The Continual Slaughter of Human Life
By Editor
Within a week the newspapers have chronicled the loss by accident of over a thousand lives. By the burning of a theater in Russia, as noted last week, 300 persons perished. This week we note the sinking of the steamer Cimbria, by which 430 persons were lost. In the face of these, accidents in which not more than a dozen persons are killed, are called "minor accidents." These have swelled the list of victims. Many of these accidents might be avoided, if human life were not held so cheap. We grow weary and sick of hearing of this continual slaughter, and long with increasing earnestness for the return of our Lord, and the beginning of his reign of peace.