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Is the World Growing Better?

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jan 5, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 1.

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Is the World Growing Better?

A CASUAL glance through the columns of the Washington Post of December 27 showed thirteen items of news with headings like the following: “Slain and Burned,” “Four Killed at a Dance,” “Fired into Negro Church,” “Throats Were Cut,” “Murdered His Aunt,” “Shot by Girl’s Father,” “Fatal Shooting in Church,” etc. Are such daily records an indication that the world is growing better, and that the peaceful millennium of popular theology is soon to dawn?