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January 1932
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ffu lfilL en i o/pROPHECY ~ ~ B y LOUIS S. BAUMAN
rendering her rich heritage of freedom to a coming Mass Man? This “ concourse of humanity” may be “ nebulous” to some, but it is far from being “ nebulous” to one familiar with the great prophecies of God’s unfailing Word. Biblical Pictures of the Coming Mass Man hat did Nebuchadnezzar behold in his dream? He saw Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, and the great Gentile rulers of the world’s last mighty civilizations, all combined in one gigantic, mon strous Mass Man, “whose brightness was excellent . . . and the form thereof was terrible” (Dan. 2 :31-45). What did Daniel see when “ four great beasts came up from the sea” (Dan. 7 :3) ? He saw the majestic march of four successive world-empires personified in Nebuchad nezzar, Cyrus, Alexander, and Caesar. But what did John see when one mighty, awful beast arose “ up out of the sea” (Rev. 13:1, 2) ? Behold, the four beasts of Daniel massed together in one terrible beast—Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Alexander, and Caesar, the four in one— a Mass Man indeed! No wonder the nations of the earth shall cry in unison, “ Who is like unto the beast ? who is able to make war with him?” No wonder that all the blinded, unregenerate masses of the earth will fall to worship their g od ! No wonder that even the Jews, having rejected their true Messiah, will be fearfully deceived by this Mass Man deified (cf. John 5:43) ! But the Mass Man will come at last to the zenith o f his power and glory only when ten mighty Gentile powers of the end-time shall “ have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast” (Rev. 17:13). The dream comes true— “millions of human beings working with one mind for the benefit of one universal state” ! And that will be man’s proudest, most boasted accomplishment! But how his Satanic Majesty will exult! Once the devil offered the Son of God “all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them” (Matt. 4 :8 ) in return for the worship o f himself. The Son of God instantly spurned the offer. Satan, highly indignant, has not yet recovered from the slight. Now he will exult in his revenge by bestowing all this power and glory upon “ another”—his own worshipful Mass Man! The World Preparing for the Reign of the Mass Man T he entire world today seems to be working overtime in its feverish desire to have all things ready for the coming reign of this Mass Man. The whole trend of hu man activity seems to be toward the consolidation of our moral, social, religious, industrial, educational, and political life; so that the whole structure of human activity can read ily and easily be brought under the control of one gigantic corporate mind. To this end, America and all other leading nations of the earth are called to the worship of a new and most revered god, known as “ efficiency.” To this god, an unregenerate world stands ready to make its greatest possible sacrifice— the sacrifice of the free individual. For the sake o f efficiency, man is supposed to forget that he is
Mass Man— A Definition ebster does not give the word “mass” as an adjec tive. Nevertheless, it is a very much used adjective in these last days; and, from a scriptural standpoint, it is tremendously significant. We hear much about “mass production,” “mass religion,” “ mass psychology,” and “mass mind.” The other day, an editorial in The Los An geles Times was headed, “ Mass Fear.” What student of the prophetic Word fails to understand the portent of all those expressions? Recently, we saw in a British paper another expres sion, more portentous than all the rest—“ Mass Man.” This creature was defined thus: “ millions of human beings working with one mind for the benefit of one universal state.” According to the writer, a world now sick nigh unto death will revive when earth’s “millions of human beings” will forget that they are individuals, and form themselves into one great Mass Man “working with one mind for the benefit of one universal state.” But it takes neither a prophet nor a philosopher to understand that “millions of human beings” can never “work together with one mind” until they lose their individuality, and thus sacrifice their personal freedom, to some incarnate expression of that “ one mind”—a Mass Man! A Warning from a Great President o less a man than the President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, in his Memorial Day address, May 30, 1925, forecast the possibility of the early rise and reign, even in America, o f a Mass Man, to whom we would sacrifice the precious heritage of liberty, bought for us with the blood of our forefathers. He said: Our country was conceived in the theory o f local self-government . . . It is the foundation principle of our system o f liberty. It makes the largest promise to the freedom and development of the individual. Its preserva tion is worth all the effort and all the sacrifice that it may cost. It cannot be denied that the present tendency is not in harmony with this spirit. The individual, instead of working out his own salvation and securing his own free dom by establishing his own economic and moral inde pendence by his own industry and his own self-mastery, tends to throw himself on some vague influence which he denominates “society" [italics ours] and to hold that in some way responsible for the sufficiency o f his support and the morality o f his actions. The local political units likewise look to the states, the states look to the nation, and nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous con course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This is not local self-government. It is not American. . . . I f we permit some one to come to support us, we can not prevent some one coming to govern us. . . . I f we cannot govern ourselves, if we cannot observe the law, nothing remains but to have some one else govern us, to have the law enforced against us, and to step down from the honorable abiding place o f freedom to the ignominious abode o f servitude. What do these words mean, except that the United States of America, earth’s freest nation, ever before in the vanguard of human liberty, is in grave danger of sur
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