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Show EDITORIALS Bankers Then And Now The big bankers of today are quite different from the moneychangers confronted bv.Iesus in the temple at Jerusalem In those days they were uncouth, ill-bred, coarse, and unskilled unskil-led in the art of concealing their greed and lust for gain, while today the most prominent ones in the .piofession look much like saints, educated, well-groomed, smiling and affable, and highly skilled in all the arts of money-getting and money-lending, money-lending, to whom, as the people are told, it is a special privilege pri-vilege to pay interest and profit. Suppose that Jesus should confront the leading money-lenders of today. Would He do or say anything different from what He did and said to them of old time? Hardly. He would say:"C me out of the temples of my people and cease your oppression and exploitation of the poor. For all too long you have robbed the widow and the orphan and the toiler. You must not longer make my father's house (this land) a den of thieves. Away with you. The getting and hoarding of money is not the proper mission for men. Give of what you have to help save the poor, and come and follow me. My people are crying for service, for sympathy, for love and comradeship. They want the abundance and good tidings I promised them. Repent and come unto me before my judgements destroy you and your system. If you do not repent I hen what I have spoken in Mathew 24 shall be fulfilled upon your heads and you may later find yourselves lifting up your eyes in places of torment." |