"THE DAY OF VENGEANCE." CHAPTER I. PROPHETIC Mention of it.-THE TIME AT HAND.-OBJECT OF THIS VOLUME.GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. "The day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come." "It is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.”—Isa. 63:4; 34:8. THUS the Prophet Isaiah refers to that period which Daniel (12:1) describes as "a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation;" of which Malachi (4:1) says, “Behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble;" wherein the Apostle James (5:1-6) says the rich men shall weep and howl for the miseries that shall come upon them; the day which Joel (2:2) describes as a day of clouds and thick darkness; which Amos (5:20) says is "darkness and not light, even very dark and no brightness in it;" and to which the Lord refers (Matt. 24:21, 22) as a time of "great tribulation," so ruinous in its character that, if it were not cut short, no flesh would survive its ravages. That the dark and gloomy day thus described by the prophets is a day of judgment upon mankind socially and nationally a day of national recompenses-is clear from many scriptures. But while noting these, let the reader bear in mind the difference between national judgment and individual judgment. While the nation is composed of individuals, and individuals are largely responsible for the courses of nations, and must and do suffer greatly in the calamities which befall them, nevertheless, the judgment of the world as individuals will be distinct from its judgment as nations. The day of individual judgment for the world will be the Millennial age, as already shown.* Then, under the favorable conditions of the New Covenant, and granted a clear knowledge of the truth, and every possible assistance and incentive to righteousness, all men individually, and not collectively as nations and other social organizations, will be on trial, or judgment, for eternal life. The judgment of nations, now instituted, is a judgment of men in their collective (religious and civil) capacities. The civil institutions of the world have had a long lease of power; and now, as "The Times of the Gentiles" come to a close, they must render up their accounts. And the Lord's judgment, expressed beforehand by the prophets, is that not one of them will be found worthy of a renewal of that lease or a continuance of life. The decree is that the dominion shall be taken from them, and that he whose right it is shall take the Kingdom, and the nations shall be given to him for an inheritance.-Ezek. 21:27; Dan. 7:27; Psa. 2:8; Rev. 2:26, 27. Hear the word of the Lord to the nations assembled before him for judgment:-"Come near, ye nations, to hear, and hearken, ye people; let the earth hear, and all that is therein the world, and all things that come forth of it. For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies." "The Lord is . . . an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, * VOL. I., Chapter 8. AS RELATED TO INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS.-HERR Liebknecht ON THE SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL WAR IN GERMANY.-RESOLUTIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRADES UNION Congress.-GIANTS IN THESE DAYS.-LIST OF TRUSTS AND COMBINES-BAarbaric SlaverY VS. CIVILIZed Bondage.-THE MASSES BETWEEN THE Upper and NethER MILLSTONES.-THE CONDITIONS UNIVERSAL AND BEYOND HUMAN POWER TO REGULATE. 269 CHAPTER VIII. THE CRIES OF THE REAPERS. THE CONSERVATIVE ELEMENT of Society.-PEASANTS, FARMERS.-New CoNDITIONS IN CHRISTENDOM.-AGRARIAN AGITATION.-Its Causes.-GOLD AND SILVER STANdards are FACTORS.-THE SCRIPTURE PREDICTION FUlfilling. -THESE THINGS Related to the Battle of THE GREAT DAY. CHAPTER IX. THE CONFLICT IRREPRESSIBLE. THE TESTIMONY OF THE WORLDLY WISE. 385 GENERAL INTELLIGENCE A NEW FACTOR IN ALL RECKONINGS -Senator INGALL'S VIEWS.-VIEWS OF REV. LYMAN ABBOTT.-VIEWS OF BISHOP NEWMAN (M. E.).—VIEWS OF A NOted Jurist.-VIEWS OF COL. ROBERT INGERSOLL. -HON. J. L. THOMAS ON LABOR LEGISLATION. WENDELL PHILLIPS' VIEW.-HISTORIAN MACAULAY'S Prediction.-HON. CHAUNCEY DEPEW'S HOPES.BISHOP WORTHINGTON [P. E.] INTERVIEWED.-W. J BRYAN'S REPLY.-AN ENGLISH VIEW.-EDWARD BELLAMY'S STATEMENT OF THE SITUATION.-REV. J. T. MCGLYNN's Opinion.-PROF. GRAHAM'S Outlook.