The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02
BY JULIUS M. PETERSON

BY OLlOS M. PE1 EaOON
1t came to pass that about nineteen
hundred years after the birth Of
Christ Jesus, vast multitudes were af
| flicted by terrifying and consuming
confusion and fear. Mans long estab
| lished modes of thought and manner
of living were crumbling. Disturbing
prophets went so far as to deny the
validity of the old ways SO that many
knew not whence to turn, what man
ner Of men and doctrine to believe
nor we're they able 10 determine who
were the enemies bringing about such
confusion.
Fear reigned in the hearts of men,
for the old pathways of life and
thought brought neither peace OF
mind, nor security against foreign
enemies, nor the bounties of nature
to all men. And this fear made men
hate and made them seek out what
manner of doctrine or evil beings dis
turbed the cherished ways of old.
And because the causes we're deeper
and beyond the understanding of the
masses, there was much miscarriage
of justice; many innocent suffered
persecution, Imprisonment, and bodily
injury at he hand of mobs and evil
magistrates.
Now the fear and hate of the multi
tudes required an object upon which
to wreck vengeance and they turned
as beasts upon their fellow men. Sus-
picion ran rampant between neigh
bors and kin. There were wars be-
tween nations and wasting strife be-
tween groups within nations Never
in the history of mankind had so
many been engaged in bloody wars
A large part of the able-bodied men
were killed in battle. Other multi
tudes died of hunger and disease. For
mans energy and the earth's re-
sources were consumed in bloody,
wasteful conflict. 1t seemed that men
were intent upon self destruction.
Many despaired of hope.
There were in those days certain
Cody prophets who attempted to
allay the fears of the multitudes so
that wars would end between nations
and people within nations, and peace
could reign. And the prophets spoke
and taught the people thus:
The crumbling of the old ways is
not the design of evil men, Nor is
change against the will of God Rath-
Ell it is He, God, who demands change
For God did not create earth and
the Universe as one casts an iron
kettle, fixed, lifeless, and unchange-
able.
The Creator made earth growing,
evolving thing, constant
only in its unceasing change. And He
ordained that man, beats, and all
things having life should change in
order to survive and endure according
to the conditions and stage of the
earth's evolution.
And God made adjustments and
changes as prerequisite for the sur
vival and development of man.
And as man develops intellectually,
Lhe world and all lands become drawn
closer together. Nations become more
as the people of each
come to use the products of all other
nations. And peoples inter-mingle |
md the health, development, and gen
eral well-being of each becomes the
concern of all others.
And the time comes in the develop
nent of nations, when the develop
nent of man has reached a stage
when neither serfdom, nor slavery,
Tor exploitation of men and other ma
ions will be tolerated by the nature
If things. Men will rebel at oppres-
lion. Bloodshed and force to keep
he old ways is only rebellion against
Tod and his natural law.
Thus spoke the prophets.
But this preaching of the prophets
lid not please certain men in high
nd favored places. There were rich
nen, with many servants, and with
ower over many things and multi