Vengeance Belongs to God by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 12, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 50.

Vengeance Belongs to God

By Editor

The people of a county in Colorado the other day burned a poor wretched criminal negro at the stake. He read his Bible to the last, in fact, posed for a photograph reading it with a rope round his neck just before the burning. Then his Bible was torn to pieces and divided among the spectators as souvenirs. Some will get such texts as these, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, saith the Lord." And many others will find divine instruction breathing a similar spirit. The safety of society may demand the death of such men as this one burned, but let it be in legal way, and leave vengeance with God