Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-12
SAYS sELF-GoVERNMENT OF
INDIVIDUALS Is THE CURE

LOS ANGELES, July s.-[Edito
Herald: Your public letter box is tn
best feature in any city newspaper
While 1 do not believe the saying
"Vox populi vox Del" believe that th
voice of the people should be heard
The voice 'of God was heard in thu
ancient theocracy, when God spok'
face to face with Moses, Joshua ant
Samuel; but the people neglected Got
as their ruler Il Samuel SD and de
manded an earthly king.
This earthly king was still, in mann
at least, Gods representative, until th'
nation was rejected on account of It'll
wlckedness ezekiel 21:25 2D, since
which time Jehovah has been giving
| the human race an opportunity to dem
onstrate it's capacity for self-govern-
ment. and the voice of the people now is
or should be, supreme in secular
matters.
Self-government belongs to the in.
dividual as we'll as to the nation; anc
where 1t fails in the individuals COM
posing a nation it will fail also in the
nation. This is the rock that will crush
Socialism and grind 1t to powder. Nc
man who selfshly seeks to profit by the
same vicious legislation which he de-
nounces is fit to govern either himself
or others Did Jesus do SO? Shame be
10 MIN VINO evil LnlnkS!
The article by a Christian woman
in the letter box today is very much
to the point. The popular churches
ceased to attract working people when
they had lost faith in that divine word
which contains Gods message to the
working people. Why do they basely
surrender every trophy won by mar
tyrs' blood in the great Reformation
and seek with might and main the
L.
which they cannot defend from the
Bible instead of trying to restore those
laws against usury, land monopoly,
court favoritsm, etc, which Ridpath
the historian declares to have been the
most beneficent features of Hebrew
| legislation, preserving the citizens OF
| that chosen land and nation from
despotism on the one hand and Social
ism on the other?
There can be but one answer to this
question, and that answer is recorded
in the words of Holy Writ: "Ye hypo-
critics, well did Isaiah prophesy of you
saying, This people draweth nigh unto
me with mouth and honoreth me with
their lips; but their heart is far from
me. But in vain do they worship me,
teaching for doctrines the command
ments of men," Matthew 10: TO.
I'm thee have they taken gifts to
shed blood" says the prophet Ezekiel;
'thou hast taken usury and increase
and thou hast greedilv gained of thy
neighbors by extortion, and hast for
gotten me, saith the Lord God. Be-
hold, therefore, have I smitten mine
hand at thy dishonest gain" Chapter
%: 1918.
These references to the unfaithful-
ness of ancient Israel are applicable
In our own day; and the eighteenth
chapter of the book of Revelation, as
well as jeremiah 25: 31-38, show that
he who rules in the heavens above Is
not ignorant or Indifferent concerning
the manner in which the wisdom of
this world is undergoing its test of self
government; to the wicked schemes of
the ungodly, which prosper in the
earth, saying, Am 1 my brothers
keeper" nor to the shepherds who
fleece their flocks without feeding
them. ALBERT H. BARROW.