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THE OUTLOOK

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 11, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 15.

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THE OUTLOOK.

By Uriah Smith

The following article on “The Commune,” describes the nature of a dangerous element which is in existence and growing all over the world. There are said to be forty-eight journals in Germany alone devoted to the advocacy of communistic principles, and one of these journals has a circulation of a hundred thousand copies. The Socialistic party is comparatively strong in other European countries. And as it is an international organization, it counts largely on America. Since the recent strike in this country with its accompanying riot, pillage and arson, it is ascertained that these troubles can be traced to the International Society of the United States, and that the great masses of American workingmen are united in this secret organization. Surely the elements are rapidly accumulating for a time of trouble such as never was. Dan. 12:1.
The articles which we publish in connection with this, are also full of significance. Read the article on “Official Plunder.” What stability can there be in a government, when the great mass of its public officers are thieves and robbers. And this evil, says the article, has increased so rapidly of late, that the cases of the conscientious discharge of duty are the exceptions and subjects of remark.
Then we have the fact that the present is stamped as emphatically the “age of profanity.” What then must be the condition of the hearts of men? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
The “sad report” from the mining regions of Pennsylvania shows what the greed and oppression of capitalists are doing. Tens of thousands of men with their families on the verge of starvation, in this land of plenty, is a fearful commentary on our social condition.
With all these facts before us, the outlook from the Watch Tower is such as to cause all thinking men to consider what these things indicate in regard to the future. In the light of God’s prophetic word, only, can these signs be read aright. The end is near. U. S.