A Plan to Save the World

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 6, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 23.

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A Plan to Save the World

A PARAGRAPH sent out recently to the socialist press, telling how the world will be saved, reads as follows: "The system that fabulously enriches the few and impoverishes the many because the many are economically dependent upon the few — and this only because the few privately own the earth's resources and the means of life, which were intended for the equal use of all — has got to be destroyed; and when it is destroyed, and the new system, based upon industrial democracy and universal freedom, takes its place, and all men and women have the inalienable right to produce and enjoy on equal terms, vice and crime will vanish, peace and good will will prevail, and the sons of God will again shout for joy."
One of the fondest dreams of humanity is to devise some plan by which the whole human race will be made ideally good. Men have dreamed about it and talked about it all through the centuries; but the divine Book tells us that "there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved," aside from the name of Jesus. We may seek for many different plans of salvation; but we will find ultimately that God knew the human race, and knew how to devise a plan, and His plan is the only one that will bring success.
The paragraph quoted above says that "vice and crime will vanish," and "peace and good will will prevail," and that in consequence of this, "the sons of God will again shout for joy"; but the old Book says that "evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived"; that the last days will be made "perilous" because men are "lovers of self" and "lovers of money." The Book describes the conditions, and tells us that these conditions of greed which create perils will be the very worst in the last days.
We shall see which will stand the test, the dreams of men, or the statements of the divine Book.