Current Events and Gospel Progress
By Editor
Dr. O. W. Owen, of Detroit, who is digging in the bed of the river Wye near Chepstow, England, for the manuscripts of the Shakespeare plays that Bacon wrote, according to Dr. Owen's cipher, declares that Bacon not only wrote Shakespeare's plays, but that Bacon murdered Shakespeare, and the cipher tells where the supposedly great dramatist's skull is hidden. Most people will have more faith in the skull than in the cipher. The "Woman's National Weekly," published at St. Louis, Missouri, is authority for the statement that William D. Haywood, at a Socialist meeting in that city, proposed a general strike, which shall include every worker in every industry in the United States, as a protest against what he calls the "capitalistic conspiracy against the life of John J. McNamara," the secretary of the structural iron workers, who is under indictment in Los Angeles for setting the bomb that destroyed the Times building. It is hard to predict what will come out of this trial of McNamara. But it is safe to suggest that such tactics could not help either justice or the cause of labor. It is possible nowadays for a person to ride in comfort from London to Yokohama in fifteen days. The world is being very rapidly and very closely brought together in these times by constantly improved methods of transportation. There is a striking connection between this fact and the prophecy of Christ that His Gospel of the kingdom would be preached in all the world in a single generation.