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Warnings to the Rich

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 5, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 30.

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Warnings to the Rich

presses it, they "join house to house, and lay field to field, till there be no room." Isa. 5: 8, A.R.V.
14. Is it the will of God that His children should be made thus to suffer?
"Behold, is it not of the Lord of Hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?" Hab. 2: 13.
15. Of what does God warn the rich?
"Wo to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!" "Wo to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!" Hab. 2: 9, 12.
"Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?" Amos 8: 4, 5.
16. What will the mass of those who are oppressed and wronged at last do?
"Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against