7 66 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



poor. Cease to take usury interest for that is the Bible 

 meaning of the term. Cease to monopolize God's lands, 

 made for his children. Cease to debase labor and deify 

 money. ' Sell all thou hast and give it to the poor. ' Sup- 

 pose he should say this ? 



"The people would say: ' He is a religious crank, a 

 Communist. He should be squelched. Away with him. 

 Such doctrines are dangerous to society. This is the great 

 era of Christian civilization. Such cranks should not be 

 allowed to run at large. They would undo the great work 

 of this century of material development and prosperity. ' 



"And then suppose he should turn and say: 'Woe 

 unto you, L,ondon ! Woe unto you, New York ! Woe 

 unto you, Washington ! Woe unto you, Scribes and Phar- 

 isees hypocrites ! Ye pay mint and anise and cummin, 

 but have omitted weightier matters judgment, mercy and 

 faith. Woe unto you, blind guides, which strain at a gnat 

 and swallow a camel. Your house shall be desolate. You 

 talk about your great temple of modern civilization ! I tell 

 you, that there shall not be left one stone upon another that 

 shall not be thrown down. This is the gospel of the king- 

 dom of heaven which I have come to establish.' 



"What would be the effect of such teaching not in a 

 far-off past, but as a present reality, proclaimed by a 

 divinely commissioned messenger? Should his teachings 

 obtain much headway, should the multitude begin to fol- 

 low him, the cry would at once be raised : ( Away with 

 him! Crucify him!' 



"And yet the teachings are the same, word for word, 

 as were preached eighteen hundred years ago by Him whom 

 all Christendom affects to worship. And we believe that 

 unless the tendency of modern practice to deify capital and 

 make it supreme in the administration of human affairs is 

 checked and modified by this gospel, there will come a 

 time when the destruction of the temple in accordance 



