p. 12 | The Inevitable

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 18, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 24.

The Inevitable

Put Him Out of a Job

It is sometimes said that the Men and Religion Forward Movement is not political; but Dr. Smith, the leader of that movement, said in San Francisco, February 22, 1912:

"I tell you men if we can ever get the forces of God once organized so they will move together, we can put every dirty dog out of a job in the political world. . . . We have the forces; we have the men. Wo betide these cheap devils when we once get organized."

What will then result? Every man who will not bow to the mandates of a few demagogs in the religious combination will be counted a "dirty dog," a "cheap devil" in politics, and be "put out of a job." But every truly self-seeking politician, who has not the manhood to stand against church-and-state government, will swear that he is head and wimple with such a movement, that he is converted to it through and through, and he will be placed in office. The result will be a reign of intolerance and hypocrisy.