LYNCHINGS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 16, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 33.

LYNCHINGS.

By Editor

Within the last few days the governor of Georgia ordered a company of the State militia to Bainbridge to disperse a mob bent on lynching; a negro was lynched at Saffold, Ga.; another was lynched near Leesburg, Ga.; and still another in Grimes County, Texas.

At one of the lynchings the body of the dead man was cut into strips and distributed among the mob. Some will try to pass these things by with the suggestion that nothing of this kind could be done except in the South. But there have been lynchings in some of the northern States during the last few years that are not very far behind the barbarities of the ones committed in the South.

It has been the boast that our great nineteenth-century civilization would eradicate all forms of barbarism and enthrone peace and justice. But it takes something beyond mere civilization to do such a work as this. Nothing short of the real Christianity of the true Christ of God will do it. And how sad it is that the great majority of the millions who profess the name of Christ to-day live so far from Him that they do not see nor sense the growing violence of this time. Neither do they understand its awful portents.