The Spread of Lynch Law

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 36.

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The Spread of Lynch Law

THE Christian Advocate, with perfect truthfulness, makes the following startling statement: “If to-day it were proposed to lay the deepest and most philosophical plan to promote attacks upon person and property, to substitute lynch law and individual vengeance for the orderly processes of justice, little or no alteration would need to be made in many of the States in this country, and in most of the nations of Europe.” And it will be but a little while till all these facilities to violence will be employed to the full.