Perplexity of Nations

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 22, 1883

Perplexity of Nations.

ENGLAND has not a pleasant outlook for her future. The recent attempt to destroy the Government buildings in London imparts to all classes a feeling of insecurity. It has caused the working classes of England to turn against the Irish agitators, with whom they had been in sympathy, but it has greatly strengthened the hopes of the agitators themselves on both sides of the Atlantic. Their financial committees in the United States report that funds come in freely since the explosion in London, while the English are naturally displeased that those who are endeavoring to destroy her are under American protection. This may lead to unpleasant complications. Agitators in America boldly declare their dissatisfaction with dynamite as being too slow—they are in favor of burning London! No one who is not past feeling can contemplate without a shudder the sufferings which a general conflagration would bring upon her millions of inhabitants. But crime assumes vast proportions in these days, and is as bold as it is reckless. The foundations of society are everywhere assailed, and no nation is safe.