Increase of Violence

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 30, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 18.

Increase of Violence.

The Boston Herald of March 3 had this editorial utterance:—

Within the last two years, and, presumably, as the outcome of the prevailing war spirit, an alarming increase has been noted of crimes of violence, tyranny, and cruelty. The most distressing feature of the whole is that they have been especially rife in our higher institutions of education, to which naturally the public looks for the training of its loftiest exemplars of manners, morals, and ideals.

Of the times of Noah we read:—

“And the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth.” “The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.” Gen. 6: 5, 11.

And Jesus has emphatically told us several times:—

“As the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.” Matt. 24: 37.

While our hearts are sad because of increasing crime and wickedness, we may be comforted with the assurance that even these things are tokens of the near coming of the Life-giver and Restorer.