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that very work. It is because the temple has
been opened, and the ark is seen there, that
this message is going forth here. And all
the facts in the progress of this message now
patent to the world, are so much evidence,
and evidence of no mean strength, that we
have reached the time when the ark of God
is seen in the temple above, and Revelation
11: 19 1s fulfilled.
Can men or devils annihilate these great
facts that the days have ended, that the temple
is opened, and that the ark is seen? — Cer-
tainly not. And can they stop the movement
going forward on the earth, based on these -
great facts? — By no means; for Christ says
to his people in the last days, “I have set
before thee an open door [the open door of
the sanctuary], and no man can shut it.” Rev.
3:8. The facts cannot be ignored; the light
cannot be obscured; the truth cannot be re-
pressed; the movement cannot be stopped.
And here is a movement which has already
risen to no small proportions, which can be
accounted for on no other ground than that
we are now witnessing the fulfilment of proph-
ecy here indicated. Multitudes of thoughtful
minds are beginning to be attracted by this
manifest fulfilment, and they are seriously
inquiring if these things are so. Thus the
message is becoming strong by presenting such
proportions and such manifest evidence of the
truthfulness of its claims, as to challenge
attention and examination.
EDITORIAL NOTES
WE are often tempted to think that we need
not be particular about little matters of right
and wrong, that God is not particular about
the little things; but we need to remember
that it is in the little things that God is test-
ing us day by day, and when we are found
faithful in that which is least, God knows that
we wotld also be faithful in the greater mat-
ters.
KJ JS
Tut following from the Springfield Repub-
lican (Mass.) pretty well “sizes up” the situ-
ation as regards the
trusts :—
“ Nothing is easier than to get indictments
against the Standard Oil Company. Here, for
example, are 939 indictments casually handed
down by the Ohio grand jury, and if the com-
pany is convicted on all of them, the maximum
fines would aggregate the little matter of $38,-
000,000. It was only a few weeks ago that
another Ohio grand jury presented indict-
ments against the company, which involved
fines of some $5,000,000. Grand juries here
and there are pretty constantly ‘ handing down’
million-dollar indictments against this con-
cern, while federal and state governments are
probing it and prosecuting it all around the
country. Yet can any one mention any in-
stances worth mentioning where the fines or
the prosecutions have materialized?”
CN J
Arter all the talk about the expulsion of
“Apostle” Reed Smoot from the U. S. Senate,
it seems settled that the Mormon senator will
prosecution of the
THE WATCHMAN
retain his seat. A great mass of testimony, it
will be remembered, was taken by the Senate
investigating committee, headed by Senator
Burrows, which was apparently of a very un-
favorable character for Mr. Smoot, and it
seemed certain for a time that his expulsion
would be the result; but those in charge of
the case have seemingly arrived at the con-
culsion that such action would be either un-
just or unwise, or both. Senator Smoot has
been vigorously defended in the Senate by
Senator Hopkins and others, and stress has
been laid upon the fact that Mr. Smoot is
not a polygamist. That Mr. Smoot is a high
official of an ecclesiastical organization which
rules the state of Utah was also held not to
debar him under the Constitution of the United
States, since the Constitution only prohibits
Congress from enacting religious laws, and
does not prohibit any state from joining hands
with the church if it sees fit to do so. Mr.
Smoot's case, of course, settles the question of
the eligibility of Mormon ecclesiastics to seats
in Congress, and doubtless the Mormon Church
will be well represented at Washington here-
after.
I IN
We note this item in a London paper:
“Why are we going mad so fast, asked Lord
Rosebery when he was opening a new asylum
at Bangor yesterday. It is the most terrible
question that could be asked of any nation.
Bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, or the hor-
rible British disease of consumption are mere
trifles in the history of a race compared with
the growth of insanity. They can all kill the
body, but insanity kills the mind and body. It
produces that appalling class which Lord Rose-
bery calls the intellectually dead. For the
first time, Lord Rosebery said, he opened an
institution with the hope that it would remain
empty. But the hope is small indeed. He
went on to show that certified insanity is in-
creasing almost four times as fast as the pop-
ulation in England and Wales.”
Some people may call this looking on the
dark side of things; but if such statements
as are here quoted are true, it is certainly best
to know them. Nothing is gained by shut-
ting our eyes to facts. The word of God as-
sures us that the coming of the Lord draw-
cth nigh; and we present this and similar quo-
tations not to present a pessimistic picture,
but to show how greatly in need this dark
old world is to-day of the coming of the Life-
giver, the great Physician, to establish a new
government in which these evils shall be un-
known.
Sa
Tue U. S. Senate has been investigating
into the causes of the numerous railway acci-
dents in this country, and has obtained some
evidence on the subject which is very instruct-
ive. Senator LaFollette, who has charge of
a bill limiting the hours of daily work for
railway employees, presented testimony of
astonishing extent in demonstration of unduly
long hours as an important cause” of these
disasters. “A list of cases of accident,” it
is stated, “wherein responsible employees had
been on duty over fifteen continuous hours
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was presented to the Senate, covering only the
period back to 1go1, and it fills in closely
tabled form some six pages of the Congres-
sional Record. Practically all of these colli-
sions and other accidents caused material loss
to the company in property damage, a great
many of them caused loss of life, and some
of them figure among the most frightful of
passenger-train disasters.” In the case of the
recent wreck at Washington, D. C., on the
B. & O. railway, in which ffty-three persons
were killed, it was found that the engineer
whose failure to observe signals caused the
wreck had been on duty fifty-seven hours with
only two periods of rest of four hours each
intervening.
All this is simply more evidence of the hold
which the love of money has acquired on the
people; on the railway officials for permitting
conditions which they know must invite dis-
asters rather than incur the expense of doing
everything possible to avoid them; and on the
employees for being willing to take risks which
may bring death to the passengers in their
charge, simply to augment their own wages.
There could scarcely be anything more serious
for a nation than to have the love and pursuit
of money become the all-absorbing passion
of its people. History is very instructive on
this point.
HSE
Tur catastrophe which has overwhelmed
the city of Kingston, Jamaica, and other events
resulting from it, have drawn the attention of
the civilized world to that spot in the West
Indies, a description of which will at this time
be of interest. The city is located on the
southeastern coast of the island, on a large
dry plain about eight miles wide and thirty
miles long. One who is familiar with the city
and its surroundings says: “One's first im-
pression on entering the city 1s not good, and
it is not improved later. The buildings oc-
cupied by the colored people that are known
as the low and middle classes, are in most
cases built of wood and are but shacks. A
great many of the wealthy people live in resi-
dential sections in the outskirts, and there are
also some streets in the outlying districts
where the people of moderate means live in
villas. The two principal streets of the city
are Queen and Harbor Streets. Queen Street
runs through the center of the city to the
wharf, and at its foot is the Victoria market.
Harbor Street runs parallel with the water
front, possibly a little less than a square away
from it. Both of these streets are occupied
by mostly stone buildings, which are used by
the merchants and for the other industries.
The streets of the city are in many cases paved
with cobble stones, but there is little effort
made to have any sidewalks of consequence.
The streets are in most cases narrow, but are
kept in a cleanly condition. There are no
manufacturing industries of importance in the
city, and most of the people get a livelihood
out of the work of shipping the products of the
island, at working about the market-places,
and on the large plantations which surround
the city. The greater part of the wealth is
held by the descendants of old English set-