight wanes as the hair whitens and the passions 1 cool, more and more do we learn that love is the true 1 ! philosophy of life; more and more do we see that pity i ' should take the place of blame.forgiveness of punishment, charity of justice, and hatred be replaced by love. Every deed of mercy and every act of charity, and every thought of pity is like balm of gilead to our souls. We may none of us be wise or great, fortune may elude us and fame never come: but however poor or weak or humble, we yet may inscribe our names in the fairest brightest book the book of lo e, and transmit our names on its acred pages." 1 Even though we are at war with an enemy that must be vanquished at any cost, and the souls of most of us are throbbing with patriotic fervor, we must not be afraid to deal with biblical truth as it relates to the present crisis. In the 17th and I8th chapters of the Book of Rev-j Rev-j elations so much is said about Babylon and the fall of j Babylon, by which is ' very clearly and definitely meant the political, economical and religious misrule. Babylon 1 is the system which is diametrically opposed to the adop-j adop-j -tion and administration of the Creator's plans for His j people. Babylon the Great is used as a symbol to desig- natethe old financial and economic activities of the ; world, the war of business, the mad fever of coinmereial- ism. the lust to possess wealth, power and authority, the desire to ride rough-shod over all the rights of the people and to exploit them to the limit. |