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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · January 7, 1868

A CATALOGUE OF SINS.—

The last N. Y. Tribune, speaking of the death of Mr. Hamilton, M. C. from Ohio, by a railroad accident, says:

The sad death of Mr. Hamilton, Member of Congress from Ohio, adds another item to the flood—we may say the deluge—of crime and accident with which our columns have for days past been overburdened. The telegraph wires bend under their weight of woe; the old earth quivers with throbs of agony from the center to the pole; cities are shaken down, countries are engulfed, fair domains are overflowed with red-hot lava; wife is arrayed against husband, mother against child, son against father; a hecatomb is sacrificed on one railway, half as many on another, and on still another the width of a hair stands between a thousand and sudden death. In social life, our newspapers are smutched all over with reports of divorce and separation trials, of infidelity and disgrace, of gigantic crimes undertaken, half accomplished or completed. What shall be the end of these things?

The inquiry with which the Tribune closes this remarkable paragraph, was answered more than 1800 years ago: “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man.” Luke xvii, 26. In the days of Noah, the earth was filled with violence. Gen. vi, 11. “Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot,” who was vexed with the filthy lives and conversation of the wicked around him, 2 Pet. ii, 6, 7, “Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man shall be revealed.”