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Show MUST NOT DRIFT TO EVIL'20's FOR PERSONAL, NATIONAL AND WORLD SALVATION, SALVA-TION, MEN MUST KNOW AND FEEL THE TRUTH AND ACT IT OUT IN LIFE. How proud and busy they were in the un-Godly Nineteen Nine-teen Twenties crying, "Wealth will save us. We can now create permanent prosperity. Business is the god, Profit is the Saviour. Our faith in the material will draw us together to-gether and bring about universal Brotherhood. All is well!" Such was the vain word spoken by the "big" leaders of that day. But suddenly, like a thunderbolt,- the awful reality dawned and the bubble burst. Millions became disillusioned. dis-illusioned. Untold millions suffered. And yet, it seems, the lesson was in vain because they are heading back to the same flesh pots and are again reaping the whirlwind. The world is being wrecked because the fools of big business busi-ness will not let in the light. Every citizen should be interested in the basic cause, which is, the terrifying presence of abject want on one side and the shameful pride of wealth and luxury and opulence opu-lence on the other, not so bad yet in our own land ; but look at India, China, Spain, Greece, Mexico, and all the other countries. One man traveled through a South American country and came back with the remark, "They have everything every-thing and yet they need everything," meaning that the land is rich in resources and the few have all and the millions mil-lions nothing. "It is the torturing, implacable divergence between the few and the many." While the mad orgy of capitalism was on they would listen to nothing that savored of moral law; they wanted nothing of wisdom and guidance from a power above the world, and so it all ended in the "unworthy and humiliating exploitation of the nature and personality of man." The same forces are on the way back to their plundering and blundering. They have not learned their lesson. But let us tell them that they will learn it completely, and that very soon. |
