WALLACE Holiday Greetings and Best Wishes (Continued from Page 1) John D. Busch and Sons surely 9) into captivity forth of his land." Amos preached economic jus- tice and the people in the court and synagogue could not take it. Sheet Metal and Roofing They did not like it when he Contractors said, "Hear this, oh ye, that swallow up the needy, even to Ra. 7889 639 E. Fort St. make the poor of the land to fail, saying when will the new moon be gone that we may sell corn and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the Holiday Greetings and Best Wishes ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? That we may buy the Poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea and sell the refuse of the wheat . . . Shall not the land trouble for this?" No wonder the priest Amaziah, the guardian of the status quo, 624 W. ELIZABETH ST. complained to King Jeroboam concerning Amos saying, "The CA. 3410 land is not able to bear all his words." 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Nehemiah tells the phet's son; but I was an herd- story of the mortgaged Jews in man, . .. and the Lord took me the recently resettled city of Jet.- Dependable Service on All Makes as I followed the flocks and the usalem crying out against their of Motor Trucks Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy brethren, the more well-to-do unto my people Israel." Jews. 3320 FOURTEENTH ST. "And there was a great cry I speak of the battle of Amos TE. 1-8074 because it typifies the struggle of the people and of their wives which went on for centuries be- against their brethren the Jews . . We have mortgaged out tween the Jewish shepherd peo- ple who lived in the hills and lands, vineyards, and houses that the Canannites who lived in the we might buy corn because of cities. As the Jews over the cen- the dearth." There were also turies gradually migrated to the that said, "We have borrowed Holiday Greetings and Best Wishes cities, they took on city habits. money for the king's tribute and But at first they were profoundly that upon our lands and vine- shocked at the commercial mor- yards, yet now our flesh is as ality of the cities. Neither the the flesh of our brethren, our customs of the bank nor the children as their children: and, market place pleased them. They lo, we bring into bondage our thought such customs were the sons and daughters to be serv- devices of Baal, the god of the ants and some of our daughters ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS are brought under bondage al- Amorites. Probably the first instance in ready: neither is it in our power 20 SPROAT ST. all recorded history of debt-rid- to redeem them; for other men den farmers rising in revolt is have our lands and vineyards. CHERRY 1538 given in the 22nd chapter of First . . . I said it is not good that ye Samuel. David, the young sheph- do: Ought ye not to walk in the erd fleeing from Saul, was hid- fear of our God because of the ing in the cave of Adullam when, reproach of the heathen our ene- according to the Bible, "Every- mies? I likewise, and my breth- one that was in distress, and Holiday Greetings and Best Wishes everyone that was in debt, and See WALLACE—Page 7 everyone that was discontented, gathered themselves under him; and he became a captain over them; and there were with him Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu about 400 men." David, the mighty King of Judah, was not TRADE BOOK BINDERS merely the slayer of Goliath but DR. W. G. ZIEVE Perhaps even more important the J. C. LORIMER. Pres. leader of a social revolution. DENTIST The 23rd chapter of Deutero- 411 RUSSELL ST. nomy makes it appear that it was 1039 Farmer St. ancient custom to exact usury CADILLAC 3395 CHerry 0348 from the stranger but not from a member of the same tribe. 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