If the public is not fully informed concerning the iniquitous course followed in recent years by those who were evidently determined to become rich at all hazards, it will not be for lack of vigorous articles on this subject by well-informed writers. The great daily papers of the country are giving full reports of the long-continued and searching investigation into the affairs of the great life insurance companies, with full details of the sensational disclosures; and some of the magazines of large circulation are printing from month to month special studies upon different phases of the many questions involved in this revelation of a moral collapse. In an article in the December number of McClure’s Magazine we find a brief and striking summary of the record which has been made by the money getters during recent years. Such an indictment of the leaders of the financial world would be discredited at once if it were drawn by one who believes that this condition of things exactly meets the specifications of the Scriptures concerning the last days, when iniquity would abound, and the love of many them would grow cold. Those who know the facts, however, must admit that it is a correctly colored view of the real situation. We quote the following paragraphs:— There have been some appalling revelations made in the last few years, both in our periodical and also in our more permanent literature; exposures of commercial and political iniquity and civic unrighteousness. There are the stories of some of our gigantic business enterprises which have climbed to dizzy heights of unprecedented financial power. And they have done it by deliberate policies of commercial assassination, by ruthlessly crowding to the wall, both by fair means and oftener by foul, all honest competitors. And none is so insignificant as to escape their notice; the keeper of the little corner grocery, and even the street peddler, are as calmly and quickly crushed out of existence as the great rival concerns. For with the trusts as with God, though in a different sense, “there is no respect of persons.” It considers “not the person of the poor, nor has respect unto the person of the mighty,” not because it “fears the Lord,” but because it has “respect unto the recompense of the reward.” There are flagrantly dishonest collusions with the great transportation corporations, whereby not only utterly unfair advantages are secured over all competitors, but often the honest profits of these rivals are directly taxed to pay tribute into the treasury of the trusts. There is solemn perjury committed before courts of justice and investigating committees. Stocks are manipulated with diabolical ingenuity to the fleecing of the innocent and the ruin of the honest investor. There is not wanting evidence of crimes against persons, against individual rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” There are indirect evasions and overt fractures not merely of the moral law, but of the common statutes of the State and nation; and there are great legal firms that deliberately prostitute the brilliant abilities and accumulated knowledge which should be consecrated to the maintenance of justice among men, to the defense of such iniquitous injustice. These are the real anarchists who are chiefly to be feared to-day, who threaten most seriously to overturn the very foundations of law and order among us, and not the poor fellows who talk bad English and wave red flags in our streets. Nothing is stopped at which promises commercial power and financial success. And whatever or whosoever stands in the way to that goal is promptly and ruthlessly trampled under foot. This is the record which has never been successfully impugned. This description of the doings of moneyed men, written by one who lives among them, is the filling in of the bold outlines given many centuries ago through the apostle James, who wrote of these times. Mark the close correspondence between them. “Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that6reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.” The word of God is being fulfilled. The Lord is soon to come. It is high time to seek a refuge from the storm which is soon to break upon the world. “Be ye also ready.”