The Gospel Trumpet - 34:31

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So will I seek outA nmdy t~eh: e~~:I~l db eWmII l d~~ver them OU~ of all ~laces where they have been scattered in "the cloudy and dark day. -Ezek.
y p pie, and I will be their God.-Jer. 32:38. At evening time it ~halJ be light. Zech. 14:7.
34:12.
Vohnne XXXIV. Anderson, Ind., U. S. A., Thursday, August:'6, 1914. No. 31.
SIN'S FINISHED PRODUCTS
Are You Helping to Finish Them 1
Every form or systmn of industry exhibits,
all(l PlltR on tlw l"nlll'kct, Rome kind of finished
prorlnet. 'l'hongh sin, in its various forms is
perhaps n6t, l)Poperly Rpt'aking, an industry, yct
. it hn..q its finiKhe<1 prorhwts. "And sin, 'when it
is iinished, bringeth forth death" (tJ as. 1: 15).
Of course, tlle mnre intrn<1neto.I'v condit.ion of
spiritual dnath ,vas c1on1)t1cHR wl~at the apostle
referred to, as the result of sin; but let us view
this condition in its most advanced and com­plete
stage, as we behold it exhibited among men
around U8.
Do you see that man, his face bloated, stagger­ing
along with unsteady step ~ Bvery breath is
tainted with the smell of drink that intoxicated.
He is comparatively yonng, a.nd w,as Qnce pros­perQUS
and respceta.blc; hut now his manhODd is
gone along with his respectability and earthly
oomfon.c;;. .IIe has seen his mother go. down to.
the grave, gray-haired and full Qf sorrow be­caUSe
o.f lwr ~;()n 's dissipated course in life. He
has a compallion whom he oneecourted until
he won her noble heart and then led her to the
altar wherp he solemnly promised he. would love,
eherish, :11111 e]enve to 'her only; yet now she is
neg-lectea, and sits sad and lon'ely, with three
little children, shivering in the cold, while they
are hourly cxpec.ting him, whom they call "fa­ther,
" to come and break their monotonous mis­ery
with drtmlron oaths and curses. You see
this m.an stagger into a saloon, asking for one
more drink; but as he has drank up all his
money, the saloon-keeper puts him out, and he
starts a row, and then a policem,an takes him
away to the jail. There you behold one 0.£ sin's
finisherZ prodnct<:J.
Do yt>n see that woman that has just slipped
and fallen on the street 1 Some men and a
police officer have seen her fall, and hasten to
help her up, hut she does not want to get up,
and says she is all right where she is. She is
still young, and Ehows traces of womanly beauty.
You notice her dress is cheap, and she has only
one stocking and pooor shoes; also she holds in
her hand a pail that people use for C'arrying
beer. She is drunk. She has com.e from a vile
den but a short distance away, and, the street
being wet, she fell but could not get up. The
police officer takes her, also, awaY' to the jail.
She was once a happy girl, as innocent as . any
other. She had a good mother who died' befoTe
her daughter had become a woman. W.orldly
desires, such as pride, the vain love of elress,
a~nd g:lY company, led her step by step down
tne slIppery path of sin, A deceitful Y'Olmg
man betrayed her foolis~ heart, and she became
an· outeast. N ow she has lieither character no.r
r~putation that anyone respects. Degraded,
chseased, discouraged, and desperate, she will
soon die the terrible death that sooner or later
overtakes th.at class she represents. Her poor
defiled spirit will go to meet God at the juclg:
ment. Here again we behold one of ~in 's fin­ished
products.
We must not forget the men who had their
pa~·t in helping finish these products of sin.
'rhe saloon-keepers are in good standing in so­ciety;
they are rich, have fine horses, carriages,
and automobHes, which they use to entice the
innocent and the young. 'rhus they help sin
put the finishing touch on bis handiwork. ·The
youl1g man who ruined the cl1aracter of this
young woman is still in the business, and is a­,
'good fellow" among his set. These men are
finished products, but are of another type.- TheYl
are "polished" a-nd do not show a rough ex­terior
as do the others. But they also belonO'
to Soin's finished products. b
Dear reader, do you belong to this class ~ You
sa! "I thank God, I do not." But softly, my
frlend, are you sure you have not had a certain
part in helping finish so'me of those products?
Somebody helped license the saloon, and sup­port.
ed the politicians by their votes t11at gave
the saloon men the privelege to entice men and
women to drink. Some one turned a cold shoul­der
to the poor outcast when she was struggling
to do better. . Some one failed to be interested
in the rescue of their perishing souls. Some
one was afraid to invest t.ime. and means to lift
up the fallen. Friend, was it you? J. c. B.
A CAUSE OF UNREST
The Di:fference in the Man '
Two events of great social significance, oc­curred
in Boston recently on the same day.
At noon an "army of unemployed," three
hundred strong, marched to the city hall. A
. crowd of about one thousand ~had gathered at
the hall to see what would happen, and a squad
of police were there ready to keep order. The
mayo'r met the army and in a brief speech of­fered
to give any man in the crowd who could
know that he was ~. registered voter of the city a
job at whieh he could earn a living. Tllr~e of
the" army" investigated tile mayor's ofier, and
t\VO of them went to work. The rest of them
marched off to Boston Common and held· an
indignation meeting.
Almost at the same time, the pupils of a cer­tain
high school, with a few invited guests, as­sembled
in the auditorium of the school build­ing
to join with an immigrant family in COlll­memorating
the twentieth anniversary of the ar­rival
of the family in America. ':Ph~ head mas­ter
of the school gave a brief address of wel­come,
and then turned the meeting over to one
of the pupils, a Russian J ewesS. The principall
event was an address by 1\'[rs. lVlary Antin Gra­bau,
a J ewes,a. who spoke, she said, not for her
own family only, but for thousands of our adopt­ed
ci tizcns.
In a tew words she told of the limitations and
tribulations of the Jews in Russia. Then· she
told of the present condition of her family in
this country. In short, she said that her people
were satisfied.
The Y mdh's Companion quotes her as saying
in effect:
Cl The main thing here is that the way is open to us.
We have not become rich. We work hard. If you should
go into one of our la.rge departm€nt stores you might
see one of my sisters. If you asked for her, they would
summon her by annml)er. But what we do is not the
point. The thing that counts is that no position that
we can fill is fOl'bic1c1en to us. In Russia many occupa­tions
are closed to my people. Here the way is open."
This is not given to show the superiority of
America over Russia. The great significanc'e of
thes.e two events is the conflicting testimony of
these two groups--the three hundred in tha
army of the unemployed and the dozen or Etc,
that made up the Antin family, who twenty
years algo, came to America poor, nearly helpless,
and ignorant of our language. The unemplo;ved
army, indignant and rebellious at present eondi­tions
is not more typical of American conditions
than the naturalized imIl1igrants industrious, fru­gal,
self-supporting, and contented. rrhere muy in­deed
be remedies for unrest among the working
people, and we would we100me them, yet we can
not deny the fact that a valuable lesson may be
learned from the frugality and industry of manyt
of our immigrants.
In this connection we should like to quow
a SC'ripture text: "And that ye study to be
quiet, and to. do your own business, and to work
with YOUl:"; &w.a" hands, as we commanded you;