Courts as a Gaming Establishment
The Molineux murder case in New York has consumed fifty-seven days of the court’s time, and the printed record makes 3,300 large pages. The defense makes a point of the fact that an additional thousand pages, consisting chiefly of wrangles among the lawyers which the recorder considered had no bearing upon the case, were omitted from this voluminous record. The courts of the land have come to be a great gaming establishment, where the winner is not the man with a just cause; but he wins who can make the greatest and most cunning use of money. The winning lawyer is not the one who stands the most bravely for the right, but he wins who is the most artful in technicalities and quibbles. Such things as these do not foreshadow the millennium that the world is talking about, but they do foreshadow the rapidly approaching end of time that the Bible so abundantly predicts.