Why, when we know that the world is going on from bad to worse, and will sometime, according to the Bible, be destroyed, should we seek to overcome the evils and graft of our Government, public officials, etc.? In other words, where is the stimulus to build a good house when you know it will be torn down? Now if this were all there was to it, there certainly would be little stimulus, little incentive; but more is involved than material things, of infinitely more value, and this is character—nay, more, characters. Here is a ship that is sinking. It may have a thousand souls on board. Some of them may be ready for any crisis which may come, and if they go down to death will come up again in the first resurrection, justified in Christ. Others do not know Him, and if they go down to death they are sure to meet eternal death. God asks every soul who can save life at such a time to put forth his effort in saving life, to do all in his power to snatch from peril those for whom He has died. If men are pursuing a wrong course, for the sake of the men, and the men whom they will influence, they ought to be warned. If a government is taking a wrong course, it is doing so because men are leading in that direction. A warning ought to be given regarding these. This is the purpose for which the "Signs of the Times" is giving warning concerning all these evils to come, and will do all in its power to stay these evils, in order that souls may be saved from them. Jesus said of Satan, under the figure of the false shepherd, or the thief, that he comes to steal and to kill and to destroy, but He, the Good Shepherd, came "that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:10. And as He labored while in this world, and labored for a people that He knew was soon going to destruction, so His children ought to labor now.