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BECAUSE OF MURDERERS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 17, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 20.

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"BECAUSE OF MURDERERS."

A few days since a boy of fourteen, in Santa Rita, California, became angry at three smaller children, and deliberately went home, got a shot-gun, and returned and fired upon them. The gun chanced to be loaded with small bird-shot, so the children were not fatally wounded. The same day a woman at Stockton just as deliberately murdered one of her most intimate friends, and then committed suicide.
Such incidents are of daily occurrence. Men, women, and even little boys and girls, seem possessed with the spirits of demons. Are we not in the time foretold by Jeremiah? The prophet says: "For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Wo is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers." Jer. 4:31.
When such wickedness is fully developed, God has given us numerous examples that He will manifest His power and put an end to it. This time it is to be by the second coming of His Son. And may the glad day be hastened!