The Age of Murder in Christendom
“The Age of Murder in All Christendom” is what the Homiletic Review calls the present. Murders have increased of late so that the tale in “Christian” Europe in 1894, according to Mr. Henry C. Lea, had reached 15,000, and in “Christian” America, 10,000, from 3,000 to 5,000 in the United States alone. But last year there were more murders in the United States alone than in all America in 1894. If the increase has been as great in Europe as in this country, we have the enormous total in both Europe and America, the so-called Christian nations of the world, of not less than 40,000 homicides a year. Truly “their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.” Isa. 59:7. “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” 2 Tim. 3:13. It will be seen by the contexts in which these scriptures are found that the special application is the last days, the time when the Lord shall come to Zion. This increase of homicides is a sign of the last days.