Violence and the Signs of the Times
By Editor
A recent despatch states that a man was found bound to the rails before a rapidly approaching train. The engineer observed the absence of the usual signal light, and stopped his train within ten feet of the man who was so inhumanly tied where he would have been ground to pieces if the plans of the wretches who did the deed could have been carried out. It is stated, in the despatch, that it is supposed the thing was done by some discontented strikers. It may have been that the strikers did it, or it may have been that some others did it and circulated the report in order to discredit the strikers. We are not charged with the responsibility of inquiring into that part of the subject. But we would call attention to the fact that such things as this are increasing, and they show the intense feeling of ill will that is being developed in the world, and also the barbarous crimes that men will perpetrate in seeking to obtain their ends. If we did not know the meaning of these conditions, and what will be the final outcome, the situation would be truly appalling. The mind that does not know the prophecies of the Bible, and hence is not aware of the fact that Christ is soon coming to the earth in person to put an end to all such barbarities, must be in a state of greatly perplexed anxiety.