p. 560 | THE PRESENT CONDITION by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 9, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 35.

THE PRESENT CONDITION.

By Editor

AT this present writing we are practically cut off from the East, by the great railway strike, or what is called the "Pullman boycott." Without regard to the merits or demerits of the case, that is a strange condition of affairs that paralyzes the entire commerce of the country because a firm in the State of Illinois has a disagreement with its employes. And that is the height of selfish, criminal fatuity which will demand that this strike be settled before the great thoroughfares of the country shall be allowed to run their regular trains. The times are perilous. The great mass of humanity are in a highly inflammable condition. One spark starts the general conflagration, and the innocent are the sufferers. This present Fourth of July breaks ominously for the republic. Lawlessness is rampant; justice is sleeping. The religious teachers in the land have in many cases shown themselves as the despisers of God's law. His law has been ridiculed, despised, condemned, and set aside by tradition, till men think God altogether such an one as themselves. The wind has been sown; we have begun to reap the whirlwind, and the end is not yet.