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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 2, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 27.

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OPPRESSION

By L. D. Santee

ELDER L. D. SANTEE,
“Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. . . . Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers, . . . which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.” James 5: 1-4.
By the pen that was prophet-guided Was the ominous truth foretold, That the rich, from the poor divided, Would be drunk with their greed of gold, And forgetting the claims of neighbor, Would be covetous, proud, and cold, Would urge on the poor to labor, But the laborer’s hire withhold.
The pen that was prophet-guided Tells of the poor and their cry, But a shelter has God provided; For the coming of Christ draws nigh. They present their plaint to the Highest, They trust in Him more and more, It is then that their Lord is nighest, And “the Judge stands at the door.”
The rich may revel in pleasure, But “the hand on the wall” is there, And fearful will be their measure When Oppression begets Despair. Though the high of earth have been lauded, They will see a fiery path When the toiler, so long defrauded, Shall arise in his desperate wrath.
There are judgments surely coming That shall thrill through the hearts of men When the high of earth, and the haughty, Shall “call for the rocks” in vain. Mid the earthquake and the thunder Will the vials of wrath be poured, And the fetters shall fall asunder At the coming of the Lord.