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eighteen hundred years of Christianity? Would he not 

 find the affairs of the great nations of Christendom in the 

 control of Pharisees? Christian England going to war to 

 protect bondholders in their right to 'spoil the Egyptians?' 

 A hundred thousand harlots and thieves in the greatest city 

 of the world? Women doing men's work in coal and iron 

 mines, for a pittance hardly sufficient to keep body and soul 

 together? The agricultural laborers of Great Britain and 

 Ireland living lives of poverty, squalor and ignorance, with 

 the poor house their only refuge when they shall cease to 

 be able to work ? Nine-tenths of the soil of those islands 

 owned by less than thirty thousand landlords, who, with 

 their collateral relatives to the third and fourth degree, live 

 off the earnings of this same squalid and ignorant class? 



" And would he find these conditions improved in the 

 great cities and fertile agricultural regions of continental 

 Europe? On crossing the Atlantic, would he not find the 

 rich growing richer and the poor poorer? People crowding 

 the streets whose sole reliance for a livelihood are vice, 

 pauperism and crime ? State prisons, jails and poor houses 

 filled to overflowing? Usurers and extortioners fattening 

 off the earnings of their fellows? Capital ruling the 

 world politically and socially? Money crowned king 

 Usury legalized and protected by law? Corruption the 

 main reliance of those who rule and govern? Thousands 

 upon thousands of the poor in the great cities and manu- 

 facturing centers being ground to powder by force of the 

 law of supply and demand? The soil upon which people 

 are born and must live being monopolized into a few 

 hands. 



"And suppose he should come with a few poor fol- 

 lowers, destitute of wealth, culture, education or genius, 

 and say to the great Christian aristocracy, 'Repent ye, for 

 the kingdom of heaven is at hand!' Repent! Change 

 your order of thinking and living. Cease to grind the 



