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Millions Now Living Will Never Die - Part 4
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WALL STREET'S SUNDAY CLOTHES

It will be interesting to note the names of some men mentioned in the public press as prominently connected with the Interchurch World Movement and the corporations in which these gentlemen are officially interested and the capital represented by the corporations. Under the name of each we mention the names of the corporations with which connected, opposite which are set the assets of the respective corporations, as far as known:

ALFRED E. MARLING
President, New York Chamber of Commerce
Horace 5. Ely & Co
Chairman, Board of Directors of Advisory Council
of Real Estate Interests Associates Land Co.
Bond & Mortgage Guarantee Co.
President, Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York
Columbia Trust Co.$121,100,000
Commercial Union Assurance Co.1,607,578
Fifth Avenue Bank of New York21,306,000
Fulton Trust Co. of New York8,780,000
Hanover Fire Insurance Co.5,840,184
Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York673,714,294
New York Life Insurance & Trust Co.33,958,000
Sailor's Snug Harbor
 
 
GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM
Law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
American Hawaiian Steamship Co.$5,000,000
 
 
ALEXANDER R.NICOL
Agwi Oil Co.
Agwi Pipe Lines Co.
Agwi Refining Co.
Atlantic Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines$39,754,800
Atlantic Gulf Oil Corporation20,000,000
Carolina Terminal Co.100,000
Clyde Steamship Co.7,000,000
Clyde Steamship Terminal Co.100,000
International Shipping Corporation100,000
Mallory Steamship Co.7,000,000
Mexican Navigation Co.5,000,000
New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co.10,000,000
New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co. of New York50,000
New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co. of Maine5,000,000
San Antonio Co.50,000
San Antonio Docking Co.1,000
Santiago Terminal Co.
Scandinavian Trust Co.34,264,000
Seventy-Sixth Street Co.
Southern Steamship Co.90,000
Summit Estates Co.
United States & Porto Rico Navigation Co.2,000
Wilmington Terminal Co.100,000
 
 
CLEVELAND H. DODGE
Phelps Dodge Corporation$45,000,000
Alamogordo & Sacramento Mountain Ry3,900,000
Alamogordo Lumbar Co.740,000
American Brass Co.15,000,000
Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co.16,823,491
Burro Mountain Ry. Co.400,000
Commercial Mining Co.
Dawson Fuel Sales Co.
Dawson Railway & Coal Co.3,100,000
El Paso & Northeastern Co.16,792,000
El Paso & Northeastern Railroad Co.5,400,000
El Paso & Rock Island Ry5,000,000
El Paso & Southeastern Co.25,000,000
El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Co.19,055,000
Golden Hill Corporation
Morenci Southern Railway Co.1,250,000
Nacozari Railroad Co.1,000,000
National City Bank of New York887,193,000
National City Co.
New York Life Insurance & Trust Co.33,958,000
North Star Mines Co.2,500,000
Old Dominion Co. of Maine7,426,775
Russell Sage Foundation
 
 
FLEMING H. REVELL
Fleming H. Revell Co.
Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A.
Missionary Review Publishing Co.
New York Young Men's Christian Association
New York Life Insurance Co.$995,087,285
Northfield Schools
Wheaton College, Norton, Mass
 
 
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.
Bureau of Social Hygiene
China Medical Board
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.$76,262,200
University of Chicago
General Education Board
International Health Commission
Manhattan Railway Co.$60,000,000
Merchants Fire Assurance Corporation of New York2,786,431
Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
 
 
Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 18 also listed in Who's Who in America, 1920, as "looking after his father's interests"-the well known John D. Rockefeller, with wealth once said to exceed a billion dollars. Since 1899 the son has been, off and on, director of the following in addition to the foregoing:
 
 
Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Co.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co.$42,597,000
Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines<
New York Produce Exchange Safe Deposit and Storage Co.
American Linseed Co.33,445,678
National City Bank of New York887,193,000
Puget Sound Reduction Co.
United States Steel Corporation1,452,229,769
Missouri Pacific Railway Co.345,632,400
Federal Mining & Smelting Co.18,000,000
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey98,338,300



