The Trust System and Divine Judgment
By Editor
The editor of the New York World says the "tendency to consolidate interests, to combine capital in manufacturing and commercial enterprises, to eliminate competition, and to control markets by various devices, which we loosely classify as the trust system, is the most marked phenomenon of our time." A great many theories are being advanced in regard to the probable outcome of this unprecedented amassing of wealth. But whatever these theories may be, any one may know the truth in the matter if he will. For God's Word says: "Wo unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! In Mine ears saith the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant." Isa. 5:8, 9. The Lord has pronounced a "wo" upon the greed that leads men to seize the wealth of the world for themselves. And the evil is becoming so great that the time for divine justice to strike can not be long delayed.