Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 14, 1907

WITH murder and suicide so rapidly on the increase, and with so many untenable theories advanced to account for the terrible fact, it is refreshing occasionally to read so true a setting forth of the cause as that which we print below from the Lutheran Witness:—

It is horrifying to read the public prints these days and note the great number of deliberate murders and suicides. Homicides are now a daily occurrence, and suicide is not far behind. Uncivilized peoples could hardly hold human life cheaper than it would seem to be held among us. Now we are well aware that mere moralizing on the subject will not effect a cure, but on the other hand, we are convinced that sentimentality has done a great deal of harm. There is a direct and practical way of dealing with the evil, but our enlightened age will not have it. We do not relish the thunder of God's law and endeavor to avoid it. Thus the deterrent is removed, and men continue to slay each other and themselves.

Every teacher of the abolition of God's law is helping on this terrible work.