The Struggle for Justice

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 25, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 13.

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The Struggle for Justice

The Struggle for Justice.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox refers to the reform in the Roman laws by Licinius, nearly four centuries before Christ, under which both patricians and plebeians were justly dealt by, how Gracchus tried to revive it, and failed; and then she says: "Centuries have rolled away since all these things were done and still the old battle is going on between man and man. . . . Still is the voice of Wisdom raised in warning and still Extravagance with deaf ear speeds on to its ruin. The world is like a forest, and as fast as one tangled mass of underbrush is cleaned out another shoots forth." And yet she hopes in her transmigration-of-souls delusion that "such men as Licinius, Gracchus I and Gracchus II and our own Henry George will surely come back in beautiful forms to enjoy this New Eden, for which they labored." She, poor soul, and thousand of others in the great diversified "New Thought" school will be bitterly disappointed. They are looking for the regeneration of man within themselves, by their own labor, ignoring man's nature which must be changed, and can only be changed by the grace of Jesus Christ, by the Life from above. This for the individual heart. The world will not know justice till Jesus Christ reigns in glory.