Controllers of the World
By Editor
WE regret that our limited space compelled us to postpone Brother Holser's article on the Eastern Question for one week. However, it will not hurt by keeping over a week. IN this issue will be found the first number of Professor Prescott's series of articles on "The Everlasting Gospel and the Unchangeable Sabbath." We hope they may receive the wide reading of which they are worthy. SINNER, helpless and hopeless as you may be, the blessed Word says to you: "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord; tho your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; tho they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient." Are you? If not, why not? "A CATHOLIC society that is undoubtedly destined to do great work for the church in the United States, known as the Catholic Missionary Union, has been formed in New York City. The scope of the organization will be national, and, as fast as possible, the work will be extended to every diocese in the land." The California Camp-meeting was a feast of good things, notwithstanding the large amount of business which came in connection with it. The Sabbath days were seasons of great blessing, and many souls found deliverance and peace. The names of those who will lead out in the work of the various organizations the coming year are given in "Our Work and Workers" items. California begins the work the coming year with a large force of laborers; what will be the results of the year's work for souls? Controllers of the World.
With silver out of the way as a money, how long will it be before a few rich men absolutely control the money metal of the world? The Rothschilds are now the world's greatest mine-owners. They own the El Callos, the great gold mine of South America, where they sent Hamilton Smith as manager when he first entered their employ, and are said to be the heaviest holders of the Mount Morgan, of Australia. In this country they hold the control of the Anaconda, of Montana, and are owners and operators of some of the biggest mines in nearly every western State and Territory. They own the Almaden quicksilver mines, of Spain, and the Idria, of Austria, and this gives them the practical control of the quicksilver market of the world. Repressing Crime-breeding.
A correspondent, earnest in reform work, writes us that "all civil governments ought to suppress crime and crime-breeding." But "crime-breeding," by which our correspondent means sin-breeding, can not be suppressed by civil law. The great sin-breeder is the human heart, and only the grace of God can heal that. He who depends on an arm of flesh will be disappointed. Evil always takes root in the unregenerate heart. Civil government makes crime of any practise, even that which is good, by passing laws against it. But departure from God's eternal principles of right is sin. Crime may be sinful, and it may not be. To wilfully murder is a crime which is also a sin. But Daniel and many other worthies committed crimes which were not sins. See Daniel, chapters 3 and 6.