Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-10-06


/, the future world, while. the go
Z Mammon, peoples this world Wit
hell.
Our Churchanity is a failure
We many go on teaching, an
preaching on this lins~until tlh
crack of doom, and society vii
sink instead of rise higher
Mammon worship, or usury
drags down with greater fore
than our emasculatedg ghurchanit..
lifts religi6nSfhat canno
silift society higher fhansit is in al
tthe land of ! Ghfistendo dom; is no
1 1tha religion which theworld needs
land it will Be undated ant
fought to be. But how can the
fworldf secure the. true? How car
ftr1e Christianity be attained
Churchanity is now being re-
pudiated. The church has drifteG
away from the masses. It hal
lost it's grip on the masses. Why
Because )it is the pillar OH which
usury stands. Tt teaches that in.
terest on money, or usury, is right
The church claims to be-, and is
the only organized moral force tc
destroy evil. When it fails, then
what. But it has failed. 1t is
captured by Mammon. It teaches
that interest is right. 1t puts
evil for good, darkness for light
and bitter for sweet, but Mammon
worship must be destroyed. If il
lis not, then slavery is the doom Of
the human race forever. To
suppose that Mammon idolatry
will not be wiped out, is to admit
that liberty, equality, republican
governments and Christianity, too
are all impossible :hings. More
than that, it is admitting that the
great God who made the world is
going to be defeated by this idol
Mammon-usury.
This conflict between the true
God and idolatry has been raging
for nearly six Thousand years. In
the earlier ages idols were made OF
material substances,S wood, stone,
etc. AS. often as idolatry has been
driven from one battlefield, it has
Ientrenched itself in another. Il
Ehas taken It's last stand: inside Of
the Church. Indeed, The church
has been captured by it. It joined
the church and has been baptized.
and now, SO far as business is
concerned, it runs the church. Sc
if it is destroyed (and will be), it
will have to be destroyed in spite
of the present Churchanity. 1t is
a sad state of things.
Sin, national sins, always brin G
their own punishment. Chattel
slavery did; so will usury. The
crisis is here. We are nearing the
seventh one thousand year period,
The world has been "groaning and
Travelling in pain" until now, and
| tits about to be born again. The
seventh one thousand year period
is Gods millenium-that is to be
the Sabbath of rest to this tired
work of ours. When the laws OF
civil governments are in harmony
with the Divine laws; when they
are just and equal and right, then
the millennium is here. This Man.
mon idolatry, usury, is going to
die. It is in the death struggle
now. Our country is to be the
decisive battlefield. The high
priests :of Mammon (the money
power) know that if they are van.
quished here, it will only be q
question of time until they are
vanquished everywhere. Hence
the conflict will be a bitter one
I would not dare to describe it if ]
could. But we are looking it IN
the face. We cannot dodge it,
1t is on US; and it will try mems
souls. The seventh vial is being
poured out. All the other walls
were local. Some on the earth
some OH the sea; some in the
rivers; showing that the agitation
and commotion in society was
limited to localities. But the
seventh vial was poured out on
the air, showing that the effect
would be universal.
The prophet, Daniel. describes
the same scene: Looking down
the stream of time he beheld the
great governments of earth, like
towering mountain peaks, come
up aud go down. The Persian,