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Violence of the Age

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 12, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 2.

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Violence of the Age.

By Editor

FROM all parts of the country the papers are loaded down with reports of murders, highway robberies and garrotings. In many of our cities almost a panic prevails on the subject. What does it mean? Why such wide-spread violence? We answer, because the last days are here, concerning which the Spirit of God long ago instructed the apostles to write. What can be expected of the world when given up to the mediumship of invisible demons, to be influenced by those foul spirits which are beyond the jurisdiction of earthly tribunals? In proportion as spiritualism prevails and the influence of the Bible is discarded, these crimes will multiply. If things progress long as they are now going on, we shall soon know the meaning of our Lord's saying, 'As it was in the days of Noah and Lot, so shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.' Human life, in the esteem of the roughs of this age is no more than that of the brutes. 'The earth was filled with violence,' and thus it is now becoming.