The Glorious Fourth by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 15, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 27.

The Glorious Fourth

By Editor

SEVEN houses burned, the fire originating through firecrackers, and thirteen families rendered homeless, innumerable shocks to weak, nervous people from which they will never recover, thousands of dollars burned up and exploded, and two deaths are among the results of the "Glorious Fourth" in San Francisco and Oakland yesterday. As to the patriotism, we have nothing to say, but is this the best way of celebrating it? And, after all, how much real love of country is there in all the noise and expense? And how many that make the noise know what they do it for? To how many needy souls would the money foolishly expended by Christians yesterday have come as a godsend? And does not love of one's country include love of one's countrymen?