p. 7 | Overspreading Lawlessness

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 18, 1908

Overspreading Lawlessness

FROM all parts of the world come the reports of both organized and individual lawlessness. The latest developments are in India. Referring to this, the London Daily News says:—

That an anarchist conspiracy, after the South-European model, should be added to all the grievous complications already existing in the Indian problem,—this is indeed a horrible, and would yesterday have been deemed an inconceivable, thing.

This new outcropping of the revolutionary spirit in an unexpected quarter causes astonishment and inquiry. A writer in the London Daily Mail asks:—

Whence comes this wave of pessimism, manifesting itself in nihilism, that is moving among the peoples of the East?

There is no cause for wonder, and there is no occasion for misunderstanding the meaning of these exhibitions of the anarchistic spirit. In the light of God's Word we may rightly interpret these things, and may know that they mark the crisis of the world's apostasy from God, and indicate the near coming of him whose right it is to reign. In the face of ominous events the believer may take courage.