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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 46.

A Sign Fulfilled.

ONE of the signs of the last days is, according to the apostle James, that men will then heap treasure together. The word "heaped," in the expression, "Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days," shows that men will have more than they are able to spend in a legitimate manner. Poor men do not "heap" treasure. Their actual wants do not allow them to accumulate it. When a man begins to "heap" up treasure, then extravagance begins, and that is one of the most noted features of this age. Two instances among the thousands have just attracted our attention. An exchange says:—

"A wealthy lady of Philadelphia is having built a miniature castle of polished oak as a kennel for a pet mastiff. The structure will cost $500."

Another item is the statement that the bar room of one of the noted hotels of Chicago, has eight hundred silver dollars set into the tiling of the floor as ornamentation. When such extravagance becomes common, it must necessarily be accompanied by dissipation and vice. And this "heaping up" of treasure tends to hasten the last day, as also it tends to hasten the "miseries" that shall come upon those who heap up the treasure. For certainly such waste of wealth by the few, only tends to beget socialistic and nihilistic ideas among the many.