Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-12
TRUE POLITICS AND RELIGION.

EDS. INDEX: i nave accumulated
below everything that the Bible says
upon the subject of usury which will
prove interesting to your readers, es-
pecially to bankers and church mem.
bers that vote for the money power. II
reads like this: Elk. %, I'VE shall not
| affiict any widow or fatherless child u
%: IF thou lend money to any of my
people that is poor by thee thou shalt
not be to him as an Insurer neither
shalt thou lay upon him usury." Lev.
% SO: Take thou no usury of him or
increase but fear thy God that thy
brother may live with the" Deut. 3d.
10: Thou shalt not lend upon usury to
thy brother; usury of money, usury of
victuals, usury of anything that is lent
upon usury." 20: Unto strangers
thou mayest lend upon usury." Neh.
81: Then l consulted with myself
and 1 rebuked the mobiles aid the rulers
and said unto them, ye exact usury ev-
cry one of his brother. And 1 set q
great assembly against them" 10: 1
likewise and my brethren and my SER
wants might exact Of them money and
corn. pray you leave off this usury.n
Prov. 2SS: He that by usury and un-
just gain increaseth his substance. he
shall gather it for him that will pity
the poor" Ps. 1876: stHe that put
teth not out his money to usury, not
taketh reward against the innocent.
He that doeth these things shall never
be moved" lisa. 24-2: And shall be
with the lender so with the borrower.
As with the taker of usury so with the
giVer OF usury to him." Jer. 1910:
WOE is me, my mother, hast borne me
a man of strife and man of conten-
ton to the whole earth! | have neith-
er lent on usury nor men have lent to
me on usury; yet every one of them
doth curse me-" Eek. 1873: "He
that hath not given upon usury neither
hath taken any increase. That hath
withdrawn his hand from iniuuity
hath executed true judgment between
man and man. 13: Hath given forth
upon usury and hath taken increase
shall he then live? he shall not live
he hath done all these denominations he
shall surely die; his blood shall be upon
him.
II: That hath taken off his hand from
the poor, that hath not received usury
nor increase, hath executed my iudg-
ments, hath walked in my statutes; he
shall not die foc the iniquity of his
father, he shall surely live. Eek. o.
II: In thee they have taken gifts
to shed blood; thou hast taken usury
and increase, and thou hast greedily
gained of thy neighbors by extortion.
and hath forgotten me, saith the Lord
God. IA: Can thine heart endure. or
can thine hands be strong in the DAYS
that shall deal with theep L the Lord
have spoken it, and will do it.
Matt. Zip: And Jesus went into the
temple of God and cast out all them
that sold and bought in the temple and
overthrow the tables of the money
changers and the seats Of them that
sold doves. ID: And said unto them.
1t Is written, my house shall be called
the house of prayer; but ye have made
it den of thieves.
Jer. II to IL. Mark lily. Luke 10.
As. Matt. 1926: His lord answered and
said unto him, thou wicked and sloth.
full servant. thou NEWEST that / reap
where / sowed not, and gather where
l haye not strawed. 81; Thou ought
est therefore to have put my money to
the exchangers, and then at my coming
should have received mine own with
usury. Luke 1922: And he saith unto
him out of thine own mouth will
judge thee, thy wicked servant. Thou
knewest that was an austere man
taking up that laid not down, and
reaping that did not SOW. %: Where
fore then gaYest not thou my money
into the bank, that at my coming /
might have required mine own with
usury?
Let us now examine the command
ments of God and see if we are a
Christian nation.
Matt. 22-37. Jesus said unto him,
thou shalt love the Lord God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thh mind. 3S: This Is the first
and great commandment. 80: And the
second is like unto it, thou shalt love
thy neighbor as myself. 40: On these
two commandments hang all the law
and the prophets.
If the seventh day land it can not be
successfully disputed except by as
sumption) is the creative Sabbath. We
break the first four of the ten COM
mandments by rejecting the Sabbath.
And we break the last six by our treat
ment of our fellow man by voting our
neIghbor and rising generations into
bondage through usury contrary to
scripture from Genesis to Revelation.
with one exception, Deu. % 90, and Jer.
II to IL disputes that privilege. Why
do then as ministers of the gospel and
church gOers meet and pray. Oh yes 1
believe see it must be that we meet
and pray that the corporations may con-
tinue to PREY. Great Ceaser! bank
ruptcy, misery and crime IN course of
time is the natural result. Some will
say you are mixing politics and relig-
ion. Unfortunately for the hypocriti-
cal preacher, politician, corporationist
and all other specie of vampire and de-
ludou church members our Creator has