The Answer to the Nations
When this country was opened in the Western World the refuge of the oppressed from all nations, a new cry was heard in the world. Here was founded a “new order of things.” Men were learning that governments were founded, not to exploit or oppress men, but to protect them in the exercise of their equal rights; that here should be a land where liberty, justice, self-control should reign, and the man be above the thing. But the present conditions of things in this country do not promise aught auspicious to the peoples of the nations. Greed, corruption, criminality, violence, godlessness, are abroad in the land, and ever increasing. The life of Babylon and Rome is repeating in the Republic of the West. The last of earth’s nations, “time’s noblest offspring,” is going the way of all the earth; and what shall follow? Well the prophet asks, “What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation?” And the answer is, “That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of His people take refuge.”