p. 122 | Untitled article by M. W. HOWARD.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, February 4, 1868

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 8

THE FLOOD OF CRIME.

By M. W. HOWARD.

“The telegraph wires bend under the weight of woe; the old earth quivers with throbs of agony from the center to the poles; cities are shaken down, countries are engulfed, fair domains are overflown with red-hot lava; wife is arrayed against her husband, mother against child, and 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 foregoing paragraph, copied from the N. Y. Tribune, may be aptly answered by the following quotation from Milton’s Paradise Lost:

“So shall the world go on, Under her own weight groaning; till the day Appear of respiration to the just, And vengeance to the wicked, at return Of Him so lately promised to thy aid,— The woman’s Seed.”—Book xii, 537–542.

M. W. HOWARD.

Malone, N. Y., Jan., 1868.