THE DAILY RECORDS OF CRIME.
By Editor
ANY daily paper that we may pick up (and any day in the year) is filled with a recital of the vices and crimes that fill our land. The story is told of the wives that murder their husbands, and of the husbands that murder their wives; of the parents that murder their children, and of the children that murder their parents; of robberies and embezzlements and frauds of every form and description. Every one is painfully aware of the prevailing evils of these days. The facts are right before our eyes. Statistics are not needed to show the appalling wickedness that is all around us. How much longer can the just heavenly Father behold such things and allow them to continue? The destruction of the antediluvian world was caused by the fact that in that time "the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." Gen. 6:5. The cities of the plain were overthrown because they had so debased themselves that the very grossest vices and crimes prevailed. These, and other similar instances, show that when wickedness becomes high-handed and universal the Lord of heaven will strike it down. We are surely upon the very borders of the time when God will arise in His power and majesty to destroy this evil world. Do not be deceived, the time is right at hand.