The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-14
IN THE JAWS OF DEATH
Elections Are Il Farce-VOters Driven
to the Polls Like Sheep to the
Slaughter.

(Rev. D. Oglesby in Chicago Express.)
The more man analyzes this question
of mammon worship, the clearer he will
see that "the love of money is the root
of all evil.'
Bear in mind that interest is the rac-
rifice demanded by this money god. The
worship of the true God teaches lowe no
man anything.' Give to him that ask
eth of thee, and from him that would
borrow turn not away do good and
lend, hoping for nothing
Mammon worship in essence is to make
debts. By every possible device, in
every conceivable way, make debts.
Debt is slavery. When everybody is in
debt then everybody is enslaved This
is the result of national debts. Every
body in that nation is bound, bonded,
enslaved
The reason why it was stated that the
diseased state of the world had reached
the last stage, is this: National debts
are never to be paid. They are to be
permanent. They come to stay. 1t is
the capstone, the climax of mammon
worship. Gods love of liberty, of free
dom, is completely set aside. Every
body in the bonded nation is forced to
pay interest of sacrifice to this golden
image
Wars have been made to bond nations
and are used now to increase their debts.
Our country is completely under the
reign Of mammon worship. This war
with Spain will be made to produce an
other crop of bonds. While we pose as
nation of free men, who love humanity
so we'll that we make war to free Cuba,
we propose to increase the bondage of
our own citizens and posterity at the
same time.
Every war increases national debts.
Every debt is another link in the chain
that binds the race in slavery. And as
this system of bondage is permanent. the
doom of the race is slavery. That is the
elimination OF our mammOn idolatry.
The debts of the railroads and corpora
tions are to be permanent, too.
The policy of civil government every
where defeats the worship of God He
designs the race to be free and happy
The policy now is to make men slaves
and miserable.
Debts will accomplish this end. Where
is the agency to defeat this? If any
party opposes bonds, debts and interest.
it is opposed by the government with
all its power, and by the church, too.
Interest, usury, Or this per cent sacrifice
to our mammon god is the tap-root evil
of the world politically.
So, if the church and governments of
is to be it's eternal doom. Gods p,lr-
pose will be forever defeated. Old Satan
will be master of the world for all time.
But the Lord reigns, let the earth re-
joice." If God had not revealed in the
Bible by prophecy that Satan's Kingdom
would be overthrown on earth, we would
be left in hopeless despair. But we have
''a more sure word of prophecy" We
are not kept in the dark. "The king
Goms of this world are to become the
kingdoms of our God and His Christ,
and He is to reign forever" Rev. XII Is.
The devil has held a mortgage on The
governments of the world for near 5000
years, and the time is here for the great
God to lift it.
The prophet Daniel saw a great image
with a head of gold, ii. ch., and four
great beasts came up out of the sea, ch.
vii. These represented four great en-
pires that would arise in the world in
succession. Standing on this high pro-
phetic eminence, the prophet saw the
Persian empire, which overspread the.
earth at that time, go down, and the
Medo-Persian come up and go down
and the Grecian empire come up and
spread over the world and then go down,
followed by the Roman empire that was
symbOliZed by beast diverse from all
others, having great iron teeth signi-
flying the cruelty of it's reign. Then he
saw a stone cut out of the mountain
without hands, smite the great beast
and become great mountain and filled
the whole earth.
In another place this stone kingdom
or government is called the ancient of
days." or return of the true republic
which God instituted in Israel. That
was the first republic on earth. Their
God told them to choose men to rule
over them "who feared God and hated
covetousness."
In another place this last and final
form of government for, the world, this
stone kingdom, is described as the 'tpeo-
pie of the saints OF the Most High TAX
ing the kingdom and possessing it for
ever, even forever and ever
Old Daniel saw what we now witness,
viz: the people coming to the front to
take the civil governments and control
them.
+ Old Satans kind of government has
always been kingdoms or monarchies.
The king claimed to rule by divine right,
but it was by devilish wrong. Gods
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