—Views of a Justice of the Supreme Court -A FRENCH VIEW, A "Social Melee." " CHAPTER X. 413 PROPOSED REMEDIES-SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL. PROHIBITION AND FEMALE Suffrage.-FREE SILVER AND PROTECTIVE TARIFF.— "COMMUNISM."-"THEY HAD ALL THINGS IN COMMON."-" ANARCHISM.' "SOCIALISM OR "COLLECTIVISM."-BABBITT ON SOCIAL UPBUILDING.-HerBERT SPENCER ON SOCIALISM.-EXAMPLES OF TWO SOCIALIST COMMUNITIES.— "NATIONALISM."-GENERAL MECHANICAL EDUCATION AS A REMEDY.-THE "SINGLE TAX" REMEDY.-HENRY GEORGE'S ANSWER TO POPE LEO XIII. ON LABOR-DR. LYMAN ABBOTT ON THE SITUATION.-AN M. E. BISHOP'S SUGGESTIONS.-OTHER HOPES AND FEARS. THE ONLY HOPE." THAT Blessed HOPE."-THE Attitude Proper for God's Prople Who See These ThiNGS. -IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF IT. CHAPTER XI. THE BATTLE OF THE GREAT DAY. 469 THE APPROACHING Trouble VARIOUSLY SYMBOLIZED BY THE PROPHETS.-TYPIFIED IN ISRAEL'S FALL, A. D. 70, AND IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION-ITS GEN BRAL CHARActer and ExtENT.-THE Lord's Great ARMY." THE Worst of OUR LORD'S GREAT PROPHECY. 527 IMPORTANCE OF THIS PROPHECY.-THE CONDITIONS AND THREE QUESTIONS WHICH CALLED IT FORTH.-BEWARE OF FALSE CHRISTS.-A BRIBF HISTORIC FOREVIEW OF EIGHTEEN CENTURIES.-THE TROUBLE IN THE CLOSE of the JEWISH AGE, AND THAT CLOSING THE GOSPEL AGE, BLENDED IN THE LANGUAGE OF ALL THE EVANGELISTS.-THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION.-FLEE TO THE MOUNTAIN. THOSE WITH CHild, etc.-Before Winter anD THE SABBATH.— LO HERE! LO THERE! BELIEVE THEM NOT.-THE TRIBULATION OF THOSE Days. -THE DARKENING OF THE SUN AND MOON AS SIGNS.-THE FALLING OF THE STARS. SYMBOLIC FULFILMENTS ALSO-THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN.— WHAT THE TRIBES OF EARTH SHALL SEE. THE FIG TREE." THIS GENERA- TION."-WATCH!" AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, THEY KNEW NOT."-RE- MEMBER LOT'S WIFE-ONE TAKEN AND ANOTHER LEFT. THE ELECT TO BE GATHERED TO THE TRUTH.-SATAN'S HOUSEHOLD TO BE BROKEN UP.-PRO- WALKING BY FAITH.-WHO CONSTITUTE the Kingdom.-Setting Up the Spir- ITUAL KINGDOM.-SETTING UP " PRINCES IN ALL THE EARTH."-The Desire OF ALL NATIONS. THE INTIMATE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE KINGDOM AND ITS MINISTERS OR PRINCES."-JACOB'S LADDER.-Moses' Vail.--Great CHANGES INAUgurated.—Will there be Danger from SO MUCH POWER IN THE HANDS OF THE NEW POTENTATE?-THE Rod-of-Iron RULE, HOW LONG? -THE WORLD'S CONVERSION.-A NATION BORN IN A DAY.-" ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES."-THE INCREASE OF HIS KINGDOM.-THE VICEGERENCY SUR- Num. 20:18, 20, 21; Jer. 49:17.) Consequently, the name Edom is an appropriate symbol of a class who, in this age, have similarly sold their birthright; and that, too, for a consideration as trifling as the mess of pottage which influenced Esau. The name is frequently so used by the prophets in reference to that great company of professed Christians which is sometimes called "the Christian World," and "Christendom" (i. e., Christ's Kingdom), which names the thoughtful should readily recognize as misnomers, betraying a great lack of understanding of the true object and character of Christ's Kingdom, and also of the appointed time and manner of its establishment. They are simply boastful appellations which misrepresent the truth. Is the world indeed yet Christian? or is even that part of it that claims the name?-the nations of Europe and America? Hear the thunder of cannon, the tread of marshalled hosts, the scream of bursting shells, the groans of the oppressed and the mutterings of the angry nations with deafening emphasis answer, No! these constitute Christ's Kingdom-a true Christendom? Who indeed will take upon himself the burden of proof of such a monstrous proposition? The fallacy of the boastful claim is so palpable that any attempt at proof would so thoroughly dissolve the delusion that none who wish to perpetuate it would presume to undertake it. Do As The fitness of the symbolic name "Edom" in its application to Christendom is very marked. The nations of so-called Christendom have had privileges above all the other nations, in that, to them, as to the Israelites of the previous age, have been committed the oracles of God. a result of the enlightening influences of the Word of God, both directly and indirectly, have come to these nations all the blessings of civilization; and the presence in their midst of a few saints (a "little flock"), developed under |