The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-12
GREAT WHITE THRONE AND ITS BLESSINGS
Immense Audience in Words Larg-
est Auditorium.

the British government has spent mil
lions of Pounds Sterling" for irriga-
ton purposes to compensate for ir-
regularitieS in the rainfall. Undoubt-
edly the famines are to some extent
due to water scarcity. Nevertheless,
one of the ablest of our engineers in
forms 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-selfshnes which has -four
iShed under the shadow of the law.
Wealthy milling concerns purchase the
rice from the natives and grind it into
flour. By agreement between them
selves 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 suf
fer; but the managers of the milling
properties pay large dividends Of from
so to $50 per cent on invested capital
to the wealthy owning them.
AS an illustration of the eXorbitant
profits L will relate a 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
were eighty thousand rupees-about
five thousand pounds, or twenty-five
thousand dollars. They were not in
rice. but they prof1ted by what the
combine accomplished These inequi-
ties of our present social order are
beyond the reach and correction Of the
directly or indirectly interested in
, them.
The White Throne Judgment.
Neither Jehovah nor his great Repre-
sentS tive, Messiah, can in any sense
or degree be a party to injustice or in
equity. The fact that injustice has
! been permitted, and that inequity has
been the rule for centuries is to be
| accounted for by the other fact that
during all this period the world has
| been under the reign of sin and death,
and not under the reign of righteous
ness and life; it has been under the
reign of Satan, "the Prince of this
world" and of the darkness of selfish
ness and evil-all of which his name
represents-and not under the domin-
ion Of Messiah, the representative Of
Jehovah, and his righteousness; not
under the King of glory, the anti-typi-
cal David and Solomon, the anti-typi
| cal Aaron and Melchisedec. 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, righteous, just, truth
| full, God-like-a great White Throne.
| No wonder we read that the symbolical
heavens and earth, representing the
old. order of things-social, ecclesiasti-
| cal-will all vanish away.
| But let no one think for a 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 preser-
| walton of the special privileges which
| have come into their possession. Even
now we see the prophecy of the Second
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-
means that the Day of Messiah has ar
| rived, and that he should be recognized
and his principles Of righteousness
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 lxindled and we perish by the
| way Psalms ii, 1919. But no, the
prophecy declares that we are in the
day when the people, the masses, will
have foolish maginations-when they
| will think that by their own strength
they can inaugurate 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 statement,
blessed are all they that put their
trust in Messiah" (verse 12). The Lord
is about to establish the great White
Throne Of absolute Justice in the
world.
On the other hand, the money kings
arS acPl6Sia SfiH5l
princes are taking counsel together to-
day for the preservation of the present
ineuuities of the world, by which they
are profiting. The Lord declares that
in this they are banding themselves
against him and against the newly ap-
pointed King. Messiah. For over a
century human liberty has been max
ing progress. in spite of every endeavor
to restrain it. The potentates of earth
perceive the rising tide of human in
tellieence and demands for equal
rights. They perceive that unless
something be done to counterfeit this
general movement. the special privi-
1eges of the privileged classes will dis
appear. They are even now taking
J counsel together how the restraints
which the ). people are. putting. upon
| them, may be broken and a reign d
utocracy-po1itieal. financial and re-
lgious-be re-inaugurated: a reigr
l such as prevailed centuries ago but
, now upon a higher plane, controlled by
ri brighter wits holding under restraint
5 more inteiHgent masses.
I'll "Be Instructed. We Judges!''
t Would that the cultured and influen
tia1 princes of earth could take th'
l proper view of the situation and real
3 ize the fallacy of their counsels, th'
limpossibility Of averting the grea
s changes which are upon us by reason
/. Eof the time having come for Messiah
e to take unto himself his great power