Socialism and Eternal Hope

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 17, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 49.

Socialism and Eternal Hope

Socialism as a religion is not particularly hopeful. Mr. Wayland, who has made a tremendous struggle in pushing Appeal to Reason, and who committed suicide the other day, is reported to have said, "The struggle under the competitive system is not worth the effort." Yet he had about one million who stood with him in this country. What he said is true "if in this life only we have hope." But the man who knows that eternity with all its glorious possibilities lies before, has an inspiration for his struggle for right here that one believing otherwise can not have. He may fail here; but there is better hope beyond. "The true gain is the long gain."