The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-09

of humanity is a blight upon all the
blessings aud cunveniences aud advan-
tagrs of our day.
The Curse of Sefishness.
need not do more than remind
you that selfishneSs is to be found in
every one of us. and that Semhlauce
of righteousness is insisted upon 10y us
all and adhered to, and violators of il
are styled criminals. Nevertheless it
seems impossible to legisate equity.
justice. The keen intellects of men
find opportunities for circumventing
the laws and for committing theft and
/ murder and sin in the face of laws and
without danger of being punished
Let us illustrate this We have heard
of the famines of India and how the
of pounds Sterling for irrigation pur-
poses to compensate for Irregularities
in the rain fall. Undoubtedly the fam
ines are to some. extent due to water
scarcity. Nevertheless. one Of the
ablest of our engineers informs the
world that there has not been in fifty
years such a scarcity as should have
created the famines. The famines of
India, which have cost the lives of
millions. are to be accredited to greed
-selfShness which has fourished I'M
der the shadow of the law. Wealthy
milling concerns purchase the rice from
the natives and grind it into -four. BY
agreement between themselves they do
not compete, but press the market
price of rice lower and lower until the
poor native. unable to make a profit,
declines to plant, care for and harvest
the crop. AS a result there is famine
The poor natives suffer; but the man.
ayers of the milling properties pay
large dividends of from fifty to one
hundred and fifty per cent. on invested
capital to the wealthy owning them.
AS an illustration of the eXorbitant
profits | will relate case: Two young
men whose accumulated savings
amounted to thirty thousand rupees
about two thousand pounds, or ten
thousand dollars) invested it in rice
milling. Their profits for the first year
|
five thousand pounds. or twenty-five
thousand dollars. They were not in
the combine to dppress the price of
rice, but they protited by what the
combine accomplished. These incqui-
ties of our present social order are
beyond the reach and correction OF
the comparatively few men of ability
,ot ;,l tat l.,
them.
The White Throne judgment.
Neither Jehovah nor his great Repre-
: sentative, Messiah, can in any sense
or degree be Il party to injustice or in,
equity. The fact that injustice has
been permitted, and that incqui;y
has been the rule for centuries. l.
to be accounted for by the othe"
fact that during all this period the
world has been under the reign of sin
and death, and not under the reign OF
righteousness and life: it has been TN
der the reign OF Satan, "the Prince e.
this world" and of the darkness %
selfiShness and eVil-all of which his
name represents-and not under the
dominion of Messiah. the Representa-
tive of Jehovah, and his righteousness:
not under the King of glory, the anti
typical David and Solomon, the anti
typical Aaron and Mechisedec The
New Dispensation which Messiah s
Kingdom will usher in is pictured in
our text. 1t will be the dominion that
will be world wide-pure, holy. right
eous, just, truthful, GOd-ike-a great
White Throne. No wonder we read
that the symbolical heavens and earth,
representing the old order of things -
social, ecclesiastical-will all vanish
away.
But let no one think for moment
that ecclesiastical princes. financial
princes and political princes will vol
UNFAIRLY acknowledge that the hour
has come for a full surrender to Mes
siah and to all the principles of his alb
solute righteousness. On the contrary,
these privileged members Of our race
will more and more be drawn together
for mutual protection-for the pres
W
have come into their possession. Even
now we see the prophecy of the Sec
ond Psalm fulfilling. We are in the
very time when the Lord, through the
Prophet David, calls the great ones of
the earth to recognize the true situa-
ton of our wonderful day-that it
means that the Day of Messiah has
arrived, and that he should be recog-
nized and his principles Of righteous
ness obeyed
The call is recognized, Salute the
Son, o We kings of the earth, while We
are in the way with him, before his
anger be kindled and We perish by the
way Psalms ii, 1912. But no, the
prophecy declares that we are in the
day when the people. the masses, will
have foolish maginations-w they
will think that by their own strength
they can inaugurate a reign of right
eousness along the lines of Socialism
or by anarchy. The people must
learn that their help is in the Lord
and not in their own frail arm. The
people must see the force of the state
ment Blessed are all they that put
their trust in Messiah" Verse ~. The
Lord is about to establish the great
White Throne of absolute justice in
the world.
On the other hand, the money kings
and earthly ralers and ecclesiastical
princes are taking counsel together to-
day fer the preservation of the present
inequitieS of the world. by which they
are prOfitiur The Lord declares that