The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-03-19
When God Speaks

We had been for many years amaZ-
ingly prosperous, learned. scientific,
and all our materialistic adjustments
have been wonderfully complete. we
have, in consequence. waXed fat ana
kicked, and turned God out OF His
universe. And now God is, as 1t
were, paving US back in cur own
coin.
1t seems to me that, without If
reverence, Gods voice on the present
crisis may be heard almost in words,
as follows:
You have multiplied towns, cree
ted factories, and accumulated ma
chinery; you have invented new ana
speedier methods of locomolion,
communication and manipulation,
and this has led your aspirations to-
wards the materialiStic side OF life
You have concentrated your atten-
ton on the study of economics for
the intensive cultivation of wealth,
more wealth, and yet more. These
things are what occupy the talents,
abilities and serious thoughts of the
majority of your people. These you
have made gods of and have wor-
shipped. Now you shall see My an
swer. You shall see the industrial
machinery of your country moblllZed
not for the production, but for the
destruction of wealth, property, ana
life, and that on a scale unheard OF
before.
'All your active life gravitates to-
wards the cities. which are the work
of mems hands. where the artificial
reigns and human achievements pre-
vail, and where My. works in nature
are shut out and forgotten. You shall
now find the process reversed. You
shall see men everywhere hurrylng
back to the land, to dig and plant
and SOW and toll and watch with an
xiety the operations of nature, in
the hope of a good crop and harvest.
You give two million or three
million pounds a year for the spread
of Christianity amongst pagan ma
lions, and you give it grudgingly, be-
cause you have ceased to believe IN
Christianity; whilst at the same time
you spend thousands of millions
year in accommodating all kinds OF
goods, chattels, and material COM
modities. | will now cause you to
spend thousands of millions a year
for the destruction of goods, chattels
and all kinds of material commodi-
ties.
You have despised the old ways
by which l have worked from the
beginning of the world, and trusted
to your scientific inventions to devel-
op and perfect you morally and phys
ically Those inventions you have
made a god of, and have bowed down
before them. l will now show you
whittier such scientific development
will lead you. l will show you that
the most cultured and scientific ma
ton of the world, ignoring Me, will
use its scientific inventions in the
cause of wickedness and inhumanity
hitherto unheard of, undreamt of,
even amongst Cannibal savages. You
shall see science and slaughter meet
together, and culture and cruelty kiss
each other.
You will see the further effect of
a goddess culture in turning brave
nation into a blood-thirsty and cow
ardly people, who depend mainly on
frauds, tricks and treachery of all
sorts, and who excel in working I'M
derground, underwater, underhand,
and in the dark, and everywhere
afraid to meet their opponents on
equal terms.
For fifty years your great schol-
ars and professors have been teach
ing that man, descending from proto
plasm and the ape, is rising by ma
tural development to the heights of
wisdom and virtue, and ultimately to
the level of Deity. 1 will now show
you that that nation which boasts
itself as the most advanced of all
others in this cult will trample on