The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-01-27


tor All enslavers oppose the Truth.
| knowing its power on the minds OF
| their victims. The tasknasters of to-
day would faiu hide the truth from
wage-slaves. but find it imrossble--s
great is the power of the press aud
there are publishers who have not sold
their. moral sense for sorlid gain
When chattel slavery prevailed. the
| master found II advantageous to edit
cate his slaves and thus increase their
| value. hut disadvantageous TO instruct
them along the lines OF human rights.
| The feiidatory lords were very willing
| that the common people consider them
| demisnds. not subject 10 law as others
The SAME principle apparently
| prompted the emperors Ia lFoelaim
themselves. ''poutifef pggri#ps aud 10
encourage their people 10 worship
them. The natural seifishness of man
| ever prompts him to take advantage
Of others and ignoraucr has been the
chain which has bound the masses
| TIE Bible has been the great Eman.
eipator OF slaves mental, moral and
physical 1t is tho Torch of Liberty,
lighted by Divine Providence. The
Bible alone tells us that all humanity
are 1T one blood. creatures Of the same
God arnenable to Him While the hi.
BILE instructs that kings and all In an
thority should be recognized. ii also
tells that the king Is anlenahip to ex-
actly the same laws MS Ills most mental
slave, and that lie he violates these
laws be is us sire 10 he punished
Moreover, the Bible points out that
the present IS related TO the future life
Us oauSe TO effect. II shows that every
act. word and thought bears upon
Observation-Disclosures and nrcnarcs llS
for higher things in the life 10 come or
gives us more difficulty in reaching per
lection and everlasting life.
"Aope Thou In God"
Looking into the past. we see Israel.
sodden with fear Of their Egyptian
tasbmasters. not daring To take steps
for liberty But after the Exodus. after
Gods Covenant with them at SINAI.
they were changed people. The hopes
inspired by the Scriptures preserved
them as nation when contemporane-
Gus civilization persisted,
The Jews undoubtedly destroyed
their own nationality. The Romans
merely performed the funeral rites IN
destroying Jerusalem. A. d. 20 The
+ Emperor evidently claimed that the
Jewish religion must necessarily he Mt
the foundation of their ungoFcrnable
character Their liberty. used contrary
to Divine instruction. led to discomfort
and anarchy.
christ's Followers Sex Free.
The Message Of Jesus and the Apos-
ties attracted some sIsraelites indeed"
anxious to serve God. The early
/ Christians couraGeously suffered perse
| cutiun and carried the Gospel every
where The I;onan elnnerors. Nero
and Diocletian. perceived that Chris
tians had courage which they feared
would be infections. and prosecuted
them horribly But the Master bad
freed them from fear OF death
Then came long period of darkness.
when the Scriptures were forgotten.
/ and only the words of bishops were
heard-words misunderstood to he Of
Divine authority through Apostolic Sue
ceSsion Next came centuries under
control OF creeds and church councils.
| Darkness, ignorance and superstition
prevailed. although God had Ills wit.
nrsses throughout that long period
Finally the Bible again emerged. when
printing came into use. Gods time
had come for the Bible again to be the
Torch of Liberty, and independence
proportionateiy came forward Today
Britain. Germany. Scandinavia and
America lead the world because of this
J light from the Word of God.
Danger Now, as to the Jews.
The danger that the Jews cncoun