“AND THE DRAGON WAS WROTH.”
By Moses Hull
To me it is more evident every day that we are living in the time when this prophecy is being fulfilled. The dragon's ire is being manifested here in Hartford, not in open hostility, as it is in some other places, but the secret works of darkness are brought to bear against us. Night before last while honest men were in bed, some of the dragon's agents found way to the tent, and cut eleven holes in it. Some of them were four feet in length. They also cut nine ropes, one in six places, another in four, others in three, and others in two. When I see such evidences of human depravity, I can hardly reject the old doctrine that it is “total,” and sometimes I think it is even worse than that; that nothing short of te-total depravity could be guilty of such things. When I reflect upon the fact that God will reward every man according to his works, I pity such cases as those who, for no cause whatever, would commit such an assault upon the house of God. May God have mercy upon them. M. HULL.