Growing Selfishness and Brutality
By Editor
Growing Selfishness and Brutality.—An article in The Herald of the Golden Age (England) presents this description of what is becoming more and more manifest:— ‘What is this England of ours coming to when oxen are paraded (as occurred recently) through the streets of London labeled with advertisements of the suet about to be stripped from their very bones; when the people flock in crowds and pay their money to witness butchering competitions; when the whole country is eager to obtain reports of prize fights which are taking place; when women by tens of thousands are deaf to every protest that appears in the secular press concerning the decorating of their heads with the bodies of parent birds who are slaughtered in vast numbers to pander to their vanity; and when the most enlightened of Christian nations, by its elected legislators, licenses torture dens and authorizes hundreds of men to torment defenseless animals to their heart's content the whole year round?’ “Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, . . . fierce, . . . lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.” O, it is time to turn to the Gospel of Christ, with its holy, benignant, tender influences and power!