From the Los Angeles Times we quote:
"In short, religion has decided to adopt the methods of big business and brilliant financial cooperation, whatever its other multitudinous differences may be. Our Christian pastors and masters tell us, vide the advertisements, that 'business associations, governments and the leaders of the great religious bodies have surveyed world conditions, and their verdicts all agree' that nothing but millions can buy salvation for a 'world torn with war'. And they are probably right, since that same world which we are told 'a great shaft of light has struck', boasts few humble carpenters and fishermen to renounce all worldly comforts - disciples to follow a possessionless Master today.
Those expensive advertisements teem with ironical truths. 'The least pretentious business concerns now train their sales forces: can the churches do less?' they demand. 'In America we must have Sunday School experts, Bible teachers, skilled fishers of men. How very far we have traveled from the simplicity of Jesus, from the Sermon on the Mount, from that sublime doctrine, free and gratis for all who cared to take. 'The realization of humanity's need for Christ at this time has followed with sudden, blinding brilliance, not unlike that which came to Saul of Tarsus,' we are told. But Sauls of Tarsus seem to be peculiarly rare. Rather are they forsaking the ministry on all sides because of the meager worldly reward entailed. Nothing but millions can lure them back, or create new Sauls. Our modern Sauls don't
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accrue without expert training and the promised reward of high salaries.
"Every item in those expensive advertisements is quite logical. One cannot take issue with a single assertion. They all rock of efficient promise, of indubit-able statements as to conditions and needed reforms. And yet, somehow, they leave us with a feeling of irony that Christianity should have come to such a pass. Perhaps it is the glaring omission of exhortation to our spiritual duty-only our financial duty is emphasized. We are not asked to each and every one of us constitute ourselves a personal missionary without pay. We are not asked to examine the condition of our own souls, our own lives, our own spiritual practices; we are only exhorted to pay for the religious education of others, the religious improvement of others. There are numerous paragraphs beginning, 'Your money will,' etc., explaining just how much other people's service it will buy. There are paragraphs referring to our 'duty', but they all appertain to providing the money for other people's duties. In fact, there is a general impression of buying ourselves off from personal duties other than money and, as the advertisements themselves declare, 'It were folly to think that money alone could carry Christianity forward; the main problem has always been leaders. 'We must continue to send out men and women who will carry the Christ-life into their businesses, their recreations, and their homes. Send other people out-you seem not necessarily to be those people yourselves. 'Unless you falter, a generation of trained Christian leaders will make your children bless your name, is another form of exhortation-our faltering strictly taking the form of failing with the shekels.
'They will raise their hundred millions, . . . but
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unless most of us take our Christianity more personally and individually, unless we recognize a few other requirements in ourselves besides furnishing the money, our deputed Christianity isn't going to do the world much good, and our financial credit won't cut much ice in heaven."

WALL STREET WITH A PIOUS FACE

Roger W. Babson, statistician-in-chief of Wall Street, in a letter dated January 27, 1920, and given limited circulation, says concerning the churches: "The value of our investments depends not on the strength of our banks, but rather upon the strength of our churches. The underpaid preachers of the nation are the men upon whom we really are depending rather than the well-paid lawyers, bankers and brokers. The religion of the community is really the bulwark of our investments. And when we consider that only 15% of the people hold securities of any kind and less than 3% hold enough to pay an income tax, the importance of the churches becomes even more evident.
"For our own sakes, for our children's sakes, for the nations sake, let us business men get behind the churches and their preachers! Never mind if they are not perfect, never mind if their theology is out of date. This only means that were they efficient they would do very much more. The safety of all we have is due to the churches, even in their present inefficient and inactive state. By all that we hold dear, let us from this very day give more time, money and thought to the churches of our city, for upon these the value of all we own ultimately depends!"
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Again the money-changers are operating in the house of the Lord, and again seem appropriate the words of the Master: "It is written, My house is the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."-Luke 19:45, 46.

A MORE HONORABLE WAY

Of course "big business" will raise the required money because it thinks this necessary.
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Do the people wish to trust their spiritual interests with a class of men whose god is gold?
Occasionally yet very rarely you will find some denominational minister who sees the subtlety of this movement and who has the courage to speak out. Dr. A. T. Peterson, an Illinois Baptist preacher, says: "It is a super-league of nations".
Dr. Conant, an evangelist, in a published discourse involving the Interchurch World Movement, says:
"Mergers are the order of the day in every time of human activity, and the latest and most menacing is the Interchurch World Movement. By this movement the whole Christian Church is being unconsciously merged into a great union church which will be headed by liberals [infidels, higher critics, evolutionists, opposers of the interests of both God and man]
"'This movement is shot through and through with fundamental error. Our Lord tells us that the mission of the church is to preach the gospel to every creature -just that and nothing more. But the leaders in this movement tell us that the mission of the church is to 'establish a civilization, Christian in spirit and in passion, throughout the world'. Those two conceptions will not mix any more than oil and water will.
"And by their social service program they are seeking to capture the functions of the state, and are thus uniting church and state."

GOSPEL AS A WITNESS

Jesus further stated as an evidence of the end of the world: "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto
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all nations; and then shall the end come". -Matthew 24:14.
If the leaders of the Interchurch Word Movement claim that their purpose is the conversion of the world to Christianity, then we say to them that they are too late. They are not doing it the Lord's way. In the first place, they are not preaching the gospel of the kingdom. They frankly state they are ignoring the doctrinal truths of the gospel. In the second place, the preaching of the gospel of the kingdom is not for the purpose of converting the whole world, but for taking out from the world "a people for his name". (Acts 15:14) And thirdly, this has already been done and we are at the end of the old order and the new is coming in.

