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of God by teaching evolution. Nor is it for them to say whether or not their «children shall “ trip . . . the light fan tastic toe” on their way to hell. Is it not time to do some serious thinking when, on penalty of losing their jobs, men and women are compelled to support community pro grams whose social ethics they cannot approve, and whose teachings in the spiritual realm are unfaithful to their divine Lord and to what they believe to be sacred duties ? Does the world not already see the Mass Man en throned in one great nation of the earth, breaking down the family which God instituted in Eden, even denying men and women the right to their own bodies—glorifying free- love-ism—and compelling children to be given to the state ? And what nation of earth is not being leavened with these doctrines of hell? The Educational World Preparing O nce again , over the realm of our education, the shadow of the coming Mass Man falls. One of the greatest educational forces on earth is the newspaper. But what must we think when less than a score of men de termine what the millions of newspaper readers, young or old, shall see or not see ? Consider another important fac tor—-the radio. How helpless we all stand when the Mass Man stalks forth, not from Moscow, but from Washington, to inform us what shall or shall not be spoken into the homes where millions are “ listening in.” And what are our forebodings when this Mass Man even now decides that a witness for God and against evil-doers, even though he may not be without fault, must be shut off from the rights of the air “ in the public interest,” while round-by-round descriptions of brutal prize fights, together with the inces sant jazz of The brothels, and extolling the healing vir tues of cigarettes are“ in the public interest” ! God help u s ! The Religious World Prepairing oreover , and yet more terrible, over the realm of our spiritual lives, falls the sinister shadow! Great reli gious federations are being built, up, whose purpose it is to unify truth and falsehood, righteousness and sin, God and the devil. A “ scientific world” goes to its assis tance. Men must go along, or the stigma of narrow-mind edness, intolerance, bigotry, ignorance, or what-not is branded on their brows. Already, the religious Mass Man is getting control of our most powerful religious organiza tions. And some day the Mass Man will say, “ Worship or die!” (Rev. 13:11-15). The Political World Preparing ll the world knows of the great political leagues that are banding themselves together, working night and day, with the firm determination to make the na tions of the earth of “ one mind.” Statesmen are telling us in no uncertain terms that the only hope of the world is a United States of the Earth! Can they be blamed ? N'ot knowing the salvation of our God, what can they do to save the nations they represent from sure destruction? League upon league will they form— a league in the South, a league in the North, and a league in old Rome. But when at last ten kings shall “ receive power as kings one hour with the beast,” and when “ these have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast” (Rev. 17:12, 13), then man’s proudest muster—the Mass Man—arrives on the stage and revels in his brief and bloody glory. [Continued on page 22]
a body and soul of infinite worth. He must think of him self as only a cog in's vast machine, to be utterly controlled by “ one mind”—the mind of the Mass Man. The Son of God Himself was sacrificed to this Mass Man, for was it not said, “ It is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people” ? And the hour is approaching when the saints of God will be sacrificed (Rev. 13:7, 15) by the multitudes for the same reason. The Economic World Preparing aving the way for the reign of the Mass Man,, the wealth of the earth is fast being concentrated into the hands of the few. Huge corporations talk in terms of billions. In our glorious land of liberty, it is estimated that ten per cent of the people control ninety per cent of its wealth. Competition is in course o f being eliminated, and human society will see in the near future the formation of a single, vast merger, a gigantic “ trust,” world-wide in its operations, controlling the production, distribution, and sale of all commodities. As we write these words, there comes to- our desk The Saturday Evening Post for De cember 5, 1931, the leading article of which is entitled: “ Our Vanishing Economic Freedom,” with the prophetic subtitle— “ And with It Will Go Our Political Freedom.” The opening paragraph reads: No business man has the freedom o f action which he had ten years ago, must less twenty years ago. No matter who he is—manufacturer, distributor, merchandiser, transportation man, banker, insurance man, or oil, coal, or timber producer, or farmer—he is falling progressively under the shadow o f political administration. W e are. ■as a nation, striking out on a new road. It may or may not lead, as Representative Beck says, to Moscow. Then, in a later paragraph, he again says : The economic freedom o f the individual has been cur tailed; in the place o f the hormal interchange o f goods and services, there have been set up artificial barriers and restraints, resulting from over-regulation, over-supervi sion, over-servicing, and downright competition. Who can read these words and fail to recall the fa mous prqphecy of a coming day when “ no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark” (Rev. 13:17), that is, the permission of the Mass Man, who in that day will be “ the government.” The Social World Preparing ot content to drive the individual out of the eco nomic domain, the shadow of the coming Mass Man falls on America’s social life, until many are asking here also, “ How far is it to Moscow?” Once again, we quote from the above-mentioned article : The United States now stands at the parting o f the ways . . . Government bureaus prescribe diets, design clothing, give helpful hints to the citizen, and regulate his conduct from the day he is born to the day he is laid in the ground. It is assuming the roles of doctor and nurse to such an extent that it is arousing the alarm o f the 96,000 doctors who make up the American Medical As sociation. Even in family life, the nations are more and more heading toward the Mass Man who already is so firmly en throned in Russia. The state is more and more assum ing the sacred “ rights” that heretofore were presumed to belong to the heads of the family—husband and wife, father and mother. Those unimportant personages that we call parents are made to wonder whether they longer pos sess the right to train and educate their own children. It is not for them to concern themselves when the state wishes to inculcate in their children unbelief in the Word
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