The Money Problem

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 10, 1914

The Money Problem

LEGISLATION concerning the money question is one of the leading subjects before the present Congress, and it has also demanded special consideration for years. Concentration of wealth in practically every nation throughout the world has created an international peril. Men are hopefully seeking to solve the problems presented; and in their efforts, they are confronted with such stupendous facts as that presented in the little group of two or three men in New York who, at the least calculation, hold under their power of control twenty-two billions of the wealth of this country. These figures are based upon accurate estimates arrived at by investigations conducted by Congress itself.

One among the many signs that were to mark the generation that would witness the second coming of Christ is the enormous heaping together of wealth, and the consequent trouble that would arise between the few men with their hoarded treasures and the great mass of laborers. If you have never looked into this question, pick up your Bible at the first opportunity, and carefully read the fifth chapter of James. As you read it, think closely of the conditions that actually exist in this time, and carefully compare with what the Word says.