DISTRESS AND PERPLEXITY

The conditions which have arisen in the world since 1914 are distressing and perplexing. All the rulers of earth are perplexed. The financiers are in perplexity; the business men are in perplexity; the people are in perplexity; and all are in distress. Why is this so, and what does it mean? Jesus further answered concerning the end of the world, and in proof of it, that there would be "upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea [restless humanity] and the waves [organized radical movements] roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of heaven shall be
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shaken". (Luke 21:25, 26) This is daily in course of fulfillment.
As a sample of how the rulers of earth view the matter, President Wilson, in his speech before Congress after the great war began, said:
"These are days of great perplexity, when a great cloud hangs over the greater part of the world. It seems as if great, blind, material forces have been released which had for long been held in leash and restraint."
Fear has taken hold of men in all walks of life. Selfishness seems to pervade every line of business. The landlord, feeling that he may not get another such chance to reap a harvest, increases the rent upon his tenant. The groceryman, the dealer in other foodstuffs, clothing, etc., seem to fear that another opportunity will not come and that now advantage must be taken of this opportunity to get all the money possible. The spirit of distrust exists everywhere. All of this is but in fulfillment of the words of Jesus.

MAN'S DESIRE

Amidst all of this trouble, sorrow and distress, there is a longing desire in the hearts of the people; and that desire is for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Almost every one would prefer to dwell in peace with loved ones and to avoid strife and controversy; but conditions seem to be such that man's difficulties are insurmountable. They cannot do what they would like. Seemingly there is an unseen
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force or power controlling them. And what is that power?

DEMONS ACTIVE

Again we refer to the fact that as it was in Noah's day, so shall it be at the end of the world. The Scriptures clearly teach that in Noah's day the world had been overrun by fallen angels. As set forth in the sixth chapter of Genesis. these had assumed the forms of men and, in violation of their obligation to Jehovah, had selected wives from amongst the human race, and there resulted an offspring which was wicked to the last degree, and the whole earth was filled with violence. God brought on the deluge. The Apostle Peter, answering as to what became of these demons, said: "God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to tartarus, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment". "Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the spirit; by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing." (2 Peter 2:4; 1 Peter 3:18-20) "The angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." -Jude 6.
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These demons, restrained in the atmosphere about the earth, have had power to communicate with the living ones of the human race through the instrumentality of mediums. These matters are fully discussed in my book, "Talking With the Dead", and I do not here go into detail. I merely call attention to the fact that the clear inference to be drawn from the above texts is that when the end of the world is reached the demons would have greater power and would exercise that power over men. The Czar of Russia was constantly in communication with the demons through a medium whom he kept in the royal palace. Emperor William of Germany claimed to have an "inner ear" and averred the he heard "voices" from beyond and was guided largely by these. The course of the demons is that of wickedness, and without a doubt the great world war which started in 1914 was chiefly induced by the influence of these demons.
The Scriptures tell us of a great whirlwind that will be raised up from the coasts of the earth. (See Jeremiah 23:19; 25:32, 33; 30:23,24) A whirlwind is a symbol of a great war. The great war created an interest in spiritism such as the world has never known; and some of the leading minds of the world have become devotees of it and are proclaiming the spiritualistic doctrine to the confusion of mankind. These demons are otherwise described in the Scriptures as the "four winds"; and Jesus speaking through the Revelator, said: "I saw
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four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree, . . . till we have sealed the servants of our God". (Revelation 7:1-3) These winds, or powers of the air, are not powers of natural air, but are the powers referred to by St. Paul when he speaks of the prince of the power of the air". (Ephesians 2:2) These demons are exercising power over the minds of the people, causing distress, discontent, restlessness, hatred, ill-will, malice, strife, and all kinds of controversy and trouble.
All of the elements, as the Lord foretold through the Apostle Peter, are thus melting away amidst fervent heat.-2 Peter 3:10.

REMEDIES-HUMAN

What remedies do men offer to bring order out of chaos and establish peace and prosperity amongst the people? The financiers desperately struggle to hold the present financial systems in order; but they have no remedy and know of none to bring about a better condition.
After centuries of effort, political parties have proved their inadequacy to meet the present conditions and to solve the distressing problems. Economists and statesmen, studying the question diligently, find that they are able to do nothing. and this applies to all political parties and organizations, for the reason that all are composed of selfish, imperfect men; and therefore cannot bring about an ideal condition.
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