The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-28
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No Cause For Anger. Friend.

Editor of The Virginian;
s,r-Oh. let not my lord (the edtor) be
angry and l will speak yet but this once I ass
ing over your editorial Of today me k.sne ~ ~
tre ideal" wish to deal with the last part
on11, this "For the present prefer TO make
progress slowly, adopting this. plan or tnaI 90
events prove to be wise ana Wltsor It trrst
whether it be socialism or indlFlduaiisin - vs. I
ing to providence to make known to us IN que
season our destination and lead us TO H.
Your professed trust in God creates ofSlie
+, me To expIain how my trust in God causes me
10 believe in socialism. believe 900 VII ieau
but He viii lead us as ne IL" ''N
when Moses first made an effort to get them
to quit work and go on strike theS ieluSSu
and he left them TO toll forty years more IN the
brckyards. in the meantime their TASKS Ntts
Increased and their pay reduced ana al the emu
of forty years they were disguised WIN t me-
working conditions and were ready ana Wiling
~ iutnp their lob Please notice. Moses hao
no trouble this time with the workers nus
trauble was with the boss, but had the lsraelltes
been living lives of and enjoyment moses
couldn't have gotten corporals guard 10 ioilo"
him so we see God delivered them by making
conditions such that they were anxious 10 es-
cane from them. Time and again these same
people were in trouble but for all their crying
to God they were not deliVered u'l theS cei go
to do the thing that was destroying thefh. cle
thing | wish to call the attention of the
hundred and forty thousand preachers IN TINS
country II is this: When God sent Moses 10
br1ng the Israelites out of Egypt He said not
a word about their serving Egyptian gods, put
God said Il have surely seen the aHhctloh %
NV Deople which are in Egypt, and have heard
their cry by reason of their task masters Tor
know their sorrows, and am come down TO de-
liver them out of the hand OF the Egyptians
Read the story carefully and you Will see that
God did not command them to worship MN tlli
their physical needs were supplied. ana 'hey
had leisure for worship.
God knows one cannot worship Him whose
body is racked and broken by labor and whose
mind is dulled by unceastng toll.
The slaves in Egypt received Tor their lapor
Sufficient to sustain life and reproduce slaves
and the workers, the wage slaves of the world
today receive the Same amount
James foreseeng and foretelling of the pre-
sent time said Behold the hire which you
frauduently withheld from those laborers who
has vested your fields cries out and the loud
cries of the reapers have entered the ease Of
the Lord of armies. You have lived luxuriously
in the land and been licentious: YOU have nur-
ished your heart in day of slaughter" Never in
the history OF has this indictment been
so applicable as now. Never have such vast FOR
Never have the aborers, those that produce
wealth been exploited of greater share of
their product Of their labor.
Indeed have the rich lived luxuriously in the
land also have they been licentious, unrestrained
by law, and they have nourished their hearts
in a day of Slaughter Titanic slaughter, Tri-
angle shirt waist slaughter. slaughter in mine
mill and factory, nor are they content to slaugh-
ter men and but they slaughter chill
dren and babies in their mills. they slaugh-
terng the coming generation in order that they
may gather in dividends: it is indeed day of
slaughter Comrade James, YOU spoke the
truth. il is indeed day of slaughter.
The cries of the laborers have centered in
to the of the Lord of armies, and will He
deliver us? Yes, but with Israel He will
deliver us by selves We told to work
out our own salvation. He who would be
free must strike the blow. Mr. Editor /, too
am trusting in providence and l. view the
world today. 1 the unmistakeable signs Of
deliverance ! see the stone OF Nebercadnezzar's
vision. the little stone that is to destroy all the
present governments and | it in every
ton on earth the little stone. increasing
in size and bower and ever nearing the image
for the final blow. lam trusting God but 1t Is
great to work with God.
Jesus said. "As man thinketh in his heart