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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 15, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 32.

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A few years ago Mrs. Annie Besant was preaching infidelity with Bradlaugh the atheist throughout England. She then had no desire for any religion. She has passed through various evolutions, until now she is high priestess of the Theosophists. She has recently published a book making an attempt to bring together the more important texts of four religions in one — Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Mohammedanism. Now she claims to be directly instructed by masters invisible to human eye, most of whom she is able to bring back to a physical plane. She predicts a great spiritual teacher soon. She says that his last incarnation was Christ, but the physical body has already appeared for his next great incarnation. Her followers declare that it is a young Brahman boy whom she brought from Southern India. William T. Stead, the great publicist, says that the boy, Krishnamurti, has been brought to England for the purpose of being educated at Oxford University, and after a few years he will be overshadowed or incanopied by the divine spirit of the promised teacher, and will begin to execute his mission as the messiah of the new cycle of the world's history. All of which is one of the deceptions of the devil for these last days to hide from men the true coming of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Reports from Washington regarding the congressional investigation of the great steel trust now proceeding discloses the fact that the great combine does not make steel. It is itself a holding company, having within its grip the great steel concerns of the country, controlling practically the railroads of the country through its directors and their connection with the railway boards; and its stock, which has been sold to the extent of $1,700,000,000, is two thirds water. The whole thing shows that congressional officials and Ex-President Roosevelt were deceived by the trust magnate. The Despatch says that "Judge Gary seemed to tell almost with a pride, of his part in the scheme which elevated the clutch of a remorseless monopoly on the people of the United States, and put a President of the republic in the position of giving his consent to the commission of a crime." This is the same Gary who talks so glibly of running the steel business according to the "Golden Rule." This tremendous power in America shows us just what it will be in the world.

One of the sad things about Wall Street, New York, is the beggars which it has made. They are ever to be found hanging around the entrance of the Stock Exchange and asking alms. Many times the wealthy men give liberally; they do not want to view the effects of their sins in rags, and as one writer has expressed it, prefer to "gild even the beggars with some show of doing well." Sometimes they use them as errand boys. For instance, one of the beggars there is a man who stood high in even Government circles, was offered the position as ambassador to many courts, was one time the manager of a railroad. He is now glad to get a quarter. Some of these wrecks are half insane. There are a dozen or more cases, we are told, around there, each of which has an interesting tale to tell of the one time when he was in plenty. They are derelicts on the gambling sea by which the foolish speculator may take warning.